Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
These are a set of free cards that I got from Moo.com. I like the way they look, some of the full frame formatted photos have white borders but I can fix that by uploading some edited photos. The paper has a nice weight to it. The surface is smooth satin and feels great. I’ll be buying more of these soon. I love the way that Flickr can be used to not only display your photos but to also serve as the source for physical items. These cards are darn cool.
If anyone asks me my opinion on weight loss I just say eat less and move around more. It’s a simple concept but it can be hard to do sometimes. Oddly enough, the ‘moving around more’ part, at least for me was never a problem. It was the eating less part that was tough. I hate feeling like my stomach is trying to digest itself. 🙁 Anyway, I saw this today and realized that keeping the food with you through out the day would help a lot. Lots of diets tell you to eat a bunch of small meals throughout the day but where do you keep the food? The Stax system solves this problem. The design is pretty clever. The food is loaded into color coded containers (protein, carbs, veggies, etc) and then into the bag. The bag has a gel pack to keep everything nice and chilly. It comes with a timer so you know when to chow down and the best part is you can use this with just about any diet you want. So if your looking to follow a diet you found in a book or prefer to ‘roll your own’ you can do both with this. It’s like a LEGO set for food, it gives you the tools to do the diet that works for you. Not too shabby.
This sucker is big, real big. The image it takes is 7,500 x 21,250 pixels (60mm x 170mm), I have a hard time getting a grip on that image size myself. If you looking for just about the biggest digital camera you can find, this is it.
[via Neatorama]
Hackers claim that by using java script a potential security breach can be caused in the popular web browser from Mozilla, Firefox. As most people (should) know, the 800 pound gorilla browser from Microsoft (Internet Explorer) can be brought to it’s knees in so many different ways that many people warn against using it for normal web browsing. Firefox, on the other hand, is much more secure. However, as anyone that deals with software knows nothing is bullet proof. If this hack does turn out to be real there should be a patch released in the next few days. What is much more of a sinister note is that the announcement came during a black hat hacker conference where the presenters stated that they knew of more than 30 exploits for Firefox. A Mozilla security staffer in attendance asked them to turn over the bugs and take the $500US bounty for each one rather than use them in botnets. The hackers laughed at that and said "It is a double-edged sword, but what we’re doing is really for the greater good of the Internet, we’re setting up communication networks for black hats". Isn’t that just wonderful…
What’s the next best thing to having a Rememberall like in the Harry Potter films? A ring that heats up when your anniversary is due. Just a conceptual idea for now, the Remember Ring would store your own body heat in the thermal pile to keep the electronics going and then on the programmed day it would heat up to 120 degrees for ten seconds once an hour every hour for the entire day.
[via Boing Boing]
This is a thing of beauty…
"My home-made 6×9 super-wide camera. Rigid-body, 47mm f/5.6 Schneider MC Super-Angulon in a No. 0 shutter. With a Mamiya RB67 back…The helical focusing mount is made by Schneider – the distance scale is calibrated for the 47mm Super Angulons. You can buy the mount for some other lenses too. I scavanged the Graflock adapter and some other bits from an old American 6×9 rangefinder camera called Graflex XL. The rest I fabricated myself at a friend’s machine shop in Richmond. It was inspired by the Hasselblad SWC. To use, it is not as nice as the SWC, but I did some comparison shots, and most people who saw them thought that the SA is sharper than the 38 Biogon."
[via Make]