Thenonist brings the story of Buddy/Gargantua The Great back with better pictures in a post subtitled “Buddy, the gorilla who was scared of lightning”
betty bowers
First I found her Harry Potter review, then I found the God Told Me To Hate You buttons and other stuff.
bibliochaise
What book lover doesn’t look twice at this bibliochaise from nobody&co?
movie combos
This is strange enough on its own, but I dare you to use it as a soundtrack to this one.
Reboot Your ‘Pod
Colin has a nifty guide to your iPod’s hidden commands, like those for rebooting or getting into the diagnostics. He’s got more iPod tips if you look.
The Aural Times
Thanks again to a good tip from Ryan, I’ve get something new to laugh at: The Aural Times.
Can Anybody Explain This?
Onion Story Predicted Five-Blade Razors In 2004
Gillette’s Fusion five-blade razor is hitting the shelves now, but The Onion predicted it in February 2004. gillette, razor, five blade, 5 blade, razor war, razor wars, fusion, gillette fusion » about 100 words
Quickly Noted: MooFlex CMS
New AJAX-happy CMS: MooFlex, more info at Ajaxian (and in their podcast).
1,800 CMS Vendors!
CMS Market Watch tells us that there are 1,800 CMS vendors, and some of them are getting a little feisty.
When You Hit Bottom And Need Design Help
stock.xchng has nothing on Flickr for searching, finding, sharing photos, except that they’re uploaded with the express intention of offering them for re-use. Some are available free, others free for non-commercial use, others with their own license terms.
But stock photos aren’t really the bottom of the barrel. No, for that you have to look at pixellogo. It’s there that you’ll see the sorts of things you can do to put some pop in a limp design. Meaning, it would seem, is secondary.
But don’t let any of this criticism suggest I’m not above taking tips from stock houses.
UC Irvine’s HIPerWall
Putting together 50 30″ Apple Cinema HD Displays with 25 Power Mac G5s gets you 200 million pixels of screen real estate spread over 23 x 9 feet. Call it UC Irvine’s HIPerWall. monitors, monitor, lcd, display » about 100 words
Missiles Explode In South Korea
One or more trucks carrying disassembled Nike-Hercules missiles exploded in a tunnel near the cities of Taegu and Masan in South Korea today. Reuters reports no deaths, The Korea Times criticizes lack of safety.
iPod Linux Tutorial
New social web apps
Ross Mayfield’s new social software list discusses Ning, Flock, Wink, Memeorandum, Sphere, and Rollyo.
Public broadcasting
SMS to construction sign (at Engadget and Textually), and SMS to megaphone — for the armchair protester (at Textually and Engadget).
What are blogs?
Engadget Caption Contest
Caption Contest: what large honkers you have! » about 100 words
Genuine Fractals Resolution on Demand
onOne Software‘s Genuine Fractals
Putting Your Video On A New iPod
[How-To: Automatically download and convert TV for your iPod – hackaday.com
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Mmm. Spelunking in Sewers
Whale Watching On Lake Michigan?
Web Pages That Suck
“Web Pages That Suck: learn usability and good Web design by looking at bad Web design.”
Where Are The MIT Weblog Survey Results?
Where are the MIT Weblog Survey Results? They were supposed to be out September first, but they’re still missing… All I can find is this older page from Fernanda Viegas.
PHP5 + XML = LOVE
The Zend overview of the new XML features in PHP 5 has re-energized me for building XML Server Applications at my library.