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At Sudama's office today, I plugged a Kensington Optical Mouse into my powerbook and remapped the buttons to be gmail actions. Right click is "archive" and the bottom left and right clicks use the vi/gmail mappings for up and down. Clicking the left and right buttons simultaneously launches gmail in your default browser. Now that I have mapped mouse buttons to vi navigation keys, I feel like the cycle of UI design is complete once and for all.
Mouse and other I/O applications usually offer application level customization. In the brave new world of thin clients and web-centric applications, users will want to customize these buttons at a web-server or even page level.
She is tired of hiding from the Turing Police choppers.
Standing outside the Evil Giga Shaft Corporation (GSC), she have hacked the buildings security, still to 'do a HAL' on the their mainframe is not gonna be a stroll in the park.
Looking up at the tiny moon, its cold appearance seems to somehow to give her strength...
As she crosses the street towards her destiny she walk the way she talk it, like every bad-ass hero she know, Bruce Lee, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Sigourney Weaver and Molly... Watching all that pirate bay old movie download is about to be put in good use to give black hat security dudes a bad day at work!
Last paragraph is of course loosely from the great author William Gibson's novel Neuromancer, particular the last name of bad-ass heroes...
Big-endian xmodem type CRC-16; chop the checksum off before recalculating. Big thanks to Yann Vernier and Simeon Pilgrim!
Can you see the difference from the non-hacked version?
Also known as West Secaucus Movable Bridge, Upper Hack Lift Bridge was built by the Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad back in March of 1959. It is a single-track lift bridge that carries NJ Transit's Main Line over the Hackensack River between Lyndhurst and Secaucus, NJ. The bridge is the newest movable bridge on NJ Transit and is the only single-track lift bridge in the state of New Jersey. It is seen here carrying Main Line train 1116 with NJT 4204 east out.
NJT 1116 @ Upper Hack Drawbridge, Secaucus, NJ
NJTR GP40PH-2B 4204
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Bonkers' diaper slides down sometimes or becomes loose (because I didn't affix it correctly) so Naomi checks him periodically to ensure there is no containment breach, the consequences of which would be too horrid to describe.
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Here's a handy hack I've been using lately to carry a map and notes along with my hacked Moleskine Weekly Planner notebook.
I use a standard 3" x 5" yellow sticky note to draw a map, with directions, address, phone numbers and whatever else I might need to get to my meeting.
Then I attach the long, sticky edge to the spine side of the Moleskine (left edge) and then slide the loose edge of the stick note under the elastic band (right side), so it won't catch the corners in my pocket.
Once I'm done with the map, I can save it in the back of my Moleskine for later use, or toss it out.
This approach also works well for task lists and any other at-a-glance information you need to see without opening up the Moleskine.
Ikea bathroom vanity project:
-Hemnes vanity
-Dalskar faucet
-Rinnen waste pipes and trap
Unfortunately the install was a lot more complicated than it should be as it does not follow North American plumbing standards. First of all I'd like to say that I'm in Canada and not a professional plumber. It was not mentioned in the store, the kitchen associate that filled my order, on the website or even in the instructions that all the plumbing parts are metric (which ironically metric is not used in Canada for construction).
The hack:
Supply lines: There are many other resources online that mostly use this same hack. The ikea supply hoses have 1/2" ends (for which the NA standard is 3/8"). Therefore I had to go my local home center to buy 1/2" male/male connectors and the shortest length of vanity supply hoses. Screwing a hose clamp to the back of the vanity will keep the now surplus length of hoses out of the way.
Waste line and P trap: The instructions for Rinnen were actually incorrect. It referenced that the end (after the P trap) of the white PVC pipe is 1 1/4". Wrong! This pipe was closer to 1" metric sizing. This is besides the fact that the ikea white PVC pipe is very thin, European metric sizing and used friction fit slip couplings (rather than glued) on the horizontal pipe. Quite the challenge to install and connect to standard 1 1/2" ABS. Instead of using the Ikea white PVC, I discarded everything except for the tailpiece pipe that connected to the drain and re-routes the pipe to the back of the cabinet. I cut it below the input for the overflow leaving enough room to connect using a 1 1/2" to 1 1/4" ABS reducer (usually used to connect to copper). Surprisingly the ikea tail piece is actually 1 1/4" which later gets reduced to approx 1" (metric size). But it works out perfect as long as you discard the rest of the white PVC and connect the ABS to the tailpiece. Now that the ABS reducer is connected, complete the rest of the P trap using ABS piping from your local hardware store glueing all your joints giving you a stronger seal than an friction fit slip connector!
One last note: Now that you are using thicker, bigger ABS pipes, the back of your drawers may hit the pipe when you close them. I marked where it was hitting and used the dremel to carve/sand out the back of the drawers where it was hitting. Problem solved.
thomashawk.com/2007/01/top-10-hacks-on-flickr.html
8. Slickr. One of the things that is cool about Flickr is that there is an amazing amount of fanastic images online. This is cool and all but Flickr's slide show functionality sucks, it's not full screen, etc. This is where Slickr comes in. Slickr allows you the ability to point Slickr to someone's photostream, your photos marked favorites, etc., etc. and then actually download full high res photos of all of whatever you point it to to your computer. It was developed by Gabriel Hanford. Once on your hard drive you can better make use of these images for your screen saver or for your desktop backgrounds and all that. One of my favorite things to do is to sit back and watch my Media Center PC rotate through my favorites from Flickr on beautiful full high res clarity.
One note with this. You might want to check out the photo license of the photos that you choose to download with Slickr. Although Slickr works with all licenses, technically you'd be breaking the rules by downloading an all rights reserved licensed photo. Creative Commons licensed photos of course (like mine) are free to use for non commercial (in my case) use and if you want to download all of my images for your screen saver, desktop, etc., or even just one of my sets like Superfaves, feel free.
If you like these Flickr hacks feel free to digg them here.
Had a GREAT day out at Facebook yesterday. As part of spending the day with the Photos Team, I was able to roam around their campus with Facebook employee escorts and photograph pretty much whatever I wanted to. The only rule was that I couldn't photograph computer screens. I spent a lot of the time photographing the art at Facebook. Facebook has so much incredible art there -- much of it spraypainted right on the walls. Alot of the visit felt like I was visiting a super cool contemporary art gallery or museum. Thank you so much to the Photos Team and especially to Emily Grewal for having me down. It was a total blast to photowalk the Facebook campus and get to hang out with so many other talented Facebook employees.
To check out all of my photos from Facebook yesterday check out my album here: www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150859787529886.42413...
The Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker is a former government-owned nuclear bunker in Nantwich, Cheshire.
Hack Green's involvement in modern warfare defence began in 1941, when the area was a decoy for World War II raids on the large railway junction about ten miles away at Crewe.
From 1941 to 1949 it was a World War II radar station. In the 1950s it became part of a secret radar network codenamed Rotor, closing in 1958. It then became an Air Traffic Radar Unit.
RAF Hack Green closed in 1966 but the site was retained by the government. After a decade in mothballs, it was turned into a blast-proof nuclear bunker capable of housing a 135-man post-nuclear attack regional government team for 12 weeks. The site became fully operational in 1984, before being decommissioned and declassified in 1993.
Inspiration for some of the framing of the shots came from the 1975 New Topographics exhibition.
A photo mosaic of the cover of Flickr Hacks, coming this month from O'Reilly.
Images from the Squared Circle group, here on Flickr.
UPDATE: There will be some signed copies of Flickr Hacks at Flickr's 2nd Birthday Party this Saturday.
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