Reading Material

Hope everybody has a great Thanksgiving. I will not be getting up at the crack of dawn for Black Friday, as sleeping in is a far more valuable use of my time than waiting in line for deals. Yes, there are good deals, but I don't have money to spend anyway, so what's the point?

Meanwhile, here some links to occupy you for a bit:

• A CPU-burner, but Escape The Map is kind of a cool promotional gimick.
• Forward this to the folks in your family who aren't as Internet savvy: How SOPA would affect you.
• Back to the Future (and its sequel) have nothing to do with the movies. They're well-done photographs of the same people in the same setting in the past and present-day (warning: couple NSFW).
• Something to put on my Christmas list: Space Invaders (original reddit post is here).
• Wondering if Sprint is upgrading their towers? Their new site will tell you (and it looks like they have upgraded some of them locally).
• In his own words, why Jim Romensko left Poynter.
• Mounting a hard drive as a folder on your Windows PC.
• If you're the geek in the family, and you're heading out of town for the holiday, you know that your family's going to want you to look at their computer. Set it up so that you don't have to make the trip in the future.
• The future, according to films.
• Didn't know Remote Desktop had this functionality: Forward local drives to remote machines.
• Great office project: RFID-powered beer machine (read more from the folks who created it on this reddit AMA).
• Need some help writing those 500 word essays? How about some positive reinforcement with kitties?
• Everybody's got a talent in life. This man's is being able to scream the 300 baud carrier signal.
• While runas is a handy tool, RunAsDate is really handy to trick the program into thinking it's different date.
• Bookmarking this for future use: System Restore Explorer.
• While I've always used Process Explorer, What's Running looks pretty slick as well.
• The Font-Bot Project, battling for the future of type supremacy with type-based robots.
• Great list of single-purpose web sites.
• Monitor the web sites your PC is connecting to.
• Another one of the bookmarks: moment.js is a lightweight javascript date library for parsing, manipulating, and formatting dates.
• How to access your machines using DNS names with dd-wrt (another one for the bookmarks that I need to setup my house).

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