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“…ideas are fucking worthless.” - 0xDECAFBAD

…that’s what’s got me so bothered about people musing in their weblogs about projects they’d like to do. Stop talking about it an just build it. Don’t make it too complicated. Don’t spend so much time planning on events that will never happen. Programmers, good programmers, are known for over-engineering to save time later down the road. The problem is that you can over-engineer yourself out of wanting to do the site… [Andre Torrez, Even You Can Do It]

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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joshua's blog: overclocking the lecture

# Enjoy your new lecture! The glacial discussion now arrives at a rapid-fire pace. You'll be too busy trying to keep up to play Desktop Tower Defense, and you'll be done in a half hour.

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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Create a Bootable Ubuntu USB Flash Drive the Easy Way :: the How-To Geek

I was able to boot all the way into the desktop in about 35 seconds using the flash drive… way faster than using the regular live cd.

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september 2008 by vielmetti

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PocketMaps - paper maps of dynamic data :: mapufacture blog

The result are PocketMaps. Just like normal PocketMods, but each item in a map or KML file show up as page with a marker and map showing the location. If the place has a photo from a sharing site like Flickr then the image will be brought in as well. You can even optionally have simple map of the place, or include overview, or zoomed out, maps of the area to help you find where it is in a large city.

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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TechShop is the SF Bay Area's Only Open-Access Public Workshop -- Welcome

TechShop is a fully-equipped open-access workshop and creative environment that lets you drop in any time and work on your own projects at your own pace. It is like a health club with tools and equipment instead of exercise equipment...or a Kinko's for geeks.
TechShop was founded in 2006 by Jim Newton, a lifetime maker, veteran BattleBots builder and former MythBuster. TechShop is located in Menlo Park, California, on the San Francisco peninsula 25 miles south of San Francisco.

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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pagetable.com » Blog Archive » How MOS 6502 Illegal Opcodes really work

opcode decoding on the 6502 was through a very regular structure, so even "illegal" opcodes still made sense (and some did useful things)

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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MAKE: Blog: DIY - USB analog gauges

In a sort of retro mash-up, we'll make a USB device that displays PC status info on these gauges. The gauges can show CPU and memory usage, processor voltage -- just about any numerical data typically displayed on small HD44780 based LCD character displays commonly used in PC case mods.

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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Wait, How Old Is My Kid Again?

this is interesting, but why hard code everything? e.g. howoldismykid.com/2007/12/02/Claire.xml or howoldismypresident.com/1802/02/12/Abraham-Lincoln.xml

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april 2008 by vielmetti

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twitterverse – Userscripts.org

Change the prompt for your Twitter question to whatever you want with this greasemonkey script. What would you rather be doing?

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march 2008 by vielmetti

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Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music

During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" seemingly at random. This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the po

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november 2007 by vielmetti

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In Development: GrandMaemo - Internet Tablet Talk Forums

I took about an hour today and pieced together a Python GrandCentral command-line app that can also be used as an API.

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october 2007 by vielmetti

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GSM Features

The following are standard GSM codes and procedures, so they aren't anything "Top Secret" here. Just the same, you might find this information extremely valuable.

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october 2007 by vielmetti

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Grinn Blog: Add to Google Calendar by Talking Into Your Cell

We recently developed a new web application that allows you to call a number from your cellphone, say something like "Have insurance meeting with Bobby tomorrow at 3pm" and have a new event for exactly that added to your Google Calendar.

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october 2007 by vielmetti

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Medallia Blog: Fun with the iPhone accelerometer Archives

neat iphone hacks - jobso bobblehead, tilt maze

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august 2007 by vielmetti

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Medallia Blog: dyeSight $2 Multi-Touch Pad Archives

awesome $2 hack creates a multi-touch input device; see the video demo.

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august 2007 by vielmetti

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How To: Turn mailing lists into an RSS feed - Lifehacker

handy, could need this. (if it's a feed, it can get back into this delicious stream)

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july 2007 by vielmetti

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del.icio.us A-to-Z by Functions : All 150+ hacks categorized : eConsultant

way too many things to do with delicous.

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june 2007 by vielmetti

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Anita Lillie's Sleep Tracker

This project was motivated by two things: my almost complete inability to get out of bed in the morning, and my fondness for recording data from routine activities and making graphs with that data.

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june 2007 by vielmetti

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5 Powerful Hacks to Immediately Improve Your Presentations at Ririan Project

If you watch any presentations done by hugely successful speaker and marketer Seth Godin, you quickly notice how many of his slides are nothing more than a single image or word. These slides enhance the message he is trying to convey but they don’t stea

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june 2007 by vielmetti

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How can I Make my Offline Life Easier?

huge number of practical suggestions in the productivity and personal lifestyle approach, classic diggbait

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april 2007 by vielmetti

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upcoming.org google maps greasemonkey - Google Search

todo: add a "map this in google maps" button to the upcoming.org user interface, to go next to the "map this in yahoo maps" for events. a map view of your friends events is really quite nice.

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march 2007 by vielmetti

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John Manoogian III » Blog Archive » (The Only) Ten Things To Know About CSS

start out just styling things with the color red, and then when you have it figured out do more. +9 other tips

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march 2007 by vielmetti

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Tristan O’Tierney » FlickrBooth

post photobooth to flickr in one step

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march 2007 by vielmetti

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7 Helpful Tips To Immediately Increase Your Confidence
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march 2007 by vielmetti

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Daylight Saving Time Material - The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium

it's like y2k, except different

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march 2007 by vielmetti

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Library clips :: Twitter Tips and Tricks! :: January :: 2007

on - enable twitter updates
get - get recent updates from all your friends
off - disable twitter updates

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march 2007 by vielmetti

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the Digital me: Fun with UNICODE and Mirroring Character
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march 2007 by vielmetti

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Google-Co-op - SWiK
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february 2007 by vielmetti

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geektechnique.org: How-to make a bike charger for your ipod!
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february 2007 by vielmetti

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Finding Gatherers (human tag feeds?)

find the people who link to your delicious feed before you do

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february 2007 by vielmetti

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David Seah : The Printable CEO™ III: Emergent Task Timing

thanks for the link John. i've tried to use this without the philosophy behind it, but it does make more sense as an after the fact timer than a plan out the day one. what have I been doing?

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february 2007 by vielmetti

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52 Proven Stress Reducers - American Lung Association site
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january 2007 by vielmetti

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Five simple rules for keeping an empty inbox - Download Squad

However, the empty inbox should be the ultimate goal. Think of it as the monster at the end of the final level of the incredibly popular video game that is Gmail.

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january 2007 by vielmetti

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Reuben Yau » Blog Archive » Google Analytics Hack - obtaining full referring URL

the next step is a little bit of javascript to auto-populate this at page load time

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january 2007 by vielmetti

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Joystiq video: Candles can replace Wii sensor bar - Joystiq

Wii didn't start the fire

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january 2007 by vielmetti

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