Steampunk Headset

Steampunk Headset
Quite a detailed breakdown on the building of this most excellent Steampunk headset with mike. Very nice work! Gives me a few ideas that I want to try sometime soon…

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Nothing much Thursday

Been one of those days. Just haven’t been able to get it going today. Fixed tuna and egg salad for lunch which was pretty good and should be better tomorrow. Then made some brown rice, beans and sausage for supper which turned out a bit warm (Rotel tomatoes and chillies) but good. [...]

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Glitchtown – The fail tool

Glitchtown (not responding) » Archive » The fail tool
Another good one from GlitchTown, this time about Adobe and their extremely overpriced programs Photoshop and Illustrator. Great stuff!
Personally I use Gimp and InkScape in their place. Both are free and are available for Linux, OSX and Windows. The only drawback is that Gimp [...]

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Elyssa Release Notes – Linux Mint

Elyssa Release Notes – Linux Mint
This is the XFCE Community Edition for Linux Mint 5, codename Elyssa, based on Daryna and compatible with Ubuntu Hardy and its repositories.
Another Linux Distro that I am gonna try. Just finished downloading it via torrent and in the process of burning it to CD now.

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SystemRescueCd 1.1.0 Packed with New Utilities

SystemRescueCd 1.1.0 Packed with New Utilities – Features advanced customization and the backing-store filesystem – Softpedia
The SystemRescueCd team has announced today the latest version of their Linux system. This new release brings important new features, such as advanced customization and kernel recompilation, as well as updates to some of the already present applications.
Another one [...]

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Log into Two Accounts at Once with Chrome’s Incognito Mode

Google Chrome: Log into Two Accounts at Once with Chrome’s Incognito Mode
Google Chrome’s “Incognito Mode” isn’t just great for hiding your sultry late night browsing habits, it can also keep you logged into the same webapp as a different user than your main window, like two Gmail accounts.
One of the main reasons I am really [...]

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Map Your Name’s Frequency Across the Globe

Family Tree: Map Your Name’s Frequency Across the Globe
Find out what countries your family name is most common in with Public Profiler’s World Names search and map. Enter your last name and you’ll get back a world map with the countries where your name is most common colored in.
Cool tool! No matter what the [...]

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Green Drinks Tokyo: How To Build Treehouses

Green Drinks Tokyo: How To Build Treehouses : TreeHugger
The link at Treehouse Creator then on to Gallery goes to pictures of some wonderful treehouses. I didn’t get near all the way through it and have gotten several building ideas already. Gonna have to take some time a bit later in the day and [...]

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Aspire One: Victorian Education Discriminating Against Linux? – Brendan Scott’s Weblog

Aspire One: Victorian Education Discriminating Against Linux? « Brendan Scott’s Weblog
Somehow it seems that the Acer Aspire One loaded with Linux, a freely available operating system for which no licence fee is payable is $156* (ex GST) more expensive than exactly the same machine** loaded with Windows XP, a closed operating system for which a [...]

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Shedworking: Railway carriage art studio

Shedworking: Railway carriage art studio
And a real railroad carriage turned art studio down under. Nice, even before the restoration.

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