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Category: Shrapnel
Late Night Links – Sunday January 11th, 2015
It’s late night links time again! Yay!!
- The Parrot Pot and H2O Give You a Robotic Green Thumb
Maybe with this Flo and I might be able to keep real plants in the apartment without them dying? - Google Debuts Its Own AirPlay for Sound with Cast for Audio
- This Router Can Power Your Devices Wirelessly from 15 Feet Away
- You Can Play 2,400 Classic DOS Games in Your Web Browser
Clear my schedule, and hold all my calls. - CSS Transitions, Transforms & Animations – Flipping Card Tutorial
- Six Nightmarish Things People Did for Fun Before Electricity
This is probably the kind of stuff I’d be doing right now if we didn’t have internet. - Woman Gets Stuck Shimmying Naked Down Chimney of Estranged Boyfriend’s Home
- Look! A PC on a Stick!
This is interesting. I have an Intel NUC that serves as a low power home server and I’d considered using one as a HTPC for the living room. I’d also considered using a Raspberry Pi as a second HTPC in the bedroom. This sits nicely between the two, and it very interesting to me. More coverage here. - Inspiration for Text Input Effects
Love this. - Brand New Attractions All Over the World Coming in 2015
I’m definitely intrigued by Tower Bridge’s glass floor. I wonder how Flo would feel about checking it out? - They Were Told They Could Get as Much FroYo That You Could Fit into a Cup for $5
- How to Get More From Your Home Theatre Without Paying a Dime
I really should try calibrating our TV one day.
And that’s it for another week! Until next time, internet peeps. Have a good week.
I don’t know yet how or if I’ll use this feature, but it feels like something that will be very useful once I figure out what it means to me.
Interesting…
Look at that GIF up above. That’s a post graduating from the dashboard and living wherever it wants. Like: inside a blog post elsewhere on the internet. Or: on a content-driven site for social news and entertainment. Totally up to you.
Wherever you put it, it behaves the way a post should. It’s likeable, rebloggable, has its tags, is properly credited, all that.
How to do it: From your dashboard, just copy the embed code from a post’s share menu, then paste it anywhere embed codes can go. Enjoy.
What they look like: See these fine pieces from: Refinery29 on Tumblr feminism; HuffPo on the best art GIFs of the year; ET on Parks & Rec; BuzzFeed on SNL afterparties feat. Kristen Wiig and Harry Styles.
I don’t know yet how or if I’ll use this feature, but it feels like something that will be very useful once I figure out what it means to me.
Interesting…
Look at that GIF up above. That’s a post graduating from the dashboard and living wherever it wants. Like: inside a blog post elsewhere on the internet. Or: on a content-driven site for social news and entertainment. Totally up to you.
Wherever you put it, it behaves the way a post should. It’s likeable, rebloggable, has its tags, is properly credited, all that.
How to do it: From your dashboard, just copy the embed code from a post’s share menu, then paste it anywhere embed codes can go. Enjoy.
What they look like: See these fine pieces from: Refinery29 on Tumblr feminism; HuffPo on the best art GIFs of the year; ET on Parks & Rec; BuzzFeed on SNL afterparties feat. Kristen Wiig and Harry Styles.
Late Night Links – Sunday January 4th, 2015
I’m back! Welcome one and all to the first 2015 installment of late night links!
Let’s jump right in.
- Iowa Launches an App for Your Driver’s License
- Woman Stabs Boyfriend After he Farts in her Face During Argument
Seems fair. - Microsoft Kicks Off Skype’s Translator Preview on Windows 8.1
This is cool. - Netflix for Android Now Lets You Control Movies From your Wrist
Necessary. - Cyanide & Happiness #3777: That Dog
- Making Bacon
There’s more trolling from this guy here. - Google’s End-To-End Email Encryption Tool Gets Closer to Launch
Interesting… - Horse House Party
These guys know how to party. - Home Alone
- Barilla Uses3D Printing to Find its Next Past Shapes
- Cyanide & Happiness #3786: Selfie Stick
- A Guide to Binge-Watching ‘Friends’ on Netflix
Flo is doing this even as I write. - Who Knew Molten Aluminium Could Be So Volatile?
- Solving the World’s Largest Rubik’s Cube Takes Seven and a Half Hours
- Capilano Suspension Bridge
We went last year, but it looks great at Christmas. - Anti-Protest Sign at Mall of America is Epically Dystopian
And we’re done! See you next week for more of the same.
It’s here, and the Nexus 9 has been added to the wooden family of electronics. I’m pleased.
The quest for wood-effect skins on all my devices continues.
That’s a rosewood BlackBerry Q10, a (very subtle) black woodgrain edged Moto360, and a bamboo Google Nexus 5.
A matching bamboo skin for my Nexus 9 is in the mail. Watch this space.
In case you’re wondering, the BB skin is from DecalGirl, and the other device skins are from Slickwraps.