links for 2007-11-27
¶ by Rob FrieselWORLD’S ANCIENT MYSTERIES: The World’s 10 Most Famous Uncracked Codes (tags: cryptography history language weird research)
WORLD’S ANCIENT MYSTERIES: The World’s 10 Most Famous Uncracked Codes (tags: cryptography history language weird research)
Visual Dictionary Online (tags: dictionary graphics reference visualization)
A few years old. But still hilarious. Happy Turducken Day!
The three of us have parked the car on the outskirts of the park, slung our gear over our shoulders and are hiking in to the park. It’s a strange sight: the parking lot is like the kind you would find at a mall — dark black asphalt, brightly painted white lines to indicate the […]
ies4osx Decent? and free? IE emulation on OS X (tags: emulator IE OSX tools todo) 7 Simple Tips That Will Turn You Into a Powerful Leader via Dumb Little Man (tags: leadership lifehacks management work)
Having never before read any H.P. Lovecraft, I held a deeply geeky shame. This was an author that was supposed to have helped define modern horror, helped define weird fiction and the truly-out-there sci-fi. The “Cthulhu Mythos” was something that I referenced frequently and yet ignorantly. All this time it was as if I had […]
How to Shoot in Direct Sunlight (tags: camera photography tutorial)
That is frost on my windshield.
Amazing how fast media go obsolete. In between other chores this weeken I went through a couple dozen CD-Rs from the past 6-7 years. First there was the shock that I have been backing up data to CD-Rs for at least seven years; then there was the shock that I was able to get about […]