Tutorial on getting started painting a modern army

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This is the best tutorial on getting started painting a modern army.

Benjamin Bratton: Why don't the bright futures promised in TED talks come true?

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I really like this talk. It is not an anti-TED talk but more of a bitch-slap, wake the fuck up kind of a talk. The most poignant comment I h...

A Common Core study group

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I have two boys going into public high school next year and I am concerned. When I first heard about the Common Core educational standards I...

Installing Java 6 on OS X Mavericks

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I need to be able to build and run Java tools under Java 6. When I got my new MacBook Pro I also got an unexpected problem and that is that ...

Shane Koyczan

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To remind my sons. Shane Koyczan is brilliant. Three worthy prose poetry performances by him are Remember How We Forgot , To This Day , and ...

Not that many really good ideas worth spreading?

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My Facebook friends have been turning on TED and TEDx for a bit mostly because they have been pulling talks that don't fall within the t...

W.A.I.T

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When wanting to talk WAIT: That is, ask the question "Why am I talking?"

Non-NISO duration standard

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My peers have adopted the following non- NISO duration standard: Shortly is less than 17 mins or 29 mins. In-a-bit is less than 29 min...

Too little skeuomorphism!

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I find iOS 7's UI boring rather than utilitarian and/or minimalistic. I am, frankly, surprised at my reaction to this utilitarianism as ...

Shipping container building inspiration

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Found at http://cubiclerefugee.tumblr.com/post/596714844

I am Geordi LaForge. Really!?

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Your results: You are Geordi LaForge. You work well with others and often fix problems quickly. Your romantic relationships are often bungl...

Using a compound index to reduce lock timeouts with MySql 5.5

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If you use MySql 5.5 and have a hot table where updates and inserts fail due to lock timeout then the following will be of interest. The SQL...

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My public library (and, I am guessing, so does yours) uses X's library catalog web application. If free time were more I would enumerate...

Chain of Command and the storm in a tea cup.

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I took down my post about my objection to having advertising in the opening pages of the Chain of Command rules book. While I continue to o...

Clipping my magpie wings & I healing my crow wings.

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I deactivated my Facebook account. I deleted my Instapaper account. I deleted my (RSS reader) goread.io account. I deleted my Delicious acco...

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I don't customize my Mac very much. Too much bad experience from my thirty years of personal computer support. So when I do add a custom...

Developers and Depression

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I work in an industry whose participants have little connection to their own behavioral and emotional life. I consider myself an escapee mor...

If your presence doesn't work, neither will your words.

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“If your presence doesn't work, neither will your words.” - Yogi Bhajan

GNU Screen cheat-sheet

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SCREEN starting screen named screen -S name within sudo script /dev/null screen -S name discon...

Getting OS X to use the application you want to open a document type

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I had a little problem where Chrome was not the default viewer for XML documents on my Mac. Using the "Open With..." dialog to sel...