These are my links for August 14th through September 4th:

• Downloads (2010-2011 Fall) | CS 193P iPhone Application Development –
• UIPickerView – Creating a simple picker view | iPhone SDK Articles –
• Steve Jobs: Jerry Pournelle Reflects –
• Dreamstime – Stock Photography
• Fotolia.com – Royalty Free Stock Photos
• Evernote software company plans new studio, aggressive hiring in Austin –
• Five Ways to Speed Up Lightroom – O’Reilly Digital Media Blog –
• Does the 1796-97 Treaty with Tripoli Matter to Church/State Separation? –
• Python documentation –
• Why most people don’t finish video games –
• Tracking the Trackers: To Catch a History Thief | Stanford Center for Internet and Society –
• Violet Crown Trail | Hill Country Conservancy –
• South Austin Medical Clinic –
• World War II in Photos – Alan Taylor – In Focus – The Atlantic –
• Understanding & Using Ansel Adam’s Zone System –

These are my links for July 7th through July 21st:

• How To Test a Lens –
• How to give your cat a pill in 7 steps –
• Labwarehouse.com – Surplus lab supplies, equipment and goods:
• Old Soul –
• Old School Color Cycling with HTML5 –
• The Truth About Guns – Exploring the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns
• Plnnr – plan the perfect trip, automatically! –

These are my links for April 19th through May 7th:

• Missing The Point: It Doesn’t Matter If Torture “Works” –
• Transistors go 3D as Intel re-invents the microchip –
• DSLR Mirror Lock-Up – Worth the Effort or Not? –
• Take Shape For Life –
• A Keyboard and a .45 –
• Oleg Volk Photography –
• CrimeReportSearch –
• The First Zombie-Proof House –
• OOSChecker: The Ultimate iPad2 Treasure Hunter –
• Affordable Weekend Getaways and Vacations – LivingSocial –
• Texas3006.com –
• Corps Lakes Gateway: Texas –
• Lily Ponds Cottage – New Ulm, Texas –
• Google Encrypted Search –
• Portal 2 and Steam on PlayStation®3 –

These are my links for April 1st through April 9th:

• Unlock Your Vonage Cisco ATA 186 –
• Squirrel fishing at Univeristy of Texas – There used to be an old albino squirrel at the University of Texas when I went there in the 90's.  I accidentally found this picture of him on a "squirrel fishing" website.
• How Slavery Really Ended in America – NYTimes.com –
• How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) – Austin Kleon – And there is nothing new under the sun
• Trunk Club Men’s Outfitters: A clothing service for men –
• Metamaterial Reveals Nature of Time and the Impossibility of Time Machines –
• W3Schools Online Web Tutorials –
• TinEye Reverse Image Search –
• Glen’s story…. a cautionary tale for shooters –
• TSA: Traveling with Special Items –
• Underwater Sculptures Help Save the World’s Oceans –
• why the gun is civilization –
• Army Artwork & Images –
• iPad2Tracker – Find which local Targets, BestBuys, Walmarts, RadioShacks and Sam’s Clubs have the iPad 2 in stock and available. –
• Apple iPad 2 Stock Tracking: How to Find One –

These are my links for February 25th through March 12th:

• GT Distributors – America’s Law Enforcement supply specialist –
• Dihydrogen Monoxide Dangerous! –
• Belts by The Belt Man –
• 1930 Art Deco Henderson –
• SIG forum –
• Garrison Brothers Distillery Texas Bourbon –
• Proposed Cuts Strike Teachers as Attacks on Their Value to Society – NYTimes.com –
• Gun Safes | Home Gun Safe | GunVault –
• STARSHIP PEGASUS :: SPACE AGE FUN FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY! –
• Monolithic — Home of the Monolithic Dome –
• Hand-Guns –
• SCP into Theory workstations from outside –
• Simple howtos –
• TxDPS – Applicant Fingerprinting Services –
• Mount&Blade/Companions –

These are my links for January 27th through February 5th:

• Top 10 uncracked codes – Taman Shud
• Taman Shud Case – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –
• PoliceHQ.com by Streicher’s – 800-367-3763 –
• Chris Bathgate Sculpture – machined sculpture
• Amazing Woodcarving Master –
• Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code –
• Stopping Power –
• Heini Hemmi – Alpine Skiier won 1976 Olympic Giant Slalom
• Austin Explorer –
• In-N-Out Burger Heads To Texas –
• Lightroom Adjustment Brush Basics –
• Gun Supplies | Gun Accessories | Parts from Top Gun Supply –
• Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn’s Revenge | Mythic Entertainment | Ultima Online – Trey "Rosicrux" Neshyba in game credits for Ultima Online
• AIM Surplus Home –
• Candida 1-2-3: Diet and Supplements (Step 1 of 3) –

