A long list of Australian Slang. It wasn’t easy but we’ve tried to include uniquely Australian slang here and to exclude British and American slang even though these are commonly used in Australia. We see no point in informing the world that “fridge” is Australian slang for a “refrigerator”. Here are a few that might […]
No, no stories of improper voting procedures or anything like that. In fact, Ward 5 used the draw-a-line-put-it-in-the-machine scantronic (fantabulous!) machines. Slick as ever and (virtually) idiot proof, although Idiot R&D is working on that. No, the cool thing was a conversation I overheard while standing in a very short line at 4pm. A gentlemen […]
CNN has a tacking center. No stats now, but soon I’m sure. Link
A 320kbps MP3 version of November 2004’s freely distributable Wired Magazine cover CD – includes Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Dan The Automator, Gilberto Gil, Cornelius, and many more Creative Commons-licensed tracks for remixing, spreading – unmissable. I got this with my issue of Wired this month. It has a little bit of everything and well […]
Ok, so I hosed this site. Boo me. I will be attempting to repost some of the original posts, manually entering the original time they were posted to recover my archive. Unfortunately, all comments are lost. I have them, I just don’t have a way to put them back with the posts. Sorry. Like I […]
Wow, way to catch on to a new trend there Wired. Internet Users Want a Voice About a quarter of Americans have rated products, services or people online, according to the latest Pew Internet & American Life Project survey. The results point to the growing significance of online rating systems. By Daniel Terdiman. Link
I’m listening to and downloaded Bob & Tom show from Sept 17th. At about 21:10 in Hour 2 of the show is one of the funniest things ever said on morning radio: “But they had the Anti-Pirate guy dressed like a pirate?”“Yes.”“That’s like portraying the Pro-Life Hanger.” I’ll make a clip when I get home. […]
This is a great presentation on redesigning websites with CSS. It also has a lot of links to resources to learn more about using CSS. Link [via del.icio.us]
Hate is a powerful thing. It turns normally dull people in raging maniacs, rational people into lunatics, and intelligent people into idiots. Take William Gibson and the words he chooses to express that which he cannot (or will not). To wit: “…I think we’re getting a pretty good idea of what Trotsky felt, looking at […]
Verizon has 15 megabits down, 2 mbts up (sweet) for about $5 more a month than I pay now for 3 mbs down, 256K up. Oh come on, get in the area Verizon, I’ll give yah a try. The site is hosed right now because it made the front page of Slashdot, but it’ll be […]