I’ve seen a few nice-looking representations of clocks around, but when I saw Gumuz’s word clock I though I could make some improvements to it. Here’s a couple of the changes: Rewrote using MooTools (only because I know it better, I’m currently developing in it, and it gave me a chance to play with Google’s [...]
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MLIA
Today, after reading over 3000 posts on FML over the the past 6 months, I realised that MLIA is actually more enjoyable than schadenfreude. MLIG is too boring, though. MLIA
Read MorePaying the Price for Bad Grammar
This is why we need Grammar Nazis: Today, I was flirting via text with a coworker. Things started getting heated, and I wanted to send her a sexy picture. I asked if she had any suggestions. She said, “Your nuts!” She meant, “YOU’RE nuts.” I sent her a photo of my junk. I offended a [...]
Read MoreThings I Learnt Today
That Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw is a goon; that his early stuff is, if anything, funnier than his paid stuff for The Escapist; that I there will always be something on the Internet that I haven’t seen, and that someone will think I have been living under a rock to have missed it.
Read MoreYay, xkcd
Makefile: me: @true a: @true sandwich.: @[ -w /etc/shadow ] && echo "Okay." || echo "What? Make it yourself." Shell: $ make me a sandwich. What? Make it yourself. $ sudo make me a sandwich. Okay. From CLI-Apps. See also xkcd.
Read MoreSpotting a Fake Pound Coin
Supposedly 2% of all pound coins are counterfeit. But how do you know when you have a fake? I heard the news item and had a quick look at the pound coins in my pocket, and couldn’t see anything. I thought that maybe it wasn’t all that easy to spot. But then I saw one [...]
Read MoreRadovan Karadžić’s Disguise
Radovan Karadžić, the recently captured war criminal, was doing a good job disguising himself as Noel Sharkey: Er, I can’t remember which is which now.
Read MoreAll Work and No Play Makes Facebook a Dull Network
The walls have spoken. In the last week or so, Facebook has introduced a new feature called Lexicon (learn more), which allows you to enter a number of search terms and see how popular those terms are on people’s walls. The graph of “party tonight” when compared with “hangover” is quite predictable, especially around Hallowe’en [...]
Read MoreHappy Switch
After spending too much time looking at images on imagechan, I was reminded of a perfect photo opportunity from childhood, sitting just in my garage: Maybe I should be doing some work.
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