mike the mountain » Links http://www.mikelawton.com/blog Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:36:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 I May Be Late To The Table, But This Still Tastes DEL.ICIO.US To Me! http://www.mikelawton.com/blog/2007/09/18/i-may-be-late-to-the-table-but-this-still-tastes-delicious-to-me/ http://www.mikelawton.com/blog/2007/09/18/i-may-be-late-to-the-table-but-this-still-tastes-delicious-to-me/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:31:00 +0000 Mike Lawton http://www.mikelawton.com/blog/?p=382 I’ve known about the “social bookmarking” site/app/Web 2.0 darling del.icio.us since it launched, I guess I just didn’t really clue in to it’s awesomeness until today.

OK, so I’m a little slow sometimes.

I am what you may call a voracious reader. I usually have 2-3 books on the go, stacks of magazines that I never throw out (which I’m sure doesn’t annoy my girlfriend at all, right honey?). I can’t take a poop or fall asleep without something to read. The whole “blog revolution” (blogolution? bloggervution? I smell a new buzzword!) has been awesome for a connoisseur of the obscure, inane, insane, wild, wonderful, and OMGWTF such as myself. My brain is Augustus Gloop and the net is my river of chocolate (see, I knew that whole “series of tubes” analogy made sense!).

It was bad enough when I had to hunt and peck around for some nuggets of info, I had enough sites memorized that I knew I enjoyed. Occaisionally they’d link to other cool places that I’d have to remember or bookmark. But then sites like Fark started to gather lots of links together in one place. And then other sites started doing the same thing, on every topic imaginable. RSS feeds came along, and that was like adding a nozzle to the firehose, because at least I could get all the stories and posts and pics and jokes and articles in one place. Bloglines, Google Reader put it all online for me, so now I didn’t have to be at any one computer to go through all my favourite sites and feeds. And they made it so easy to subscribe, I’m now getting a stupid amount of posts, hundreds a day, far more than I could ever keep up with (and still do things like work, sleep, eat)!

The productive life is about efficiencies. I can scroll through a few hundred links, and mark the ones that sound interesting for later reading! For a while it was just in an ever-growing folder of bookmarks on each computer I used… then I clued in on one of the reasons I started this little bloggity-blog all those many years ago, to store and share the cool stuff I find! So a few links here or there, then a big “link dump” every once in a while to clear out the bookmark folders. Not very efficient, but improving. Google Reader added an “Email” link to each post, which allowed me to post the entire article on here, which I thought was really cool, but now I’m stuck with 40 or 50 unpublished articles that I have to go through, clean up, and write some kind of comment about. Yikes. Back into overload again.

So this is what brought me back to looking at del.icio.us. I wanted some place to keep my bookmarks that would allow me to access it from any computer and easily share with anyone who was interested, and if I could keep a bit of an update going on my website here, bonus!

Well, those of you who read this site directly (as opposed to through a RSS feed) should see a new section for “Recent Links” (or whatever I’ve changed it to that day), as well as a link back to my del.icio.us page, where I will be linking to all the various little items of interest I stumble across as I surf the tubes. You can even subscribe to my link feed, and get all those wonderful little links without having to dirty your browser with my digital brain vomit.

The “Links“… um… link… still stays. It’s more of a source list for the individual pages and articles that I’ll tag in del.icio.us. I’m stoked about this, it’s giving me another layer of efficiency that I can use to optimize my time without sacrificing the random knowledge that I’ve been feeding my brain since I got my first Guinness Book of World Records and Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. Of course, I haven’t yet got to the point of taking my laptop into the bathroom with me, so Uncle John still has a place of honour… right beside the throne!

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Actually, I tried to get another Mac, just couldn’t justify the finances when I added in the price of a full version of Windows to run all my biz software.

Point is, Linux, even a flavour as refined as Ubuntu, does not work straight “out of the box”, especially on a new generation laptop. Takes a bit of effort, but I’m hoping it will be worth it.

HUGE thanks to everyone linked below for their help in getting me set up and rocking. She’s looking better all the time, no major glitches, response is fantastic (finally feels like a new computer!).

