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• Thursday June 26, 2008
• 13:51

  Digg: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lego

   » ‎ Lego
  Do you wanted to know how many bricks are produced per minute? How many bricks have been produced in history? What's the best-selling set ever? What has been the worst? Do they recycle? You sent the questions and here you have the answers: Here's the definitive mega-reference, straight from Lego.

• Wednesday June 25, 2008
• 19:00

  Bring Your Box of e-Junk to Office Depot

   » ‎ Extremetech
  Office Depot, one of the nation's largest workplace supply retailers, has just kicked off a new recycling service for old and broken electronics.

  

  

• Wednesday June 18, 2008
• 12:54

  Real Snail Mail

   » ‎ Boing Boing
  The Real Snail Mail project will be part of the Slow Art exhibition at the SIGGRAPH 2008 conference in August. The snails are outfitted with RFID chips. Once the project site is running again, you can send a message to their server where it will be picked up by a snail and then dropped off at some point later on. It reminds me of the experiments with data transfer via snail conducted a few years ago by Yossi Vardi and friends in Israel! From the BBC News article about the Real Snail Mail Project:

  Instead of instantaneous communication, sent messages will travel at 0.03mph (0.05km/h) and could take days, weeks or even months to arrive....
  
  "One thing technology promises us is speed, acceleration, more of everything in less time," said Paul Smith, a visual artist working on the project.
  
  "Culturally, we seem obsessed with immediacy. Time is not to be taken but crammed to bursting point."
  

  Link to BBC News article, Link to RealSnailMail site, Link to SIGGRAPH 2008 "Slow Art" page
  
  Previously on BB:
  • Data transfer via snail is faster than ADSL and pigeons Link (Thanks, Carlo Longino!)
  

  

  

• 07:49

  Tips on becoming a More Efficient Digital Photographer

   » ‎ Digg
  These handy tips help you spend more time taking photos and less time working on the computer.
• Monday June 16, 2008
• 13:20

  17 Reasons Bicycles Are Most Popular Vehicle in the World

   » ‎ Digg
  This week, EcoWorldly authors from six continents contributed articles on bicycling in their country. With exerpts from those articles and others in the blogosphere, here are seventeen very good reasons to bicycle no matter where you live. Click the headings as you go to read more.

• Sunday June 15, 2008
• 06:00

  Download Squad: Minimize anything to the Windows system tray with Trayconizer

   » ‎ Firefox

  Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

  
  Trayconizer is a little application that lets you change the behavior of any Windows program so that it can be minimized to the system tray instead of the taskbar. You'll have to configure each application manually, because Trayconizer is designed to be inserted into a program shortcut.
  
  Here's how it works. You unzip Trayconizer to a folder on your PC. Let's say it's C:\Trayconizer. Now all you have to do is insert Trayconizer into the target field of a program shortcut. For example if you want to be able to minimize Firefox to the system tray, you would right-click on the shortcut for Firefox and insert the path to Trayconizer.exe before the path to Firefox.exe. It should read something like
  
  "c:\trayconizer\trayconizer.exe" c:program files\mozilla\firefox.exe
  
  You can also use XNeat, a program we covered a while back, to minimize running programs to the system tray. But Trayconizer has the advantage of running automatically every time you launch a program so that all you have to do is click the minimize button.
  
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• Wednesday June 11, 2008
• 21:57

  Everything You Wanted to Know About Simplifying Your Life, and Way More

   » ‎ Zen Habits

  I’m finishing the last chapter of my book today (can’t wait for it to be done!) and so I thought I’d take a break and leave you with some of my favorite old articles, in case you missed them — the articles on simplicity.

  As you might already know, living the simple life is one of my passions, and one of my greatest achievements. Sure, my life could probably get even simpler, but I’m happy with where I am. I hope that these articles can help you in your journey to a simpler life, should you choose such a path.

  A quick note: There are a lot of articles below. You don’t have to read all of them. In fact, in the name of simplicity, please don’t. Choose a sample, and you’ll do just fine — there are some common themes that run through all of them anyway.

  My Favorites:

  • Simple Living Manifesto: 72 Ideas to Simplify Your Life
  • Simple Living Simplified: 10 Things You Can Do Today to Simplify Your Life
  • The Simple Life
  • The First Rule of Simplifying: Identify the Essential (or, How to avoid the Void)
  • The Four Laws of Simplicity, and How to Apply Them to Life
  • 75 Simple Pleasures to Brighten Your Day

  Edit Your Life Series:

  • Edit Your Life, Part 1: Commitments
  • Edit Your Life, Part 2: Your Rooms
  • Edit Your Life, Part 3: Closets and Drawers
  • Edit Your Life, Part 4: Your Work Space
  • Edit Your Life, Part 5: Your Wardrobe
  • Edit Your Life, Part 6: A Media Fast

  On Decluttering:

  • Zen Mind: How to Declutter
  • 15 Great Decluttering Tips
  • 21 Tips on Keeping a Simple Home with Kids

  For Minimalists:

  • A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Home
  • The Minimalist’s Guide to Simple Housework
  • The Minimalist’s Guide to Fighting (and Beating) Clutter Entropy
  • Cyber Minimalist: How to Work (Almost) Completely Online
  • A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Workspace
  • 10 Odd Little Minimalist Things I Do

