Archive for February, 2005

Underwater bike ride to launch students’ eight-week crime spree

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Underwater bike ride to launch students’ eight-week crime spree
Starting in the liberal state of California, they hope to evade the attention of local police officers when they ride a bike in a swimming pool and curse on a crazy-golf course.
In the far more conservative – and landlocked – [...]

eBay item 5559938963 (Ends Feb-27-05 20:56:10 PST) – **Mystery Envelope?!**

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

eBay item 5559938963 (Ends Feb-27-05 20:56:10 PST) – **Mystery Envelope?!**
Crazy auction selling a mystery envelope for over $7,000.
[Thanks Kim!]

**Mystery Envelope?!**

Moving to Wordpress 1.5

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

I think I’m mostly done with the upgrade, let me know in the comments here if anything looks wrong, and which browser you’re using. I’ve only looked at the page in Firefox, but I assume the CSS will work properly in IE also.

Staples.com CSS redesign

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

Staples.com CSS redesign
Greased bunnies, now that’s fast…
The site isn’t really standards compliant, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction.

And as a sometime shopper of the site, I for one seriously appreciate how the now-lightweight markup has made the pages’ rendering times faster than greased bunnies.

Teen’s ’stupid’ lip-synch video a Web hit

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

Teen’s ’stupid’ lip-synch video a Web hit
Looks like Gary is regretting putting his Numa Numa video on the web. Like many of his friends, and family, I’d like to engourage him to use this fame to his advantage. It looks like he could have a decent career as a comedian. Thanks to [...]

Google Blog

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

Google Blog
Google is actually listening to the blogsphere. Google maps now supports Safari and Opera.

On the map
The Maps team was excited to see all the ideas and feedback that hit blogs around the Web after Google Maps launched a couple weeks ago, and we’ve been listening: Maps now supports Safari and Opera. Keep the [...]

S.A.A. – Sticking in Shuffle : 貼付iPod写真

Friday, February 25th, 2005

S.A.A. – Sticking in Shuffle : 貼付iPod写真
I especially like the one that looks like a phone. I might have to go get an inkjet bumpersticker kit this weekend and see what original ideas I can come up with.

Sticking in Shuffle : 貼付iPod写真

Tiny takeoff on Christo proves gateway to glory

Friday, February 25th, 2005

Tiny takeoff on Christo proves gateway to glory
I find it quite amazing that something like this can explode into such a fuss. Congrats to Hargadon.

He is on his way to a reception hosted by the mayor. His lunch at a Cambridge restaurant was free, after the man behind the counter recognized him. And his [...]

GROKLAW: Reports of My Destruction Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Friday, February 25th, 2005

GROKLAW
A. Linux Kernel sends a good rebuttal to John C. Dvorak’s latest FUD about how MS could kill Linux. For those unfamiliar with John, he’s a grouchy old kermudgeon who makes stupid half cocked predictions of what will happen in the computer industry and is invariably wrong.

“At some point in [...]

The Federal Budget In Nine Picture Filled Pages

Friday, February 25th, 2005

This guy wrote a summary of the Federal budget. Informative. Or something.
The Federal Budget In Nine Picture Filled Pages

I thought I would do the government a favor. I took the whole 400 page budget and summarized it down, Cliff’s Notes style, to a tight 9 pages. And that includes at least four pages [...]