I’m just waiting for the first client to recognize what I’m running… guaranteed sale!

 

via Lifehacker by Kyle Pott on Jul 20, 2007


Lorem-Ipsum.pngUbuntu Feisty users: Improve the look of your fonts in 2 minutes flat by installing a few packages. The font change is very noticeable in Firefox and the terminal. If you want to get technical about it, the process detailed in the Ubuntu Forums improves Feisty’s subpixel rendering. After you complete the steps, you will need to restart your open apps in order to see the difference. The lorem ipsum screenshot, shows the impressive result.

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Digital Photography: A goldmine of photography resources online

via Lifehacker by Wendy Boswell on Jun 24, 2007


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Web 2.0 tracker Mashable has compiled a monster list of more than ninety online photography tools and resources.

You can find online photo editors here, as well as photo sharing sites, free photo hosting, photography blogs, mashups, photo printing helps, and a lot more. Personally I’m loving this list, as I’m trying to get more out of my camera and pictures, creativity and productivity wise.

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Fark
Boing Boing
Digg
Reddit

Cool People Doing Cool Things
Amber Mac
The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century
The Adventures of Cristobal
tonypierce.com + busblog
True Stories
Warren Ellis
Warren Kinsella's Latest Musings
WIL WHEATON dot NET


Movies and Music and Pictures and Stories and Games
io9
Ain't It Cool News
Cute Overload
Chrystal’s Photos
[daily dose of imagery]
Fast Fictions
Flickr – Banff
Flickr – Calgary
Flickr – Canmore
Flickr – Edmonton
Flickr – Toronto
Indieish : Your Free Music Daily
Kotaku
Mighty Optical Illusions
stereogum
Tcritic – Daily T-Shirt Blog
Teaching The Indie Kids to Dance Again

Philosophy and Politics
Accelerating Future
Adbusters Blog
a puke green world
Consumerist
kuro5hin.org
Let It Bleed
Life Beyond Code
Logical Philosopher
Genuine Curiosity
New Scientist
Ranting and Roaring
Rick Mercer's Blog
Treehugger

Makes Me Laugh
5ives
Behind the Counter
Clublife
Dethroner
I Can Has Cheezburger
Overheard at Western
waiterrant.net

Comics
Dilbert
User Friendly
PvP
Little Gamers
Ctrl+Alt+Del
Sore Thumbs
The Joy of Tech
Full Frontal Nerdity
Dork Tower
Looking For Group
Order of the Stick
VG Cats
Penny Arcade
Bob the Angry Flower
Sinfest
Diesel Sweeties
Joe Mathlete Explains Today’s Marmaduke
Least I Could Do
Questionable Content
My Stupid Life
Nothing Nice to Say
Real Life
Theater Hopper
Joe Loves Crappy Movies
indexed
Filibuster Cartoons
Wondermark
Dinosaur Comics
xkcd
Homestarrunner
Red vs Blue


This Might Actually Come In Useful
43 Folders
acleareye
beyond bullets
Brand Autopsy
brandXpress blog
Download Squad
Fast Company Now
Freakonomics Blog
Get Rich Slowly
Google University
hack a day
Life Hut
Lifehacker
Mac 911 Weblog
Mac Gems Weblog
MacOSXHints.com
MacRumors
MAKE: Blog
Presentation Zen
Seth's Blog
Slacker Manager
TED Blog
The Meatriarchy
The Tom Peters Weblog
Travel Alberta
Tricks of the Trade
Visual Being
Well Fed Network
What's Your Brand Mantra?

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I’ll spare you any further soon-to-be-painfully-out-of-date comical twists on the recent very enjoyable movie. (“THIS! IS! NOT FUNNY ANYMORE!!”). Actually, I just can’t think of anything clever enough. I totally dig that stuff. Anyway, here’s a bunch of links I’ve been saving up over the last month! (I promise to write more soon, insert excuse here.)

