December 22, 2007
How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take in a Fight?
Scientific analysis of your chances against the eternal question. I could manage 20, apparently.
Stephen Fry: Dork talk
Stephen Fry writes about the HTML5 ogg video debacle — he’s even more geeky that I’d previously imagined. What a hero!
myspacepaedo
An instant message I received. Not sure if it's one of my friends being funny, or something more sinister -- either way, I'm not responding!
December 21, 2007
December 20, 2007
Peavatar
My SantAvatar is taking a backseat on my Twitter account for today, replaced by a "peavatar", in support of local blogger/twitterer Susan Reynolds, who is going in for breast surgery today.
This is a really cool example of "social media" in action -- and particularly the sense of community that Twitter enables. See frozenpeafund.com for more info on what's going on.
Remember The Milk + Gmail = task management goodness
Brilliant use of Google’s newly-exposed Gmail API to seamlessly blend to-do lists into your Gmail UI.
Passage
Beautiful game/piece of art. Play it for five minutes (important note: you can move up and down, as well as left and right), then read the creator’s statement. Lovely.
BBC Radio 4 - Comedy - 28 Acts In 28 Minutes
Fast-paced stand-up and sketches from BBC Radio 4. The great thing about this format is if you don’t like an act, that’s fine — there’ll be another one along in a minute.
December 19, 2007
Peggle
The awesome Peggle is now available for Mac, for anyone who hasn’t yet been caught in its crack-like addiction. And only $10 to register until the end of the year. Well worth it.
Bad Gift Emporium
Share the crappy gift’s you’ve received, and find someone who might actually want it!
December 18, 2007
eBay auction: Drive Someone Insane with Postcards
“You are bidding on a rare chance to traumatize a treasured friend or relative with baffling, mind-numbing, mystery correspondence from abroad.” Hooray for the internet!
December 17, 2007
Dash Express GPS Video and Deets: True Traffic Reporting and Custom Maps for $599
I *really* like the look of this upcoming GPS — it gathers the speeds of other users over time and warns you when there’s slow traffic ahead, even on roads that SmartTraveller, etc. don’t cover. Will have to check them out at CES.
Mozilla Labs Blog : Personas for Firefox
Lovely lightweight theming for the Firefox UI — Easy to design, and easy to apply.
NVidia RAID
Rebuilding a RAID-1 array with a new disk. "Data from one of the selected disks can be preserved in a new array. If one of the disks in the new array has data you wish to save, select it now."
Uhm.. yeah... any chance you could give me *ANY* kind of distinction between the two drives? Perhaps highlight the one that has my fucking data on it?
Review: Windows XP - Coding Sanity
“I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP”
December 16, 2007
Clyde Shakin’
Clyde getting his shake on in the chilly snowbank.
A Taste For The Theatrical
Trailer for the new Batman movie, and it’s dark, twisted and stonking. I’ve reached a point where I think I will go see any movie Christopher Nolan directs from here on out, because I haven’t been disappointed by any so far.
YouTube - BBC One Christmas Ident 2007 - Penguins
Christmas isn’t christmas without a BBC 1 ident. And this year’s is a corker. PENGUINS!
The Django Book
The published (but not final — there’s still functionality for comments and improvements) version of The Django Book is up.
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