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Entries for week beginning December 12, 2004

December 18, 2004

Flickr Sucks!

Because every .com needs its own *sucks.com

SeatGuru.com - Your Enlightened Guide to Airplane Seating

Useful guide to the layouts of airplane seating.

December 17, 2004

Guardian Unlimited | Atomic tomatoes are not the only fruit

The Grauniad’s “Bad Science” awards.

Nebulus Remake

Flash re-make of the classic Hewson title.

X-develop

New C#, VB.NET and Java IDE from Omnicore, makers of the bestest Java IDE.

Boston Red Sox Mastercard spoof

Don’t let your mouth write checks your left nut can’t cash.

Too much of a good thing?

“My ability to produce and acquire has far outstripped my ability to consume.” This is *so* much what I suffer from.

December 16, 2004

Pies With Bling

Pies With Bling

The menu for a local pizzaplace. Can we get anchovies on one half, and bling on the other?

December 15, 2004

Newsmaker

My name’s in tomorrow’s New York Times:

Mozilla ad snippet

43 Things "Hugster" Preview

I’ve been playing with this, and it has the potential to be a really fun app. It reminds me of the early days of Flickr.

NYT Election Day crossword -- November 5, 1996

Brilliant! The NYTimes Crossword on Election Day 1996 knew in advance who was going to win the election.

ZAP! The Game

Simplistic multi-player deathmatch fun.

TinyP2P

POC peer-to-peer file sharing in 15 lines of Python.

December 13, 2004

Scrupletest

I had one of those “I wonder what would happen if I said nothing” moments today.

I logged onto my new employer’s HR system today to set-up my health insurance. On one of the screens, I discovered that, apparently, my expected salary was.. $162 million. That’s over $3MM a week.

I considered leaving it be, and seeing what ended up in my bank account on Friday, but in the end decided to preemptively report it. Apparently, my salary had been entered into the “hourly wage” field. All undone now, but visions of paying of the car, mortgage and escaping to Australia were entertained briefly.

The New Yorker: Sixteen Tons of Fun

Dave Eggers article about the new Monty Python musical. Pretty interesting stuff.

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