Morning LInkage (Jul 10)

Good morn­ing y’all. Lots of links today, good for a slow summer
Friday. Let’s get start­ed shall we?

More busi­ness card tom­fool­ery. Better than that chem­istry set you had
as a kid. It’s a dark detector.
http://kits.sparklelabs.com/2009/06/25/printed-circuit-business-cards/

Much ear­li­er tech. Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace start in their own
com­ic (Sydney Padua is very, well just very)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8139075.stm

The parts of sev­ens — sev­en animals…

…who can fly (but are not birds, or bugs, or bats)
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/28403

…who changed his­to­ry (FSVO)
http://www.cracked.com/article_17507_7-random-animals-that-decided-course-history.html

Some ani­mals, some oth­er things. all edi­ble. (Maybe.)
http://www.edithzimmerman.com/blog/

House and Home:

Massive col­lec­tion of info on win­dow film. Which besides being cool is
um, cool. Here most­ly so that I can send it to one of the thou­sands of
(liar) peo­ple who get this via BCC.
http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2009/07/09/everything-i-know-about-window-film/

I have chalk­board pan­els on the front of my fridge. It makes life in a
two per­son we don’t see each oth­er while coher­ent for most of the week
pos­si­ble. Here are two more slight­ly less spa­cious chalk boards.

For a sim­pler life, a to-do list I can han­dle. I can’t fig­ure out if
these are for sale or not. They should be.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marykatemcdevitt/sets/72157615258699188/

Taking your sprog to the gro­cery store. Make him earn his keep by
car­ry­ing the list. (What! $35.00)
http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/07/08/chalkboard-tee-shirts/

Then you can put him to work in the kitchen. (Flat pack fur­ni­ture hack­ing, yay)
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/07/play_kitchen_roundup_from_ikea.html

Then while your boy is doing the dish­es the girls can get on with the
impor­tant work of upset­ting the bal­ance of power.
http://girlsguild.org/

One of the things that the larg­er Kindle DX has promised is access to
mate­r­i­al that does­n’t work well in the trade paper­back for­mat that the
kin­dle 2 was aim­ing for. One I did­n’t fore­see is sheet music. Growing
up parts of the house were over­run with the stuff and no-one could
find their own or remem­ber which of the huge cheater tomes contained
what. (Mr. Biggs taste in music is questionable.)
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/10/sheet-music-for-the-kindle-im-so-getting-the-memory-from-cats/

From music to pictures.

The ques­tion of pho­tographs and real­i­ty par­tic­u­lar­ly in journalism.
David W. pro­vides a few words and a set of links to some thoughtful
material.
http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/2009/07/09/real-photographs/

The National Portrait Galley (UK) has a show that I want to see: Gay
Icons. Portraits of influ­en­tial peo­ple (not all gay) cho­sen by a panel
of 10 influ­en­tial gay peo­ple. The web­site shows only two of those
por­traits. But the show is impor­tant enough to mer­it men­tion and I’m
going to order the catalog.
http://www.npg.org.uk:8080/gayicons/exhib.htm

The part of 35s …

… 35 cool pho­tog­ra­phy sites on the web. There goes my week­end and
illu­sion that I might some­day have a wor­thy port­fo­lio site.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/10/35-beautiful-photography-websites/

… love the spark­ly stars and poof­ing clouds and it’s all things
kit­ty. Happy 35th you evil beast.
http://kitty35.com/english/index.html

’til Monday my good peo­ple. Stay safe.