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Hack your cooking with Christopher Kimball

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I've recently caught a little bit of a cooking bug.

But as enjoyable as the cooking is, i'm more of a reader than a do-er, and i'm really truly loving reading Christopher Kimball's books.  Basically he takes an experimentalist/scientific approach to these things.

He analyzes and compares ingredient/temperature/method variations as if he was looking for the cure to pneumonia.  It's really fun to read about him analyzing minuscule changes and the effects they have.  You also learn a ton about why recipes tell you to do different things.  Very fun reading.. I almost feel like i don't have to do the cooking after reading him talk about it.


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YouGetSignal - fun network tracing tool

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Saw a link to this on ShellCity as a handy tool for checking if you've open ports. But their visual network tracing tool is much more fun. Playing around with it I found a path from my house heading out of Ireland over to America, then bounce back and forth from east to west coasts before finally returning the Europe and eventually the uk where the site I was looking for was located.

The attached screen shot is the longest route I've found yet.

http://www.yougetsig...om/visualTracertTool

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Tarnation: Innovative pikmin-defense type flash game

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This one is quite innovative, very well done, and reminiscent of one of my favorite cute games "http://pikmin".

Basically you must choose how many of each colored attack creature to create and send after the attacking enemies.  You have only a limited number so you have to carefully choose when and how many to create.

Pay attention to the tutorial controls -- i got stuck until i realized that the direction you use your mouse while selecting is what determines which color get created.

http://www.kongregat...es/bradido/tarnation

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World Question Center 2008: "WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT?"

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They post a fairly interesting question every once in a while and ask famous people to provide an extended answer.  This years new year question was: "WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT?"

There are some really interesting answers..  Post if you find any you particularly agree or disagree with or write your own answer.

http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_index.html

Continue reading the rest of the entry and discuss..

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Protagonize.com - Collaborative Choose-your-own-adventure story making

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Remember the choose-your-own-adventure books? At each page you can choose from 2 or 3 decisions which take you to different pages to continue the story.  They are sort of the minimalist version of adventure games.

Here's a neat web 2.0 site that let's people create these things online collaboratively.

Protagonize.com is an online writers' community dedicated to the (nearly) lost art of the adventure, a type of collaborative fiction. Once an author writes a story, others can post branches to that story in different directions.

http://www.protagonize.com/

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Converting an old Laptop into a Digital Picture Frame - HowTo Guide

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Found this cool how-to guide while looking for info on the best digital picture frames.  Cool stuff.

I got ideas from many different examples on the net and began outlining my requirements for the project:
• I wanted the frame to look as much like a real picture frame as possible. It couldn’t have any of the computer exposed so it would require a shadowbox to enclose the laptop.
• I wanted the pictures to automatically update from the web. I wanted to be able to change the photos displayed on the picture frame without needing to log into the PC with VLC or something else. It needed to be easy enough that my wife or daughter could update the photos.
• While I wanted the picture frame to access the internet, I didn’t want to have any cords coming out of it other than the power cord so it would require wifi.
• I wanted it to power up, log in to the default user (using XP) and start showing pictures as soon as it was powered up. It should be as simple as plugging it in and it just works.

http://brentevans.bl...op-into-digital.html

Looks like Brent Evans' blog is worth checking out as well, some other nice articles.
And for more DIY picture frames see: http://diydigitalframes.blogspot.com/
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