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I came across this site partway through Cabin Porn earlier this week, but haven’t had a chance to take a look at it until now. Everything from cartography to programming to circuitry, to shelter building and winter survival tips is rewarded on DIY, an interesting initiative using badges to reward kids for learning important life skills. Permalink.
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Penny Arcade’s piece Planning for war: how the EVE Online servers deal with a 3,000 person battle climbed to the front page of Hacker News early this afternoon, at which point I came across the article and, curious, opened it. Althoug I spent roughly the next hour reading PC Gamer and The Mittani’s coverage of the incident and watching a number of videos taken during the battle, I still can’t quite wrap my head around a fight cons..
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Having just finished going through every article posted to Cabin Porn over the last four years, I thought it would be appropriate to take a step back, shift gears quickly, and write some observations about a rumor that has quickly gained a lot of traction over the past few hours. I am, of course, referring to the rumor of a 128GB iPad 4. As I thought more and more about it though, as I read 9to5 Mac’s coverage of the rumor , ..
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I accidentally re-discovered this article last night as I was writing This Post is Not About the 128GB iPad 4 , as I was looking for the link to Ben Brooks’s knife reviews . #20 is probably my favorite: “Don’t give a shit about what people think of your honest opinion. If you think Android is better than iOS, Windows better than Mac, and Nikon better than Canon — so be it. You’d be wrong, but at least you’re standing for what you ..
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We’ve been really busy over here at ShangRolla . One of the largest projects that we’ve tackled is a complete redesign of the interface used to set up, measure, and manage your AdRoll campaigns. We’re excited to offer you access, and we hope that you’ll take it for a spin. This version is just the beginning. It’s in beta, so it’s a work in progress, and there could be an occasional bug. But even in its early state, we believe that it ....
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I’ve been making a lot of posts in the last 24 hours about Cabin Porn; I’ve written a lot and linked to even more. At the risk of sounding repetitive, if I could condense all the insight I have gained over the past two days into a single paragraph, it would be the opening lines from John Coffer’s video I linked to in This Must Be the Place : Permalink.
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Vaibhav Puri is the founder of Taggito, a Madrid-based startup specializing in near field communication technology. Who are you, and what is your background?
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My problem, if it could even be called that, with my obviously beloved Cabin Porn tumblr is not really a problem as much as a twinge of disappointment I felt as I made my way through all fifty-six pages on the site. I was disappointed because as I neared and eventually surpassed the halfway point, fewer of the cabins were actually that: a cabin; rather, many of the structures featured on Cabin Porn were more akin to small houses than the co..
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John Coffer, in an excellent video produced by Lost & Found Films : “I was living in Florida and I had a nice two-bedroom condominium, a garage, a swimming pool, some tangerine trees outside, a sports car and a Ford van. It wasn’t really very fulfilling, in the end.” Permalink.
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The great thing about having my job evaporate into thin air was that we were able to move out of town to this nice, quiet place where the only traffic we ever see is the occasional passing of a neighbor’s dog team.” Permalink.
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My favorite detail: The chimney is built with stones collected from 30 different countries, a lifetime project for one of its previous, and apparently nomadic, owners.” As if the unique and often quite intricate designs were not enough to separate these cabins. Permalink.
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Rather than posting separate articles for each cool cabin I came across or interesting story I found on Cabin Porn throughout this past day, I decided to condense the day’s updates into a single post. There are a few cabins, however, whose stories merited more than a simple line item on an imposingly long list, and for those I did make an exception. Permalink.
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A very cool website Shawn Blanc runs along with a small staff of other writers from around the internet. I first learned of Tools & Toys in episode #25 of the CMD+SPACE podcast, A ‘Full-Time’ Masterclass, with Shawn Blanc , and then spent some time earlier this afternoon taking a cursory look at the group’s work. Not surprisingly, it’s top-notch. Permalink.
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A town within a city, a rebel neighborhood within a well-ordered society. This is Christiania (Freetown), Denmark, a small community smack dab in the middle of Copenhagen, Denmark. Within this community are tiny houses, built by hand and with whatever materials are within reach.” I found this article through a link on the Cabin Porn tumblr page. Christiania is not only home to a number of impressive cabins though, but also to a curious wa..