  • BoingBoing: Canada’s copyright czar’s boomerang tantrum at Museum Assoc meeting – What, you think this kind of political corruption BS only happens in the States?
  • Amie Street – Music Lives Here – Tunes start out free, rising in costs as they get more popular. Never more than a buck. No DRM. Artists actually get some of the money. Not a bad system.
  • Love Songs…Nothing But Love Songs at Dethroner – Time to fire up the music store and relive some teen angst.
  • Boing Boing: Get a signed DVD of The Last Unicorn – A classic from my childhood, I had no idea of the crap the original author is going through over the rights.
  • Fashion4Nerds.com – Simple fashion tips and tricks for the style impaired. – For when us geeks need to wander out into the sun.
  • eBags – Searching for the perfect laptop case
  • BioWare: About Edmonton – What the game gods at BioWare have to say about my happy home town.
  • The best thing not at CES – Remember the fancy interface from Minority Report? These guys made one. For real.
  • Accelerating Future – My favourite new blog. Transhumanism, AI, nanotechnology, and existential risk. All that scifi stuff you think is just fi.
  • Save the Internet : Fighting for Internet Freedom – Probably the best explanation of what this whole “Net Neutrality” debate is all about.
  • LibriVox » The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin – Free audiobook for you science geeks that need to check this one off your list of things you say you’ve read when you’re trying to impress hot women in glasses.
  • World exclusive skydiver video | the Daily Mail – Dude fell 12,000 feet, chute didn’t open. He lived. This is the film from his helmet cam.
  • AdArena – EA hires in ASCII – That’s gotta be one of the most original recruitment billboards I’ve ever seen.
  • YouTube – 30 minutes of 80′s cartoon Openings – Prepare for the nostalgia. And if you aren’t old enough to have seen these shows when they first came out, STOP WEARING THE T-SHIRTS!! Stupid hipster kids, get off my lawn.
  • Google Video – Insane Mario Video – Worth watching for the commentary. Hilarious.
  • Metroblogging Los Angeles: L.A.’s Top 25 Legends
  • YouTube – The Big Brother State – Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re NOT out to get you!
  • How To Make a Secret Hollow Book – I’m sure I can find something cool to hide
  • 11 Ways to Optimize Your Mac’s Performance – Still trying to keep Susie alive and kicking. That new Airport router from Apple allows me to connect a backup drive, I’m thinking that could be the perfect solution for my overloaded iTunes woes.
  • Hack Attack: Top 13 iTunes AppleScripts – Lifehacker
  • Open Source Alternative – Find Open Source Alternatives to commercial software – If work didn’t demand it, I would never dirty my hardware with microsoft garbage again. Vista and Office 07: avoid at all costs for at least a year.
  • LINUX ON DESKTOP: 13 Things to do immediately after installing Ubuntu – Just need that free weekend… I will load her up!
  • 101 Shareware and Freeware Programs Every Nerd Needs | The Free Geek
  • LH Top 10: Must-have Firefox extensions – Lifehacker
  • Rock Your Google Calendar in 18 Ways « – I’m starting to look very seriously at Google Apps for some of my work tech. I’m just sick of fighting a dozen different IT policies with all my offices, I need something hosted online.
  • Gmail Craze: 30 + Tools and Hacks for Gmail » MakeUseOf.com
  • YouTube – No More Kings “Sweep the Leg” – Catchy song, video directed by Mr. William Zabka, aka: Johnny Lawrence aka: the bad guy from Karate Kid!
  • Sweep the Leg and Wake the Gimp – The history of Johnny Lawrence, from Karate Kid to Pulp Fiction. Too funny.
  • Neill Cumpston’s Written The Only GRINDHOUSE Review You Ever Need To Read!! – “It’s a taquito buffet that you puke up after getting hit with a motorcycle, and it turns into a bikini chick that blows you and kills your boss with a hammer.”
  • Ask Lifehacker: How do I get started using Quicken? – I said a while ago I wanted to start being a lot better on my budget. This might be a good place to start.
  • I Will Teach You To Be Rich » Ramit’s 2007 Guide to Kicking Ass – A free downloadable chapter on a “Money Day”, taking a full day to do all the little things that can help get your finances under control.
  • 8 Free Personal Finance Management Programs – Consumerist – Quicken may be the biggest money software out there, but it definitely does not mean it’s the best.

