#Bookmark
97 posts2026-March Brain Dump
Bookmarks from March 2026
Read postIdea 089 - Wheres Wren?
A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.
Read postIdea 054 - Digital Dices
A dice that when rolled shows a random number within a range on a screen
Read postIdea 053 - HTML and CSS photo book for Blurb
Instead of using Blurb publishing tools create the book using HTML and CSS
Read postIdea 018 - Just the tip skyscraper coffee table book
A photo book of just the tops of very tall buildings, just the top few flors, just the tip
Read postFebruary 2021 brain dump
February 2021 brain dump on getting into birding with a Sigma 150-600mm, plotter twitter projects, and a 52-card bird playing deck plan.
Read postOnline group games
A list of boardgames, card games, drawing games, trivia, and social deduction games to play remotely with friends during COVID-19.
Read postPodcasts 2020
Updated podcast list for March 2020 with picks like Clarkesworld, Stack Overflow Podcast, Hello Internet, Reply All, and 99% Invisible.
Read postFebruary 2020 brain dump
February 2020 brain dump: pocket operator pinouts, CNC squid kits, maze dice sculptures, photo ideas, and the Hub16 macro pad.
Read postJanuary 2020 brain dump
January 2020 brain dump: links on polyhedra, plotter art, LED lava lamps, capacitive touch PCBs, and tools for makers.
Read postJun 2019 brain dump
June 2019 bookmarks: a Casper nightlight teardown, the Etch-A-Snap Pi camera, SVG Nest, and stacked paper stained glass.
Read postPodcasts 2019
My February 2019 podcast rotation, with a starter episode picked for each show from Reply All to 99 Percent Invisible.
Read postFeb 2019 brain dump
February 2019 links on Arduino LED projects, an Etch A Sketch CNC, a zombie ESP8266 game, and James Clar's neon art.
Read postNov 2018 brain dump
November 2018 bookmarks on Wobble Garden, PCB art, SI playing cards, sand tables, and Islamic geometric design books.
Read postMay 2018 brain dump
May 2018 grab bag of links: pen plotters, ESPEasy firmware, the TWANG dungeon crawler, and a wooden lego planter.
Read postJanuary 2018 brain dump
Notes on dropping Evernote for are.na, TeamViewer alternatives, blockchain art, the Ice Cold Beer game, and a pile of bookmarks.
Read postNotes from March 2017
March 2017 links: a laser kaleidoscope, Lixie nixie alternatives, Vancouver crime maps, Eruv wires above Manhattan, and PBF comics.
Read postNotes from February 2017
February 2017 links: laser-cut art from 1000 Errors, paper beetle kits, Mongoose OS, the USB Killer V3, and the CIA cartography map drops.
Read postNovember 2016 interesting link dump
November 2016 link dump: open source car control, ESP8266 MQTT LED controllers, the Maslow CNC, Boldport, and the poop emoji oral history.
Read postPodcasts
A running list of podcasts I listen to, from Radiolab and This American Life to The Dollop, 99% Invisible, and The Moth.
Read postLaser cutter Tips, tricks and resources
A link list of places to find laser-cut files, project ideas, and inspiration for the laser cutter.
Read postI like the weird
Two Burning Man videos I keep coming back to, Hula Cam 2012 and Home from 2011.
Read postSQL Injection License Plate
A hacker changes his license plate to a SQL injection string in hopes of crashing the speed camera database.
Read postOffice Parkour and ZombinLaden
Three short videos worth watching: Biting Elbows office parkour, ZombinLaden, and the Daffy Duck Wizard short.
Read postLED light bulb suit.
Bookmark of an LED light bulb suit to recreate for Burning Man.
Read postGOLD, lighting project.
Note on Evan Roth's Gold project, which lights up holes drilled into acrylic by reflecting light through the sheet.
Read postUnpossible
Sharing Robin King's short film Unpossible, where a paranoid inventor guards a time machine and has to use it when things go wrong.
Read postOne Minute Puberty
Sharing the short animated film One Minute Puberty by bitteschoen.tv on Vimeo.
Read postlinks for 2010-12-11
Bookmarks for an APC220 Arduino wireless transmission kit and the Simpsons Archive list of every food eaten on the show.
Read postMerge/combined PDF documents into a single PDF
A free Java app for merging dozens of PDFs into one file, saving $90 in per-file print shop fees.
Read postTalk about your bad luck
A comic writer loses his drive, his backups, and his repair shop all in one week after the shop owner dies mid-operation.
Read postThe Best of Every Day Fiction Two (Anthology)
Announcing The Best of Every Day Fiction Two, a 316-page paperback collecting a hundred flash stories from the site's second year.
