Useful Things

Local Harvest, Local Meat

September 10, 2008

Are you interested in local foods, both vegetables and meats? I have two links for you, with a hat tip to Rick at Caerwyn Farm and Spirits for bringing them to my attention. The first link is for the website Localharvest.org. It is a directory of places where you can get local harvest, or submit [...]

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Anvils on Amazon

August 1, 2008

Want an anvil? You can get one at Amazon. Check it out Grizzly G8148 100 lb. Anvil. Not too long ago I was wondering if it was still possible to buy anvils, and presumed it was not possible. Come to find out that not only is it possible but you can get it through Amazon. [...]

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A Coin, A Ring

December 27, 2007

How to make a ring from a quarter: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Ring-from-a-Silver-Coin One can get very technical and make rings by smelting metal, pouring it into molds, and all sorts of other highly technical stuff. Which is all very neat, but requires a lot of effort, skill, and tools. The advantage, and coolness, of using a quarter is [...]

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Polished With Olive Oil

July 7, 2007

I knew olive oil was versatile, but who would have thought it could serve as furniture polish? Find out how to make furniture polish from olive oil here at WikHow. I confess to still being a little concerned about the olive oil polish going rancid on the furniture. But the multitude of uses for olive [...]

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Highslid JS – JavaScript thumbnail viewer

February 28, 2007

This is a very slick little program that was brought to my attention. It allows you to look at a larger copy of an image just by clicking on it in the webpage. Very slick, but right now I don’t think I can justify any practical use. Can add a nice interactive element to a [...]

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Firefox Developer Plugin (CSS)

February 27, 2007

Firefox CSS developer plugin. Great looking tool. Find it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60/ Related link: Lorelle’s “The Secret of Successful Editing of WordPress Themes“

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Firefox Searchlet-Bookmarklet Plugins

February 21, 2007

The link to this site was sent along to me. It is a list of Searchlet-Bookmarklet Plugins for Firefox. My attention was directed to the CSS Documentation plugin in particular. It could be a good plugin for web designers who can’t remember all the properties of CSS elements. (Raise your hand.)

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Instiki

February 17, 2007

This looks like a useful program. Instiki is a light weight wiki program. It doesn’t look like it is very refined, but I like the fact that it is OS independent. I might be able to use something like this to organize some of my wriiting material.

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