My Chumby has arrived and I am pleased....I would have got it for the internet radio streaming alone, but all of the incredible other things I am leveraging make it well worth it for me...if you get one let me know and I'll share some channels.
I thought this was great when I saw it and had to share. - Den
Shakespeare Insult Kit
Combine one word from each of the three columns below, prefaced with "Thou":
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3digg this del.icio.us
artless base-court apple-john
bawdy bat-fowling baggage
beslubbering beef-witted barnacle
bootless beetle-headed bladder
churlish boil-brained boar-pig
cockered clapper-clawed bugbear
clouted clay-brained bum-bailey
craven common-kissing canker-blossom
currish crook-pated clack-dish
dankish dismal-dreaming clotpole
dissembling dizzy-eyed coxcomb
droning doghearted codpiece
errant dread-bolted death-token
fawning earth-vexing dewberry
fobbing elf-skinned flap-dragon
froward fat-kidneyed flax-wench
frothy fen-sucked flirt-gill
gleeking flap-mouthed foot-licker
goatish fly-bitten fustilarian
gorbellied folly-fallen giglet
impertinent fool-born gudgeon
infectious full-gorged haggard
jarring guts-griping harpy
loggerheaded half-faced hedge-pig
lumpish hasty-witted horn-beast
mammering hedge-born hugger-mugger
mangled hell-hated joithead
mewling idle-headed lewdster
paunchy ill-breeding lout
pribbling ill-nurtured maggot-pie
puking knotty-pated malt-worm
puny milk-livered mammet
qualling motley-minded measle
rank onion-eyed minnow
reeky plume-plucked miscreant
roguish pottle-deep moldwarp
ruttish pox-marked mumble-news
saucy reeling-ripe nut-hook
spleeny rough-hewn pigeon-egg
spongy rude-growing pignut
surly rump-fed puttock
tottering shard-borne pumpion
unmuzzled sheep-biting ratsbane
vain spur-galled scut
venomed swag-bellied skainsmate
villainous tardy-gaited strumpet
warped tickle-brained varlot
wayward toad-spotted vassal
weedy unchin-snouted whey-face
yeasty weather-bitten wagtail
turntable. Not too mention the kick ass lot of 80 Jazz albums I won on eBay which has me super hooked on Ramsey Lewis (highly recommend for anyone who hasn't listened. If you want one yourself her you go. Every night since the acquistion we have had 'Dinner Dance Party' with my wife and son at our house....its been a blast, highly recommended.
A while back I reviewed some Fork Art.
Here is something along the same lines, Carved Crayons from Pete Goldlust take the everyday and making it much much cooler.
Ok just booked some travel, for a wedding anniversary trip to Napa Valley, I've talked about farecast before and I just used it to time the absolute best price on this trip, not only are they spot on with the fare indicators, but the interface is fantastic....every airline and reservation service should model this UI, needs a small tweak here and there, but all in all top notch.
To Do Management:
I've also been using Remember The Milk religiously. This is far and away the best to do list manager, again great UI, keyboard shortcuts, shareable, rss-feed, great Netvibes widget.
Mind Mapping:
A few years back I used Mind Manager to facilitate some brainstorming sessions and it worked pretty well, more recently I had the need to do something similar and leveraged free mind (an open source mind mapper). I just got turned on to Bubbl.Us I guess it was only a matter of time before this space became web 2.0 savvy. I love it.
Search:
Rollyo is a Roll your Own search engine that federates across sites of your choice, with a web 2.0 social network built in. I have basically been using a shared Guitar Tab search engine, which is awesome, and a Mr. Fix-It search engine for a home project I am doing.
Food:
You must check out Wheel of Food, basically enter a zip code and a query (like, Atkins or Asian) and the wheel of food spins.
In any event its an awesome gift, I can vouch for the quality, quick turnaround and great price.
Enjoy and when everyone is asking you where you got the hat remember wonderfunk!
What a great contest.
microdose if you are reading I think this contest is tailor made for you.
