August 2009
71 posts
XKCD, what have you done?? →
Wikipedia Adopted XKCD…
Reading Rainbow Ends →
After 26 years, the beloved children’s show hosted by LeVar Burton will disappear from the airwaves. Today, educational funding favors programs that teach kids how to read, rather than why to read.
Policeman busted for feeding Pop-Tarts to gorillas →
Find Out How Much Your Insurer Sucks [How To] →
"Vacuum Places Improved" Speeds Up Firefox with a... →
Coin-tosses aren't fair →
Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States -... →
Make Firefox Faster by Vacuuming Your Database... →
Firefox tip: Firefox 3.0’s Awesome Bar added all kinds of features to the ‘fox, but unfortunately it’s also created some performance issues—for example, by upping the default history time,…
AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com →
Set Up Space-Saving, Permanent Gmail and Reader... →
Sunflower Plant Facts - The Vicious Truth About... →
Sunflowers are the symbol for all things peace, love and happiness, right? Wrong. The truth is that the Helianthus family, with more than 50 species of sunflowers, has a dark side influenced by…
Newton and Leibniz →
Figure Out Which Hotel You're Buying on Hotwire... →
Hotwire can net savvy travelers great deals, but only if “a four-star hotel in Atlanta” is enough description. My Money Blog details how to use other travel web sites to figure out precisely which…
Five Features We Want to See in Google Voice... →
Google Voice is one of those great services none of us knew we needed until it came along. Now that it’s here, we’d like to suggest a few changes that could shape it into an even better…
Gmail Imports Mail and Contacts from Old Email... →
Earlier this year Gmail allowed new users to import contacts and messages from old email accounts to make switching easier. Today they’ve added that feature for everyone, meaning if you’ve…
Funny photos - Time Out Chicago →
ArborWiki - ArborWiki →
Share your favourite events with MarkThisDate.com →
Home Depot Writing Fake Reviews Online [Home... →
As if you needed one more reason to avoid Home Depot, you’re in luck. Three years ago, I blogged about my terrible experience with Home Depot services. First, the company advertised a hot…
arc90 : Web Application Design & Development →
JSONLint - The JSON Validator. →
Supercharge Google Reader with Send To Links... →
Google Reader recently added custom “Send To” controls to its feature list, and we’ve been looking for the most useful links to feed it. Here are 10 excellent send-to tools you can add to…
Funny Little Frog ------Belle & Sebastian
Honey, lovin’ you is the greatest thing, I get to be myself and I get to sing, I get to play at being irresponsible, I come home late and love your soul, I never forget you in my prayers, I never have a bad thing to report. You’re my picture on the wall, You’re my vision in the hall, You’re the one I’m talking to, When I get in from my work, You are my girl, and you...
Portfolio Viewer Tracks Your Stocks in an... →
Indeed Ranks the Most Crowded Job Markets [Job... →
Indeed, a Hive Five winner for best online job search site, posts a ranked list of U.S. cities, showing off the ratio of unemployed folks in a city to the job listings Indeed can find for…
Criticker Recommends New Flicks Based on Your... →
Looking for some new movies to watch? Check out Criticker, a movie-suggestion engine that crunches the numbers on your personal movie rankings and matches them to the lists of others. You…
Hackers Indicted For Stealing 130 Million Credit... →
130 million is a large number, but that’s how many credit card numbers a group of three hackers are alleged to have stolen from five different companies including 7 Eleven, Hannaford, and …
Better GReader 0.7.2 Catches Up to Reader Updates... →
Just released the latest version of my Firefox add-on, Better GReader 0.7.2, which contains a few fixes plus a new integrated print button. Huge thanks to the folks at Mozilla for making…
Can't Find a Job? Best and Worst Job Markets →
Commands in Demand Packs Useful Tools Into One... →
Windows only: Commands in Demand packages more than 70 system commands into a single utility—from basic stuff like killing processes and hiding the taskbar to the very useful icon extraction…
Screws and Nails →
Sub-Section →
ClipChain Copies Multiple Text Strings for Easy... →
Windows only: ClipChain allows you to copy many strings of text from different places in one document or from multiple applications to form a text chain which can be pasted where you need it to…
More Google Reader "Send To" Tricks [Feed Readers] →
Google Reader added custom “Send To” options to its feed reading service, and at least one blogger quickly patched together a Save as PDF trick. Now others have Send To links for Instapaper,…
Dumpster diving + computer = 100 trees →
Guitar Chords →
chordbook.com - interactive guitar resource →
Learn to Play the Guitar Online [Back To School] →
detroit and how it got this way →
100 Abandoned Houses →
In A Tight Economy, Outsourced Developers On oDesk... →