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Spending some time in the great outdoors and going to hit the trail?  You will want to be familiar with trail signs that can communicate to others along the way.
I put together this Trail Signs booklet for some scouts and thought I’d share it here.
Included are some great activities for those down times.
Simply print and [...]

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A podcast in your back pocket?
Here it is.
But really… this is demonstrating the ability for paper to carry a digital file.  The free PaperBack application (sorry, Windows only) allows one to translate digital data into an image and visa-versa.
“Straight from the Hip” is an 35 kg audio file (about 10 words) that has been compressed, [...]

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Best to be ready when the mood strikes-
Hipster template with  finger puppets and Shakespeare.
Hamster pdf
Hamster Scribus source
Released under Creative Commons 2.0
Attribution ShareAlike license

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Print out this file and with a little paper craft you can have a circular slide rule addition
to your hipster.
(Use clear plastic for the cursor.)
Many thanks to Charles Kankelborg.
Circular Slide Rule PDF
Circular Slide Rule Scribus source

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Confession time:
When I’m on the move, I find my Hipster and Fobster a bit too far out of reach for the quick glance to keep me on track. Plus, if there is something crucial that I absolutely have to remind myself of, I’ll write it on my…. hand.
Yup. Can’t miss it there.
So [...]

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When my Hipster PDA got left behind, I found myself picking up all sorts of scraps of paper to write on. Now I keep a small stack of planner templates on my keychain. It is small enough not to bother me, is with me just about where ever I go, and includes the [...]

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I like to organize things. I also need a place to record and refer to things throughout the day. Back in the corporate world I used carry cut up pieces of blank paper clipped together in my back pocket. I kept my to-do’s, ideas, etc on them.
In June of 2005, with a kick-start from [...]

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Some handy links to content off my “old” host. We’ll be re-doing those in a bit, but hate for folks to get too lost.

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