And we break our regular transmissions to bring you this news:
I got an invite to GMail a week ago, and I now have 4 invitations to give away. Anyone interested? Leave me a comment on the blog.
So far I must say that I’m VERY impressed with it… its not like any other web mail that I’ve seen. Its very fast, highly user friendly, and quite a nice way to handle e-mails.
[Update: All the invites are now gone… I’ll post more as I get more (if i get more?)]
Just a quicky – check out squishySyntaxHighlighter – a syntax highlighter for .Net code, written in .Net. It produces HTML formatted code that’s nicely colorized. (found via Matt Hawley’s blog)
Very cool – next time I post an article to SADeveloper.Net I’ll use this for my code formatting. (assuming they haven’t implemented it since my last submission)
Ok, so this really got me smiling… check out Improv Everywhere, a group in New York (NY), who do “improv” acting in kinda random places… not staged – like in a shopping mall, or in a Starbucks (like this one called The Moebius)
I saw this on the VS Data Team’s blog today entitled ‘This was *awesome* (by yag)‘… I’ll quote a bit here:
“[A] guerilla group of performance artists who do live shows on unsuspecting New Yorkers. Gotta agree with him, my favorite is The Mobius as well. To quote the site: ‘Improv Everywhere agents created a living moebius strip in the Astor Place Starbucks. Seven undercover agents meticulously repeated a five-minute slice of time for twelve consecutive repetitions. Starbucks employees and patrons were frightened, confused, and ultimately entertained as they found themselves stuck, without escape, in the middle of a time loop.'”
Rory had a brainwave on Sunday – its the “After Dinner Mints” of the blogworld. A great way to get all those “Hey, I saw this cool site” or “This is a great link” comments into the blog without actually adding hundreds of extra one line blog entries each day. 🙂
And thus I’m doing the same…
After Blog Mint [?] :
A saw a cool de-stressing/relaxation “game”, which works really well, unless you suffer from OCD. Original link was from Matt which links to a student’s site at the University of Houston’s – College of Hotel and Restaurant Management. I could imagine the load that that server would eventually get, so I put a copy on my website – its called BubbleWrap.
This was my rating:
You are a GRAMMAR GOD!
If your mission in life is not already to
preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!
How grammatically sound are you?
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A while ago I read an article on /. about finding bargains on e-bay. Basically, people upload auctions which have badly spelled descriptions, like “labtop” instead of “laptop”. They get very few people looking at them because the item names/descriptions are spelled incorrectly.
Looking at the stats for my site (digitaltinder.com), I noticed some interesting mis-spellings that people are searching for. For example, Charlie mis-spelled the movie title “Once upon a time in mexico”, as “Once apon a time in mexico” (click the link to see Charlie’s entry).
He has got over 216 hits from Google/Yahoo! and others just because of that incorrect spelling and his blog entry is the 2nd in the list for searches on the mis-spelled name!
I wonder what I should mis-spell to get some attention to my blog? Microwsoft/Mikrosoft/Bull Gates/Bill Goats? Hrm… I guess I could be heading for a law suite like the guy (Mike Rowe) who registered “MikeRoweSoft.com”… 🙂
Check this out! Its a page where you enter some ingredients that are in your fridge and Google will give you recipies that you can cook using those ingredients. While you’re there, check out some of the other Google Hacks.
Well… not quite so fun, because the “hotspots” you have to click on are sometimes really tiny… but check out this game (or download the SWF file here – its a bit easier to hit the hotspots when the SWF plays in a bigger frame), original blog entry I saw is here, follow up post here, and solution (in rot13) is here.
[UPDATE: A rot13 decoder (which you would find if you looked at the comments on the solution post), can be found here.]
Here’s a story on how pig fat can save lives in israel… from the BBC…
Thanks to will who showed me a discussion about the story on PenguinMagic.
Check this out… Nasa did experiments “in part to develop the ability to rapidly deploy large liquid drops by rupturing an enclosing membrane”. They have cool video’s of it… I got to it via BoingBoing.