February 2008
33 posts
twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter - post... →
A Twitter mashup that takes RSS and Atom feeds and re-publishes them on your Twitter timeline. Yay, I’ve linked my FriendFeed to it, so now we just need Twitter to stop going down! :)
MOO.com | MOO’s having an Egg Hunt! →
Every day we’ll be adding new clues here in the blog. Eggs are hidden online (all over the place, not just on MOO), in MOO products and even in the Great Outdoors. Ho yes! We’ve got a little team of Egg-Hiders in different cities all over the world and they’ve been busy squirrelling away eggs for the last few weeks. The first person to find each egg will win a prize - and 9 other winners for each...
'We're Huge in Finland!' Firefox Hits New High as... →
Mozilla Firefox continued its slow but steady march against the worldwide dominance of Microsoft Internet Explorer in 2007. Though the open-source web browser continues to sit firmly in second place behind IE, where it’s been for years, usage of Firefox is still on the rise. The browser is even threatening to tip the scales in some European countries — most likely thanks to the rapid...
Marks & Spencer vs Unite in Google war →
Unite, which has nearly two million members, plans to use searches for M&S on Google from 5am today to divert users to its list of grievances. Anyone typing “M&S” or variations of “Marks & Spencer” into Google will see a direct link to the “Look Behind the Label” campaign put together by the T&G section of Unite, as well as normal search results. The cost to the union of taking its...
“Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.”
– Edward de Bono
Photojojo's Photo Time Capsule →
Step1. Setup the Time Capsule with your email & Flickr account. (60 seconds, tops) Step 2. Once a week, enjoy an email with your photos from a year ago
“And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.”
– Murray Walker
Tumblr search update
Ok I redid a bunch of my tumblr search code. Here’s the update list Overhauled entire script. much cleaner Uses “AJAX” to pull in data. Loads all data, not just last 20 posts. (maybe should limit this in the future!) Can have multiple search boxes To include this in your site add this code to the customize part somewhere between the tags. <script...
Biodiversity 'doomsday vault' comes to life →
People walk into an Arctic seed vault on February 24, 2008 near Longyabyen. Aimed at providing mankind with a Noah’s Ark of food in the event of a global catastrophe, an Arctic “doomsday vault” filled with samples of the world’s most important seeds will be inaugurated here on February 26. Well that rather kicks Seed Savers arse! ;)
StrawPoll →
Tiny polls in 140 characters or less
Disqus | Tour > Create a forum →
Disqus allows you to easily create and customize your own discussion forum. It can be used as a companion forum to your blog or just as a standalone. All forums are part of the Disqus community, so people can easily discover and participate in any discussion. Now integrated here!
Chocotelegram.com →
Each square is a letter, number or symbol. The squares with letters or other characters are made with the most delicious milk chocolate. The squares with nothing registered, mainly to separate words, are white chocolate. ChocoTelegram is done with the best Belgian chocolate, absolutely irresistible…
Cull of the parakeets| News | This is London →
Parakeets in the top 20 of the most-spotted birds in the UK?! One roost of 3,000 at a rugby ground?! Maaaad. Flocks of parakeets which have colonised parks and back gardens in south-west London, Surrey and Kent could be culled. The move, backed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, is prompted by fears that the estimated 30,000 invaders from India and sub-Saharan Africa are putting...
“If you want to find some butter, it’s under my face”
– Marge Simpson
Neatorama » Blog Archive » On/Off Coffee Mug →
This clever mug automatically displays “OFF” when it is empty and ‘ON” when it is filled with coffee or tea. It is covered with a heat sensitive pigment which allows it to change from black to white or vice versa depending on whether it is filled or not. Charles & Marie are now selling the mug for $25.
Small Caps | i love typography, the typography... →
Small caps are uppercase glyphs drawn at a lowercase scale. A common misconception—unfortunately reinforced by most word processing programs as well as by CSS on the web—is that a small cap is just a regular capital letter scaled uniformly down to a smaller size. In actuality, a proper small cap is a carefully crafted glyph that differs in significant ways from a uniformly-scaled-down capital...
What you can do with Wakoopa →
Wakoopa tracks what kind of software or games you use, and lets you create your own software profile. Ready for you to share with the world. Why? Because what you use on your desktop is who you are! Ok, that’s a step too far for me (bets on me being addicted to it this time next year?)
Color + Design Blog / Build Colorful Walls with... →
Designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have come up with a colorful new way to create and divide any living space. Using interconnecting foam and fabric blocks you can create and transform any space with a dramatically colorful wall. Choosing from more than 100 color options, your personal palate will only be limited by the physical space and your imagination.
“I handed in a script last year and the studio didn’t change one word. The...”
– Steve Martin
Call For English Town To Become Scottish - Yahoo!... →
The Scottish Nationalist Party has fixed its sights on the English border town of Berwick upon Tweed as its next battleground with England. Christine Grahame, MSP for southern Scotland, has “invited” the people of Berwick to “come back into the fold” and swap their allegiance from England to Scotland. Historically, the town has been a battleground between England and...
“The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.”
– Abigail Van Buren
NO2ID:Press Release Learners to be tagged and... →
Every child is to be issued with a ‘unique learner number’ which will allow educational establishments, local authorities and prospective employers to access individuals’ records online. Sensitive and potentially damaging information such as exclusions and expulsions will be stored on the database. Scary stuff. Now I was a swot so nothing bad would be on there for me, as long as data entry was all...
“All castles had one major weakness. The enemy used to get in through the gift...”
– Peter Kay
