July 2010
118 posts
“The entire squad was forced onto a stage at the People’s Palace of Culture...”
– North Korean football team shamed in six-hour public inquiry over World Cup - Telegraph
Being a teenager is vastly overrated. We all make...
(via thesecondstar, shewaslikeahurricane)
Marco.org: The Kindle update →
Yesterday, Amazon announced a new Kindle, similar in design to the new DX and just $140/$190 for WiFi-only and 3G models, respectively.
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I love the Kindle. The iPad didn’t “kill” it. Amazon is going to sell a ton of these, especially at this new price point.
Reading on the iPad is a bit of a kludge. You can read on it, and it’s a lot better than reading on a computer, but it’s...
F.lux: software to make your life better →
iphoting:
Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow?
Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen?
During the day, computer screens look good—they’re designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn’t be looking at the sun.
I personally use this all the time and it helps a lot; so much so...
“If you’re ever lying on a beach with
80 billion grains of sand beneath you,...”
– Unknown (via gatekeeper) (via tugonheartstrings) (via thesecondstar)
The War Logs →
duncandavidson:
New York Times coverage of the massive release of documents about the war in Afghanistan by Wikileaks.
“Big ISPs usually rely on peered connections to other major ISPs, connections...”
– Ars Technica: Should broadband data hogs pay more? ISP economics say “no”
在一個小小的夢的空間，…
“Well.. I think that succeeding less isn’t really failing.”
– cflee, 22 July 2010.
I realise this statement actually drags in a whole bunch of issues apart from the collective awwwwww, including sounding extremely clichéd, which I’ll sort out sometime..
“Imagine a world trading solely in gold and silver coins. Imagine the size of...”
– Can Malaysia’s Islamic gold dinar thwart capitalism? | Nazry Bahrawi | guardian.co.uk
Apparently this shariah currency will be launched 12 August 2010.
Nexus One Phone →
iphoting:
The Nexus One is no longer available for purchase directly from Google… [only] directly from Vodafone with a qualifying service plan in the following countries:
Australia
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
United Kingdom
At the rate this is going, Android is moving squarely in the direction of GNU/Linux fragmentation. This means that it’ll be harder for a unified approach to the...
I’m vaguely amused that more people are confused by the math post than WTFing at it.
Back to writing.
FontFonter →
simplebits:
This is a wonderful tool. Enter a URL and replace its fonts with any of FontFonts web fonts. Hmm, this site looks rather nice with FF Dagny and FF Meta Serif replacing Helvetica and Georgia.
Caffeinated
I had a rather large cup of tea sometime last week (100mg caffeine) and felt quite sick afterwards, and thought that was because of the terrible weather or just general sickliness. Today, I had a bottle of milk coffee of the same amount (caffeine content unknown) and felt bad enough to be tetchy even while sitting in a lecture.
I haven’t had any issues with the decaf black tea I’ve...
On this theme’s header, I have an image and the tumblelog’s title. The image goes to the author’s page at DeviantART, and the title leads back to this tumblelog.
I wonder if people actually end up clicking on the image instead of the text and get surprised by that happening. How can I improve this while still retaining attribution? Should I shift attribution to the page footer...
3 tags
tap tap tap ~ Camera+ first month sales: Setting... →
There’s a <video> tag in use down there playing a H.264 video.. and it’s not lagging!
“One of my personal goals for this project was to get away from relying on the...”
– Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain on his redesign of Steinway & Sons (via simplebits)
I think the psychologists are right at some level. Caring deeply about people at an emotional level is draining and exhausting (and fulfilling and potentially creates happiness) in various ways at different times for different people. [citation needed]
Eysenck’s observations about the personalities of hardcore smokers though.. hahaha.
We shall see.
Statistics
I was just going through my Google Analytics and Feedburner data and realised that apart from my post about the North Korea video, a particular post has had steady traffic for months and months. Then I realised that the link was broken because singeo.com has gone somewhere else. Time to delete that post then.. a moment of silence for the only thing that’s not related to me that this...
Plain english explanation of Big O - Stack... →
Yes, it actually is an excellent explanation.