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I decided to make the guestbook for my wedding, right down to cutting the pages out from a roll of paper and labeling them tri-lingually in English, Spanish and Quenya. Here’s a sneak preview…

QR codes are pretty neat. Basically these are 2D barcodes that can encode a lot of data, including URLs and text and phone numbers and such. I had a thought that if something other than just black…

Well I’m officially bored with Foursquare now. It’s just too much work to maintain mayorships, and it seems like there must be some way other people are gaming the system to hold down…

Even though my spare time has been becoming less and less these days, I have actually been writing quite a bit more often. I’ve made a concerted effort to write something every single day…

There’s a lot of pretty interesting data available at the USGS website, including maps of witness reported earthquake intensity. The 5.0 magnitude quake that hit the Ottawa area generated about…

This is pretty much awesome. Via at least three friends on the Facebook.

Mostly, this is here for my own reference. Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot reading.

I really want one of these Velosynth devices to play with. It’s a smart, hackable glitch noisemaker you can attach to your bike. It’s like the super nerdy version of the playing cards in the…

The recent posts over on Daring Fireball about comments have gotten me thinking about just disabling them and throwing them all out here. Not on LJ or Facebook, that seems to be where comments are…

Check out these mammatus clouds.

Rebecca pointed me at this article from NPR in which art historian David Bellingham posits that the Botticelli painting “Venus and Mars” depicts Mars in a state of intoxication from…

I finally got around to uploading some pictures from our last couple of camping excursions. These are all from the Hood Forest.

This one I think is crazy how green it is. Rowan practically blends…

Laughing Squid posted about a project that’s mapping geotagged photos taken by tourists vs those taken by locals.

Here’s Portland. The blue dots are locals and the red are tourists:

Honestly, I think end-to-end encryption should be the default behavior for all phone calls. Whisper Systems have released a pair of apps for beta testing that add this privacy…