http://www.fastcompany.com/subscr/108/open_lightbulbs.html Nice article about how much money (and pollution creating electricity) you can save by buying CFL lightbulbs.
BigCat’s Blog of DOOM
My name is Ben Catlin, and this is where I rock out on topics like my life, technology and faith.
Browsing Posts published in August, 2006
My computer does all of this stuff, and it does it with dual monitors. Does yours? http://slated.org/xgl_on_fc5 Seriously, this is XGL running on top of Xwindows for Linux. it is just a way of getting all the eye candy you ever dreamed of for Mac OS X and Windows Vista, and then some more stuff [...]
Current Mood: moodySometimes I feel like a really weird person, cuz I have all these conflicting things going on in my head at the same time, or right next to each other. ( Random Introspection ) So, all in all, my life is pretty good, but it just feels shitty I think because there is a lot [...]
http://tripcart.typepad.com/tripcart_the_blog/2006/08/an_outkast_in_a.html Cool acoustic over of the Outkast song “Hey Ya” by a guy named Mat Weddle from the band Obadiah Parker. This band has some pretty cool music up on their myspace page as well. Check it out http://www.myspace.com/obadiahparker And, finally, chords for those interested…I don’t think they are the way he plays it in [...]
So I’ve always toyed with the idea of getting a tattoo, but I could never think of anything that I permanently wanted on my body. I mean even some ornate religious thing like a cross or something might look crazy stupid when I’m 60 or something. Anyway, enter the UV tattoo. Apparently there is a [...]
Lately I’ve had a couple of less technical people ask me how to get around corporate blocking of certain ports (google chat, built into gmail is one good example). I want to tell them that setting up an SSH tunnel to some remote server is the best way to do that, but everyone stares at [...]
That’s right, I’m in Toronto in the land of the people who prefer hockey to football. I’m thinking tomorrow night I’m going to try to go to the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship for a “Revival” service. Now, I have no idea what that is, but this is the famous (or perhaps infamous) Toronto church that [...]
