December 2008
1 post
Predictably Irrational - The hidden forces that... →
Quite a long read, but there are a whole bunch of interesting factoids here about the strange ways our brains are wired.
October 2008
1 post
Watch
June 2008
1 post
the hug me pillow →
not at all creepy and strange, honestly…
April 2008
1 post
Shiny Mud Balls | Science and Education | Trends... →
At elementary schools, kindergartens, and preschools all across Japan, kids are losing themselves making hikaru dorodango, or balls of mud that shine. Behind this boom is Professor Fumio Kayo of the…
February 2008
2 posts
Photo Basement » 41 Hilarious Science Fair... →
Funny collection of pictures from school science fairs. I think this must be an american thing because I don’t think I can remember us having science fairs at school here.
Edge: BETTER THAN FREE By Kevin Kelly →
Interesting article looking at the reasons people are willing to pay for stuff on the internet, rather than obtaining it for free.
January 2008
3 posts
200 Free Online Classes to Learn Anything | OEDb →
maybe ‘to learn anything’ is stretching it a bit, but certainly a fair number of things.
We Feel Fine / Movements →
Nice little applet that displays real time feeling information culled from blogs all round the world. There’s quite a few different visualizations, so it’s worth having a bit of a play.
Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools →
December 2007
1 post
November 2007
2 posts
New season of Futurama commissioned! →
Google Calendar Provider for Thunderbird →
Only had a brief play, but am already really liking this add-on which provides bidirectional integration between your Google Calendar and your local calendar in Thunderbird (to use you must have the latest version of Lightning installed - which provides the Thunderbird calendar component)
October 2007
1 post
raising babies
We’ve been watching the daft, bringing up baby on Channel 4 (http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/B/bringing_up_baby/index.html).
Now if I was feeling curmudgeonly, I’d call it the worst type of pseudo scientific program, spuriously stating factoids based on the three or four families featured. However it was mildly entertaining, and apart from the fact that all of the three...
August 2007
1 post
“by posting Member Content to any part of the Web site, you automatically grant,...”
– little excerpt from Facebook’s terms and conditions
July 2007
1 post
Everything you could possibly need to know about... →
Sounds stupid, but even Taz was sneakily interested in learning ‘the fastest shoelace knot in the world!’
June 2007
11 posts
Free software to capture Last.fm streams to mp3s... →
TheLastRipper can save Last.fm streams to mp3’s, while downloading album cover, appending ID3v1 tags and organizing you music after Artist/Album/Track. TheLastRipper will also help you generate playlists from the data available from you Last.fm account.
“can you shut these windscreen wipers off - they’re really stressing me out”
– taz
un disco verable » Color picker applet →
Neat little applet that provides basic colour picking fun on Gnome. Needs to be compiled and installed manually, but this is pretty straightforward provided you have installed both python-gtk2 and python-gtk2-dev.
Goth vs. Emo →
‘omg my mom joined facebook!!’ →
ssh password brute force protection →
Protecting your ssh server from brute force attacks using pam-abl
“This is a quote. How does it look?”
– sma
zyb.com →
Free service to backup your mobile contacts, SMSs and calendar entries. Have previously managed to lose all my contacts due to some sloppy practices when updating my firmware, so this type of service would have been great - meh…
just testing this out to see how it looks - maybe will kill my hosted site, just leave the email working.