Stirling Engine Kit Imposing Residence Displaying Unconventional Interior Connections Casa Paredes Tres Ocho was designed by Hernandez Silva Arquitectos and is located in Tlajomulco de Zuñiga city, Mexico. This modern two-storey residence offers a high level of privacy, by being almost completely “shut”. At least this is the impression someone gets by taking a stroll in front of it. But here is some counter information about the building’s structure from the architects: “The terraces are undoubtedly the most comfortable spaces; the house has the flexibility to become a large terrace of great height, windows linked to central space, room and terrace, are hidden to open to the outside by a pond vegetation (central) and one temporal (outside). This allows the terrace to interrelate without any obstacles to the garden.
Sharing files with wdfs and FUSE Keeping one set of files means never worrying about synchronization and merging. Changes never get unknowingly overwritten, and I have a single, simple backup strategy. WebDAV is the Distributed Authoring and Versioning extension to HTTP. On Apache systems it is usually implemented with mod_dav, and many Web hosting companies provide it as an option, giving you a simple "flip a switch" path to run your own WebDAV server. WebDAV can run over HTTPS, providing a layer of security, and it requires setting up its own username/password combo for each user -- distinct from any other server accounts or .htaccess -- so you can even set up different WebDAV accounts for each machine you use and meticulously track changes. But I'll skip explaining the WebDAV server setup; first of all, plenty of excellent information is out there already, and second, the beauty of wdfs is that the FUSE module abstracts the details away. Insert your own "light the fuse" joke here wdfs compared
Let a Thousand Personalized Newspapers Bloom I wrote recently about Paper.li, a service from a Swiss company called Small Rivers, which pulls in your Twitter stream and extracts any links shared by those you follow, then displays those links in a newspaper-style format. (The company was recently funded by Kima Ventures, whose co-founder bought the French newspaper Le Monde.) More and more Twitter users I follow seem to be making use of the service to construct their own personalized newspapers. Here are a few of the ones I have come across (if you’re interested, my Paper.li is here): Jeff Nolan (technology blogger and VC — @jeffnolan)Umair Haque (director of Harvard’s media lab — @umairh) Ross Mayfield (co-founder of Socialtext — @ross)Wired magazine (the Wired Daily account — @wired)Stowe Boyd (online consultant — @stoweboyd)Alex Howard (O’Reilly correspondent — @digiphile) In many ways, this is a natural extension of the idea that if the news is important “it will find me.”
August Book Suggestion : I Want to Talk Books Story OK, here it goes, these are the books recently suggested in this group: Kalimantaan by Godshalk American Rust by Meyer Masters and Commanders by Roberts Luanne Rice Wally Lamb "She's Come Undone" Our Lady of the Forest The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived The American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr Night world Series L.J Smith When Rabbit Howls SHORT Stories By James Kelman SELF-HELP Hold On Concerns Bullying by Alan Gibbons MEMOIR Life Interrupted by James McConnel THE LOST CITY OF Z: A TALE OF DEADLY OBSESSION IN THE AMAZON by David Grann And some suggestions for this summer: Dune Road By Jane Green Dune Road is the story of life in an exclusive beach town after the tourists have left for the summer and the eccentric (and moneyed) community sticks around. By Roberto Bolaño The Geometry of Sisters By Luanne Rice After years away, Maura Shaw has returned to Newport, Rhode Island, to teach English at the academy. The Help By Kathryn Stockett
Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes You want to write your name in Elvish, but every place you go seems to make it harder than it ought to be. Elvish writing looks beautiful and mysterious, but does it really have to be impossible to understand? Why doesn't somebody just spell out the alphabet so you can simply substitute the letters and get straight to the result? That's exactly what I've done here. Learn to write your name in Elvish in ten minutes. Here's the alphabet. That's it. Generally the vowels go above the consonants, but sometimes, in the case of Y and silent E, they go below. The straight line underneath is just one way to make one character do the work of two. The line above a consonant means that a nasal N or M precedes the consonant in question. Here's one last example with two different letter combinations. I am often asked how to handle double vowel situations. That's all you need to get started. Good luck! Ned Gulley Want an Elvish tattoo? Want an Elvish t-shirt?
The Commercialization of Twitter - TOTD What did you expect? Twitter to remain virtuous and "cool" for all of us "in the know"? Today's Tweet of the Day, by far, is this Tweet about the commercialization of Twitter. Over 30 clicks on this URL in Brightkit (@IsCool's Twitter management tool) RT @justin_hart: Ugh. Twitter marketing meets Real Estate snake oil. I was there in the early to mid 90's when there were debates about the commercialization of the internet. Well, that was then and now the most powerful company in the world (OK I may be exaggerating) is the "do no evil" Google. 99% of Google's revenue comes from Google Adwords or advertising related products. So, while you may love GMAIL, Google Docs, Google this and Google that remember that you get those things because Google is the King of World in terms of advertising. Why do you think Google has a stock price (still) in the stratosphere while the New York Times is about ready to be sold to the Chinese for cents on the dollar?
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Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game 20+ Great Greasemonkey Scripts for Improving Your Twitter Experience It's easy to love Twitter, but sometimes you just wish you could get more out of its limited Web interface. That's where Greasemonkey scripts come in. Using Greasemonkey scripts you can nest replies, silence noisy twits, retweet to other services, and more. Here are over 20 that are sure to vastly improve your Twitter experience. Home American Pie by Don McLean Songfacts Songfacts®: You can leave comments about the song at the bottom of the page. According to McLean (as posted on his website), this song was originally inspired by the death of Buddy Holly. "The Day The Music Died" is February 3, 1959, when Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash after a concert. McLean wrote the song from his memories of the event. The Beatles Sgt. Pepper album was a huge influence, and McLean has said in numerous interviews that the song represented the turn from innocence of the '50s to the darker, more volatile times of the '60s - both in music and politics. McLean was a paperboy when Holly died. Talking about how he composed this song when he was a guest on the UK show Songbook, McLean explained: "For some reason I wanted to write a big song about America and about politics, but I wanted to do it in a different way. I thought, Whoa, what's that? This song made McLean very famous very quickly, which was very difficult for the songwriter.