Tagged: Geeky

Cool Google Maps Add-in

I’m looking up an address in Google Maps for an work meeting earlier today, and I click on send to do my normal “send to email” option, only to find that there were two...

Isn’t 13 unlucky for some?

It’s amazing what you find when you are browsing randomly through the web. It seems that the number on the back of books (the ISBN) is moving from 10-digits to 13-digits in 2007. The...

Mobile friendly sites

Being a crackberry user, I’m always interested in articles that collect useful links, especially if they relate to the my handy hand-sized gizmo. Over at BlackBerry Forums I discovered this link to a page...

And then there were eight…

… planets, that is. According to a BBC news story, Astronomers have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet after approving new guidelines defining what constitutes a planet.

Graveyard for Dead Federal Websites

Yep, there is such a place, and it’s hosted at University of North Texas in partnership with the Government Printing Office. It’s appropriately called the CyberCemetary. Here you will find websites on the National...

making work friendly

This is a pretty kewl waste of time. It imports a website into a Word-esque looking document (either Blue or Silver versions). As Paul asks, are there any workplaces where this would be needed?...

Blog Surfing

Earlier this week while looking at other people’s blogs, I found this link (courtesy of danah @ apophenia). It provides an insight to how different drugs affect our behaviours and our abilities to function,...

CrackBerry

As some of my friends know, I’ve been recently trying out a BlackBerry as a replacement phone. The move would also involve me changing my service provider from Sprint to T-Mobile. (Sprint has mobile...

OScar Project

I'm doing some research on different sites that use Mambo/Joomla, and found this one.  From the site: It is the goal of the OScar Project to develop a car according to Open Source principles....

Cool Email of the Week

Earlier this week, I received an email from James Nunn.  The subject of the email was “Feedback: our names” and I'm thinking to myself, hmmm… more viagra adverts (coming through my feedback tool on...