rozzin's bookmarks

SHTOX: the spinning ornamental whisky glass

• glass
• glasswork
• whisky

Licensing Code Fragments in Your Blog – It Really Does Matter (Bruce Perens)

• copyright
• licensing
• programming

How Do Those Plastic Rings Get Into The Ocean?

• ecology
• wtf

Plan for Your Kid's After-School Meltdown 

When kids are forced to keep it together for such a long stretch of time, sitting criss-cross-applesauce and waiting their turns and following the social norms of the day, the moment they get a chance to break, they do. (For better or worse, you are their safe place to collapse.)

• parenting
• school

XEP-0392: Consistent Color Generation

a set of algorithms to consistently generate colors given a string, correction for color vision deficiencies, and adapting the color for specific background colors

• color
• generative
• vision
• xep
• xmpp

The Game Dork's Gaming Corner: Dinosaur Tea Party

a little like the game `Guess Who?', but with some extra mechanics to make it better in all the ways it needs to be better.

• dinosaurs
• game
• tea

Accessing the system clipboard (Vim Tips Wiki)

Vim offers the + and * registers to reference the system clipboard…

• clipboard
• vim

Nobody's Fool

`Bill Griffith’s artistic investigation into the real life of Schlitzie Surtees… heartbreaking and poignant… gorgeous and tragic, a warts-and-all exploration of how this country has treated those with disabilities and challenges… the ephemerality of fame… the nature of exploitation, acceptance, and quality of life…'

• book
• comic
• griffy
• zippy

Mender: open source OTA software & firmware updates for embedded Linux

• mender
• swupdate

Chris Hadfield Teaches Space Exploration | MasterClass

• chrishadfield
• masterclass
• space

Camera Decision - Compare Digital Cameras.

Autogenerated feature-/strength-/weakness-comparison tables for lots of digital cameras.

• camera
• photography

The World's Next Great Mobile OS Is Lousy in America.

"KaiOS is based on Firefox and is transforming how Indians use phones. So why are our KaiOS phones so bad?"

• kaios
• phone

Cryptex USB flash drives

Literally. A USB flash drive in a combination lock.

• cryptex
• flashdrive
• usb

How emojis get lost in translation

"They found less than 5 per cent of the emojis were interpreted to have very similar emotional sentiment, within one point."

• emoji
• fail
• lostintranslation

GStreamer as a framework for image processing applications in image fusion

• gstreamer
• imageprocessing

GNUSocial Bookmarklet Generation Tool

• bookmarklet
• gnusocial

Setting up your own APT repository with upload support

A brief HOWTO for reprepro and dupload

• debian
• dupload
• howto
• reprepro

Why is Port 25 for Email Submission Not Supported?

Comcast's rationale for blocking outbound SMTP traffic from their residential-class customers.

• comcast
• port25
• smtp
• spam

Should You Have a Free Slurpee on 7-Eleven Day?

… a drink that claims to be "naturally flavored" and "0% juice"…

• 711
• drink
• slurpee

PyBlosxom version history plugin

history.py is a PyBlosxom plugin that displays change history for entries.

• pyblosxom
• vc