2006
Oct 
16

Link Dump 06

Filed under: Links,pics — Mike Lawton @ 07:41  

  • Boing Boing: Kick-ass free software/open source con coming to Toronto, Oct 26-27
  • Ten Most Used BitTorrent Sites Compared
  • Maps of War – Animated movie showing the history of military conquest in the Middle East. I’m sure it has no influence on modern politics at all.
  • Widgetbox: Directory of web widgets for Blogs
  • Junkfunnel Labs: Suspicious Looking Device – I want one so bad… how many ways could I get arrested for mischief with this?
  • Learn about Cast-Iron Pans, Skillets, Griddles and Cookware – I FINALLY bought a big ol’ badass hardcore 14″ 100 pound skull cracking cast iron skillet, and I’m already hooked. No more teflon tumors for me!
  • Dethroner: Care and Feeding of the Cast-Iron Skillet
  • Online Spreadsheets – EditGrid – I remember back in the 90s when the techies were predicting the end of physical location based applications, talking about how everyone will essentially own dumb terminals with all apps and docs stored online, likely under a subscription-based model. How’s Google looking these days?
  • Disorientation – Ever try playing video games while drunk? This is how it feels.
  • Goggles :: The Google Maps flight sim
  • Bass211 Bootlegs Podcast
  • YouTube – Nintendo Acapella
  • DRM Free – Music Search
  • Get Rich Slowly: An Expanded List of Personal-Development Sites
  • Dots – More time-wasting fun
  • Champion Archer Flash Game – You weren’t planning on getting any work done today anyway, were you?
  • DJNoNo is a Muppet – Muppet Mashup. Kanye Manah Manah. Love it.
  • Bride of Monster Mash – Halloween Mashup, I know what I’m playing at my house for all the kiddies
  • Dethroner: Great Fights of Cinema – Good old-fashioned crap-kicking, courtesy of the favourite film of schizo-paranoids everywhere (and we know where you are): They Live. Rowdy Roddy don’t need no Kung Fu!
  • Album Covers Battle – Too funny, you probably owned half of these albums. Back when they were called albums. If not, get off my lawn, dang kids!!
  • Remember To Tip The Pizza Delivery Driver – Huge list of horror stories from the guy that saves you from having to put on pants when you want to eat
  • Ray’s Pumpkin Carving Tutorial
  • Censored Stories – Here’s a real newsflash for you: News media is a business too! Their job is to sell ads and maximize profits, what the heck makes you think they owe you anything resembling reality?
  • Dilbert for Nobel Prize: 9-point financial plan worthy of economics Nobel – 5 years in Business school, Finance major, 6 years as a supposed investments “specialist”, I’ve never seen it put better. He has my vote.
  • Postmodernism Generator – Coffee-shop smackdown. Just hit refresh, start quoting, fix your beret, stroke your goatee, and sip your half-double-decaffinated-halfcaf with the smug satisfaction that no one has a clue what you’re talking about. Especially you.

    PS – Yes, that is Bacon Caramel. Remember Lawton’s Law #7: “Bacon makes everything better.”

    • 2006
    Oct 
    3

    "The Mountains Are Calling…"

    Filed under: Canmore,mountains,pics — Mike Lawton @ 11:12  

    “… and I must go.” ~John Muir

    Flickr. Tag: Canmore

    Three Sisters. Ha Ling. Cascade.

    Knowing that places like this exist…

    … and that I will soon once again stand amoung them…

    … is what makes mornings like this…

    … dark, cold, raining, traffic, tired, sore, sick…

    … survivable.