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Interesting stuff for February 17th, 2012

Ben — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:00:29 +0000

Go ahead, be evil: More on Target's behaviour targeting and personalization of ads
The Boggs Collective: Very cool craftsman collective in Ashville, NC
absolutelymadness.com: a cocker spaniel
Cats as fonts – Bombi(llo): Heh
Kramer Knives Sharpening: How to take care of your knives

Interesting stuff from February 15th, 2012 through February 17th, 2012

Ben — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:01:14 +0000

How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI: DHH's writeup on Basecamp Next's caching strategy
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did – Forbes: Data mining is scary amazing
The Phoenix……: Welcome back to one of the teachers of woodworking on the planet.
Edible balloon.: horribly pretentious, but neat
Age and Muscles: Must. Start. Running.
Chatype: A Typeface for Chattanooga!: Video on why folks want to fund building a typeface for Chattanooga.

Interesting stuff from February 11th, 2012 through February 15th, 2012

Ben — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:00:43 +0000

Seeing the Light pt.2: Using UV sensitive dye to see glue squeeze out
FiiO E7 USB DAC and Portable Headphone Amplifier: Great looking USB headphone amp. Would be great to kill the hiss coming off the analog headphone out on the MacBook Pro.
Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle on Vimeo: Beautiful talk on interfaces. Direct manipulation of code to build a drawing. Amazing.
Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool » Real Dan Lyons Web Site: Crunchy.
Not Your Typical Valentine: No comment.

Interesting stuff for February 10th, 2012

Ben — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:01:27 +0000

Async Programming Part 1: It’s Messy: Nice intro to the problems with callback-based async programming
Coding: college vs real: hehehehehe
Whoopee! A Zeppelin!: Fuck yeah, zeppelins!
Why Beauty Matters | Design Matters: A bit meta. Link to a video on beauty and why it matters
Somebody That I Used to Know – Walk off the Earth (Gotye – Cover) – YouTube: Inspired cover by Walk off the Earth
Possible new drug for Alzheimer’s: If this pans out, wow.
Why You Need Domain Knowledge: Note to self: don't point guns at your face

Interesting stuff from February 8th, 2012 through February 9th, 2012

Ben — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:01:01 +0000

Inside Instagram: A look inside. Now make an Android client.
Log In – The New York Times: Do cantilevers turn you on? RT: @southsidepgh: An Industrial Strength House in Pittsburgh
Ateneo stude rickrolls prof in Malacañang Field Trip paper | GMA News Online | The Go-To Site for Filipinos Everywhere: Too many secrets
A History of the Sky for One Year | Murphlab: Goddamn.
Nick Kwiatek — Web & interaction designer + developer: Fluid dynamics in ASCII art. Amazing.

Interesting stuff for February 8th, 2012

Ben — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:00:10 +0000

Path: "It is also stored securely on our servers using industry standard firewall technology." has to be my favorite bit of PR techspeak nonsense in a while.
Behind the scenes: Reinventing our Default Profile Pictures: Some of the best default avatars I've seen. Love the painterly look.
Impossible – Making film for Polaroid cameras: These guys spun up a shop to keep making film for the Polaroid after Kodak stopped making it. Crazy free market.
Marshmallow Launch at the White House Science Fair: Air cannons FTW
Identity at Mozilla: New(?) take on single sign-on for the web, integrated into Firefox.

Interesting stuff for February 7th, 2012

Ben — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:01:28 +0000

17th-century mistakes, pt 1 « Peter Follansbee, joiner’s notes: The eye is forgiving. If you make a mistake, just keep going.
Bug 394769 – setTimeout/setInterval "lateness" argument breaks expected behavior: RT @kangax: setTimeout/setInterval "lateness" argument gone from FF — Got bitten by it in the past.
Letter from China: How Did Hoekstra Get So Much Wrong?: What a moron.
Red tape: On doing business in Albany
Nobody gives a fuck about Superman.: Great rant on the death of superman

Interesting stuff for February 7th, 2012

Ben — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:00:53 +0000

101 Cookbooks – Healthy Recipe Journal: A collection of recipes using natural foods
Overflow – a secret benefit: Careful reading of the spec allows for a very neat clearfix trick.
CSS playground: Impressive set of UI features done in pure CSS3
Scifri Videos: Where’s The Octopus?: Now that's camo. I'd scream too.
US Postal Service "Hacked" Ad: yes, because having tens to hundreds of people physically handle sensitive information is way more secure.

San Pel in Glass

Ben — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:36:14 +0000

Playing with WordPress for Android 2.

Through the Looking Glass

A Sign of Accurate Sawing

Ben — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:18:33 +0000

The kerf

A few nights back I was sawing the side aprons for my Stickley Lost Side Table to length. My procedure is to mark all of the faces using a knife, nip out a small starter notch for the backsaw, and then saw away the waste; it’s pretty standard stuff.

Knifing in the lines does a few things: it gives you a clean entry line on the shoulder, it makes it easier to track the saw, and if you cut things fat, it gives you a nice place to register a chisel when paring. One thing I discovered is that it also lets the waste piece break away before the saw gets to the bottom of the work piece.

In the picture above, notice the little shelf of wood left on this piece of waste? The top of the shelf is where my knife scored the wood fibers. The width is the width of the kerf on my backsaw. I looked through my other waste pieces, and this only appears when your cut is square and plumb, that is, when you’re exiting the cut with the saw right against the marking lines.

If you see the shelf, you made a good cut.

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