Boing Boing: “Isaac sez, ‘I’m sure they’re hell to shuffle, but you’ll be the talk of the poker tournament! Get them in a sheet to mount as artwork, or punch them out and ante up.’ At £200 a deck, they might be a little pricey, but I suppose they’d make cheap and stylish novelty shuriken if sharpened the edges.”

dive into mark: “REST for toddlers”

If you’re not a web geek then you might not get this..

I just finished eating the Sampler Platter at Missouri Hick Bar-B-Q in Cuba, Missouri. Situated on a bend of the Mother Road, Route 66, MO Hick is a ‘must stop’ each time I go to St. Louis. Most times I’m passing when it’s either too soon or too late to catch a meal, but tonight I hit it just right: dinnertime!

The black cat on the on the front porch should have warned me, though. I got inside to find out that the pork shoulder and corned beef were wiped out at lunch. Instead, I went withe Sampler with extra ribs in place of the pulled pork.

Disappointing is the first word that pops in to my head. The ribs and brisket were overdone, signalling that they were leftovers from lunch and not ‘stagger smoked’ to prep for dinner. On the otherhand, it looked great! I snapped a photo for everyone’s enjoyment.

With the move to a new webhost, I had forgotton to fix the redirect from “rss.xml” to my FeedBurner RSS feed. If you’re checking for the old rss.xml file, please stop. It’s not likely to come back soon so point your readers to [my FeedBurner RSS feed](http://feeds.feedburner.com/houseofwarwick) and that will help make the subscription numbers a bit more accurate.

Security of any type is a necessary evil.  Lately, my weblog’s security has been a focus of too many brain cells as I’m spending time worrying about who’s getting my content and why.  Luckily, [TextDrive](http://textdrive.com) has been a great host so far and the tools and my disposal are fantastic.

I snagged a couple of the Linksys NSLU2 network attaced storage servers for a little over $30 a piece at Office Depot. They were sitting on a clearance table, staring at me with sad eyes. I hadn’t heard of the device but for that price, I snagged them both. It’s a good thing I did. The NSLU2 runs Linux and the sourcecode is included on the install CD. I’ve found some great hacking resources and that will make it a breeze to set up more services like NFS. Now it’s looking like I need to buy a RAID hard drive enclosure.

Tammy’s exhibiting at this year’s Winterfest at Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts in Springfield. Stop by (if you’re in the neighborhood) and see some of her enamel work in addition to her full line of silver jewelry.

MAKE Magazine: “There are few if any models in the world to rival the Ferrari 312PB built by Pierre Scerri. This 1:3 scale masterpiece is the real thing in every sense, from its operating 100cc 12-cylinder engine to the exact scale operating Ferrari gauges which are calibrated precisely to indicate rpm, oil pressure, water temperature and oil temperature.

The source post over at MAKE has the video. It’s worth it to hear the engine fire up and rev. I really does sound like a miniature Ferrari.