Linkage

• Erik Spiekermann’s Typo Tips
  Should be in your toolbox.
• Commuter Files
  My boy, Z, and his take on, umm, life?
• The Visible Earth
  The best views aren’t always from down here. Try these from 200mi up.
• Top 30 Travel Books
  A solid list to start with… I’ll let you know when I get through them all.
• 42 ways to go trash-free
  From No Impact Man
• Gluten Free by Nature
  My sister Stephanie’s new website dedicated to gluten-free recipes.
• Flight Control (iTunes link)
  My favorite iPhone game
• Jude Healey Photography
  My wife’s gig
• The Tilley Hat
  I’ve got the Lighterweight LT6. My head thanks me.
• Turn down your A/C or heat
  Move your thermostat down 2° in winter and up 2° in summer

Recently around here

• What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?

  Ellen McManis on Relativistic Baseball: After about 70 nanoseconds the ball arrives at home plate. The batter hasn’t even seen the pitcher let go of the ball, since the light carrying that information arrives at about the same time the ball does. Collisions with the air have eaten the ball away almost completely, and it [...]

• HideIPVPN

  My new favorite service: HideIPVPN. Make your traffic appear to originate from United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany or Canada. Access sites like Hulu, Pandora, ABC, NBC, BBC iPlayer, ITV. Unblock Skype and VoIP. This allows me to watch Tour de France highlights on iTV Player for $5 — a fraction of the $30 subscription on NBCSports.

• LinkedIn iPad

  If you haven’t heard, LinkedIn released a new iPad app this week. The company’s developers have been writing blog posts about the technology behind the app, and many in the development community are intrigued to read the details. It turns out approximately 95% of the iPad app is HTML with nearly all of the view [...]

• AF447 and Airbus’ Side Sticks

  Wow. Not accusatory but certainly a conversation-starting article on the latest in the Air France 447 crash by The Telegraph. A pilot’s control in the Airbus, called Side Sticks, are the center of this story as the BEA calls for a potential redesign of the cockpit and instrumentation ahead of the final crash report to [...]

• Pebble

  This is one smart watch, and I want one. The success of Kickstarter is absolutely phenomenal, too. Pebble asked for $100,000—they’ve raised over $6 million!

• The Rebuilding Year

  This is why I love Roanoke lacrosse. Matt Burkhead wrote and produced this 33-minute video highlighting what was supposed to be a rebuilding year in 2011. After losing 15 seniors, five All-Americans (including their starting goalie), and two position players of the year at the end of the 2010 season, most lacrosse fans suspected that [...]

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