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Entries for week beginning August 8, 2004

August 14, 2004

The Paper Napkin email rejection service

“The Rejection Line” for the 21st century

Jim Henson and Muppets on 2005 US postage stamps

It’s nice to see my hero(es) honoured.

Cryptogeekery

For anyone in the Greater Boston area of a cyberprivacy bent, thanks to Wren Hunt, I am now a registered assurer with CAcert. Get in touch if you’d like me to help assure you. I’m also more than happy to get involved in GPG keysigning.

The Tivo LCD Project

Stick an infodisplay on the front of your olde Series 1 TiVo.

iPod vs. The Cassette

The results might surprise you.

BBC NEWS | GameBoy mini-games take top prize

Well-justified recognition for the awesome WarioWare. It’s still the only reason why I own a Gameboy.

OSXplanet

Cool Mac desktop wallpaper generator. It’s dark in Moscow right now.

WEBoggle

Beautifully well-implemented web-version of Boggle.

August 12, 2004

Gonzo must die!

Bacon shows a fridge magnet who’s boss.

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Cold Fusion/SQL Server programmer needed

Spectacularly dreadful programmer job ad. If they’ve been fucked over in so many spectacular ways, I can’t help but feel they’re piss-poor managers.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Monkeys test 'hardworking gene'

If Dunkin’ Donuts combined this into coffee, I’d be unstoppable.

August 10, 2004

FARK.com: Photoshop Nintendo games had they been owned by Microsoft

Geek humour ahoy! The defragmenting Tetris made me laugh out loud.

Why rawking out whilst coding test data is to be discouraged

bamthwok.xml

Best 99 cents I’ve spent in ages.

OpenSSH for Windows

Minimal ssh server install for Windows

Hamsters for Kerry

“Brought to you by Habitrail for Humanity”

August 8, 2004

Online CSS Optimizer/Optimiser

It successfully shrunk the CSS for this page by 20%, and left it (slightly more) readable.

saute-swinish