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Well after a little sweating on my part I have have moved from the godaddy servers to my new hosting account at Dreamhost. Dreamhost allows you to have unlimited websites per hosting account which is CRAZY! So I can pay one monthly fee and have space for my blog simplehiker.com my wife’s blog aimlessveg.com my […]

Please bear with me I will be trying to move from one host to another with in the next 24-36 hours.
Thanks,
simplehiker

Chris at GRYNX posted a simple and very cool homemade LED flashlight made out of 3 AAA batteries, a tictac box, a switch, a resistor and an LED. A fun project for any DIY hiker or a fun Sunday with the kids.
GRYNX >> TicTac flashlight
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Malden maker of Polartec fleece has announced a line of fleece made of 50% recycled content and is currently working on another fleece line made from 100% recycled content. Both of these lines will be fully recyclable themselves! No word yet whether or not thru-hiker clothing will be considered toxic waste or recyclable. It would […]

Hot on the trail of the ever cool and usefully gorillapod come Monsterpod. In isn’t as much as a tripod or a monpod as much as sticky-goo-pod. Yet this is no joke, the company bills the camera mount as,

MonsterPod Sticks and grips..
Gravity defying camera tripod
The MonsterPod™ has no telescoping legs, clamps, beans, straps, glue, or […]

There were two new interesting products in this months Backpacker Magazine (05/06).
First off backpacking wine from French Rabbit.

They package the wine in what they call a Tetra Pak which is a 1L paper plastic foil super wine juice box. French Rabbit toes that that the box keeps wine fresher in a lightweight reseable container that […]

Well I have some site news… I will be no longer concentrating an area of my blog writing towards vegetarian or vegan issues. Aimless was out on the town last night with some friends and I will a little hungry with nothing to eat.
I got to thinking about buddhism, nothingness, and my vegetarianism. Why should […]