Read postlinks for 2009-05-05
One bookmark for the day: the Stack Overflow thread on the best comments ever found in source code.
Read postYou may call me /b/
A B-heavy Urban Dictionary definition of /b/, the public bulletin board built of brilliance and barbarity.
Read postRule 34 - If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions.
A quick xkcd link to Rule 34: if it exists, there is porn of it, no exceptions.
Read postXKCD - Social-b 99.1
A link to xkcd 330 and its made-up Rule Social-b 99.1 about indecisive friends.
Read postBar Tricks
Pointers to a Wired wiki of bar bet tricks and a video of 1000 ways to open a beer bottle.
Read postLinks to torrent sites
A short list of regularly-used torrent search sites and the uTorrent client.
Read postVS6 SP6
A mirror of the Visual Studio 6 Service Pack 6 installer for anyone still stuck on VS6.
Read postAPEX Holiday Subscription Drive
APEX magazine runs a November subscription drive promising pro-rate 5-cents-per-word pay if they hit 500 new subscribers.
Read postWork Smarter, Not Harder
In 1968 a man in a police uniform stole 294 million yen from a Toshiba bank car in Tokyo and was never caught.
Read postThe Internet Stars Are Viral
A viral video about viral videos, cutting together the year's most-watched clips into one montage.
Read postThe zen of zombies
A short film of zombie hordes doing yoga in the park, made to promote Scott Kenemore's book The Zen of Zombie.
Read postProving that 3 + 2 = 0
A math paradox that proves 3 + 2 = 0 by quietly dividing both sides of an equation by zero.
Read postHouse hunting in vancouver
A list of rental sites for hunting an apartment in Vancouver during the September crunch when vacancy sits under 1 percent.
Read postEvery Day Fiction dot com
Every Day Fiction publishes a new sub-1000-word story each day, delivered by email or RSS, short enough to read on a lunch break.
Read postAurgasm
Aurgasm.us is my favourite spot for full, free songs from musicians I have never heard of, with reviews and an mp3 player.
Read postDel.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-31 - 2007-06-14
Two weeks of del.icio.us bookmarks for funvill, late May through mid June 2007.
Read postTechnorati faves
Joining a Technorati favourites cross-linking experiment, with the rules and the running list of blogs to fave.
Read postDel.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-23 - 2007-05-30
Weekly del.icio.us dump: a CSS border style wizard, stencil street art, eyetracking heatmaps, and quote sites.
Read postDel.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-16 - 2007-05-22
Weekly del.icio.us dump: oscilloscope art, a homebrew lava lamp, an ice-bulb instructable, and a pile of dice game writeups.
Read postDel.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-04 - 2007-05-15
Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-04 - 2007-05-15
Read postDel.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-24 - 2007-05-04
Weekly del.icio.us dump: RSS tips, a Vancouver clean-up event, the TeRK robot kit, and a WordPress theme generator.
Read postHouse maze
A backyard corn maze run as a paid attraction, with notes on why the right-hand rule beats most maze designs.
Read postFan works of Mario
A small roundup of dark and weird Mario fan art and flash animations including Communist Mario and Burly Mario.
Read postHOW TO - Pre-sliced bananas
A linked how-to for pre-slicing a banana inside its peel using a needle and thread.
Read postMah Na Mah Na
Original Muppets Mah Na Mah Na clip plus a few World of Warcraft remixes pulled from YouTube.
Read postTwo foot James bond
A short video clip of a two-foot-nine James Bond impersonator, found via thevancouverite.com.
Read postThis Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-24
Weekly del.icio.us link dump covering Paint.NET, freebase pancake photos, a DIY Digg button, and Vancouver oddities.
Read postInteresting cactus building
Urban Cactus, a 19-floor Rotterdam housing block by UCX Architects with staggered terraces that give every unit sunlight.
Read postThis Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-20
Weekly del.icio.us bookmarks: the Digg button kit, room-colour psychology, Doktor Sleepless, Manhunt, and a CSS optimiser.
Read postThou shall not
A pointer to the Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip track Thou Shalt Always Kill.
Read postThis Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-17
Weekly del.icio.us bookmarks: a CSS optimiser, GVTV, Canada Post address rules, SIW, and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Read postThis Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-09
Weekly del.icio.us bookmarks covering art, DIY electronics, Mobius chess, photo forgery detection, and a CSS list gallery.
Read postLet"s Be Brief - A story in 6 words
Picks from a six-word story contest on middlezonemusings.com, plus a couple of my own attempts.
Read postWhat is there to do in Vancouver?
A long link dump of Vancouver event listings, restaurant review sites, and local blogs for finding something to do.
