Tag: Links

» The Spectator – Melanie Phillips says economic meltdown is due to “militant atheism” Theism does not equal morality. Melanie Phillips does not equal anyone I want to spend time with. Why do I read this stuff? » Blender Defender Want to scare your cat into not jumping up on the counter? Set up your… Continue reading Recent Links, 20081028

» FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right Very detailed statistical analysis of the US Presidential Election. Lots of charts and graphs. It’ll be interesting to see how accurate they are… » Mozilla Bug 2212 – character alignment not implemented (align=char, charoff=, text-align:<string>) Come on, get on with it. These lazy Open Source programmers, giving us their… Continue reading Recent Links, 20081015

» Daily Kos: McCain’s Non-Support for Troops and Veterans: The Master List Pretty comprehensive list of why McCain does not support US troops and veterans like he says he does. There should be more “cheat sheets” like this, for all candidates. Instant fact checking and calling out on lies. » garfield minus garfield Funnily enough,… Continue reading Recent Links, 20081009

» xkcd – Fiction Rule of Thumb So true. An addition to this is that the more proper nouns in the book have apostrophes in the middle of the word, the greater the suckage. » The Open Rights Group » 4 good reasons not to take part in the BT Webwise trial BT are really… Continue reading Recent Links, 20081001

» YouTube – Doctor Who: What are you doing here? Lots of people saying, “What are you doing here?”. Amazing, hypnotic and long. » Britain will make foreigners carry RFID identity cards and will put us in a huge, Orwellian database: the rest of Britain will be next – Boing Boing Oh boy. I’m very… Continue reading Recent Links, 20080926

» Drinking Skepchickally, San Diego TOMORROW! Going along to this to meet geeky types. » Homemade Hollywood – Fans Behind the Camera – Retro Thing Review of a book about homemade fan films, a phenomenon dating back to 1922! I remember a segment on ‘Why Don’t You?’ about a kid remaking Raiders of the Lost… Continue reading Recent Links, 20080923

» Japanese custom scooters ::: Pink Tentacle Amazing outlandish Japanese custom scooters. » Heroes Cooking up a storm | The Sun As part of their “Go Green” week, The Sun says there is apparently a “fight against climate change alarmists”. » Bad Science » Don’t let the facts spoil a good story Climate scientist has… Continue reading Recent Links, 20080922

» New Hitchhiker’s author announced What? Why? And the Artemis Fowl bloke? At least it’s not Terry F**KING Pratchett. » public.resource.org – gpo.gov This non-profit is buying the US Code of Federal Regulations and making it open-source (which it already should be). Would literally make my job easier. » The Asylum This is great. These… Continue reading Links Of The Day, 20080918

» Ubuntu Eee Ubuntu Netbook Remix for the Asus EeePC. I might give this a go. I wonder if it replaces the reset partition? » Metropolis Mag on the possibility of a Maglev train LA-Las Vegas This maglev thing still keeps cropping up. Hasn’t worked on a large scale anywhere. Even moving block signalling (such… Continue reading Links Of The Day 20080917