Entries Tagged as 'tools'

Sunday, April 3rd, 2011

Mr. Studley indeed.

via liveleak.com Tool porn at its finest. Via flutterby.

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

BookLiberator Lets You Make E-Books Cheaply (And Is Definitely Not Intended For Copyright Violation!) – The Firewall – the world of security – Forbes

via blogs.forbes.com “Remember the sense of liberation that came from digitizing your CDs and then chucking a decade or two’s accumulation of archaic plastic? James Vasile and Ian Sullivan want to give you that gratification again–this time from rendering into bits your hundreds of pounds of dead trees. Their invention, on display over the weekend [...]

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Mini Maglite Handlebar Light Hack – BikeHacks

via bikehacks.com “Using a 5″ long section of old inner tube, I lash my modified Mini Maglite to the handlebars of my road bike as a backup-backup headlight.” Posted via email from crasch’s posterous

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

3 Ways to Wrap Cords and Hoses – Fine Homebuilding Video

In this video, finish carpenter and frequent Fine Homebuilding contributor Tucker Windover demonstrates three techniques for wrapping extension cords and air hoses that will keep them in good condition and save you a lot of frustration when it’s time to unravel them. Tucker uses a daisy-chain technique for his 100-ft. cord and a looping technique for [...]

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Use reCAPTCHA to digitize old books and newspapers

About 200 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that’s not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of [...]

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

The World’s Best Photos – Flickr Hive Mind – June 2, 2010

via fiveprime.org Really cool. Enter in any keywords, separated by commas, and the hive mind will display highly rated photos from flickr with those keywords. http://fiveprime.org/flickr_hvmnd.cgi# Posted via web from crasch’s posterous

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Agriculture equipment, farm magazines, farm equipment, farm inventions, farm machinery, agriculture machinery

via farmshow.com Mark Newhall is the editor and publisher of Farm Show, a newspaper dedicated to the quirky side of farming life. Maybe farming is the real mother of invention. That’s the conclusion you’d reach from reading Farm Show, a quirky little newspaper published for the past 27 years out of Lakeville. It focuses almost [...]

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Stumptacos Home-made Camp Kitchen – Page 3 – Expedition Portal Forum

via expeditionportal.com Posted via web from crasch’s posterous

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Handwork in Wood, by William Noyes

via gutenberg.org Posted via web from crasch’s posterous

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

GEEK: My .vimperatorrc file

Vimperator rocks!. My .vimperatorrc file is below the cut. Anybody else use it?