Cumberland General Store

Was just looking at the catalogue in dead tree format and digging the tools and other goodies they have available. Some is reasonably priced, other stuff is inexplicably marked up - but a great collection of goodies nonetheless. I have my eye on a hand axe, but would rather heft if before I buy. Good source to have though.

Sorbet recipes

mmm. Sorbet season is definately approaching. This list includes watermelon sorbet, lemon, peach…

inessential.com: Weblog

looking for a light-weight, simple bug/issue tracking system. So was this guy, so I’ll start here.



perl.com: Request Tracker [Nov. 28, 2001]

a list of debuggers and issue/version tracking software

Adrian’s Nonsense

In a rare attack of circular blogging - or something like that - I have to blog Adrian’s blog. I like his writing and it’s just good to hear from him - one of a few people I really miss from the Bay Area.

• W R Outhwaite & Sons, Ropemakers - How rope is made
• Rope Making from Natural Fibres for Kite Tail Trailing Lines
• Google Groups: View Thread “searched: simple ropemaking machine” - a thread including a description of a fairly robust but shop-made machine, and some good pointers to other pages and resources.
• Rope Works- a book on rope, knots, splicing, and lashing - the book includes designs for a simple rope making jig.
• A model rope-making machine
  

PLEAC-Perl

Cookbook of perl solutions to common programming problems. Many qualities.

Why Left Handed items are left handed

This is a great item by item explanation of how left-handed tools differ from their mainstream cousings, and why they are really necessary. It all rings so true - upside-down tape measures, ring-binders, pen nibs that snag, bendy bread slices, as well as the more common impossible to use scissors.

Sam-I-Am.com Work: CSS

Made a start on a CSS section to house some of my work and point at the great work being done by others. Right now there’s the commented backslash hack to isolate and target rules for macIE5, and the overflow:auto partial solution I have that addresses some of the problems seen in that same browser.

Google Catalog Search

Google provides for hours of window shopping. I apparently missed this when it was launched (..its still in beta, that would be why), but they have a huge collection of scanned mail order catalogues here. (my spelling is betraying my roots again…)

See this search result for wood turning tools for an example that revealed a hoard of catalogues I didn’t know existed.

blog of francois

covering some interesting web-development topics. I plan on going back into the archives, as well as keeping an eye on this page.