April 2009
134 posts
Nightwish - Moondance →
We’ll need this final long weekend to recover from the proliferation of recent long weekends.
Yeesh. Talk about a chronic day. If only there was ::actual:: chronic.
Jai gots a funny feeling in me tummy :-/
Jai gonna sleep well tonight. Me likey the icey. Mmm :-)
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Rare All-Female Ant Society That Reproduces By... →
A group of Amazonian ants have evolved an extremely unusual social system: They are all female and reproduce via cloning. Though their sexual organs have virtually disappeared, they have also gained some extraordinary abilities.
University of Arizona biologist Anna Himler orginally began studying the ants, called Mycocepurus smithii, because they had incredible success as farmers. Many breeds of...
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Uncomfortable Plot Summaries →
What’s really going on in those block busters. Hillarious.
25TH HOUR: White New Yorkers commit crimes against both law and ethics; feel bad for being caught, rather than for doing it at all.
300: Gays kill blacks.
8 MILE: White man successfully coopts black culture to impress other whites.
A CIVIL ACTION: Underqualified lawyer doesn’t listen to clients, royally botches case.
A CRY...
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The Future is here: Robot attacked Swedish factory... →
A Swedish company has been fined 25,000 kronor ($3,000) after a malfunctioning robot attacked and almost killed one of its workers at a factory north of Stockholm.
Swedish-Chinese author accused of plagiarism (26 Apr 09)
Thirsty Swede jailed over snot attack (24 Apr 09)
Police step up hunt for missing baby corpse (24 Apr 09)
Public prosecutor Leif Johansson mulled pressing charges against the...
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WatchTeen Girl Spins on Escalator
(via Metacafe)
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Five reasons you should switch to Linux right now →
Over the last few years I have seen the general public go from a general ignorance of the existence of Linux to a general knowledge of it being an option on their computers. Over those same years I have seen the momentum building to this point…this point being the perfect time to make the switch from your current operating system to Linux.
Why, you ask, is this the perfect time to make the...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-26) →
Avril Lavigne (16)
Paramore (14)
Anika (11)
Harris Tweed (10)
Captain Smug and the Propagandists (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artefacts →
The Bible tells us that God created Adam and Eve just a few thousand years ago, by some fundamentalist interpretations. Science informs us that this is mere fiction and that man is a few million years old, and that civilization just tens of thousands of years old. Could it be, however, that conventional science is just as mistaken as the Bible stories? There is a great deal of archeological...
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Google Set To Change Ranking Algorithm →
Google is set to make changes to its search ranking algorithm to combat the spate of links leading to malicious web pages appearing at the top of Google’s search results, according to an inside source.
Yay, a clear and free day to do some writing!
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Bullet bounces off woman's bra →
A US woman had a lucky escape when a burglar’s bullet bounced off the metal underwire in her bra.
Police in the city of Detroit said one of three intruders fired a shot when the woman looked out of her window and saw them raiding the house next door.
The bullet smashed the window and hit her, but instead of causing serious injury - or worse - it was deflected off the wiring in her bra.
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How To Write A Novel Using The Snowflake Method →
you start small, then build stuff up until it looks like a story. Part of this is creative work, and I can’t teach you how to do that. Not here, anyway. But part of the work is just managing your creativity — getting it organized into a well-structured novel. That’s what I’d like to teach you here.
If you’re like most people, you spend a long time thinking about your...
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How Social Media Community Building Helps SEO... →
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Ubuntu 9.04 is as slick as Windows 7 or Mac OS X →
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Why Google Wants You To Google Yourself →
The act of Googling oneself has become the digital age’s premiere guilty pleasure — an activity enjoyed by all and admitted by few. The phenomenon has even been the subject of scholarly research. Last year, a team of Swiss and Australian social scientists published a study concluding that the practice of self-Googling (or “Egosurfing” as it’s sometimes called) can partly be...
Fighting Fire With Fire
(A father is letting five kids make a complete mess of the restaurant. They’re ripping napkins and using it as confetti, breaking chopsticks and screaming their little heads off.)
Me: “Sir, I’m going to have to ask you to tell them to stop doing that. They are disturbing the other customers.”
Father: *beaming* “No.”
Me: “No, as in, no you won’t tell them to stop it?”
Father: *still...
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Jai considers this concept of sleep.
Skunk Anansie - Charlie Big Potato →
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The cake is a lie!
Customer: “Excuse me, but I have a complaint to make.”
Me: “Oh, sure. What’s the matter?”
Customer: “I heard a group of teenagers over there talking, and they said the cake that you serve is a lie.”
Me: “…”
Customer: “What exactly do you have to say for yourselves?! I come in here, expecting to find a decent establishment, only to find out you are selling fake food!!”
Me: “Um, ma’am. They...
Life is one big, long Friday! ^_^ Squeeeee!
ATFC presents OnePhatDeeva - In and Out of My Life →
Wow. It must be a cold wintery night. Seems ::everyone:: is home on Facebook!
Jai be cold and wet like a puppy dog’s nose.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-19) →
Rammstein (5)
Anika (5)
The Prodigy (4)
Meat Loaf (4)
Muse (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Feels like my left ear’s in a swimming pool. Wooble. Wooble.
"Yes" in many languages →
15 Things Every Web Developer Should Be Thankful... →
Mozaic
Firefox
Browsershots.org
Firebug
Google Code
Frameworks
Open Source Projects
Creative Commons
Paypal and other payment gateways
JavaScript Libraries
Amazon’s S3 and EC2 services
Anti-RSI Technology
Advanced text editors
CSS
Coffee
(^_^)
Staying in Character Doesn’t Have to be Difficult →
The most common reasons that people participate in live action role playing games is to express themselves through a character that they have created, or to be a part of a larger fictional story. Unfortunately these two points of view don’t always go hand in hand.
Expressing yourself through your character means that you must stay in character and this isn’t always easy when you have story...
10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know →
Web developers these days are often expected to know and work in multiple languages. As a result, it’s tricky to learn everything a language has to offer and easy to find yourself not utilizing the full potential of some more specialized but very useful tags.
Unfortunately we haven’t been tapping into the full potential of these more obscure HTML tags as of late. But it’s never...
