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One Ziptie, a Bottle Cap and No Duct Tape (top that!)
A hanging shelf bracket in my (grumble) wonderful (cough) fridge busted. It was of course…plastic. Not much good to have your cheese drawer sitting on your eggs, gotta fix it. I hammered out a bracket to grip the vestigial fastener so that it could take tension and applied an 8″ zip tie. Good enough for…
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Black Sheep Bikes ZAMer 36er Mountain Bike Review | Mountain bike product reviews, bike builds, trail reviews, forum, and tips – MTOBikes.com
While I could probably do without the cost of a titanium frame, I bet the ride on a 36er would be super duper smooth. (Anyone ever make a bamboo 36er?) This article discusses the challenge in designing a 36er, mostly getting the rake, head angle and trail correct: Black Sheep Bikes ZAMer 36er Mountain Bike…
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Post Consumer Fenders
Disposable water bottles are a tricky substance to work with, apparently: PET plastics do not glue, or heat-weld easily. However, people have been using them to create bicycle fenders. Re-molded post consumer plastic mudflaps. Fenders assembled from drinking bottles. Coroplast and aluminum fender. I assume that other styles of aluminum and pop-bottle fenders might be…
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PVC skater dolly (Make: Online)
This is pretty trick way to roll your camera around on the floor or a table. Make: Online : PVC skater dolly.
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OpenSSH Public Key Authentication
This looks like a good guide on using ssh-keygen, the authorized_keys file, and using ssh-agent. OpenSSH Public Key Authentication.
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From the head of OpenStreetMap birthed OpenCycleMap…pop!
OpenCycleMap Bellingham. Another reason to own a GPS unit, eh?
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Burn Fat or Money?
I was trying to catch up on the “living bike free” thread in google reader while hefting the baby about. This stood out:
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Social Bicycles (SoBi)
This is a remarkably sophisticated idea for bike hire without dedicated docking stations. With phone-app integration. You find a bike using your phone app, rent an access code over your phone, unlock, and lock up to whatever’s handy at your stop. SoBi | Design.
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