These are my links for January 16th through January 26th:

• Handgunlaw.us –
• Best Choices for Self Defense Ammo –
• Post your character builds! –
• Archaeologists find new clues why the Maya left –
• The Notes of Japanese soldier in USSR –
• Female Student | Attractive Student | Dead Website Girl found –
• Official Samsung LNxxA650 Owner’s Thread – AVS Forum –
• As Above So Below – Bridge in South Austin near SoCo – dedicated to Trey (not me)
• S100A10 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –
• Stuxnet cyberworm heads off US strike on Iran – the Stuxnet worm included one component designed to send Iran's centrifuges spinning out of control and another to record normal operations at the nuclear plant and then play them back so that everything would appear normal while the centrifuges were tearing themselves apart.
• Austin Rodent Control & Rat Exterminator TX –
• Austin’s Wildlife Removal –

These are my links for December 23rd through January 4th:

• Best Buy Masters Computer Science & Information Technology | Ratings & Rankings | GetEducated.com –
• CSU CS Online Masters Degree –
• Portalarium – Game Developer in Austin (Richard Garriott has joined this team)
• Car2Go Sweeps Austin Off Its Wheels – Car2Go to hopefully expand its area, and definitely expand its fleet with new cars
• bunnie’s blog –
• TF2 Backpack Examiner – Blueprints –
• Musican killed in home burglary attempt, authorities say –
• James Jean | Home –
• Chumby Spare Parts at Sparkfun –
• The animal world has its junkies too – Animals that get high
• MakerBot Industries – Robots That Make Things. –
• chumby sphere forum –
• Chumby hacker board beta – ChumbyWiki –
• chumby hacker board wiki –
• Texas State History IMAX Theatre –

These are my links for November 7th through November 21st:

• Das Keyboard –
• Hyperbole and a Half –
• AustinRecruiter.com –
• AccessUT – UT students and alumni recruiting – HireTexas
• the Experience eRecruiting Network – University of Texas Natural Sciences Career Services eRecruiting
• Necropolis of Britannia Manor III (Unknown Cache) in Texas, United States created by LordBritish –
• ArduiNIX – Arduino Nixie Tube Kit
• Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds –
• Is Death the End? Experiments Suggest You Create Time –

These are my links for October 10th through October 12th:

• Feeling chipper, the wood ant caught bringing science to life –
• Pinballz Arcade – Austin Pinball arcade
• dzone.com – developer links
• Baguette et Chocolat – French pastries in Austin

These are my links for September 21st through October 4th:

• George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It’s Okay
• First World War officially ends
• Infusion Profusion: Game-Changing Fast ‘N Cheap Technique
• Tilt-Shift Van Gogh
• Electron Switch Between Molecules Points Way to New High-Powered Organic Batteries – University of Texas discovery
• How-to: set up dual-band WiFi (and juice your downloads)

The tilt-shift effect, normally used in photography to make large things seem toy-like.  Now applied to Van Gogh beautifully:

(please do Renoir next!)

[more after the break]

For the rest of the gallery, visit Artcyclopedia.

These are my links for August 22nd through August 24th:

• Your First iOS Application –
• digitalphotographyconnection.com –
• PACMAN BIG SET of stickers for laptops macbooks macbook by apjam –
• U.S. Inaction Lets Look-Alike Tubes Kill Patients –

These are my links for August 16th through August 18th:

• Stanford on iTunes U –
• Apple’s App Store Director Sells His Own Fart Apps – Shoemaker, who has been frequently cited in news stories as one of the top decision makers enforcing rules when evaluating apps for approval or rejection, did not respond to a phone call or an e-mail requesting comment.
• The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing – th classic guide, although the author has a tendency to speak in absolutes
• iPhone Programming Tutorial –
• Your beautiful eyes – extremely sharp and detailed macro eye photography

These are my links for August 2nd through August 4th:

• GelaSkins –
• Infectious –
• Crema catalana recipe –
• quirky – social product development
• Graphene Under Strain Creates Gigantic Pseudo-Magnetic Fields –

Been messing with fractals, the last few days.  Here’s one I particularly like.

(click to see it ocean-sized)

ghosts in the machine by ~rosicrux on deviantART

It’s the 30th anniversary of Star Wars. This week there is a celebration and convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center called Star Wars Celebration IV. A featured exhibit at this event is called The Vader Project, in which 66 artists were invited to submit their own version of the Darth Vader Helmet.

Here’s a Flickr gallery with the helmets. Some samples:

In 1956, Maurits Cornelis Escher completed a drawing called Print Gallery. Almost 50 years later, a group of mathematicians at Leiden University, led by Prof. Hendrik Lenstra succeeded in unraveling the mathematical structure of the image.

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