Category: bookmarks

Interesting real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.

Group of indie game developers, running a friendly competition every month. The rules: Make a game based on the month's theme, and don't spend more than 7 days. New games posted at the end of every month.

Yet no amount of checking and rechecking could account for a dismaying number of inconsistencies: In a little over 10 percent of cases, she just couldn’t reconcile her figures with those of the commission. Online commentary – http://timoelliott.com/blog/2009/10/blind-and-incompetent-justice-thanks-to-spreadsheet.html

Royalties from The Great Gatsby totaled only $8,397 during Fitzgerald’s lifetime. Today Gatsby is read in nearly every high school and college and regularly produces $500,000 a year in Scottie’s trust for her children.

A nice little chronological list. It seems to have started way back in 1993, and includes the usual suspects like xkcd.

How the domain switching on wordpress affects the blog

What to do on technorati when the blog URL is changed

The wordpress domain addition feature explained

The warship foundered and sank after sailing less than a nautical mile (2 km) into her maiden voyage on August 10, 1628 Ref: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/images/getfuzzy23667240080211.gif

A new musical instrument/toy called Reactable – employs physical blocks which are moved by hand(s) on a sensing table. Each different block triggers a different musical or sound event

Picture the earth with water and land interchanged

Drag the dot to the exit

Enso Launcher is designed to give you instant access to your applications and windows. With a few easily remembered keystrokes, you can launch an application, switch to a window by name, and control the state of your windows

That should simplify the cousin bit – first/second/third, once/twice removed etc etc

Meccano is a model construction kit comprising re-usable metal strips, plates, angle girders, wheels, axles and gears, with nuts and bolts to connect the pieces

Author of “Principles of Economics” – a book I used during my economics course in college

When a professor invents a machine that writes books, and then uses that machine to write more than 200,000 different books, there arises the question, “Why?”

Toddlers’ brains can effortlessly do what the most powerful computers with the most sophisticated software cannot, learn language simply by hearing it used

Author of “World is Flat”

Post simultaneously to multiple sites like twitter, pownce, facebook, tumblr etc

Shots from different movies, including “The End” pics

It became a best seller due to testers using it in their test case – http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Ive-Got-The-Monkey-Now.aspx

Old comic strip scans