Month: February 2008

P3 P4400 Kill A Watt Appliance Tester – P4400 – Buy.com A $30 tool to figure out how much it costs to run certain appliances. Useful for figuring out what to put on timers (DVD players, TVs, etc.)

links for 2008-02-19 Homeless: Can you build a life from $25? | csmonitor.com In a test of the American Dream, Adam Shepard started life from scratch with the clothes on his back and twenty-five dollars. Ten months later, he had an apartment, a car, and a small savings. (tags: poverty economics culture inspiration)

Apple, Starbucks and AT&T It’s Not about EDGE, It’s about the Edge — Here’s where it all comes together. Starbucks already has media servers in its stores. These servers host the songs that Starbucks plays. But they aren’t simply jukeboxes. They also have magic that allows a customer in a Starbucks cafe to purchase a…

Homeless: Can you build a life from $25? | csmonitor.com In a test of the American Dream, Adam Shepard started life from scratch with the clothes on his back and twenty-five dollars. Ten months later, he had an apartment, a car, and a small savings.

links for 2008-02-18 Digital Arts – Features – Create amazing psychedelic art in Photoshop Rob Carissimo reveals how to layer and blend images in Photoshop to create a hazy, dreamlike effect that’s straight from 60s California. (tags: grommets photoshop tutorial)

My love/hate relationship with OmniFocus … has once again resulted in me losing about 30 minutes of work. OmniFocus rarely crashes, but when it does, it tends to do so when I’m doing the difficult work of “the weekly review.” I went back and forth with support from Omni a couple times when this happened…

Digital Arts – Features – Create amazing psychedelic art in Photoshop Rob Carissimo reveals how to layer and blend images in Photoshop to create a hazy, dreamlike effect that’s straight from 60s California.

also discovered I’m Not A Gun in my library. Where have these guys been hiding?

Cleaner. Can we do it? Yes, we can!

Jay on choral music What’s wrong with this song? When is it going to start rocking? 3-year-old Jay at the breakfast table noticing the 17th century choral music that’s been playing for the past 20 minutes.