  • NBC Affiliate Gets Goo All Over Their Faces — Uweekly.com – There’s three things that are funny about this link. 1, the actual story itself. 2, the fact that there’s at least one other city that calls itself “Cowtown”. And 3, the single greatest comment thread hijacking in the history of the internets. Unless your name is Mark.
    ]]> http://www.mikelawton.com/blog/2007/04/24/300/feed/ 0 This dang work stuff really gets in the way of my slacking off http://www.mikelawton.com/blog/2007/03/16/this-dang-work-stuff-really-gets-in-the-way-of-my-slacking-off/ http://www.mikelawton.com/blog/2007/03/16/this-dang-work-stuff-really-gets-in-the-way-of-my-slacking-off/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:06:00 +0000 Mike Lawton http://www.mikelawton.com/blog/?p=298 It’s amazing how much I wasn’t doing at my old job. I’m embarrassed to admit it, purely out of professional pride, but man, was I ever checked out at that dump. I mean, it was no surprise that I was totally unmotivated, but I didn’t realize just how good I was at finding other things to do until I came here and actually started spending my time… you know… WORKING!

    This is a good thing of course, but once in a while I do miss the whole “I’m going to spend my entire work day surfing for interesting links to put up on my blog” thing I had going. I do still give myself the occasional break to flip through my RSS feeds (gotta make sure I stay up to date with Wil and Joey and the AICN crew), and of course I can’t get through my day without a healthy BoingBoing and Fark fix. I realized this week that I hadn’t checked out Lifehacker in a while, and true to their productivity preaching, they had a LOT of ways to improve pretty much everything I do in life.

    Managed to get up to date again (for now anyway), below I’ve posted a few gems for future application/reference. Along with a few pictures of 2 of my favourite cities. You can probably guess.

  • Google Apps Premier Edition
  • Geek to Live: Run Windows XP inside Vista with Virtual PC – Lifehacker
  • How to set up a smart Out-of-Office autoreply with Gmail – Lifehacker
  • Mac Tip: Add the Path button to Finder’s toolbar – Lifehacker
  • Build a 10-Day Survival Pack for $25
  • 10 Nasty Money Habits To Kick
  • Top 10 Free Mac Downloads – Lifehacker
  • Meals Matter: Healthy Eating and Meal Planning
  • UltraNewb: How to move your iTunes library to an external drive – Lifehacker
  • Alpha Geek: Make Microsoft Word less annoying – Lifehacker
  • Understanding Games: Episode 1

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    Thanks babe.

    Oh yeah, not only that, but with all the rush around our packing up and leaving Ontario in such short notice, I was getting a little worried that I wasn’t going to be able to say goodbye to my Toronto buddies (Hey JP, Lisa, Bill, Lewis, Andy, Heather, Hercules, Ian, Sean, Steve, Brenda… anyone else I forgot about). So what does my little honey do? Suggest we go out for a bite of dinner at one of my favourite restaurants in Waterloo, and there’s a bunch of my best friends sitting around a table with balloons, pirate hats, and noisemakers! A full on, no kidding, good ol’ fashioned surprise birthday/going-away party! I’ve never had anyone do that for me before, and I’ve never been so totally caught by surprise in my life.

    Thanks again babe.

    What a woman!






