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The Font Kingdom: Search, Explore, Create, and Download Fonts for Free

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:37:27 -0500

The Font Kingdom: Search, Explore, Create, and Download Fonts for Free

Courses for Men - Taught by women, for men

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:38:47 -0500

101    Combating Stupidity

102    You Too Can Do Housework

103    P.M.S. – Learning When To Keep Your Mouth Shut

104    How To Fill An Ice Cube Tray

105    We Do Not Want Sleazy Underthings for Christmas – Give Us Money

106    Understanding the Female Response To You Coming In Drunk At 4 AM

107    Wonderful Laundry Techniques (Formerly “Don’t Wash My Silks”)

108    Parenting – No, It Doesn’t End With Conception

109    Get a Life – Learn How To Cook

110    How Not To Act Like a Butthead When You Are Obviously Wrong

111    Spelling – Even You Can Get It Right

112    Understanding Your Financial Incompetence

113    You – The Weaker Sex

114    Reasons To Give Flowers

115    How To Stay Awake After

116    Why It Is Unacceptable To Relieve Yourself Anywhere But the Bathroom

117    Garbage – Getting It To the Curb

118A You Can Fall Asleep Without It If You Really Try

118B    The Morning Dilemma - If It’s Awake, Take a Shower

119    The Weekend and Sports Are Not Synonymous

120    How To Put The Toilet Seat Down

121    How To Go Shopping With Your Mate and Not Get Lost

122    The Remote Control – Overcoming Your Dependency

123    Helpful Postural Hints For Couch Potatoes

124    How Not To Act Younger Than Your Children

125    You Too Can Be a Designated Driver

126    Honest, You Don’t Look Like Mel Gibson, Especially When Naked

127    Changing Your Underwear – It Really Works

128    The Attainable Goal – Omitting %@#*! From Your Vocabulary

129    Fluffing the Blankets After Farting is Not Necessary

130    Real Men Ask For Directions

131    How To Take Illness Like a Man

via James S Huggins’ Refrigerator Door

Courses for Women - Taught by men, for women

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:34:42 -0500

101    Avoiding Walking in Front of the TV

102    Doing Housework Without Complaining

103    Shopping: Buying What You Can Afford, Not What You Can Charge

104    Going to The Washroom Alone (formerly Coping Without My Friends)

105    Understanding the Male Response to “Do I Look OK?”

106    Exercise: How it Keeps You from Looking Like Your Mother

107    Learning How to Initiate Intimacy

108    How to Apologize When You Are Obviously Wrong

109    Understanding the Male Response to “Am I Fat?”

110    Dishwashers: Rinsing Before Is Not a Must

111    The Toilet Seat: I Can Learn to Put It Down Too

112    Using the Thesaurus: Alternatives to “Make Love”

113    “The Weekend” and “Long Boring Walks” Are Not Synonymous

114    How to Go Shopping With Your Mate and Not Embarrass Him

115    The Remote Control: Don’t Touch What You Can’t Handle

116    You Too Can Be the One to Hang Up the Phone

117    Honest, You Don’t Look Like Kim Bassinger – But You’re Acceptable

118    Hairspray: The Effects On The Ecosystem (formerly One Can Is Enough)

119    Runs In Your Nylons? It’s Not the End of the World

120    Fishing: Being Able to Bait Your Own Hook

121    Intimacy: More Than Just Lying There

122    Learning to Choose What to Wear In Less Than Four Hours

123    Vacations: Doing Without 4 Suitcases

124    Makeup: The Less is More Theory

125    Nagging: Stop the Insanity!

via James S Huggins’ Refrigerator Door

Check Cell Reception in Any Area GetReception is a free webtool...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:26:58 -0500

Check Cell Reception in Any Area

GetReception is a free webtool that you can use to check any area for cell phone reception by major carrier.

via GetReception.com

On the Auction Block: 5,000 Condoms Leftover From The...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:14:32 -0500

On the Auction Block: 5,000 Condoms Leftover From The Olympics

Snatch up these 5,000 condoms leftover from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. With inscriptions like faster, higher, and stronger, they’re a bargain at a starting bid of $730.

(via Gizmodo)

Orb for Mac finally arrives, streams media from OS X to any...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:05:00 -0500

Orb for Mac finally arrives, streams media from OS X to any internet-connected device

Orb for Macintosh has finally hit the streets, bringing with it OS X 10.5 and 10.6 compatibility that enables any and all media from iTunes to be sent out over the internet and consumed on any outside device with access to the web. We’re talking laptops, UMPCs, smartphones and even that ancient PC your grandmother still uses with Windows ME. There’s no mention of any DRM restrictions, and it’ll even allow you to stream live TV if you can manage to connect a tuner card to your Apple. Oh,and Orb is completely free?

