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These are my delicious links for September 11th:

• macosxhints.com – 10.6: Pop-up and hide word definitions – After pressing Control-Command-D, you can release the D key. As long as you hold down Command and Control, the definition stays popped up, but goes away when you release those keys. This is consistent with the dashboard and other click-and-hold-to-display-temporarily features.

These are my delicious links for April 27th:

• A crossbow to end all crossbows. – You want a crossbow that you can mount a grenade launcher too? One that will scare the person you aim it at so badly they'll pee themselves then die of fright? Want to pretend you're Snake-Eyes? (Because this is TOTALLY the crossbow he'd use. ) This is the one for you.
• First Deep Blue, now Watson. – I, for one, welcome our A.I. Overlords.
• ExpanDrive: Ridiculously simple SFTP and FTP drive access on your Mac – Mount your drives like a USB drive. Going to have to check it out.
• A total bad-ass Epitah. – I wish my Epitah could be one tenth as cool as Robert Allisons.
• Tim Dowling on how to tell an Iranian sniper from a Wookiee – Over the weekend Iranian snipers marched in the annual Army Day parade in Tehran in full camouflage, looking less like crack combatants and more like Wookiee extras from a forgotten Star Wars spin-off.
• Magnets are cool. – What happens when you drop a magnet super-slowly through a copper tube? Cool shit happens is what.

These are my delicious links for March 24th through March 26th:

• Alpine Hut – Gorgeous 6×11 Alpine hut by OFIS Architects. The hut is situated in a small Alpine village, part of Triglav national park in Slovenia, with very strict rules of construction and architectural design. The client bought the site together with existing construction permit for the generic project. Demand was not to change construction permit but change the elements of the house to suit his family, sustainable factor and open the windows toward the views.
• Rebuilding Spotlight's Index on OS X (Manually) | Walt-O-Matic – My spotlight recently got hosed, this is a good reference on how to fix that.
• Letter from an AIG Official; The Other Side of the Story. – The resignation letter of an AIG executive explaining his point of view on the bonus furor. The proverbial other side of the story.
• Fuck That. – Russian teens have now new fun. They dare trains.
  This is needed to be done fast, because if one is appearing before the train too long before and machinist could see him and start breaking, so they run on the rails just before the train so he couldn’t start breaking and fell down on the rails, then the train moves above the person at his maximum speed, just a few inches from his head and back.
• Top 10 Time-Lapse Videos Show Nature at Work | Wired Science from Wired.com – When a phenomenon happens very slowly, viewing accelerated footage helps scientists take a step back and see the big picture: At higher speeds, things that we regard as fixed take motion — even the dullest scenes spring to life.
  Here are Wired Science's picks of the best time-lapse videos of nature at work.
• Travel photography: The Wave – Los Angeles Times – The Wave is a red-rock stunner on the border of Arizona and Utah, made of 190-million-year-old sand dunes that have turned to rock. L.A. Times photographer Spencer Weiner captured the swirling drama of this little-known formation that's accessible only on foot via a three-mile hike and highly regulated. (To apply for a permit, go to the Bureau of Land Management's Arizona Web page.)

These are my delicious links for March 11th through March 12th:

• "I Look Straight into Linus' Weasel Eyes…" – Charlie Brown, as done by Frank Miller. brilliant.
• Ski Dump Bathroom. – Now THATS a bathroom. And of course when we're talking about wacky bathrooms, we're talking about one nation, right? Right. A Japanese coffee company, Goeorgia Max Coffee, modified the bathrooms of ski areas around Japan to promote their coffee energy drinks. This is definitely a high-octane bathroom.
• edith zimmerman plays with her food. – Edith has some fantastic photos of her food sculptures. The mantis and tangerine are really good.
• Approximate Conversion from Points to Pixels – I was being lazy this morning, and needed a quick way to convert some points into the appropriate EM size. Viola'. This chart helps out immensely.
• New York Architecture Images- black and white new york – Amazing collection of images of early New York. From 1894 on, just a real solid trip down history.
• 100 Free Useful Applications for Mac, Part I | Tools – A nice list, maybe a bit over-the-top, of useful Mac Tools. Some are obvious (Quicksilver, etc,) but there are some hidden gems in there.
• Floorplans of Sit-Com Houses. – By the same guy that brought us the Trilogy Meter, we are treated with another brilliant piece of charting and infographics. This time he's laid out, painstakingly I might add, the floor plans of many sit-com houses.
• Vintage air raid defense posters – In 1938, the Japanese Red Cross worked with government authorities to create a series of posters to teach the public about the new Anti-Aircraft Defense Law, which was enacted in seeming anticipation of air strikes following the outbreak of the Japan-China War (1937-1945). Among other things, the new law required citizens to take protective measures against gas attacks and prepare for disinfection, evacuation and relief.

  These AWESOME posters are the result.

These are my delicious links for January 21st through January 22nd:

• Fifty Years of Exploration – NatGeo has a fantastic zoomable map showing the past paths of exploration that we've taken. Gorgeous detail, fantastic fun.
• Robot Tattoos – I don't have any tattoos, but if I were to ink up, a robot tattoo would probably be at the top of my list. There is one really fake photo in here, but the rest look legit.
• Layers | Screen forensics – A $15 OS X app that takes a screenshot of your current desktop. The catch? The screenshot is saved as a PSD with layers for each application, window and desktop icon. (via shauninman)
• The Inauguration of President Barack Obama – The Big Picture – Boston.com – The Big Picture comes through again with this excellent series of photos from the Inauguration.
• Gaius Baltar, Six, Starbuck, and Morbo from Battlestar Galactica in Lego – Neatorama provides us this fantastic link to a very accurate representation of some BSG characters in Lego.
• Ninja Tacks. – Ninja Tacks are injection molded ABS with a Chrome Plated finish. Each individual web order consists of 3 Ninja Tacks in a padded mailer. It's cheaper than mailing the retail packaging. Feel free to buy me some.

These are my delicious links for January 10th:

• MacBook Pro Covers – Nice. Each iamhuman cover is tailored to fit your mac's specific model and size. We craft each piece from quality fabrics and authentic wood veneers. Professional grade 3M adhesive adheres the cover to your laptop and allow you to remove it whenever you are ready to change it up—without leaving a sticky residue.

These are my delicious links for January 2nd:

• Turn on Half-Star Ratings in iTunes – defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars -bool TRUE —– This simple Terminal trick turns on half-star ratings in iTunes. Slick.