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micro, gear, blogroll

I've had a critical opinion of soft-shells for a number of years.

While I still maintain that their versatility and environmental appropriatedness is limited, I have been coming around to their use a bit more over the past year or so. I have a pair of pants that I am quite smitten with and have been considering giving a jacket another shot. Over at Cold Thistle, Dane Burns recently completed a series comparing different soft-shell jackets and their appropriateness for climbing. Now he has published a selection of reader comments that were elicited by the reviews.

micro, review, blogroll, gear

I reviewed the Hill People Gear Kit Bag on ITS Tactical.

Read the review and then go give your money to Hill People Gear.

Kit Bag: Docked

micro, books

Currently reading Spook Country by William Gibson.

Gibson was one of the most influential authors of my childhood. I had not kept up with him in this millennium, but have begun to rectify that by reading Pattern Recognition a while ago and now Spook Country.

micro, censorship, annex

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

Terence Eden points out that censorship becomes more difficult as flash memory devices become smaller and gain greater capacity. Case in point: Director Jafar Panahi smuggled This Is Not a Film out of Iran on a flash-drive hidden in a cake. For me, the practicality of the sneakernet became revitalized after I began using git-annex earlier this year.

micro, privacy, finance

Simon provides anonymous debit cards.

Their prepaid Visa and American Express gift cards can be purchased with cash at any Simon mall. No identification is required. To use the card with online merchants, you will likely need to register the card with an address so that it can pass AVS checks. This can be done through Tor with fake information.

Anonymous Debit Card

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Alastair Humphreys plans to walk the Empty Quarter.

Wilfred Thesiger is one my heroes. Arabian Sands is one of the great travel books (and one of the few to survive the repeated purges of my bookshelf). Now Alastair Humphreys and Leon McCarron are planning their own walk through the Empty Quarter. I’m excited to see what comes of it.

micro, bicycle, gear, blogroll

Nicholas has been detailing his bicycle touring gear.

I began to read his blog last summer, when he was riding from Anchorage down along the continental divide. It’s a great blog, and his gear is clearly heavily used and carefully chosen. Recently, he has discussed his cook kit, tools, luggage, clothing, electronics, and his bike and the changes it has gone through.

micro, medical, blogroll

BFE Labs has posted introductory videos on blow-out kits and hemostatic agents.

Their videos on blow-out kit basics and hemostatics are worth a view. BFE Labs is not updated frequently, but the blog remains one of my favorites for practical skill and tool discussion.