The Covert Family Website

Dr. Horrible (Evil Genius musical): http://www.drhorrible.com

GeekDad: http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/

Strange Maps: http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

Large Hadron Rap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

Here’s a neat stop-frame animation movie.  While the annimation is amazing in-and-of itself, it’s really the creativity that shines.

http://bytes.com/forum/thread585228.html

100 Must-Read Books

A great list of book every library should have.

This is a nice short little article.  I’m always forgetting how to do mail attachments with mailx at work, and this gave me nice reminder: uuencode

The magical command in this one is uuencode, which is used to encode and decode binary files and can be used on just about any file type. The two arguments in the command above define the name and location of the source file and the name the file should have when it’s received. The parenthetical statement at the beginning combines the results of the echo and uuencode commands which are then piped (|) to the mail command.

So, remember folks:

(echo “This is the message body”;uuencode [file_location] \
[file_name] ) | mailx -s “Subject line here” \
someone@adomain.com

A article I’m linking to here, so I remember to read.

Shawn Blanc has a very nice coda review:

http://shawnblanc.net/2008/coda-the-one-window-wonder/

http://consumerist.com/341815/how-to-mind-control-customer-service-reps?source=RSS

How To Mind Control Customer Service Reps

GREAT! article.  “These are not the droids you are looking for….”