  • 10 Magic Trick Tutorial Videos – Everyone needs to know a couple tricks for the bar
  • Bubble Brainstorming – Connect your thoughts
  • 15 Tools Every Homeowner Should Own
  • How to Open Password Protected PDF Documents
  • 8 ways to exercise your brain
  • Jodies Coston’s Free Online Photography Course – Dreamgirl’s the one with the eye, I can always use some tips
  • How To Install ANYTHING in Ubuntu – I can’t wait to get this loaded up on my next system… or even Susie here if I can get everything backed up proper
  • 50 Greatest Cartoons – including videos!
  • Which Superhero Are You? – Appearantly I’m Spider-man. Overall nice guy, bit of a geek. It works. Of course I’m already a superhero, but I guess they haven’t heard of me yet.
  • Which Super Villain Are You? – Appearantly I’m Dr. Doom. Overall nice guy, bit of a geek. And a conceited megalomaniacal despot. It works.
  • Best of Bootie 2006 – Mashup masters doing what they do. I love what happens when music gets fun
  • Silent Star Wars
  • A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope – R2D2 was the real leader of the Rebellion
  • Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don’t Want to Work at Writing – yeah, that would be me
  • The lure of the straight razor – I knew I wasn’t the only one that wanted to give these bad boys a try

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    Downtown Tokyo

  • Share 1 iTunes library with multiple networked computers – Too many tunes for one laptop
  • 2007 Personal Finance Calculator – Of all the things I need to get into shape this year, my finances top the list
  • Morningstar Investing Classroom – free online classes – We can all use a little refresher
  • Open Culture: University Podcast Collection – Never stop learning
  • Top 10 Ubuntu Apps and Tweaks – Whatever my next system is, the penguin will have a place
  • MacFUSE – reading any file system from OS X
  • GIMP vs Photoshop – An interesting commentary from someone very adapt at both
  • JDarkroom – Full-screen blackout text editor – Sometimes we all need a bit of help concentrating
  • The Art of Schmoozing – Businessman’s gotta play the game
  • The Best Unknown Mac Apps – So many out there, it’s always fun to see what other people have dug up
  • Guide to Mac-Friendly Wireless Routers
  • 12 Ways to Get Involved in Politics – Don’t complain about the job other people are doing unless you’re willing to do it yourself
  • Boot Linux from a Flash Drive – Is that a penguin in your pocket?
  • CSS Cheat Sheet
  • Software for Starving Students – A CD full of free/open source software designed for students who can’t afford the more standard options
  • Make the Move – Linux – For those considering the switch
  • Toronto As Motherboard – Cool picture, suits the city

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  • dissension: How to Configure an $80 File Server in 45 Minutes – Still planning on that music server
  • Undelete Plus – I didn’t just do what I think I just did… did I?
  • Portable software for USB Drives – Starting to live more and more off my thumbdrive, especially for my office peecee
  • kuler: color palette generator – cool little time-waster/design-helper from adobe
  • instructables : Make the shutdown icon on your desktop and others. – anything to get me out of the office 5 seconds quicker
  • Geek to Live: Incorporate text files onto your desktop – Lifehacker
  • Geek to Live: Make a ringtone from any MP3 – Lifehacker
  • How to fix your iTunes artwork – Download Squad
  • Fabulist! – WARNING: This song will be in your head for the rest of the day (at least)
  • The Simple Dollar » 30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows – the days of needing to pay for (legit) software are starting to fade
  • TechEBlog » (Video) Trace Any IP Address – a little hacker fun for the holidays
  • Fimoculous.com – Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading – Because we can all use a few more things to read every day
  • Podiobooks.com – Serialized audio books in podcast form – especially for us commuters
  • DownloadPunk – mp3 store, no DRM, all punk
  • Baen Free Library – free ebook downloads
  • FreeNAS: The Free NAS Server – still working on that home server…
  • AltHack.com – How to Run Linux on a USB Drive
  • The Black Coat » BlackBerry Pearl Review: A Mac User’s Perspective – finally got rid of that lemon I had been lugging around… here’s my new sweetness
  • BlackBerry – BlackBerry for Mac – …and it works with my Mac!
  • The Disney Blog: Mary Poppins re-cut into Horror film – I am loving this movie trailer remix scene!
  • YouTube – Toy Story Requiem
  • Santastic II: Clausome – every year you need at least one good Christmas album that no one else has
  • Code – what it doesn’t do in real life (that is does in the movies)
  • Wil Wheaton’s Geek In Review: A Holiday Gift Guide for Geeks – it’s never to late to show your love
  • Rentometer, by iiProperty: enter an address and get rental comps back!
  • Geogreeting – a very cool way to say HELLO WORLD
  • Short stroll in a Chinese national park – wow. I seriously don’t know if I would try this. ok, yes I would.
  • YouTube – Charlie Brown Christmas – Performed by the Cast of Scrubs
  • Christmas 2.0: Subverting the Holidays With Re-dubbing – 10 Zen Monkeys – a list of re-mixed and re-dubbed holiday specials… this is what the interweb is for
  • ”Breakfast of the Gods Book One: The Last Good Morning”; By Brendan Douglas Jones – very cool online comic series
  • Colibri – slick app launcher, closest thing to Quicksilver available for the PC
  • OS X Portable Applications — FreeSMUG – living on my thumbdrive
  • The Portable Freeware Collection
  • Geek to Live: Carry your life on a thumb drive (or iPod) – Lifehacker
  • The 2006 Weblog Awards: The 2006 Weblog Award Winners – more new friends
  • Foreign Policy: The Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006 – are you still paranoid if they really ARE out to get you?

