Yearbook picture style directory
I want to make an online directory that allows me to simply post a large directory of listings featuring a photo, name, and short description (akin to how old year books looked, for example). Is there...
View ArticleCan I turn a USB keypad into a shortcut machine for complicated tasks?
Let's say I want to highlight a piece of text and hit a button and have it place the text in quotes (or within code) and tweet it, is that possible? I'm on the newer OSXs. Curious about using either a...
View ArticleDifficult Projects and Process Organization.
Are there interviews or essays on how individual people tackled difficult projects: organizing, keeping motivated, editing, and checking back on earlier edits? I'm making a large nonlinear web...
View ArticleI basically want clothing slash library
I'm looking for a decent three season men's warm up jacket with a large inside pocket that can fit a decent sized book (two paperbacks or a larger hardcover). Does anyone make this? I carry a book with...
View ArticleWhere and when the vice royalties?
Is there an authoritative chronology and list of colonies, viceroyalties, territories and countries of Latin America (and ideally the caribbean) by foundation, declaration of independence, and other...
View ArticleWaterproof storage for a humid shared basement, not trashbags.
We have a nice small place in a large building. The basement is damp and has had some mold issues and we have no hope that paper (e.g., books) will not be damaged if we put it in normal boxes. But, we...
View ArticleI want to see the connections
Is there anywhere to see legible versions, in their entirety, of Mark Lombardi's work? I can find clear details or blurry whole images, but never full resolution full versions. Ideally online or PDF,...
View ArticleOnline, no login scratchpad/list for the permanently behind.
I want to hide on my website a page that I can just cleanly add, edit, and delete items to a list from any browser, mobile or desktop, if we know the url. Basically like google tasks, but with no...
View ArticleIf Black Panther's special moves were all emory douglas style, bingo.
How difficult, as someone who basically can't code at all, to find an emu for a Capcom marvel fighting game and then to switch out the images of the characters, backgrounds, and special fighting moves...
View ArticleLost on the internet: Good Job interview questions list
I have to conduct job interview soon, a task I do not enjoy. I came across a list in the last year of interesting creative job interview questions that were not B.S. ping pong balls on a 747 and were a...
View ArticleI need to make a PDF directory of magazines.
I have been given a long run of magazines to put online as PDFs. I'm currently scanning them and want to create a clean directory structure where I have the covers of the magazines as nice thumbnails,...
View ArticleI want diy, but not a do-it-myself
I have great ideas for weird and interesting projects, some involving programming, others involving things like adafruit For example, with adafruit, is there a service where I can basically design what...
View ArticleThe Centennial
Who is trying to topple the tsar in 2017? There are a lot of non-profits and activists who are protesting, and a lot of it is great, but standardized in form. Are there any current groups, people, or...
View ArticleWhere can recent chronologies of latin american events?
This is sort of two questions: Is there a resource that lists books published in the last four years with chronologies and timelines of Latin American and Caribbean history (which do not need to be...
View ArticleEtsy for electronics? More like B.I.Y.
I want arduino type things (animatronics and audio "devices"), but I want someone else to build it for me (perhaps with specific elements to my design). Is there a central place I can find these?
View ArticleYearbook database style, Round two
I asked this question before, but have surrendered to the idea that I need some kind of database: "I want to make an online directory that allows me to simply post a large directory of listings...
View ArticleI hate my cellphone; I need a lockbox.
I basically need to change my habits and relationship to my cellphone. I spend too much time checking in on it (legitimately for work, stupidly for facebook and the internet) and it is messing me up,...
View ArticleLatin American Photobooks of History
I have a few excellent photo art books of Latin America, Destino Final by Giancarlo Ceraudo and Miriam Lewin (about the military junta in Argentina) and Joao Pina's Condor (about Operation Condor). I...
View ArticleScroll through distinct links?
I'm making a history map that has 1400+ entries with a URL. I want to feed the list of URLs into [X] and then use a USB scroll wheel (like the griffin powermate wheel) to go between the urls. Think...
View ArticleBooks for interesting people retiring into something else
My dad is going to retire soon. He is a funny, smart, engaged with the world through his work, and interesting uber mensch (early 60s). There is zero chance he is going to retire into golf and fishing....
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