Cool Site: kenrockwell.com – How to Afford Anything

Great article with some common sense advice on living within your means.   I wish I’d read this when I was 18-19 years old.

How to Afford Anything

The sites main focus is on cameras and photography, but this article is an amusing and though provoking treatise on the benefits of frugality.

Cool Site: Library of Congress on Youtube

Discovered this through the Lifehacker RSS feed….

The Library of Congress has it’s own Youtube channel.   Doesn’t appear to be much there yet, but if it’s anything like the Library of Congress Flickr photo feed then eventually there will be some pretty incredible stuff available.

Cool Site: AfriGadget

I’ve always been interested in gadgets, taking things apart, that sort of thing.   It’s always been a dream of mine to have a work area where I could fiddle around with stuff.  

Hence, I have an interest in web sites that have to do with what is commonly known as “makers”, the most well known of these is the website of Make Magazine.   I’ve amassed quite a collection of these sites having to do with hardware hacking and making stuff.

Recently, I came across a very interesting site called AfriGadget which documents some of the ingenious solutions that folks in Africa have come up with to deal with every day problems, things that we in the “developed” world take for granted because we can easily go to a store and buy something.

I have a great deal of respect for these people who, despite living in conditions that most of us so called modern folk would piss and moan about, come up with creative solutions and ways to re-use what we’d consider junk.

Check out AfriGadget at http://www.afrigadget.com/

Cool Site: Library Thing

Booklovers should check out a website called Library Thing.   It’s intended for people to share the contents of their personal libraries and allows for reviews, recommendations, discussion and even links in to book trading sites.   You can enter your books in one at a time, or upload a list of books for it to process.   It offers some built in collection types such as Your Library, Wishlist, Currently Reading, To Read, Read but unowned, Favorites, plus the ability to add your own custom types.

Though my personal library is at the moment boxed up for the most part, I plan on adding my modest collection of books and sharing that link on this site.

For now it only has a few books listed, but you can find my library listing at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Sougent