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To once again reference Ben Brooks’s article Fatal Design Flaw of Workspaces , he described his ideal workspace towards the end of the article: “I often dream of my ideal workspace: * 10,000 square foot space of nothing. * Four foot by ten foot desk in the center, made of wood. * Herman Miller Embody chair. * Concrete floors. * No windows. * Thirty foot ceiling. * Spot light illuminating only my desk. * Just the lapto..
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American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Makings of a Nation
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freecabinporn.com
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13 years ago
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My cabin at Beaver Brook is in a forest that used to be mostly dominated by white pines, the tallest trees in the Eastern United States. The forest was nearly clear cut and the logs were floated down the nearby Delaware River to Philadelphia where they were used as structural beams for buildings and British ships. ... Now, BB’s trees are mostly 40-50 years old, though I’m grateful there are still a few old growth trees to remind me of the p..
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I can’t quite say for sure why I decided to go with this title, or, rather, what made it come to mind as the clock neared midnight last night. I had just finished The Art of Not Saying Anything a few minutes ago, and some part of my mind was bemoaning the abandonment of a great majority of the lessons my English teacher instilled within me not long ago. Namely, to avoid be verbs and contractions; to write grammatically correct sentences..
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As I reflected upon Cabin Porn and finished The Patron Saint of Cabin Porn late last night, I thought back to something Jim Dalrymple and Merlin Mann talked about on the seventh episode of The Crossover, We Met at a Tequila Bar . It’s late and I can’t quite recall their exact words, but the gist of the discussion was that sometimes, you don’t always need to write a thousand words — or even a hundred, for that matter — about somethi..
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In 1968, at the age of 51, Dick left a life of ranching, carpentry and heavy machine repair to retire to Twin Lakes, Alaska in what is now Lake Clark National Park. Deposited by float plane, and carrying only the simplest of tools, he set out to build a homestead and survive the winter, alone in the wilderness.” I found this partway through the first ten pages of Cabin Porn last night. At fifty-one to attempt something many will never a..
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When I finally got around to opening Cabin Porn yesterday evening on another exotic living space binge brought on starting Friday afternoon with Ben Brooks’s article Fatal Design Flaw of the Workspaces , I was excited. Posts like The World’s Skinniest House and Tiny Houses over on Huckberry — both linked to in Ben’s article — had rekindled a long-extinguished flame somewhere inside of me, igniting that visceral desire to discov..
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Early Friday morning I started redesigning this site’s layout. I wanted to create a better reading experience and place more emphasis on my content, with particular attention paid to the latest articles. Two days later, in the wee hours of Sunday morning, I closed my computer having not only accomplished my initial goals, but also after successfully completing a long-overdue complete overhaul of the content mangement system I drive this sit..
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Renaming a GNOME keyring (for seahorse, the passwords and keyrings application)
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purpleidea.com
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13 years ago
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The GNOME Keyring is a great tool to unify password management across the desktop. Sadly, Firefox is the one application that doesn’t support this natively. (Chrome actually does!) Seahorse is a useful tool to browse and manage your keyrings. Each keyring is physically stored in: ~/.gnome2/keyrings/ $something .keyring Usually the “ $something ”, matches the name of the keyring, however the real name comes from within the file. I ha..
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Renaming a GNOME keyring (for seahorse, the passwords and keyrings application)
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purpleidea.com
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13 years ago
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The GNOME Keyring is a great tool to unify password management across the desktop. Sadly, Firefox is the one application that doesn’t support this natively. (Chrome actually does!) Seahorse is a useful tool to browse and manage your keyrings. Each keyring is physically stored in: ~/.gnome2/keyrings/ $something .keyring Usually the “ $something ”, matches the name of the keyring, however the real name comes from within the file. I ha..
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In pursuit of more perfect compromise between functionality and minimalism, Ben Brooks closed his article on minimalist spaces with an observation I found very vindicating, having made the switch almost wholly myself. “I wonder if my perfect office really involves a laptop, or if it would be perfect with only an iPad and keyboard.” Permalink.
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My laptop is from August ‘09, so it is now a little bit slow. It had a 500GB traditional spinning disk drive. I know, it is not dead yet, however random read/write is horrible. My Windows 7 installation took 1-2 minutes to boot and be ready to open new programs, so I have never closed my machine. I have always used hibernate/suspend. Opening heavy programs like Photoshop was not good. In fact, the biggest reason was, I am also using Linux f..
