Links!

I’ve got a whole ton of cool links that’ve been building up for quite a while.  Here you go:

Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale
At this year’s World Science Festival, Bobby McFerrin does an interesting demonstration of how audiences can always hit the pentatonic scale right on. [Vimeo]

5 New Technologies That Will Change Everything
USB 3.0, Video streaming over Wi-Fi, 3D TV, Augmented Reality in mobile devices, and HTML5.  All very very cool. [PCWorld]

SeatGuru
A very cool site:  plug in the type of airplane you’ll be flying on and it shows you the seating chart for that plane, with the benefits (or lack thereof) to each seat.  E.g. “This seat may have extra traffic in the aisle due to its proximity to the lavatory” “The large TV screen is not visible from this seat” [SeatGuru]

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
A webcomic about a doctor.  Who is also a ninja.  In a family of ninjas who came from Ireland (or perhaps Scotland).  ‘Nuff said. [Dr. McNinja]

Metal Chess Pieces
A very cool metal chess set, made out of screws and flanges and such.  Also, a diagram of the heart and lungs.  You can ignore that one. [Flickr]

Repair a Broken Ethernet Plug
Everybody hates broken connectors on an ethernet plug.  Now you can fix them.  Enjoy. [Instructables]

T-Shirt:  Ninjas Can’t Catch You
I would totally buy this t-shirt, except holidays are coming soon so I think I’ll just add it to my wish list. [TopatoCo]

Tron Legos
I will make this, once I get around to finding the parts. [Flickr]

Cardboard Kayak
I will build this, once I convince mom to drive me around to look for cardboard.  I sense a theme here. [Instructables]

Silent Conversation
A very cool game where you are the cursor and you have to touch words in a story – words moved into patterns so you have to jump and swerve.  Also there are words that can kill you if their ‘spirit’ hits you.  [Armor Games]

Anatomy of a Black Hole
Self-Explanatory.  Very easy to understand, very well presented. [ThinkTechnologies]

Screws and Nails
Detailed description of different kinds of screws and nails and their uses.  [Web-pros]

A Story About ‘Magic’
Cool, chuckle-inducing story. [Catb]

Fraction-Of-An-Inch Adding Machine
A very cool, very useful machine (made out of paper) to add fractions. [EvilMadScientist]

EZ-12 Parabolic Reflector
Stick this over the antenna on your router and view the speed boost.  I went from 48 to 54 Mbps, as defined by the popup thing in my System Tray. [FreeAntennas]

Ta-Da!  Also, hopefully the Favicon issue is resolved.  What happened was that the site it was hosted on had a crash and lost a whole bunch of images.  I reuploaded, reset, and it seems to work now.

How to setup/print half-letter-size booklets

If your window looks like this	You have this version of Word.  Remember this.  You will need it.
	Microsoft Word 2007
	Microsoft Word 97-03

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SETUP

For Microsoft Word 2007

1. Click on the Page Layout tab

2. Click Size

3. Scroll to the bottom of the list, and choose ‘Half Letter’ (Fifth from the bottom)

4. Under the Page Layout tab, click Margins

5. Choose Narrow

For Microsoft Word 97-03
1. Click File

2. Choose Page Setup

3. On the Margins tab, set Top, Bottom, Left, and Right to 0.5

4. On the Paper Size tab, change Letter to Half Letter (6^th from the bottom)

5. Press OK

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PRINTING

For Microsoft Word 2007
1. Look at the table below to find how many blank pages you’ll need to put on the end of your booklet
2. Click on the Office logo in the top left hand corner of the window

3. Hover over Print, then choose Print again in the resulting list

4. Set Pages Per Sheet to 2 (Under the Zoom heading)

5. Use the table below to find out how to finish the print job

For Microsoft Word 97-03
1. Look at the table below to find how many blank pages you’ll need to put on the end of your booklet
2. Click File

3. Choose Print

4. Set Pages Per Sheet to 2

5. Use the table below to find out how to finish the print job

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If you have written this many half-size pages (including the title page)	Add this many blank pages to the end	Put this in the Pages box (under Page Range).  Then follow the paragraph below the table.	Then put this in the Pages box after following the below paragraph
10	2	2, 11, 4, 9, 6, 7	12, 1, 10, 3, 8, 5
11	1	2, 11, 4, 9, 6, 7	12, 1, 10, 3, 8, 5
12	0	2, 11, 4, 9, 6, 7	12, 1, 10, 3, 8, 5
13	3	2, 15, 4, 13, 6, 11, 8, 9	16, 1, 14, 3, 12, 5, 10, 7
14	2	2, 15, 4, 13, 6, 11, 8, 9	16, 1, 14, 3, 12, 5, 10, 7
15	1	2, 15, 4, 13, 6, 11, 8, 9	16, 1, 14, 3, 12, 5, 10, 7
16	0	2, 15, 4, 13, 6, 11, 8, 9	16, 1, 14, 3, 12, 5, 10, 7
17	3	2, 19, 4, 17, 6, 15, 8, 13, 10, 11	20, 1, 18, 3, 16, 5, 14, 7, 12, 9
18	2	2, 19, 4, 17, 6, 15, 8, 13, 10, 11	20, 1, 18, 3, 16, 5, 14, 7, 12, 9
19	1	2, 19, 4, 17, 6, 15, 8, 13, 10, 11	20, 1, 18, 3, 16, 5, 14, 7, 12, 9
20	0	2, 19, 4, 17, 6, 15, 8, 13, 10, 11	20, 1, 18, 3, 16, 5, 14, 7, 12, 9
21	3	2, 23, 4, 21, 6, 19, 8, 17, 10, 15, 12, 13	24, 1, 22, 3, 20, 5, 18, 7, 16, 9, 14, 11
22	2	2, 23, 4, 21, 6, 19, 8, 17, 10, 15, 12, 13	24, 1, 22, 3, 20, 5, 18, 7, 16, 9, 14, 11
23	1	2, 23, 4, 21, 6, 19, 8, 17, 10, 15, 12, 13	24, 1, 22, 3, 20, 5, 18, 7, 16, 9, 14, 11
24	0	2, 23, 4, 21, 6, 19, 8, 17, 10, 15, 12, 13	24, 1, 22, 3, 20, 5, 18, 7, 16, 9, 14, 11
25	3	2, 27, 4, 25, 6, 23, 8, 21, 10, 19, 12, 17, 14, 15	28, 1, 26, 3, 24, 5, 22, 7, 20, 9, 18, 11, 16, 13

Print the pages according to the third column, then put them in order so that that the largest numbered page on the left side is on top (e.g. first the whole-size page with half-size pages 10 and 11, then the whole-size page with half-size 8 and 13, then the whole-size page with half-size pages 6 and 15, etc). It might already be this way. Turn them around so the blank side is facing you, then do all of the past steps again but with the numbers from the fourth column in the Pages box

My New Favorite Snack

Peanut Butter and Jelly on a Sourdough Bread Roll

Pretty self explanatory by the title, but here’s how to make it if you care.  If you don’t care, then I’m still going to write how to make it but you don’t have to look at it.

What You Need
- Peanut butter
- Jelly, preferably either grape or strawberry
- One sourdough bread roll (The small ones, about two inches tall and about four inches in diameter)

What You Do
Hold the sourdough roll so that the flat bottom is on the bottom.  Cut at the horizontal halfway point all the way through.  Put jelly on one half and peanut butter on the other half, like so:
    =========================================
  ==========Top of sourdough bread roll===========
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###################Jelly######################

@@@@@@@@@@@@Peanut Butter@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

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=========Bottom of sourdough bread roll============
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Then eat it.