Discover Magazine has a brilliant contest challenging people to video tape themselves explaining string theory
I am listening to: Presidents of the United States of America
Pretty cool aggregator+
In their own words:
Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor. You can use Pipes to run your own web projects, or publish and share your own web services without ever having to write a line of code.Here is an aggregate pipe I created....if you like this blog you will probably like this pipe....it is a subset of what I read daily.
by Nelson DeMille
Enter perrine architecture with their perrine pod (available Mar 1) Not only is this cool on one story, but they are stackable to 30 stories and the expandable to your hearts content. Think life size lego home on steroids with a great look. Anyway if you spend some time and poke around their site, they have already thought of some cool ideas.
From the architect:
Anyway, I'm a fan....I wish the price point wasn't outrageous, but hopefully this will come down over time, or someone will blatently rip-off the idea and provide it more affordably. digg this del.icio.usPicture a design so sophisticated and fabulous that it seems futuristic, yet so simple and uncomplicated that you wonder why no one has thought of it before.
"My design is about appreciating the beauty of simple, uncluttered space." The perrinepod is very functional, very sexy, very simple, with the form of the spaces inside following the function, there's no pretense, just simple, beautiful designs. It's a really cool thing to have no falseness - for example, the bathrooms are simply designed as a place to wash, backed up by quality materials.
Living spaces have become as transient and irrelevant as clothes. It's no longer a look for a generation, the look of 'now' only lasts for a three to four year period.
That approach is not sustainable and people are putting themselves under a lot of unnecessary pressure trying to keep up. The Perrine Pod is the antithesis of all of that - simple design, beautiful materials that will remain classic. It's not a 'look at me' statement, but a home that is comfortable, stylish and above all, functional."
- Jean-mic Perrine
To top it all off they are the first airline to go Carbon Dioxide Neutral.
I love it when companies shake it up and while not ignoring capitalistic instincts. Then again I guess we need to check back in 5 years to see if they are bankrupt, but until then I'm a fan.
Catching up....I have a bunch of links I have been meaning to blog about, so here they are, enjoy:
Reinvigorate
I got an invite to this private beta...looks great from a stat collection and analysis standpoint. I'll let you know more in a view weeks.RubyForge
Great site, I have recently being using a tool called tracks, so I had to install Ruby onProtopage vs. Netvibes: conclusion coming soonRails on my PC, and since its already there, I started looking for other cool tools that I might like. RubyForge has been a very valuable tool for finding them.
I am wrapping up my multi-month comparison, and will write about my results shortly.splashr
Ok so I got a new camera and I have been snapping shots left and right. Nevertheless I have been actively leveraging my flickr account. I ran across this tool and I love it particularly for distributing a nice dispaly of tagged shots.WikiWalki
A community edited trail guide.....Finally, now it just needs to get populated.Pad Thai for Beginners
My favorite dish! Last year I got on a kick and must have made twenty different types of Pad Thai....here is my gift to you. Pad Thai is a great canvas for experimentation....Have fun.TikTrac
Time tracking is a hassle, but its a necessary evil as well sometimes. Try TikTracAlmost forgot this wild instructable....bound to get lots in trouble for v-day
Actually this took some time, there were some tough ties.
Here they are:
1. Platypus combined with Greasemonkey
I just love this, the platypus UI makes it easy to select your page eliminations, and then facilitates easy install of the script for use by Greasemonkey. For me nothing comes close to this combo.2. Morning Coffee
If you are like me and fire open a couple of pages immediately upon opening your browser, or know that you have a few sites that you will use for guaranteed reference through out the day then this is a great extension.3. NoScript
I hate anything executing without my permission, this extension solves that problem.4. Paste and Go 2
Pretty self explanatory, but useful.5. IEView
This is great, if you work for a company that drinks the Microsoft Kool-Aid then this script is for. Invariably there are a ton of web pages that only work on or are optimized for IE....this lets you click into them or have domains auto-open in IE. Great and useful extension.6. DownThemAll
Excellent multi-threaded background download manager, allows for Reg-Ex filtering, etc.7. Fasterfox
Definitely speeds up the experience, minimally lets you see page load.8. ForecastFox
Every once in a while you need to leave the cool luminous glow of your PC and go outside...this extension helps.9. MouseGestures
I thought I would totally get addicted to Gestures, that didn't happen, but I still have four or five that I use constantly! Great flexible extension.10. Map+
Nothing revolutionary, but it lets you highlight an address and map to it from some pre configured starting points....useful.and 5 for WebDevelopers
Fork Art. This really is a must see. I genuinely like when people turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, just like Matthew Bartik does here.
