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Thursday, November 24, 2005
- Fab Labs (mp3 file)
- A Science Friday segment. The idea that what happened with computers might happen with elecronics fabrication is so cool. Just stop for a second and think what you'd make if you could build anything. I'd probably make something trivial, some hybrid between electronic and old-school board games. But people with real jobs, proper artisans, could make some cool stuff with a lowered barrier to entry into elecronics manufacturing.
Friday, November 18, 2005
- Google Sitemaps - Site Overview
- As with what I've been reading about Google Analytics (comparison of Measuremap, Mint and Google Analytics) Google's tool has a bit of a learning curve to it, but how invaluable might it be to see your site through the eyes of the googlebot?
- The 2006 Collection
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New Demotivators calendar this year from Despair. Sucked that they copped out last year with a crappy "best of" calendar.
For the guys at work; speaking of Engineering…
- GPS Technology Raises Concern on the Job - Yahoo! News
- Hmmm, so the biggest objection that seems to be raised is that employees might be held accountable for their whereabouts and actions while at work, whereas currently they enjoy being able to break the law and shirk responsibility. Damn them for making me come down on the side of The Man.
- Package Alert Service
- Tracking a FedEx package with this service appears to stay one step ahead of tracking via Bloglines. Next time I'll do a side-by-side comparison of those two and FedEx's own tracking updates.
Thursday, November 17, 2005
- What is the weather like?
- It is now 6:26am in Birmingham, England. And more significantly, it is 23°F and clear. Which is rather colder than it is here.
- Google Search: 2005 in roman numerals
- 2005 = MMV. Google's calculator is brilliant.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
- Wayfaring Map - Castles in the heart of England
- …and so the trip planning begins in ernest. Being able to see where the places we want to go are in relation to eachother is great. Like having a map and arrow stickers (oh wait, we already have that, and can take it with us). But it is cool being able to zoom in and out.
- Wayfaring
- So, google map's biggest missing feature is trip planning, right? Somebody used the open API to fill the gap with this app. I'm so making a "Castles in the heart of England" map. and here's a "Things to do while visiting NYC" map: http://www.wayfaring.com/maps/show/25
Monday, November 14, 2005
- Valid downlevel-revealed conditional comments | 456 Berea Street
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How about this?
<!--[if !IE]>--> <html> <!-- page goes here --> </html> <!--<![endif]-->But seriously, it's nice to see the edge cases getting worked out as more people finally start moving over to conditional comments. Just proves once again that Mister Jon is ahead of his time. What was it, three years ago that I came here and he'd already switched over to using them for forwards compatibility?
Saturday, November 12, 2005
- BBC - History - A History of Britain
- We've just started watching this excellent series in anticipation of our trip. The writer/host Simon Schama turns out to Cybil's favorite historians (yes, Cybil is such a geek she has a favorite historian). The guy is good. He is both impartial and impassioned. I didn't even fall asleep watching it. He reminds me a lot of Mr. Chase, my British History teacher from my first year at Hebron. The course was one of the hardest I've ever taken, but fairly so. He was more interested in teaching how and why than when.
Friday, November 11, 2005
- stu nicholls | the CSS PLaY | an amazing CSS puzzle
- again with the absurd talent. these internet people. crazy smart.
- Daily Show: Celebrity Interview - Keira Knightley
- I have extreme doubts as to whether a single movie could possibly be anything but a pale comparison to the '95 mini-series. But it's got Keira, so I have no choice but to see it, misgivings of "the attachment" be damned. ("the attachment" being not the dangly bits, but the rest.)
Thursday, November 10, 2005
- Ambigrams
- Now that is skilled design work! I am in awe.
- Hardy lichen shown to survive in space
- This is pretty cool. That an organism such as this can survive in the vacume of space leads me to believe that perhaps the Flying Spaghetti Monster actually came from another planet and did not in fact create the universe. Blasphemy, I know.
- Odeo: Shows tagged with museum
- Taking some tours with us to NY. Didn't play tourist much when we lived nearby, but now we just might.
- Duluth Trading Company
- If the fire hose pants that came in the mail last night are representive of the rest of their products I've found my new favorite clothing store. A little rugged for the office granted, perfect jfred clothes (as long as he doesn't let his sister see the suede jacket).
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
- Firefox Extension: Download Embedded
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I fucking hate embedded movies. Ever since I "upgraded" to windows media player 9 embedded movies have stopped having any video component, just audio. Oh, and embedded movies usually attempt to stream, which unless you're on a faster connection than I've ever had simply doesn't work; it always has to stop at some point to cach up. But this extension is the perfect solution. You just right-click anywhere on the page (except for over the movie), choose Download Embedded, and it downloads the file to your machine.
End rant. I'm back to watching The F in FCC, and maybe catch up on my Daily Show.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
- 30,000 calorie sandwich
- Another in the "is it bad" department. Is it bad that looking at this makes me hungry?
- Rabid vampire bats attack Brazilian children
- Is it bad that my first reaction was, "Awesome!" I think it's because parents/teachers always say vampire bats aren't really bad like in vampire folklore, but now we can go, "you're wrong mom!"
