Archive for June, 2007
How to solve a maze with Photoshop
Thursday, June 28th, 2007Found this link on BoingBoing. This is an ingenious way to solve a very difficult maze using some creative photoshop techniques. How to solve a maze with Photoshop
Excerpt:
1. Increase contrast.
2. Select the right wall of the maze using the magic wand.
3. Select > Modify > Expand 4 pixels
4. Create new layer.
5. Fill with Red.
6. Select > Modify > Contract 2 pixels.
7. Delete. Now you’ve got a line tracing the solution.
8. Manually clean up the outer edge, and connect the dots.
9. Cake!
links for 2007-06-28
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007links for 2007-06-27
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007links for 2007-06-26
Monday, June 25th, 2007-
Tolkien didn’t create Middle-earth ex nihilo: ancient Germanic myths divide the Universe in nine worlds, inhabited by elves, dwarves, giants, etc. The world of men is the one in the middle, called Midgard, Middenheim or Middle-earth.
links for 2007-06-23
Friday, June 22nd, 2007links for 2007-06-21
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007links for 2007-06-20
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007-
Good collection of free wordpress themes
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Free Windows Admin Scripts
City Pages - For These Pigs, Only a Microbrew Will Do
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007There’s a cute City Pages article about a local farmer who is taking advantage of some local breweries’ discarded grain to feed his pigs.
Excerpt:
The spent grains from Twin Cities brewers have Dalroy Stachowski’s swine wallowing in hog heaven, for These Pigs, Only a Microbrew Will Do.
links for 2007-06-19
Monday, June 18th, 2007-
You take lots of digital photos and you need a quick way to fix red eye, adjust crooked images, crop, sharpen and zoom. If you don’t have the cash or patience to get a copy of Photoshop and learn what to do with it, the free Windows photo manager software
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How to sync Ubuntu with a Windows Mobile device.
links for 2007-06-17
Saturday, June 16th, 2007The Post-Rapture Post - Send Messages to Loved Ones!
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007The Dvorak Blog had this link to a hilarious postal system for post-rapture mail delivery. The Post-Rapture Post - Send Messages to Loved Ones! (From Dvorak Uncensored)
links for 2007-06-13
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007-
A good collection of various useful sysadmin tools.
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Good Picasa tutorial from Lifehacker
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Comparison of the results of several antivirus software packages
Bumps and bruises are ‘good for children’
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007Bumps and bruises are ‘good for children’ is a good article talking about what seems obvious. Kids need to fall down occasionally and learn some life lessons.
The Christian Origins of the Koran
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007This article is a very interesting read about a very controversial idea about the origins of the Koran: The Virgins and the Grapes: the Christian Origins of the Koran. (Found at The Dvorak Blog)