December 30, 2008

Jo walton weighs in on Christmas Books

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Christmas Books

Over on Tor.com Jo Walton weighs in on some of her favorite Christmas books. Some stuff to check out. Plus mine the comments for more books to read.

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December 29, 2008

The end all be all cheese making page

Fankhauser's Cheese Page

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December 22, 2008

Excellent Retro Clock

St Louis Aerial Clock Radio - Expert Verdict

Great retro clock. Spirit of St Louis Themed. Love it!

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December 18, 2008

delux work farm

Lifeboat Farm ? DIY Worm Farm

Neat. I need to try this on my next farm.

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December 16, 2008

Great Science and Controvery t-shirts

Amorphia Apparel - Look on my shirts, ye mighty, and despair!

Great Science and Teach the Controversy T-shirts. I like the Jurassic BBQ shirt.

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Excellent wooden handlebars for bikes

Wood Handle Bars: Inventory

This person makes wooden handlebars for bicycles. Attractive and functional.

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December 15, 2008

Great wind power resource site

The Back Shed

Great site for wind-power enthusiasts. Check out the bit about making a wind-power battery charger from old computer parts.

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Chronulator Clock Kit

ShareBrained Technology ? The Chronulator

Awesome geek clock kit. I want one!

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November 19, 2008

Alaska Museum of Fancy Knots

A great website on knot tying with examples and tutorials.

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November 07, 2008

Awseom web word tool

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds

Seen on Scalzi's Whatever a neat word tool. Feed it some text and it produces a cool text graphic based on the frequency of the words. Try it!

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October 30, 2008

Great Retro 30's photographer

Hollywood/1935 | Dallas Photographer Mark Oristano - Headshots and Portraits for Dallas Executives and Actors

A great example of Rretro photography. Mark Oristano does these shots is a style like you woul dhave seen in 1935 Hollywood. Awesome! The Minxen and I will need to get this done.

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Rayguns, rockets and robots, oh my!

Welcome to Lockwasher Design

Awesome collection of rockety, raygunny, roboty goodness.

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October 29, 2008

Cool flickr color tool

Multicolr Search Lab - Id饠Inc.

Neat tool for finding cool flickr images that have specific colors. neat for finding pictures to frame for decor.

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Restorer supplies

Van Dykes Restorers

A site for restoration supplies. Could be used for Steampunk too.

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October 20, 2008

Yay! Halloween meets Tiki!

Tiki Mugs - Tiki Farm, Inc.

A great Tiki Farm set for Halloween.

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