Entries for Thursday, December 7, 2006
➠ December 7, 2006
Technical Revenue: The Architecture of Mailinator
Interesting article on the architecture and design decisions behind mailinator.com, your local friendly low-hassle disposable email address site.
BS 1363 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The awesomeness that *is* the British 3-Pin Plug. The article covers most of the beautiful design decisions, such as the longer earth pin (so earth is the first connection made when you plug it in) and the cable being attached to the bottom, so you’re less tempted to pull the plug by yanking the cord. Well done British Standards chaps!
Fritalian (Dunkin' Donuts commercial)
Another series of Dunkin Donuts commercials featuring music by They Might Be Giants has started hitting the air. This is my current favourite.
FoxTrot waltzes its way into early retirement
FoxTrot strip is going Sundays-only after the end of this year. This makes me sad, as it is one of the few genuinely funny comic strips in syndication today (Doonesbury being my other favourite).
MetroNaps
Attempts to convince co-workers that we need one of these in our lab have thus far proven unsuccessful.
A Screenshot of God's Inbox (from Time Magazine) [PDF]
God uses a Mac, apparently. A funny list, made funnier by details like “Jesus Baby Pictures” on the desktop.
Retirement Funds over Time
I was working on retirement-planning stuff this evening: checking my 401(k) investments, finally setting up a Roth IRA for myself, that sort of thing.
I plotted this graph in Microsoft Money showing Joy's and my retirement funds since I started working. The numbers are wiped out in the name of modesty, but the way the graph's trending? Makes me happy.
(The different colours are different investment accounts. See if you can spot the three year period where I was working for startups which didn't offer retirement benefits.)
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