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• Year 2038 problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Better get on with fixing this, we've only got 30 years… (tags: c code computers software unix y2k)
• Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition - Free Visual Studio, nice… (tags: c++ development free microsoft)
• Hanoi crazy night traffic on Vimeo (tags: timelapse traffic video vietnam)
• iBanjo - Programmer Insecurity - "[Some] programmers don't want their peers to see mistakes or failures. They want to work privately, in a cave, then spring "perfect" code on their community, as if no mistakes had ever been made." (tags: codereview collaboration programming scm)

• Algorithm Geeks | Google Groups (tags: algorithms programming)
• Amazon.com: Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable: Electronics - The $500 ethernet cable (tags: audio denon funny ripoff)

• Last-gasp win for Swans as Eagles falter - 8 June 2008 - "Sydney had to come from a 36-point half-time deficit to win this one, yet win it the Swans did — 12.11 (83) to 11.12 (78) — hitting the front for the first time in the match at the 32-minute mark of the final term…" (tags: afl newsarticle sydneyswans)
• Patak’s Lime Pickle - It still exists! My local Coles have stopped stocking this, damn them! (tags: coles indian lime pataks pickle)
• Deep-Dish Sausage and Tomato Pizza on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - One damn good looking home made pizza. (tags: food photography pizza slashfood)
• Big Ideas (don’t get any) on Vimeo - Radiohead's "Nude" reproduced by printers, scanners, old hard drives (tags: music printers radiohead remix retro)
• Interactive Polyline Encoder Utility - Google Maps API - Google Code - (tags: api google mapping)
• l33t eye chart on Flickr - OMG WTF STFU PWN3D URAN00B LMAOROTF KTHXBYE:P — If you can read this, ur eyez r teh l337. (tags: eyechart funny)
• 10 paths to painless pizza-making | smitten kitchen - (tags: cooking food italian pizza tips)
• TWoP Single Page Recaps – Userscripts.org - "Combines TWoP's multi-page recaps into one page." (tags: greasemonkey television)
• programming: Ask Reddit: What’s the most beautiful piece of publically available source code you saw? - Powerset functions in python using generators (tags: powerset programming python)

• APOD: 2008 June 4 - Chasing the ISS - Timelapse of the space shuttle discovery catching up with the ISS, from earth, complete with an iridium flare! (tags: astronomy photography space timelapse)
• Bug #226279 in linux (Ubuntu Hardy): “Kernel 2.6.24-17 - broken resume from suspend to RAM” - It sure is broken… extremely frustrating, particularly considering this is supposed to be a LTS release? (tags: bug linux ubuntu)
• Flight 2 - Helium Baloon Mission to Near-Space - My project launched a payload with GPS, camera, sensors and communications to an altitude of 30km. (tags: electronics photography projects space)
• Aza’s Thoughts » Blog Archive » Vote! How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use - Such a clever idea: "I know that you visit: Digg, Reddit, Facebook, Del.icio.us, Slashdot, and Last.fm. It’s a bit scary, I know." (tags: howto javascript web2.0)
• Simpsons/Futurama - Simpsons and Futurama universes collide… (tags: art comic futurama simpsons)

• 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 me more than hearing the comfortably off trying to convince themselves - and anyone who'll listen - they're really battlers." (tags: australia economics gittens politics taxation)
• Budget 2008 - The Real Losers | newmatilda.com - The pregnant, alco-pop drinking luxury car driver. (tags: austraila budget cartoon politics)

• 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 Jabber - "Right now we're building a Jabber/XMPP interface for Facebook Chat." Nice one. (tags: facebook jabber xmpp)
• 1.50 australian dollars per litre in dollars per gallon - Google Search - … and Americans think $4 a gallon is expensive… (tags: australia energy petrol usa)
• Phun - 2D physics sandbox - Wow. (tags: amazing physics science simulation)
• Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange - Great idea; upload a file, get a tinyurl style URL for it, no accounts required, with optional password protection. (tags: online sharing tools upload)

• 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, push the button. (tags: audio drumroll funny)
• Déjà Vu Dining - New York Times - "There were no seats in the bar or waiting area, of course. They had long been snared by people who appeared to have taken up semipermanent residence and were perhaps even having their mail forwarded." (tags: franchise newsarticle restauraunt review)

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 with guidelines and probably, if you were a brand new Firefox user, it’d be more intuitive too.

But for those of us who have grown accustomed to the old behaviour and don’t want to bother retraining muscle memory, here is the secret… go to Firefox’s about:config settings page (type about:config into the location bar) and find the “mousewheel.withcontrolkey.numlines” setting, and change it from positive one to negative one. That is, after the change, the relevant prefs should be:

mousewheel.withcontrolkey.action  =  3
mousewheel.withcontrolkey.numlines = -1

Problem solved. More information at Mozilla bug #141476.

• 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 something they had never had to manage before–free time. And what did we do with that free time? Well, mostly we spent it watching TV." (tags: blogpost humanity productivity society tv)
• Textism: On cameras and flies - Dean Allen buys a Nikon DSLR and loves it… "I feel like someone handed a slice of hot toast spread with cultured butter after a lifetime breakfasting on Skittles and government cheese… Ahem. Gonna go take pictures of my feet." (tags: camera nikon photography)
• And the Latte Indicator Says… Economy Screwed - Silicon Alley Insider - "In the salad days, of course, many Starbucks fans argued that $5 Mocha Frappucinos were no longer 'consumer discretionary' items but 'consumer staples' …" Not so much these days! (tags: coffee economics funny starbucks)