Favorite Podcasts

Adam Carolla Distorted View Daily Geek, Actually Movie Fan House Smodcast with Kevin Smith 2 guys talking This American Life



Technical Podcasts

Cranky Geeks Floss Weekly Jupiter Broadcasting Mind Of Root Podnutz Stack Overflow Tekzilla



WebSites

GateWorld.net fmylife.com passive agressive notes

Kaspersky Rescue Disk (bootable, Linux based)

The tool that I’ve worked with lately is the Kaspersky Rescue Disk. It’s a Linux boot disk ISO that you can download.  (You’ll need an ISO burning program like CDBurnerXP or BurnCDCC , I guess the option to burn ISO’s is built into Win 7 now) It seems to be updated about every six [...]

Blender 3D basic intro to curve modeling

These are some (very) basic tutorials involving curve modeling in Blender 3d. They assume you’re comfortable mousing around the blender environment and changing 3d views. In these you learn to make curves (and paths), control the curves with the bezier handles, and the bevel and taper options. Ultimately, I do the obligatory [...]

The basic Blender 3D modeling interface

Blender is a free open-source 3d modeling program available from blender.org.
There’s no shortage of tutorials regarding modeling, texturing, animation and other subjects for blender, but basic info on the user interface is tough to come by. Surprising, considering that 90 percent of understanding blender comes from wrapping your head around the interface. Once [...]

PTGui panorama photostitcher

Most  cameras come with a free photostitcher, but I use a commercial one called PTGui.  Originally built around “panorama tools” (a free suite of programs and libraries), but has since relied on it’s own engines.  It can stitch photo’s  taken in a typical horizontal fashion, but also in a matrix (both horizontal and vertical).  It [...]