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SplinterNet is a simple mobile app that allows users to author posts in a similar fashion to blogging or tweeting. These posts can contain text and a single image. However, rather than being hosting on internet servers, users distribute their posts by syncing with other app users via Bluetooth. The peer-to-peer syncing creates an ad hoc distribution network without requiring the use of mobile networks or any other monitored network infrastr..
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I have a particular fondness for hand-crafted things, and a special spot in my heart for crafting those things myself. Those Who Make features masters of their respective crafts doing what they do best: making things. Since coming across the Vimeo channel in an article over on Shawn Blanc’s blog last night, I only just managed to pull myself away for long enough to write this short post. As Shawn Blanc said, “Click through with caution ..
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As a born PC user I rarely interact with iCloud on my main computer. Even on my iOS devices I rarely use iCloud, where, given the choice, I will choose Dropbox or some other method to sync documents and settings across devices. The most recent episode of Back to Work, Lotta Little Knives , brought the issue to a head in my mind, and Ben Brooks’s less recent article Archived Data, in the Cloud , in which he proposed an interesting solu..
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Sqlplus is my second home: Part 7 – Downloading files via sqlplus :-)
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tanelpoder.com
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13 years ago
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Some years ago I wrote about how sqlplus allows you to run sqlplus scripts directly from HTTP and FTP locations instead of the local filesystem. By the way, I didn’t even notice – my blog is over 5 years old already! :) I a recent email thread Marco Gralike just showed the simplest way I to open a HTTP URL and download + list its contents in a CLOB datatype. It’s the HTTPURITYPE and its getCLOB (and getBLOB) methods.
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Sqlplus is my second home: Part 7 – Downloading files via sqlplus :-)
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tanelpoder.com
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13 years ago
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Some years ago I wrote about how sqlplus allows you to run sqlplus scripts directly from HTTP and FTP locations instead of the local filesystem. By the way, I didn’t even notice – my blog is over 5 years old already! :) I a recent email thread Marco Gralike just showed the simplest way I to open a HTTP URL and download + list its contents in a CLOB datatype. It’s the HTTPURITYPE and its getCLOB (and getBLOB) methods.
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After writing my last post, The Next Step , and as I went back to perusing the steady stream of news and articles I proctor throughout the day, I started thinking about the prevalence of the Apple blog. I touched on this briefly in my last article. There’s a strangely pervasive mentality in the blogosphere these days that in order to be successful, one must do some combination of three things: write about Apple, adopt the linkblog format....
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Now, Google’s no stranger to crazy experiments, and not all of them will necessarily change the world: for every self-driving car and wearable display, there’s an army of employees working on personal engineering projects. But it doesn’t sound like that’s what’s happening here.” - Sean Hollister of The Verge in Google building secret wireless network, says it involves ‘highly competitive consumer electronics’ . Permalink.
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Can you imagine if one of these new open sourcerers took my advice and got this response, without the support I had. Can you imagine?” Disappointing. If you see a problem but do nothing constructive to remedy it, are you really seeing the right problem? Permalink.
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As is usual for tea club, we performed tangentially related activities. A tangent so long that one may struggle to see the connection with tea. That is indeed why we are named “Tea and Stuff”, because as well as tea, we do stuff.
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As is usual for tea club, we performed tangentially related activities. A tangent so long that one may struggle to see the connection with tea. That is indeed why we are named “Tea and Stuff”, because as well as tea, we do stuff.
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Although the trailer features few live scenes from actual gameplay, it does exhibit impressive graphics especially when compared to traditional video game animations. I have high hopes for this game, and look forward to the day when live gameplay will be indiscernible from the animation used in the trailer. Permalink.
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But when we’re gone, its hydrogen will still continue fusing, irrespective of the politics of our successor race, whatever species next decides to fill its nearest star with qualities like love, intentionality, goodwill, and grace.” I take some issue with this fatalistic point of view. The hydrogen will indeed continue fusing regardless of the majority of the decisions we make today, but that fact should not be used to discount the change..
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In a space increasingly defined by Apple bloggers and their copycats, it is not only interesting to see another writer’s process, but also to see how that creator works towards such a different end product using largely the same tools as those obfuscating this space. “Fundamentally what he’s doing is quite simple: he tweets, and he retweets. A lot. Sometimes he goes 20 hours at a stretch, collating from those he follows and passing info..
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