Vargo Titanium Wood Stove
Anyone that has seen my gear list know that I’m a pretty satisfied user of ultralight canister stoves. The combination of cleanliness, control and convenience usually meets my needs 9 times out of 10...
Cafe Arcane Blog
From the Lab: Semantic Image Search With Google Swirl
Google Swirl is a beta search results interface that compliments Google Images. Instead of the standard grid of single level navigation, Swirls returns results in an “intuitive” tree interface that allows you to explore...
Inland Kayaking Day Trip
Very sore and sunburned but I’m back. I had considered kayaking out to one of the islands in the Puget Sound but my lack of experience with tides and currents, as well as not...
Putting Your Text to the Test with Google’s Text Cache
“Content is King” is one of those search engine optimization maxims that gets thrown around a lot but many folks still don’t realize that what they see on a web page with their own...
All Your Classics Are Belong To Us, The Classics Parody Mash-Up Novels
I think it all started with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies but I have honestly lost track of the number of books that have sprung up in the “Classics Parody Cultural Horror Mash-Up” genre...
