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Bark wrapped candles catch on fire.

November 15th, 2007 · No Comments

I’m really not sure how this one slipped through the cracks but wrapping a candle in birch bark doesn’t really seem safe. The danger is that the bark can catch on fire as the candle burns down. Seems reasonable as when building a fire in the woods birch bark is considered GOOD tinder. [...]

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Vector images from bitmaps

November 15th, 2007 · No Comments

I found a cool site from Stanford (yes that Stanford) which lets you take a bitmap image such as a JPEG, GIF and turn it into a vector image that you can download as a EPS or SVG.  Why would anybody want to do this?  Say you have a tiny logo you want to resize.  [...]

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