Create an emergency recovery disk

Linux.com has an article up detailing how you can create your own recovery disk from an ubuntu 8.04 cd.

http://www.linux.com/feature/137524

This is a great tool for anyone who does support and has gotten those calls late at night calls. "I lost it! My computers brain is dead." followed by eyerolls.

Vintage Seattle

The site Vintage Seattle has up a great panorama of Seattle in 1907. It is really fun to see the skyline pre-skyscrapers and to think what our great city was like back in 1907 (Denny hill... stolen by aliens).

http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/07/02/seattle-panorama-o-rama-no-3/

Pipes FTW

This is just wicked cool technology, and an extremely fun UI. Though nothing immediate pops to mind I am SURE I can find cool ways to use this!
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

Check out the video/mini demo here: http://www.jumpcut.com/fullscreen?id=F4396574585311DC87A2000423CF0184&ty...

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