Main Page – Geo Hashing – (tags: gps wiki xkcd) Giant ‘telescope’ links London, New York – CNN.com – Just plain cool. (tags: art installation internet webcam) Ross Gittens – Pseudo battlers should get a grip | smh.com.au – "I, too, find that being a grumpy old man helps keep me going. And nothing annoys [...]
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Links for 17 May 2008
Wired Review: Asus Eee PC 900 Is Even Better Second Time Around – I just want one! (tags: asus computer hardware laptop review) Sony Bravia Play Doh Rabbits in New York | Duncan’s TV Ad Land – This really is a cool ad. (tags: advertising sony stopmotion) Facebook Developers News – Using Facebook Chat via [...]
Links for 14 May 2008
Welcome — Little Bird Electronics – "We distribute the open-source physical computing platform called Arduino" (tags: arduino australia electronics hardware) Common shell script mistakes – Some good tips here (tags: bash programming script shell tips) Stevey’s Blog Rants: Dynamic Languages Strike Back – (tags: dynamic languages python toread) Instant Rimshot – Tell a bad joke, [...]
Firefox 3 mouse wheel text zoom
An annoyance with the latest Firefox 3 Beta.The ctrl-scroll wheel (aka mousewheel) page text resize shortcut inexplicably reversed itself since the last version of Firefox I was using. That is, Ctrl-WheelDown now makes the text smaller, whereas before it made it larger. In fairness to Mozilla, this change actually makes the behaviour more in line [...]
Links for 30 April 2008
Keyboards, Keyboards :: dirtystylus – On keyboards. Why can't manufacturers get it right? I for one quite like the old Compaq / new HP desktop keyboards. (tags: keyboard typing) Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Clay Shirky – "For the first time, society forced onto an enormous number of its citizens the requirement to manage [...]
Links for 25 April 2008
ongoing – Multi-Inflection-Point Alert – "Damn, there's a lot going on. Is it always like this? Well, no, it hasn't been. But in the future, it may be." (tags: blogpost business technolgy) best of craigslist : Open Letter to the Roaches in My Apartment – "A couple of times, I even turned the lights off [...]
Links for 16 April 2008
Oxford, England – A Pub Crawl Through the Centuries – New York Times Travel – "The Kings Arms is a linchpin of Oxford life. Situated at a junction in the heart of the city, it has spacious, airy front rooms, and at the rear three or four small rooms, all thick with honey-colored wood and [...]
Links for 14 April 2008
List of The X-Files episodes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Thanks Wikipedia… "This is a list of episodes from the FOX science fiction television series The X-Files." (tags: guide scifi tv x-files) Top 25 LinuxJournal.com Articles of All Time, Part 1 – (tags: linux networking popular) Twitter / THErealDVORAK – John Dvorak (of This [...]