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    I was reminded today of one of the greatest geek songs ever written, “Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny“.

    Extremely catchy. I’ll have it in my head for the rest of the day for sure. But it’s worth it.

    Don’t mess with Mr. Rogers.

    ~~~~~

  • How to Back Up Your Blogger Blog – Something I really need to get on top of
  • Demon – 2 Flash Games – Time wasting fun
  • How to Choose a DSLR Camera – Dreamgirl actually knows how to use one of these
  • Zamzar – Free online file conversion
  • Download Squad: How to run Gmail locally on a Pocket PC
  • Lifehacker: Free HTML editor with CSS support? – jEdit’s fun and all, but I wouldn’t mind a slick WYSIWYG to play around with
  • Litsum: The Most Free Literature Summaries, Study Guides and Book Summaries – Who has time to read the whole book these days?
  • Linux on Laptops – Probably going to set Susie (iBook) up to dual-boot Ubuntu
  • Extremely Useful Macbook Freeware
  • IGN: Top 10 Segments from The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror – Best things ever put on TV
  • AlterNet: The Corrupting Power of Military-Industrial Complex – Nothing to worry about
  • Wil Wheaton’s Geek in Review: Five Books Every Geek Should Read
  • Make Love, Not Debt – A relationship finance blog
  • Maxim Online: Best Horror Movie Deaths – Includes video clips!
  • Building a Mac Home Media Center
  • Lifehacker – Geek to Live: Take better cameraphone photos
  • Supertelevangelistic Sex-and-Drugs Psychosis :: Accordion Guy – Genius cutup of that whole Ted-Haggard-Super-Christian-Gay-Meth-Head business
  • Destructoid: Some of the best video game levels of all time
  • Jedi Knights demand Britain’s fourth largest religion receives recognition | the Daily Mail – Next census I’m totally listing myself as a Jedi
  • Martin Klasch: Video: The James Bond title sequences – All of them
  • Flickr: Camera Finder – Very cool way to look through thousands of pictures sorted by the cameras used. Great stuff for the hardcore photog
  • Sex Advice from a Dungeons and Dragons Player at Dethroner – Because really, who would know better? Very funny.
  • YouTube: Top Ten Video Game Weapons – BFG baby
  • Are Name Brand Home Theater Cables Worth The Money? at Dethroner
  • Is Iraq really THAT bad? – 10 Zen Monkeys – YouTube clips from both sides of the conflict. No editing, no music, just raw footage. And a couple lighter notes at the bottom
  • AtomFilms – Animator vs. Animation II – Stick figure’s back for revenge against the man that drew him
  • Duke of URL: Domain Name Suggestions – Just put in some key words and get a list of suggestions
  • Peanuts Meets Marvel – Statue Forum – Peanuts characters as Marvel superheros
  • instructables : modular pie-cosahedron – 20-sided die. Did I say die? I meant PIE. Pecan pie.

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