Archive for February, 2006
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
I got this interesting news contradiction in my newsreader this morning:
Here is a similar occurrence noted by Farksters: Image link.
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Monday, February 27th, 2006
I found a random posts plugin for Wordpress - scroll all the way to the bottom of this page to see it in action. Pointless? Nerdy? Yes, and yes.
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Monday, February 27th, 2006
Filelight allows you to understand exactly where your diskspace is being used by graphically representating your filesystem as a set of concentric segmented-rings. Filelight creates a complex, but data-rich graphical representation of the files and directories on your computer. The net-result is something similar to KDirStat, however the ...
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Monday, February 27th, 2006
Kathryn saw one of these today:
Now THAT'S good marketing! Anthropomorphic turds make the BEST mascots!
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Sunday, February 26th, 2006
After many false starts I think I've found the best new front end for oranchak.com: WordPress 2.0. I've even managed to pull in all my old LiveJournal posts (not that they have any intrinsic value or anything, other than occupying space on the machine). Things still aren't yet ...
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Saturday, February 11th, 2006
Oh, sweet Lord.
Apparently the Aussies are crazy for David Hasselhoff, too. Enough for Pepsi to take notice with this ad campaign.
Is it a joke? A career? A joke wrapped inside a career? A career wrapped inside of a joke wrapped inside of a career??? (more ...
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
In a recent TWIT episode, Kevin Mitnick described a new service called SpoofCard that gives you some interesting new abilities when you make phone calls, all by using a special kind of calling card:
How can I change my voice?
SpoofCard offers the ability to select a Male or Female voice when ...
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
When you stare at data long enough, patterns emerge.
(click for full)
Yeah, I need to get out more. But the glowing box of light resists my feeble efforts.
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
The Hairy Ball Theorem!
(insert Beavis and Butthead laughter here)
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