around the traps
Including a few I've had sitting around...
- New Scientist Short Sharp Science blog: Not-so-local lunar library
- The Dilbert Blog: Knowing When to Quit:
If everyone exposed to a product likes it, the product will not succeed.
- Outside of the square | The Courier-Mail
- Only Guy Who Puts Paper In Copier Considers Himself A Hero | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
- Marlboro Man tops imaginary icons list | NEWS.com.au
- Dilbert Comic Strip Archive - One day I realised that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
- Australian IT - Apple shipped infected iPods (Correspondents in New York, OCTOBER 19, 2006).
'As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it,' Apple said on its web site.
You what? Even when Apple is 100% in the wrong, they can't resist a jab at Windows? Man, they need to get over themselves. - Boing Boing: US govt bans Vegemite. Perhaps the most elegant way I've ever seen of getting Aussie expats to leave a country, although I note they haven't stopped the supply of Tim Tams.
- Dirty Car Art. What it says!
- Medallia Blog: SmackBook Pro. Smack the macbook, it changes desktops. Neat, although I would prefer the light sensor version: Medallia Blog: A gentler kind of smack.
- BBC NEWS | Business | YouTube cuts 30,000 illegal clips:
Video-sharing service YouTube has wiped nearly 30,000 files from its website after Japanese media companies said their copyright was being infringed.
...it begins. - Stagr - Killer Custom T-Shirt Service - Mashable! Talks about several make-your-own-xyz sites.
- Prickie - unique custom badges. Slightly inaccurate title, since you can buy more than one. But we'll let that slide ;)
- Audio: Bob and Tom - Telemarketer Nightmare. Hilarious!
- Eric's Archived Thoughts: High-Profile Cooking:
See, you?re not allowed to do any work on the Sabbath, which includes things like turning lights on and off. Ovens fall under that restriction as well, which makes cooking dinner a bit tough. However?and here?s the funky part?you get off the hook if you don?t directly cause the work to occur. If the work happens indirectly, then you?re okay. So when the oven is in Sabbath mode, you input the temperature and cook time you want. Then you press start, and for a random amount of time that ranges from 30 seconds to a minute, nothing happens. Then the oven kicks on. Ta-daaa! Indirect action!
(See also: Wired 12.11: The Geek Guide to Kosher Machines). On the one hand this is one of those reasons-why-I-just-don't-get-religion things, on the other you have got to admire the hack. Seriously though... no light switches? I just don't get religion.
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