Today I spotted a weird yet intriguing contest on tor.com, saying they’ll give business cards etched into beef jerky using lasers to the first 15 people who photograph a live recreation of one of three Frank Frazetta fantasy paintings. And guess what, we did it. Hit the jump to for pictures and more info.
Google Reader has become one of my most-used applications online. I never used to read RSS feeds – just a few here and there. But then I found some great ones.
Lifehacker (www.lifehacker.com)
Many geeky things, this place has original posts, as well as passes on posts from a large variety of other sites. The comments are very active – it’s a large part of the experience. They even have weekly posts dedicated to comment talk.
Hack A Day (www.hackaday.com)
This is a more techy/geeky place. A lot of harder mods and software projects from all over the place. I don’t really do any of the stuff posted here, but I like to see the cool ideas and fantasize about what I’d do if I had such mad skills. For instance, check out the frikkin sweet robo-dog.
Clientcopia (www.clientcopia.com)
This site is great for anyone dealing with Customers or users. It’s pretty much a pile of funny, bad, and awkward Client/User/Customer situations.
DailyLit (www.dailylit.com)
Not a blog, but full books, in email or RSS! You can “subscribe” to a book, most of them free, and have incremental parts emailed to you, or published to a private RSS feed. I first read A Place So Foreign, which got me into Cory Doctorow, and now I’m really into Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. If you like reading, this is a great thing to have around during workdays. You can take a short breaks (5 minutes, maybe) every once in a while to read the next piece.
There’s a bunch of others I enjoy, too:
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It still needs a bit of work, but it looks pretty sweet so far. You can’t see all the blemishes though :P. Still not decided if we’re going to be buying a new case or not, but if not, I still want something decent looking! I’ll have to cut some fan holes, and I plan on getting my Citadel paints and doing some finer details, but we’ll see about that.
