Morning Linkage (Apr 1)

Every morn­ing I send JimH a quick sum­mary of my morn­ing cruze around
the net. He sug­gested that you all might like to see the results as
well.

From Core77 a snarky short descrip­tion of how the US Mint makes coins
(cool pho­tos) there’s a link to the longer COINage mag­a­zine ver­sion at
the bot­tom. The other entries in their Pro­duc­tion Meth­ods Series are
worth a look.
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/production_methods_coining_12577.asp

Funny Kin­dle case. (Yes I love my kin­dle)
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/04/kindle_2_case_mod.html?CMP=OTC-5JF307375954

Schneier has begun the annual “movie-plot” threat chal­lenge. Ignore
the first cou­ple of com­ments, the good ones are at the bot­tom. Check
back often.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/04/fourth_annual_m.html

Prob­a­bly an April Fool’s joke and cer­tainly the only way you’ll ever
get me to play gui­tar hero.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/01/guitar-hero-leonard-cohen-coming-this-summer/

There’s a new xkcd. It’s only sorta funny. (IMHO)
http://xkcd.com/563/

More tomor­row if you all would like.