These are my links for September 8th through September 19th:

• Foldit – Solve Puzzles for Science
• Getting Started on the Google+ API – Google+ Platform Blog –
• Freetronics –
• HTML5 Rocks – A resource for open web HTML5 developers
• Shako Solenoid Valve for Water Drop Collision Photography –
• Secularism and Its Discontents : The New Yorker –
• CastingWords – Transcription services: Audio, Video, CD/DVDs… 
• Amazon Mechanical Turk –
• HiViz.com – Learn High Speed Photography. DIY kits
• David Scott Lewis, the mystery hacker who inspired the film "War Games" | VentureBeat –
• David Scott Lewis, the hacker who inspired WarGames –
• 1980s in film – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –
• UT Painter Hall Telescope –
• Czech Heritage Society of Texas –
• The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science –

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 –

I recently came across 500px as a gallery site, and I really like it. The portfolio, image viewer, quality of photos, submission and ranking, and ease of use is really good, and they are currently working on Lightroom exporters and such.

They need to work on the search and tagging a bit, I think Flickr still beats them in that capacity. Anyways, I am not here to review (yet), but to post my first photo uploaded on their site.

I’ll continue to post things to Flickr, but I’m starting to transition to 500px for a trial period. If it compares favorably to Flickr end up buying a year of their service, I will probably not renew my Flickr Pro.

edit2: fixed!
edit: well, it seems to post in only one size, which is a bit bigger than the column width. I will figure it out later.

leaf texture by Trey Neshyba

These are my links for July 25th through August 10th:

• Social Plugins – Facebook Developers –
• Matt Damon’s 5 Best Unscripted Political Moments | Pajiba: Reviews, News, Quotes & Cultural Commentary –
• WEB BROWSER COLOR MANAGEMENT Tutorial –
• Mizar – Self sufficient dental care –
• Magic Lantern Firmware Wiki –
• The Mission to Get Osama Bin Laden –
• Developer’s Guide – Google App Engine – Google Code –
• AMD OpenCL™ Coding Competition – zero copy buffers
• Bitcoin P2P Virtual Currency –
• Allied Star Police – Owain’s Wish – Owain Weinert designed this game with the help of Popcap and Make-Wish foundation.
• OSX Lion connection error with Time Machine fix –
• Telnet Console for netgear –
• The Hot Violinist –

after lunch at Garrido’s, originally uploaded by rosicrux.

Austin, Texas

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 June 28th through July 5th:

• DreamHost : Login -
• Folkmusician -
• Rick Perry Was a Democrat and Al Gore’s Texas Campaign Chairman in 1988 – He also was elected and reelected as a Democrat in the Texas legislature.  President Bush referred to him as “Ozone Man”.
  This will be a fun campaign!
• Inside the Ghost Ships of the Mothball Fleet -
• RAIDS Online – Free Public Crime Mapping and Analysis -
• HP Notebook Can Apparently Shield Soldiers From Enemy Fire -

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 –

Tilt Shift Photography of ExploreUT this year.

There was no credit listed so I will post the official University of Texas Facebook page where it was posted.

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 January 5th through January 15th:

• 25 Years Of Graphics History: A Farewell To ATI, In Pictures –
• Epoch Converter – Unix Timestamp Converter –
• The Naked Coder | Sarah White Consulting –
• Cheaper Than Dirt – America’s Ultimate Shooting Sports Discounter –
• TF2 Launch Options List – Steam Users’ Forums –
• LIRC – Linux Infrared Remote Control –
• Partial solar eclipse and transit of the Space Station from Oman –
• cRPG Guide, Read if new to cRPG – www.c-rpg.net –
• cRPG & Strategus forum on TaleWorlds –
• TaleWorlds –
• cRPG Mod – Mount and Blade –
• Ultra-Mini Nano USB 2.0 802.11n 150Mbps Wifi/WLAN Wireless Network Adapter –

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 4th through August 14th:

• PresetsHeaven –
• Squidoo –
• AppGraphix.com – iPhone/ iPod Touch/ iPad App Icon, Tab Bar Icon, Logo Design
• 1dl.us – all-in-one webtool
• Google Wave RIP – birth to death in what, 2 months? Only the Microsoft Kin can beat that!

bludropcrown, originally uploaded by rosicrux.

It was pouring rain all day today, so I used the time to set up a little water drop lab and kept experimenting with it. Here’s a blue drop of soy milk into water.

This is taken with my new Tamron 70-300 lens, and using the built-in flash.

Bullet-time 2.0 is Timesculpture.

An eon in modern time ago (a year) I posted a small extrinsic blurb about the upcoming Microsoft technology dubbed Photosynth.  I thought the link explained and showed it better than I could, so no need for a further post.  But now it is released, and now it deserves the shoutout.

This is a simple “synth”. It was taken by some guy in Austin on his cameraphone. He took a few shots of the 360 bridge (a pretty noticeable landmark), just across the river from where I used to work at Origin. I think this shows the power of Photosynth. First of all, this was easy to find, I just did a Photosynth search for Austin, and it was the first choice. Second this was only a few short photos in a cameraphone. This isn’t the Taj Mahal demo with 400 shots with a $5000 DSLR camera. No, this is normal guy with possibly time on his break from work to snap a few shots through a window and upload them. You can still zoom in on them and skirt all around his view.. and it captures his view amazingly well.

That’s all I have to say, except one more thing, kudos to Microsoft to allowing embed code. Normally that wouldn’t get kudos, because every website on earth has some free embedable content on it nowadays, but kudos for finally coming around. (but an iframe? seriously?)

• How to make ANIMATED Sprays » for source games (Half-Life Team Fortress 2, etc)
• Ghostbusters 3… the game » The whole team of Ghostbusters actors will be reprising their roles in a Ghostbusters game by Vivendi/Sony to be released in 2008 on consoles and PC.
• Portal Papercraft »
• Photography: Digital Camera Reviews, Learn Photography, Photo Galleries – photo.net »
• How to solve a maze with Photoshop »
• Chowhound » food forums
• Black Friday Ads – The Official Black Friday 2007 Website »
• Java Applet Tutorial »
• Newsvine – Leonardo Painting Has Coded ‘Soundtrack’ » An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci’s "Last Supper"
• Definition Changing for People’s Privacy »
• Open Handset Alliance » Google and other partners strive to create an open source cellphone platform.