Carjacking Turned Witnessing Opportunity
Instead of being fearful or angry, this woman reacts in the best possible way.
2012-12-13
Scrub GPS Data From Your Digital Photos
Scrub GPS Data From Your Digital Photos
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| (source: popscy.com) |
Did you know how he was caught? A reporter accidentally posted a photo of him with embedded EXIF (Exchangeable Image file Format) data. EXIF is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras; (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format) Originally, I read an article posted by Popular Science that mentioned a couple of tools to pull the data from digital photos, but I soon found another tutorial utilizing the Linux CLI (much better) that I'd recommend my smart readers read :) -> http://hacktux.com/read/remove/exif
The article was written with RedHat users in mind, but the tools used can be found very easily for other distributions or built from source as well.
Linux Compatible Steam Games
Linux Compatible Steam Games
Ever since Valve Corporation decided to publicly open a beta test to its Linux version of the Steam Engine for the popular, open source operating system, the growth in anticipation for its release can only be described as exponential. If you have yet to sign up for the beta, please do so here. Within the past few days they have added a significant number of users to the beta test, so it's only a matter of time for us all to get a taste. Without further ado, here is the list:
2012-12-10
Growing An Edible, Sustainable 'Yard' ( Part 2 )
Where Do We Begin?
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| (heirloom sweet corn seedlings) |
My wife and I decided that we were going to do this right. We had a portion of our last tax return saved and calculated as investment towards our garden. This wasn't much, but it was around $800. This was what we thought to be an obvious over-estimate, but we wanted to make sure we didn't run out of money and lose the entire investment by means of not being able to afford replacing tools, adding nutrition to the soil, etc. We figured this would be enough to get the ball rolling and buy whatever it is we would need to reach our first year's goal.
What Are Our Goals Again?
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| (ABOVE: Otters in our creek!; BELOW: Duckweed under cypress trees!) |
Before going out an buying a bunch of plants, seeds, and tools, we thought it a good idea to create a design plan first. My wife spent many times over the course of a couple of months going outside at different times of the day checking what parts of the yard received at least some form of shade. Meanwhile, I would spend the nights doing the same. In addition she would take note of wind directions and water flow when it rained hard enough to puddle up. This also makes me recall us learning about what parts of our yard puddled more than others. The concept of "learning the land" became an addiction very quickly for the both of us. We enjoyed observing the natural function of our own mini ecosystem. We started looking up birds in the area and thinking of birds we'd like to see come around, we noticed an abundance of squirrels that we didn't think much about, but we soon learned that they were cute pests. Not only were we paying attention to our own property, but soon we developed an interest in our neighbors' property, the city properties and local parks. We discovered where the water goes during heavy, flooding rains by utilizing Google Maps and following the spillways clear across the city. We had no idea our little creak was directly responsible for draining millions if not billions of gallons of water off central Saint Petersburg streets! Cool! The wife and I spent (and still do) many hours enjoying the "hidden" beauty of our city that we seemed to have missed for our entire lives. There were vast mini and micro ecosystems working together you just have to stop an look around every once and a while. Other than "land-learning" we had a very big problem with our soil at home. It was a silty dust, barely drained and blew down the street if someone sneezed. We will talk more about our soil preparations in part three. For now, enjoy observing and researching your habitat!Growing An Edible, Sustainable 'Yard' ( Part 1
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| "Fruits of our labor" |
Introduction
A little over a year ago, my wife and I decided that we would landscape our front yard. We are currently renting the property, but hope to own one day. The yard was barren and was comprised of crab grass, pebbles, and completely diminished soil (we call "sand-dust"). This is part one of our journey into organic, edible gardening. We did our best along the way to take pictures and did our research of just about everything we planted to ensure the proper "fit" while keeping the aesthetics in check for our patient and understanding neighbors (we hoped). We hadn't seen many people take the aesthetic approach with veggies so we thought we'd give it a whirl.
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| "Sand-Dust" |
Realization of Inherent Hardships
At first, we thought growing our own food would be an easy undertaking. We quickly realized that planning the garden would be a huge challenge in and of itself. We had read a few books on the subjects of permaculture, sustainable living, companion planting, and vegetable gardening, but it took much longer than expected to develop a feasible plan to achieve our goals. Ultimately, we would like to live "sustainably" and begin living without fear of consuming nutritious foods and whether or not we
would get some sort of disease from our grocer
because they sprayed their crops with Agent Orange or decided that genetically modifying their crops to have pesticides built in (creepy). We will, however, like to note that we do not give in to the whole sensationalists approach to organic gardening. By that, I mean we tend to not worry
about the world's alleged, "impending doom". We were warned thousands of years ago of this (please see: Bible). In future revisions to this article, we will explain more deeply our beliefs and the steps we took towards more sustainable living as both took a huge part in the process of starting our sustainable, organic addiction. ;)
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| (source: OccupyFarmAnimals) |
because they sprayed their crops with Agent Orange or decided that genetically modifying their crops to have pesticides built in (creepy). We will, however, like to note that we do not give in to the whole sensationalists approach to organic gardening. By that, I mean we tend to not worry
about the world's alleged, "impending doom". We were warned thousands of years ago of this (please see: Bible). In future revisions to this article, we will explain more deeply our beliefs and the steps we took towards more sustainable living as both took a huge part in the process of starting our sustainable, organic addiction. ;)
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