Reading Material

Plugged up with a bit of a head cold, but wanted to get these off my desktop (videos coming...uh...whenever...)

Look at this street view. Now move the camera up.
35 Incredibly Useful Android Apps for 2011 (be sure to follow the links there for links to games as well).
Teardown of the nifty Nest thermostat.
Relive the reboot experience for a bunch of classic OSes.
In case you hadn't already seen this story last week, PayPal made somebody destroy an expensive violin to get their money back.
Speaking of violins, could you pick the Strad?
Planning ahead on major purchases this year? Here's the best time to buy anything.
Simple an easy way to record an MP3 on your computer.
Automakers have made great strides in fuel efficiency in recent decades, but the mileage numbers of individual vehicles have barely increased. An MIT economist explains the conundrum.
Professor seeds the web with trojan horse essay, just to see where it ends up. Somebody handed it in.
2011's Best Posts on MetaFilter (don't know if this post regarding the music from O Brother Where Art Thou? is included, but it shoiuld be).
From the creator of ClockwordMod created a root-less tether.
Easily clean up your permissions on a bunch of social media sites at once.
If you use fon, be aware your password is being stored in plain-text.
Subway fare and pizza prices go hand-in-hand.
Abbey Road has a web cam with people regularly recreating a certain album cover.
News networks are ignoring SOPA legislation.
Mac Classic II vs. Macbook Air: Which boots faster?
Great list of well-done hacker-journalism in 2011.
Second Crack is a very simple static-file Markdown blogging engine. It's totally unnecessary and unsuitable for most people (which the author even admits), but it's still kind of interesting to me.
Looking for sheet music? There's a large collection of public domain music at IMSLP.
Make a resolution to learn to code.
visitor.js is a handy little script to personalize your web site based on a ton of variables about the visitor.
What's behind that short link? Found out with unFurlr, created by the awesome folks at Mailchimp.
I really wish I had the hardware to play with VMWare more as its high availability features look awesome. Anybody have some old servers they want to get rid off so I can learn a thing or two as I'd really like to gain some more useful experience in this stuff.

Posted by Jake on 01/09/12 @ 10:51 PM
Posted in Geekdom, Randomness | 3 Comments | Permalink

3 Comments

stratboy said on 03/11/12 @ 04:31 AM:
I'm clueless on the first link. I panned the camera up and didn't see anything. A dark spot, but that was all.

Did I miss something?

utterly cool site you have here.

Thanks.

Jake said on 03/11/12 @ 09:13 AM:
Popularity killed it, stratboy. You used to be able to see a gigantic hand and pair of pliers (undoubtedly from the driver, like he was fixing something on the camera).

Jessica Montoya said on 06/28/12 @ 06:18 PM:
Wow, these link can take you to some cool stuff! Things i would have never looked up myself! And reading has been great, since sometimes its hard to find things interesting to read.

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