Oneliners
Oneliners are a type of very short post. They are aggregated here as a linkblog (but not all oneliners are links). The permalink and the ability to comment can be found in parentheses.
C64 games on Wii Virtual Console. The “abandonware” excuse will become harder to defend.
(0)The new EOS 450D only supports SD cards. Is this the beginning of the end for CompactFlash?
(0)Microsoft+Yahoo: The AOL+Time Warner of the 2000s IMHO.
(0)The Ugly Truth About Anonymity Online: “Hint: if you see a van with several antennas arranged in some geometric pattern on the roof, that would not be a positive development.”
(0)HOWTO make money from Free software: be MySQL and sell yourself to Sun for a cool billion.
(0)Gizmodo on what’s coming at Macworld 2008: “…it may be some kind of magic tablet…”
(0)Stir-fried Wikipedia. The future of the world is translation problems.
(0)How to Create a Sexy Pop Star: making music when you can’t play, write, or sing.
(0)Software Carpentry: an amazing-looking crash-course in hands-on geekery.
(0)And more than 3 days later, my Wordpress theme is out.
(0)Mind the Gap: an essay by Paul Graham on wealth, riches, poverty, and why income inequality might not be so bad (cf.)
(1)How to price software (or not).
(0)Never heard of hapax legomenon before. Probably never will again.
(0)The Hutter Prize: compress Wikipedia for fun and €50,000.
(0)Super Stardust HD. Retro-remakes forever!
(0)Ultimate geek-lifestyle power tip: sign your new credit cards with a CD labelling marker pen, for superior legibility and +2 hax0r points.
(0)What is the canonical spelling of canonicalize?
(0)The latest best things ever: steampunk keyboard, steampunk monitor.
(0)The phrase “gr9 m9″ does not appear in Google anywhere. WHAT?
(0)Reading twitter’s startup pages. What a delicious waste of time this looks. And I had the same idea about 3 years ago, dammit.
(0)AWESOMAZIN narrated animation of a cell’s internal workings (via MeFi).
(0)A test link to a test website.
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Oh my Jesus! I’m doing a course featuring the work of a German mathematician called Dr. Killing.
(0)Defending yourself is OK after all. But we still can’t set traps for burglars? WTF am I supposed to do with this mechanical engineering textbook?
(0)Self defence with a walking stick. This is the best thing evar.
(0)Hilarity: The swedish for pirating software is Piratkopiering
(0)Neocon joke of the day: What do you call someone informed by the UN? UN-informed.
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Rapist on the loose. An interesting new way to deal with pedophiles. Let them loose, publicise their picture, and see who gets them first. You humans are psychotic.
(0)Classic lecturer quote: It’s unfair to use the word simple for simple groups, because in fact they are extraordinarily complicated.
(0)253 - The Novel. I love the fact that there are other people around who do this kind of thing so I don’t have to.
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(0)Today I had the lecture on which Greg Egan’s Diaspora seems to be based!
(0)Bush opponents literally killing themselves. Maybe Bush won in 2004 because too many Democrats killed themselves after 2000
(0)I imagine I’m late to the party, but Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, the book, is quite good.
(0)I would just like to say that Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is every bit as great as people say.
(0)Heard: “Anchorman? Some kind of superhero?”
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5941187/ There’s something about autonomous flesh digesting robots that seems like a bad idea…
(0)http://james.lab6.com/2004/zoo/ Horrifying zoo sign
(0)Alien vs. Predator was much better than I expected!
(0)http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64638,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 The nature of the gaming timesink becomes clear
(0)Babylon 5 Series 2 is UKP30 cheaper at WH Smiths than HMV.
(0)France celebrates 60 years of peace - “Surface-to-air missiles have already been installed along the coastline.”
(0)Government-funded university project suggests subsistence hen-farming for doomed city dwellers. Aaaaargh!
(0)Advert on bus: “Volunteers wanted for wound healing experiment”
(0)Why is Wicca a compact religion? Because every open coven has a finite subcoven. BA-DAH-BOOM-CHEE!
(0)Performance related pay for teachers. “But what about the bad teachers?!”
(0)Amazon has tons of books but hardly any hardbacks.
(0)Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music. This is excellent. (via Memepool)
(0)Eek. I made a ‘media’ category.
(0)Mitch and Dane - Gloria.sid. So much tune in only 8Kb.
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Michael Howard tries to rid the Tory party of its racist scumbag image by sacking racist scumbag MP. Could be setting precedent for sacking the rest too.
(0)Number Theory Tools 1.1 for your number theorising pleasure. Lets you check whether you have an efficient number of fingers or not.
(0)Yahoo search now has a cache link. Will they beat Google to offering this as a paid remote backup service?
(0)There are so many of us, but they are so rich.
(0)Religious studies to cover atheism. Marvellous. We’ll corner the beast sooner or later.
(0)The Marmite FAQ. “The breweries pay Marmite to remove the yeast from their factories.”
(0)“Watch out! Bad things can happen on Friday 13th.”
(0)World’s first realistic flash animation. Its offensive start is thoroughly explained (via b3ta)
(0)MP to meet minister over cocklers. Why did I read “MP to meet minister of overclockers”?
(0)CSS visited pages disclosure. Just thought this one up myself; glad to see it’s known.
(0)An Eccles classic: “You see, the university has removed most of the blackboards, and the ones left are only two dimensional.”
(0)House full of eBay junk. A not-so-funny OCD tale (via BoingBoing)
(0)Ultimate BTTF tie-in merchandise: flux capacitor y-fronts!
(0)Ironic typo of the week comes from Coding Theory: ‘Error-correcting cod’
(0)Did anybody else think the music in Pirates of the Caribbean was a mixture of the themes from The Rock, and The Settlers?
(0)I have a pencil sharpener made by RAPESCO. I tried to comply, but the site is being DDoS’d.
(0)100 things to do instead of “it”. Funny how “talk” is number 56… (via BoingBoing)
(0)Hybrid song. The Amiga invented dance music, I’m telling you…
(0)Elwood scene mp3s! “Past and Present” is the best
(0)Final test…
(0)This blog will now degenerate into an indiscriminate linkdump.
(0)Testing testing testing.
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