(via Engadget)

Upgrade the Mac mini in six minutes | Storage | Macworld Video |...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:59:54 -0500

Upgrade the Mac mini in six minutes | Storage | Macworld Video | Macworld

Image Tricks — photo and image editing software for Mac Image...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:53:00 -0500

Image Tricks — photo and image editing software for Mac

Image tricks is a freeware application for editing your photos and images using Mac OS X Core Image filters that transform your photos and apply advanced visual effects. This program also contains a powerful image generator for creating unique backgrounds and abstract images for business cards, web design, print materials and more.

(via Image Tricks)

Autumn Creek (click for full sized version) - (Photo by...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:12:10 -0500

Autumn Creek (click for full sized version) - (Photo by Crudmudgeon)

Enjoying the Sunshine (Photo by Crudmudgeon)

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:07:53 -0500

Enjoying the Sunshine (Photo by Crudmudgeon)

Dessert at the Longhorn Steakhouse - Chocolate Stampede Great...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:57:21 -0500

Dessert at the Longhorn Steakhouse -

Chocolate Stampede

Great for Sharing! Two peaks of chocolate cake packed with six types of chocolate, including chocolate mousse and fudge icing. Served with vanilla bean ice cream and real whipped cream.

(Photo by Crudmudgeon)

Azaleas last spring (photo by Crudmudgeon)

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:52:41 -0500

Azaleas last spring (photo by Crudmudgeon)

My sentiments exactly (photo by Crudmudgeon)

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:48:54 -0500

My sentiments exactly (photo by Crudmudgeon)

Etta James does Dylan “Gotta Serve Somebody” from...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:37:02 -0500

Etta James does Dylan “Gotta Serve Somebody” from “Matriarch of the Blues” (2000)

The Last Rose of 2009 (photo by Crudmudgeon)

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:30:51 -0500

The Last Rose of 2009 (photo by Crudmudgeon)

"If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:58:45 -0500

“If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.”

- Samuel Butler

via QuoteStumbler

Ames-Dryden AD-1 Oblique Wing The Ames-Dryden (AD)-1 was a...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:28:45 -0500

Ames-Dryden AD-1 Oblique Wing

The Ames-Dryden (AD)-1 was a research aircraft designed to investigate the concept of an oblique (or pivoting) wing. The oblique wing could be rotated on its center pivot so that it could be set at its most efficient angle for the speed at which the airplane was flying.

The oblique wing was the brainchild of NASA aeronautical engineer Robert T. Jones, whose analytical and wind tunnel studies at the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California, indicated that an oblique wing, supersonic transport might achieve twice the fuel economy of an aircraft sporting more conventional wings.

Also called the “scissors” wing, it was an offshoot of the variable-sweep-wing concept, which was first investigated with the X-5 research airplanes during the early 1950’s. Variable-sweep wings allow an aircraft to take advantage of the lift and handling qualities of a straight wing during the comparatively slow flight of takeoffs and landings, and the reduced drag and the better efficiency of swept-back wings during high speeds and cruise speeds. Variable-sweep wings are common on many high performance aircraft, including the F-14, F-111 and B-1.

The oblique wing on the AD-1 pivoted about the fuselage, remaining perpendicular to it during slow flight and swinging to angles of up to 60 degrees as aircraft speed increased.

The swing wing concept was first evaluated by a small, propeller-driven, remotely-piloted research vehicle (RPRV) flown at Dryden in 1976. These early techniques for gathering data about the oblique wing aircraft were applied to the twin turbojet, piloted AD-1, which was flown from 1979 to 1982.

Research pilots at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, flew the little plane a total of 79 times. Although the oblique wing is still considered a viable concept for large transports, the unpleasant flying characteristics of the AD-1 at extreme wing-sweep angles may have discouraged aircraft designers from adopting this configuration.

(Text & Image via NASA)

Pixus - The Pixel Ruler & More 1) Measure the screen...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:58:44 -0500

Pixus - The Pixel Ruler & More

1) Measure the screen objects in pixels using both mouse and keyboard control.
2) Preview your design with skins and presets.
3) Multi-screen support.
4) Auto update.
5) Quick Guides .
6) Toggle guide color by pressing Spacebar

Adobe AIR application - Tested on Windows XP / Vista and Mac OS X Leopard / Snow Leopard.

nstallation package always updated at Adobe AIR Marketplace
Source code available at GoogleCode. Please also report any issue and suggestion to Pixus at GoogleCode.
http://code.google.com/p/pixus/

(via Adobe Marketplace)

Lamborghini Jalpa via www.carspotting.de

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:28:44 -0500

Lamborghini Jalpa

via www.carspotting.de

Lamborghini Jalpa via lh3.ggpht.com

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:58:44 -0500

Lamborghini Jalpa

via lh3.ggpht.com