Read postHippo Update Checker (Windows)
Hippo Update Checker scans installed Windows programs against an online version database and lists download links for any updates.
Read postImageManager 2.0
ImageManager 2.0 is a Wordpress plugin that lets bloggers resize, crop, rotate, flip, or scale uploaded images in place.
Read postThis Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-02
Weekly del.icio.us dump on guitar stompboxes, an RGB mood lamp, ferrofluid Morpho Towers, Game of Life, and the Translink bus-stop hack.
Read postTranslink schedules via bus stop ID
Mytxt.ca let Vancouver riders text a bus stop number and get schedules back, until the running costs killed the SFU student project.
Read postThis Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 03/28/2007
Weekly del.icio.us dump covering a Van de Graaff generator, an LED sequence learner, GPS loggers, password crackers, and more.
Read postWeekly post of del.icio.us book marks to wordpress
A modified herebox.org script that pulls new del.icio.us links into Wordpress once a week as draft posts with tag links.
Read postEgglings - Plants in eggs
Ceramic Egglings look like real eggs, crack one open and add water to grow red pepper, lavender, or strawberries inside.
Read postUSBCELL AA Rechargable Battery
USBCELL AA NiMH batteries that recharge from a USB port in about five hours, sold in pairs for $18.59 on Amazon.
Read postStop motion drum and piano
A YouTube video by lassegg who hits each drum and piano note separately, then edits the clips into a song.
Read postTrack your packages with Google Maps
Isnoop.net plots UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL package progress on Google Maps and spits out an RSS feed of pickups and deliveries.
Read postRss feeds in your inbox
Services like rssfwd.com and squeet.com turn any RSS feed into email updates for people who refuse to use a feed reader.
Read postThe Importance Of Deep Linking
Why John Chow recommends deep linking inside blog posts: SEO juice and traffic back from RSS scrapers that copy your content.
Read postView Product Key XP
Keyfinder, a freeware tool that pulls Windows and Office product keys out of the registry and can write a new key back.
Read postJulie Feeney
Irish musician Julie Feeney's album 13 Songs, where she plays eleven instruments including alto recorder, harmonium, and melodica.
Read postBirdy Nam Nam
Birdy Nam Nam, four French DJs working eight turntables as actual musical instruments.
Read postWhat are RSS feeds and how to use them
An intro to RSS feeds and feed readers like FeedDemon, Thunderbird, and Google Reader for tracking site updates in one place.
Read postDesign Competition - Board Game Design Challenge
A Vancouver IGDA board game design contest to build a 2-4 player tabletop game based on Robotron, Joust, or Space Invaders.
Read postVancouver (GVRD) Taxi Numbers
Phone numbers for the main Vancouver and GVRD cab companies, plus a note that drivers cannot refuse credit card payment.
Read post12 Rules for Choosing Domain Names
Twelve rules from SEOmoz for picking a domain name: keywords, dot-com only, easy to type, no hyphens or numbers.
Read postA mini hydroelectric damn that runs a LED inside your shower head.
A forum project to put a tiny water-driven turbine inside a shower head so it powers an LED while you shower.
Read postSnOil - A Physical Display Based on Ferrofluid
Martin Frey's SnOil, a playable Snake game built on a 144-magnet grid pushing ferrofluid around a tray.
Read postPaprika trailer
The trailer for Paprika, the 2007 anime about a dream detective who enters patients' dreams to find the source of their anxiety.
Read postUSB Powered Charger for Two AA NiMH/NiCd Cells
Plans for a USB powered fast charger for two AA NiMH or NiCd cells, based on Stefan Vorkoetter's circuit.
Read postKitchen diaries
A YouTube clip mixing beatboxing with cooking.
Read postHouse Hunting in Vancouver
A list of Vancouver rental sites and tips for standing out when 50 other people are replying to the same Craigslist ad.
Read postGet a signed DVD of The Last Unicorn
Lionsgate's 25th anniversary DVD of The Last Unicorn ships signed by author Peter S. Beagle on the disc, cover, and slipcase.
Read postBeatboxing flute inspector gadget remix
A YouTube clip of Greg Pattillo beatboxing the Inspector Gadget theme through a flute.
Read postLego Ice cube Tray
A $7.99 silicone tray from the Lego online store that freezes water into stackable Lego brick ice cubes.
Read postHow messy is your network
A bookmark to a photo collection of absurdly tangled server room cabling.
Read postY-105 USB to RS 232 Converter (DB9)
A mirror of the Y-105 USB to RS 232 DB9 converter drivers so they stay findable when the vendor page disappears.
Read post1 Free Grande Iced Cap from Starbucks
Starbucks is giving away one free Grande Iced Cap per day with a printable coupon through September 30, 2006.
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