Homebrew air conditioning
This could proove useful, the apartment is kind of hot in the summer.
Stanford commencment address by Jobs
A transcript of the Stanford commencement address given by Steve Jobs
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Cineplex buys Famous Players
Cineplex Odeon bought Famous Players
It won’t mean much to the non-Canadians, but round here it makes for a near monopoly on movie theatres.
Altogether now
There’s a bit of a new look around here, mostly the same but some minor tweaks. I got rid of the nav bar at the top (a smaller version is present in the footer), amalgamated some pages, moved the core sub-pages into the sidebar description, changed those links to red, and added 23.7% more whitespace.
Brendan points out the sort of hive-mind thing that happens purposefully or not within the various weblogging communities. Maybe everyone gets fed up at the same time, who knows. I’ve never really been able to stick with one template for too long, they’re always evolving. I should probably take more screenshots.
The top 100 newspapers
The top 100 newspapers in the world (by cirrculation)
The first American paper that appears on the list is the Wall Street Journal at #19.
Free flickr schwag
Free flickr schwag
You just need to send them a self-addressed stamped envelope.
Mathematics in the Simpsons
Mathematics and mathematicians in the Simpsons
There are some smart people writing for Matt Groening’s shows.
Sodoku
Sodoku
It’s kind of like a crossword with numbers, I found one of these in the Toronto Star a couple weeks ago.
YubNub
YubNub, a command line for the internet
It’s an interesting idea — essentially putting all of your internet searches and tools into one box. It’s pretty cool, but the number of commands could get out of hand relatively easily. It would be a good candidate for using a live search.
Ads in Textbooks?
“Do you really think they could miss an ad that is placed in a very well-respected textbook?”
McGraw-Hill is trying to sell ad-space in textbooks. The very-well respected bit probably won’t last long for anyone associated with this garbage.
NYFD modernizes equipment
The NYFD is introducing a newer and more modern safety system: a rope with a hook
The escape system is a revolutionary change from the simple one New York has used in the past, a bulky but weaker rope that was phased out in 1996.
The state of filesharing in Canada
On the state of filesharing and Canadian Copyright law
There are interesting rammifications to the possibilities of file-sharing lawsuits in Canada, namely the status of blank-media levys and a statute that enforces a realistic penalization.