links for 2005-09-21

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  Old Encyclopedia Britannica video regarding despotism in communities.
  
  
  (tags: video democracy despotism britannica)
  
  

links for 2005-09-20

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  The 6 Percent Solution: Skip Real Estate Agents - New York Times
  
  
  (tags: realestate)
  
  

links for 2005-09-18

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  Flickr: featherbed's photos tagged with sketchbook
  
  
  local chicago artist's scanned sketchbook pages. Courtesy of gaper's block...
  
  
  (tags: chicago sketchbook art drawings)
  
  

links for 2005-09-12

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  A Set of Unit Testing Rules
  
  
  a nice reminder about unit tests. My own tests break these rules and have been slow to infect the company for exactly the reasons michael cites.
  
  
  (tags: testing)
  
  

Polaroid Colorpack II

I have been carrying around an old Polaroid Colorpack II land camera for a few years now. It has followed me from apartment to apartment, but i never bothered to see if i could still get film for it until this weekend.

To my surprise, i could get film for it. This camera takes Polaroid 100 series film, which is fairly readily available. This kind of film comes in packs of 10 and peels apart. The one i have still even has a dozen unused flashbulbs in the case!

Before i read the loading instructions here: [HowTo: Using a Polaroid Pack Camera] i ruined one of the packs of film. Goodbye 12 dollars! I didn't need you anyway.

After reading the instructions, I loaded the film with no trouble and managed to get a few shots off. I posted the first four as a set on flickr.

Fun!!!

links for 2005-09-04

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  PalmOS.com: Java and the Palm OS
  
  
  (tags: java palm toread programming)