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From Nat and Renee

Frequent Visits

• Good times: Our Gallery | XKCD | Pandora
• Our weather forcasts: NOAA | Weather Underground - Radar - Station map - NW Forecast maps
• Government: Project Vote Smart | US Senate Votes | US House Votes
• Craigslist: Portland | Montana | Cargo Trailers | Diesel
• Montana land: Craigslist under $150 | Bobbie McLain-Twite | Exit Realty
• Blue Oregon (liberal) | Oregon Watchdog (conservative) | Slashdot | Digg
• Portland traffic: Speed Map | Cameras

• Bike Portland
• Portland Transport
• TreeHugger
• Our home value on Zillow.com

Stuff

Our projects

• Weather Station - Wind/Rain/Temperature/Humidity
• Chicken Coop - A safe home for our two-legged pets
• Organic Garden - We are replacing our lawn with a garden
• Rain Collection - Our rain water harvesting system

Homemade Natural Products

• Less Toxic Guide - Better shopping but even better, there are many recipes on this site.
• Evalu8.org - Cosmetics that you can make at home.
• Bathtub Cleaner
• All-purpose
• Hand Softener

Food / Recipes

• Green Drink
• Cucumber Yogurt Soup(PDF) from Animal Vegetable Mineral by Barbara Kingsolver
• Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies(PDF) from Animal Vegetable Mineral by Barbara Kingsolver
• Kombucha - How to make Kombucha tea | [1]
• Pear Wine

• F.H. Steinbart Company - brewing supplies

Earthy Eye

• Earthy Eye Website
• Earthy Eye Etsy
• Earthy Eye Blog
• Earthy Eye Flickr Photos

Building

• Sola Roof - Eco Wiki
• Earthen Floor Article

Permaculture & Sustainability Related Links

• Zenger Farm - Non-profit educational farm near our house
• Tryon Life Community Farm - Sustainability Education Center and Urban Ecovillage in SW Portland
• Portland Permaculture Institute

• Portland Permaculture Guild
• Pattern Literacy Toby Hemenway's Permaculture site
• Discount Permaculture

• The Dirt!
• Portland Farmers Market

• Northwest VEG - We're not vegetarians but this is a cool site

• Phyllostachys aureosulcata 'Spectabilis' - Bamboo for privacy

• Using gray water: UMass

Boats & Cruising

• Dream Catcher cruising log
• Boats I want on YachtWorld.com
• Island Sailing Club - Sailing school and certifications

Misc

• Renee & Nats Photo Gallery
• Making wine from wild plants
• Our Political Representatives
• 50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation
• Our Checklists
• Spanish Lessons / Club

Transportation

Diesel, WVO/SVO, Biodiesel and What-not

My references for my endeavor into using vegetable oil for personal transportation and recreation.

• BioDieselNow
• WVO Conversion of "Big Bird"

• Explanation of the International Indirect Injection
• Ford F-series history & info

Portland Transportation

• PortlandTransport.com - Blog headed up by Chris Smith
• TriMet - Our public bus & light-rail system
• Portland Streetcar - The little-light-rail

• Portland Mall Project - Downtown portion of a project that will bring light rail within 20 blocks of our house

Techie Nerd

• Electric Design
• Hackaday

• Gentoo Linux - Gentoo Wiki - Ebuild Howto
• Internet Radio Linking Project
• QRZ - Ham Radio Info, Practice Tests

• Cacti Graphs

• Wild Blue - Satellite internet provider

• DVD Creation HOWTO

Handy Software

• Gentoo - My Linux distribution of choice
• FireFox - Web browser
• Thunderbird - Email/organizer, Lightning plugin for calendar integration
• OpenOffice - Word processor/spreadsheet editor/presentation tool (word/excel/powerpoint)
• The Gimp - Graphic editor similar to photoshop
• GAIM - Jabber/Multi-IM client
• Eclipse - Software development platform (Java based)
• Dia - Diagram editor similar to visio
• TightVNC - Remote desktop access

On the server/backend side of things...

• Subversion - Version/source control
• OpenVPN - SSL based virtual private networking system
• MySQL - Database engine
• Apache HTTP server - "The" web server
• MediaWiki - Web content management
• Gallery - Web based photo organizer
• Nagios - Server/network monitoring
• Cacti - Frontend to RRDTool for web-based graphing/statistics
• Apache Tomcat - Java web/application server
• Sequoia - Middle-ware for distributing database clusters
• Motion - Video surveillance

Hardware

• Phidgets
• Via 1GHz Pico-ITX board
• Gumstix - Tiny snap-together machines (200MHz or 400MHz)
• Yaesu VX7-R Mod

MicroNet/1-Wire

• AAG Electronica - One-wire stuff, most notably the wind sensor
  • One-Wire Weather software
  • Wire layouts
• Tech notes on the wind sensor and micronet connectivity in general
• Hobby-Boards.com - One-wire parts

• DIY Pagoda enclosure for temperature measurement

Video capture

• Spectra8 4 port - $394 - BT878
• VC400 4 port - $334 - ?
• Analog Harbor Freight Camera - Cheap but handy, night vision, mic, single wire with remote power supply - $40
• Video for Linux resources
• Surveillance-video.com
• mat-co.com

Radio

• VX-7R Mods: [2] [3] [4] [5]
• Frequencies: [6] Portland: [7] [8]

Other

• Nasa: Space Shuttle Status Java applet

• Maxim battery charger notes

Contact

• Nathaniel Powning