  And Even More:

  • 36 Great Tips for Keeping Travel as Simple as Possible (and Two Poems)
  • The Zen of Tech: 12 Powerful Ways to Keep Your Online Life Simple and Peaceful
  • Eliminate All But the Absolute Essential Tasks
  • Book review: Simplify Your Life
  • Simplify Your Eating Habits and Meals
  • How to Simplify Your Filing System; or, Why Stacking Just Doesn’t Work
  • 25 Ways to Simplify Your Life with Kids

  

  

• Tuesday June 10, 2008
• 07:00

  How to Make Ice Cream Sandwiches

   » ‎ Start Cooking Blog

  

  Ice cream sandwiches are the perfect dessert for a summer night with friends or a backyard barbecue. They’ll cool you down quickly, and you don’t need any utensils or dishes to eat them! It’s also a lot more fun to make them than buy the prefab kind at the grocery store (which probably contain way too many ingredients you can’t pronounce). Plus, if you make them yourself, you get to customize: imagine peanut butter cookies with chocolate ice cream filling …

  Ice cream sandwiches are really very simple to make. Here are a few tips:

  • Use a soft cookie. Brownies also make great “bread” for ice cream sandwiches, but any chewy cookie will do. If your cookie is too hard or crumbly, the ice cream will squeeze out the sides of the sandwich as you’re biting into it!
  • Set the ice cream out at room temperature for 5 minutes or in the fridge for 20 minutes, so that it softens enough to be spread between the cookies.
  • If you’d like to, you can make your sandwiches in advance and put them in the freezer (wrap in waxed paper or plastic wrap first). But they’ll be much easier to eat if you let them soften a few minutes before that first bite!
  • Relax! It’s just an ice cream sandwich! You can make your cookies and ice cream from scratch if you want to, but you certainly don’t have to!

  Ready to try ice cream sandwiches? Here are just a few recipes to get you started!

  1. Mexican Ice Cream Sandwiches have a chocolate-cayenne cookie for a twist on the classic vanilla ice cream and chocolate cookie combo.
  2. If you’re nuts for hazelnuts, try this sandwich, made with Nutella brownies or this choco-hazelnut recipe!
  3. This recipe for soft chocolate shortbread cookies is perfect for ice cream sandwiches.
  4. Kahlua and Irish Cream liquor make these ice cream sandwiches a grown-up treat.
  5. Try Rachael Ray’s version, with squished-thin brownies.
  6. Bakerella will introduce you to some very cool tools for making shaped ice cream sandwiches of any kind!
  7. Panini Happy takes ice cream sandwiches (well, just the cookies) to her Panini grill!
  8. For a totally different twist on ice cream sandwiches, try this Peanut Butter and Strawberry version, made on white chocolate pound cake slices.
  9. You can never go wrong with chewy chocolate chip cookies as your exterior.
  10. Peanut Butter Roasted Banana ice cream sandwiches combine a classic flavor combo in a new way.
  11. If those weren’t enough recipes to get you started, hop over to yumsugar’s “Summer of Sandwiches” from 2007 to find 14 more variations, including ice cream sandwiches on puff pastries, chocolate-covered graham crackers, saltines, biscotti and more!

  

• Friday June 06, 2008
• 11:00

  Controlling your camera from your computer with gPhoto

   » ‎ NewsForge

  Both of the big powerhouses in the digital SLR camera market -- Canon and Nikon -- make software with which you can control your camera from your PC through an attached USB cable. It is a nice tool for situations when manually triggering the shutter might cause shake (such as long exposures), or for automating multiple shots at timed intervals. But, naturally, the camera makers don't supply this software for free operating systems -- and just as naturally, the open source world has an answer. You can perform the same remote operation functions using gPhoto.

• Wednesday May 07, 2008
• 06:27

  Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Portal +40

   » ‎ Portal

  

  [Stares down-page in faint terror.] What a lot of arguments we’re going to have today. So, for those of you currently visiting us in search of gaming rather than debating, hopefully this will do the trick.

  The chaps behind the splendid Flash version of Portal have generously converted their 2D maps into 3D versions for Portal-actual. All 40 of them. At three and a half hours of happy puzzle-solving, this mega-pack is pretty much equivalent to Portal itself in terms of length. In terms of quality? You tell me. … [visit site to read more]

  

• Monday April 21, 2008
• 05:00

  Omelet with Cheese

   » ‎ Start Cooking

  Enclosure: [download]

  Recipe: Omelet with Cheese serves 1
  
  

  • 2 eggs
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 2 tablespoons of water
  • 1 teaspoon of oil
  • 1/3 cup of cheese - shredded
  • 1 tablespoon of chives - minced

  Blend together eggs, water and salt.  Add oil to a 6 inch sloped sided non-stick fry pan.

  Heat oil, on medium for one minute; add egg mixture and cook.  

  As the eggs begin to set, with a spatula, lift the edges and let the raw mixture run to the bottom of the pan.

  When the top is no longer runny, but still moist, sprinkle the cheese on ½ of the omelet

  With a spatula, flip the omelet in half.  The cheese will take about 20 seconds to melt.

  Slide the omelet onto your plate.

  Garnish with chives and black pepper.