This is a cool idea.
These are designs that you can print on a standard sheet of paper, write your letter on the inside and then fold it up and mail it.
The folding is pretty neat and the stamp seals it so you don’t even need tape.
Cool!
Letter Fu from the Paper Forest blog.
This is an Open Source project, so supposedly the templates are available. I’m going to try and get the template. I think this would be a great way to send party invitations and other announcments!
I like to read the Overlawered blog – a listing of frivolous lawsuits.
But this one today just makes me shake my head.
A woman is being sued by her downstairs neighbors because she takes baths too early in the morning and the noisy pipes wake them up.
Can’t they just wear earplugs? WTF people!
I’m reading the O’Reilly book Time Management for System Administrators by Thomas A. Limoncelli and it’s pretty good. I’m going to have to phase into it, but I think it will turn into a good system for me.
One of the illustrations in the book is a page for a day planner that is a combined daily schedule and To-Do list.
The DIY Planner set didn’t have a page like that, so I made one! (OpenOffice Draw is pretty slick.)
Here is a thumbnail of the page I made:
Here is the pdf of the form.
I like it.
This just makes me want to cheer!
“Why are you such a bunch of big girls?” asked Birch. “Why don’t you tell the content owners to just get stuffed?” He continued unabated: “You’re too seduced by the content industry, Hollywood is not even a $10 billion industry. Hollywood is small compared to the telecom industry. Why don’t you take a stronger line? Consumers don’t want DRM at all. You can’t sell DRM.”
Nice column about it here.
I like mechanical devices – which is one reason I like motorcycles.
But watches are in a class of their own. I love cool watches.
I MUST have one of these: The Jaeger-LeCoultre Gyrotourbillon
Make sure you watch the video at the bottom.
Then read part two, where the watch gets even cooler!
Continue to part three – where my head explodes with the coolness of this watch!
From what I can find on the fourms, they made 75 of these and they cost about $315,000.
I love watches and mechanical movements.
Here is a master watchmaker named Ron DeCorte and his notebook.
Very cool article from 1939 about the first programmable electronic sign in Times Square (think the grandfather of the Jumbotron). Every single change of a light, and there are 27,000 of them, is punched as a row on a 160 column roll of paper that gets fed through the vast machine.
Wow. This is pretty cool stuff.
Link
And I think I just found a new blog to add to my list…
School Bus Drivers to Foil Terrorist Plots
Bruce Schneier is blogging about a new Homeland Security plan – to train school bus drivers to watch for people who are possibly casing their routes so they can hijack the bus, pack it full of explosives and drive it into a building.
This is total insanity. There is no way to think of and plan for all the possible ways that someone could perform a terrorist act.
And why would they hijack a school bus? Why not just rent a truck? Or a van? Or steal one?
Bruce says:
What should we do this with money instead? We should fund things that actually help defend against terrorism: intelligence, investigation, emergency response. Trying to correctly guess what the terrorists are planning is generally a waste of resources; investing in security countermeasures that will help regardless of what the terrorists are planning is much smarter.
Come on Homeland Security, waste some more of my money, I like it. Really!
Since I’ve been buying all this computer hardware with big rebates recently, I’ve been wanting to track my rebate status.
I created a form to use in my planner, and I was all set to use it, until I found the Ultimate Rebate Tracker software.
Version 1.x is free, and is pretty cool! Version 2.x costs only $3, but I’m not sure that there are any features I need.
It’s got more fields than you need for tracking rebates – talk about full-featured!
Check it out if you do rebates.
