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links for 2006-12-31

• San Francisco bike route planner
  (tags: sanfrancisco cycling maps via:mathowie)
• not martha: Solar Jars
  (tags: garden home lights solarpower hacks)
• TranSystems i-Blue757 Solar Bluetooth GPS: Sunny Power for Lost Souls - Gizmodo
  (tags: gps bluetooth gooutside)
• Amazon.com: Sony PlayStation 3 (60GB): Computer & Video Games
  Customers who bought this item also bought...
  (tags: ps3 wii amazon humor)
• ModularPeople
  (tags: music video stopmotion indie)
• YouTube - Console Hacking 2006 - Wii
  (tags: wii nintendo wiihack)

links for 2006-12-30

• Turn iTunes into WiiTunes
  (tags: itunes wii hacks opera howto music)

links for 2006-12-27

• Media Matters - Most outrageous comments of 2006
  (tags: media politics via:andre)

My Year in Cities and Forests, 2006

I liked this idea so I copied it. Here are all the places I've been this year. Via Mathowie and the, er, The Big K.

My Year in Cities, 2006

San Francisco, CA (home)
Los Angeles, CA*
Santa Monica, CA
Tiburon, CA
New York City, NY*
Ocean City, NJ
Atlanta, GA
Jasper (Big Canoe), GA
Cumming, GA
Macon, GA*
Eufaula, AL*
Bowling Green, KY*
Weaverville, CA
Ashland, OR

* Indicates multiple visits on non-consecutive nights.

And also:

My Year in Forests, 2006

Mt. Tam State Park, California
Trinity Alps (Shasta Trinity National Forest), California
Point Reyes National Seashore, California
Rogue River valley, Oregon
Fish Lake, Oregon
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

Considering that Harper was sidelined for most of the year with a back injury, I think this is an okay list. I wish I'd managed to make it outside our nation's borders. But there's always next year.

links for 2006-12-23

• Cliche-finder bookmarklet
  And you thought he just fought Spam...
  (tags: cliche hack web neat)

On Vox: Hey, Terry Gross

So, after hearing Terry Gross threaten her listeners, and subsequently capturing that moment with WireTap, I had grand intentions. Which I then forgot all about until today when I searched my iTunes library for "Honan," looking for a phone interview...

» Read more on Vox

links for 2006-12-18

• The Mountain Goats: Julekage
  New music from The Mountain Goats
  (tags: music mp3 themountaingoats)

links for 2006-12-15

• Tristan O’Tierney » FlickrBooth
  (tags: flickr mac photography photobooth)
• Ho Ho Ho Hat search results on flickr
  Wow, this meme has gone crazy.
  (tags: flickr easteregg hack christmas)
• Wired News: Attack of the 'Wiimote' Hacks
  (tags: wii hacks wiihack nintendo)
• Panda cub cam
  The zoo atlanta panda cam, starring mei lan
  (tags: animals panda webcam)

links for 2006-12-14

• TechEBlog » 7 iPod Accessories You Can’t Buy
  (tags: ipod hacks)
• How to Share Your Obituary With Your Online Friends
  creepiest how-to ever
  (tags: howto online obituary)

links for 2006-12-13

• Anil Dash: How Matt Haughey Beat Google
  Great post: So what can we learn? It's possible to launch a site after Google enters a category, develop the technological underpinnings yourself in your free time, provide fewer features than Google does, make use of Google's own advertising system, and
  (tags: mefi tech web web2 google)
• iTunes Collapse: ORLY? - mac [dot] honan [dot] net
  I'm linking this so it shows up on my main blog & in my feed. Is this my main blog? Oh, man. I just don't know anymore.
  (tags: apple mac itunes music)
• Mark Knofler prank calls
  I remember these circulated on cassette tapes when I was in high school
  (tags: prankcalls humor 80s underground)
• toxicsoftware.com » Tiilt!
  (tags: hack nintendo wii wiihack)
• DarwiinRemote
  (tags: hack nintendo wii wiihack)
• notes: Idea: Wii Camera
  (tags: nintendo wii hack wiihack)
• How to Pitch: This American Life
  (tags: radio freelance)
• Interview: Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster
  Shipley's a sharp cat
  (tags: mac media interview)

links for 2006-12-12

• All but Ageless, Turtles Face Their Biggest Threat: Humans - New York Times
  This is the best article on turtles you will ever read in The New York Times.
  (tags: animals turtles biology extinction)

links for 2006-12-11

• NPR : Online T-Shirt Company Builds a Community and Business
  (tags: threadless npr tshirt)

On Vox: Apologies to Chris Rock

Girl Mauled by Captive Cougar:A 4-year-old girl was mauled at a children's birthday party by a cougar that had been brought in by a wild-animal business to entertain the youngsters, authorities said.The 62-pound cougar was destroyed last week so that...

» Read more on Vox

links for 2006-12-08

• Pearl Harbor survivors' 'final reunion'
  (tags: pearlharbor wwii ww2 history)
• The Guardian's 50 works of art to see in a lifetime
  I've seen nine of these. No David?
  (tags: art travel via:mefi)
• Wonderful Wizardry of ‘Woz’ - 10 Zen Monkeys (a webzine)
  RU interviews Woz' biographer. Woz is the man.
  (tags: apple woz rusirius history computers tech mac)

links for 2006-12-07

• Nike+ Widgets
  (tags: ipod nike running widgets fitness mac)

On Vox: Why I care about James Kim (and why you should too)

On the way to lunch, I walked right by her shop. There were news
crews there, and two boquets of flowers. On the way home, the news
crews were gone, and now there were three boquets. There is a flower store directly across the street. I wanted to leave a fourth, but I didn't have the guts to walk in the store and act like a decent human being.

» Read more on Vox

links for 2006-12-06

• Number of tyrannosaurs in a gallon of gas
  I shall miss Google Answers
  (tags: google science gasoline oil)
• How To Wipe Your Drive - Macintosh
  (tags: osx mac security)
• Macworld: Secrets: Disk Utility's hidden talents
  (tags: Mac osx security)
• Lower Owens River awaits rush of High Sierra water - Los Angeles Times
  (tags: california environment water habitatrestoration)
• The Insurgents have RSSاق
  Via Eric Umansky's blog. The level of organization here is frightening. They even have an RSS feed.
  (tags: iraq war rss web via:umansky)

links for 2006-12-05

• Presidio Hospital on Fecal Face
  (tags: urban presidio urbanexploration creepy sanfrancisco)
• Wine stripped of gold medal
  (tags: wine cheating)

links for 2006-12-04

• Has He Started Talking to the Walls? - New York Times
  Civil war? Sectarian violence? A phase? This much is certain: The dead in Iraq don’t give a damn what we call it.
  (tags: language linguistics news politics iraq bush)

links for 2006-12-03

• Ulterior Motive
  (tags: design neckties ties via:mathowie)
• Etsy :: makebeauty silkscreen neckties
  (tags: neckties ties craft)
• All Consuming / Dining habits around the globe
  (tags: food)