Automated Web Resource Citing With Bibtex

On 04.27.09, In computer science, tools, By Dan

I find myself constantly citing web resources that I need to cite, and I think it’s a huge hassle. They’ve all got the same format, and though Bibtex does a lot of the formatting heavy lifting for you, it’s still a pain.

Enter laziness.

From Safari, I drag a web location onto my desktop, or keep them in a references folder:

Drag a link onto the desktop from Safari.

Drag a link onto the desktop from Safari.

And then drag the web location onto the droplet to get results. You can drag several files or folders on at once:

Rejoice in the output.

Rejoice in the output.

Running on a directory.

Running on a directory.

Or from the command line tool (see the install tool):

Using it from the command line.

Using it from the command line.

Installation:

Disk image contents

Disk image contents

Files:
webdoc-0.1

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ZipSkinny

On 11.04.07, In living, By Dan

I read about ZipSkinny.com on Lifehacker a couple of days ago, and it’s actually pretty neat. I never knew how white, educated, upper-middle-class middle-aged parent-like my community was. How did it escape my attention?

Still, I do get a certain amount of pride from the education level of Colorado, and especially the Boulder area. Culture is just dripping from every hemp messenger bag and Birkenstock sandal in Boulder proper.

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Like MacGyver, Survivin’ For The Very First Time

On 10.03.07, In projects, By Dan

Like MacGy-ay-ay-ay-ver.

Scenario: you need to boil some water to incapacitate a guard (a hot cup of tea puts him right to sleep. Also, he’s very trusting when it comes to strangers offering him tea), and you’ve got sandpaper, two soda cans, a razor, a tuft of fiberglass insulation, a tack and a bottle of Heet at your disposal. Also, the internet to watch this metacafe video.

MacGyver StoveI had seen this before and in various design complexities, but I really like the compactness and ease of this one. I decided to scrounge up some Heet ($2.10 at a local gas station), a couple of cans, sandpaper and a razor blade (both on hand), and pull a little piece of insulation off of some that happened to be sitting in our basement.

It got surprisingly hot – I tried setting an oven rack over it with a kettle (to knock out that tea-loving guard), and it started to melt one of the bars of the rack. I expected it to be hot, but not hot enough to melt parts of an oven rack. Who knew?

Success: certainly.

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