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Pulling Our Strings

For such a short bit of animation this is very well executed.

petit pas from mapo_mapos on Vimeo.

Super Happy Fun Time Friday

A couple years ago my parents came up for a visit to Alaska. Part of the trip involved some campground “camping”. The kind with those giant bath houses that have concrete floors and many shower stalls. One night while I was in there brushing my teeth, mom walks in and asked what I was doing. Of course, I immediately flashed back to childhood and tried quickly to think what I was doing that could possibly be out of the ordinary. She asked why I was running the water while I was brushing my teeth - like I don’t pay for it at home. At that moment I realized I had - for all my years, been running water down the drain the entire time I brushed my teeth. I had never even stopped to think about it to that point. This video illustrates the potential impact my simple act of changing that one aspect of my routine could make.

• Beautiful posters at ISO 50 - particularly this one
• Charis Tsevis’ “small pieces” mosaic illustrations. Amazing attention to detail.
• PicLens - yes, it is cool. Magical? I wouldn’t go quite that far
• Hacking Flickr - Add refferer information to comments you make on Flickr with this GreaseMonkey script. There is also a Flickr Hacks group I never thought to look for

Coffee Art

It was warm enough to go for a long run today which left little time for eating breakfast. Coffee is my breakfast of champions this morning.

Who knew there is so much coffee art on YouTube? And who knew it was possible to draw such intricate designs on frothed milk? Amazing.

What is RSS and How Can You Use It?

If you know me and I have trapped you in a conversation about RSS feeds and feed readers at some point… but I didn’t make any sense and sounded like some crazy lady… and you politely smiled and nodded in the hope that I would shut up and talk about something else… maybe this video is much more clear and concise. RSS can really save you time online. Thanks to CommonCraft for creating this.

Click To Play

There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to start.

Mad Descent

Heidi sent me a link to a video of a snowboarder who is absolutely mad. The video is of his decent on Peak 7601 here in Alaska. Major intestinal fortitude.