Tim Carmody asked Kottke.org readers if they had ever seen, heard, or read something on the web that literally changed their lives. From the answers:

“Almost any woodworking video by Matthias Wandel.”

Go check.

Gives a different meaning to an old song.

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la Citroënnette. See also le blog des jouets André Citroën.
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If you liked Bunnie Huang’s book “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen” (Crowd Supply), you will love Scotty’s adventure recycling/refurbishing an iPhone 6S in the used cell phone market just south of Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen, China.

The most interesting is not the geeky stuff, but Scott’s comments on how the 2017 Shenzhen he navigated to get his 6S parts is…

…like visiting the future, this crazy, dystopian, Blade Runneresque future.

(quote from the video, @1’14)

The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.

—William Gibson

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From Northmen. Via Kottke

Word of caution… don’t worry.

How hackers turned a Cape Cod fishing guide’s site into a host for e-commerce fraud

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…a parent saying “Send me a link” has become this generation’s version of “We’ll see.”

Dan Maloney on Hackaday

Wish all lawyers were this straight to the point!
Telegraph: Jack Daniel’s sends ‘world’s most polite cease and desist letter’ (via)

Kaweah Headwaters – Valhalla
Sierra Nevada Codex, Kaweah

Artist: Matthew Rangel

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Just because I love that kind of stuff…

…”Samurai thanks!”

See also Scary sharp on a budget

…beat rogue states. Anytime.
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Says Rob Beschizza:

…talky howto videos where the content is buried somewhere after a minute of intro music, five minutes of “HEY GUYS” rambling, and nine more fooling around in the shop

He was comparing to this Laura Kampf video:

I totally agree with Dan Maloney: What’s So Bad about the Imperial System Anyway? There is nothing per se. Only collateral dammage:

• MPG vs L/100km (Skepticblog)
• Gimli Glider

On December 1, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump announced that General James Mattis, former US CENTCOM, would be nominated to serve as United States Secretary of Defense in the coming administration. Foreign Media were quick to pick up on the nickname “Mad Dog”. It seems he is more than that. See what his former PAO (back when he was Commander general of the US Marine Corps) learnt from him about Real Leadership.
You can also read the original (written in milspeak) CG Staff Guidance (pdf).

Gretel C. Kovach, a San Diego journalist who specializes in USMC, pointed out in 2013 (the year he resigned from the Corps) that James Mattis also goes by the nicknames of “Chaos” (his callsign) and “Warrior Monk”. But the press prefers Mad Dog…

Hacking the Global Distribution Systems (GDS). Joseph Cox reports on the findings of SR Labs‘ Karsten Nohl and Nemanja Nikodijevic: It’s Incredibly Easy to Tamper with Someone’s Flight Plan, Anywhere on the Globe (Motherboard)

Armed with these techniques, a hacker might be able to track someone, finding out where they’re flying to and from. Working with the German TV station ARD, the researchers were able to change the flight booking of a reporter, putting him on the same flight as, and in an adjacent seat to, a German politician.

Original conference 27 Dec 2016 @Chaos Communication Congress (Slides)

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Created by BLIND for the original movie. Thanks Kottke.

APA/Andreas Blaickner/Institut für Archäologien in Innsbruck

Thomas Bachnetzer from the Institute of Archeology at the University of Innsbruck (…) speaks of a sensational discovery: “The stone ax is probably to date in the end of the Neolithic period, beginning Bronze Age. From this epoch there are scarcely any large rock crystal artefacts, a hatchet is otherwise not known at all”.

Google translation of Beil aus Bergkristall als Sensation, an article in German.
Found in 2012, 70 km West from the Ötzi site. See Old snowshoe.
Currently on display in the exhibition “Bergauf Bergab – 10,000 years of mining in the Eastern Alps” (more) at the Vorarlberg Museum in Bregenz.

via Joe