Archive for June 2006
AOL has launched its Digg competitor at the Netscape domain. The ‘top story as voted by you’? ‘AOL Copies Digg‘.
[Via GB]
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Look at this translation of the Russian accompaniment to amazing pictures of the normally hidden North Korea. Don’t forget page 2.
[Via reddit]
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I found this funny article with a new tool from the BBC.
The live world map constantly updates showing you the most popular BBC articles. It also shows what geographical areas are using the site at the moment and what stories they look at.
The British are interested in the view of the brother involved in the terror raid. The American care more of Bush’s surprise Iraq visit.
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Wikipedia:
Alaa Abd El-Fatah … is a prominent Egyptian blogger, software developer, and democracy activist. He is known for co-founding (along with wife Manal) the Egyptian blog aggregator “Manalaaâ€. (…)
On Sunday, May 7, 2006, Abd El-Fatah was arrested during a peaceful protest which spoke out on behalf of an independent Egyptian judiciary. His arrest, along with that of several other bloggers and democracy activists, spurred a protest by others around the world, some of whom created a new blog, “Free Alaaâ€, devoted to calling for his release from jail.
So a Google Bomb has been set up so a search for the word “Egypt” will bring up the website of a blog campaigning for his release.
[Via Google Blogoscoped]
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Will we see a sub-aqua world cup eventually?
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Slightly more seriously it appears that the White House could have killed Zarqawi much earlier.
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Or at least convince people.
[via digg]
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This might happen.
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When I saw this optical illusion, I thought it would be possible to allow people to put in their own images and to generate the effect using PHP’s GD functions. Unfortunately I decided this would require too much bandwidth, but I have made an (IE only) version which uses CSS Filters.
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Vituanova points out the similarity between Real coins and Euro coins.
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Map of Europe scaled by population and wealth
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This map shows particularly the difference between Turkey and Luxembourg.
[Via Reddit]
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Google has released an extension which allows you to make your Firefox settings auto-synchronise across multiple computers. I’ve been thinking of making this for a while but never got around to it. Imagine: you could even go to a friend’s computer who had Firefox and have your normal browser. Better yet would be if it was made to work with Portable Firefox: bring it anywhere.
There are the inevitable privacy concerns so I think somebody needs to make a clone that’ll upload to your own web space.
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Cat ‘from outer space’ not allowed domain name
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The domain was registered last year in the name of “Meow, Baroness Penelope Cat of Nash DCB”, whose address was given as a barn near Tenbury Wells, Worcs.
Asserting that this information was false, Morgan Stanley complained to the National Arbitration Forum in Minneapolis, which handles internet registration disputes.
Ruling in the case of Morgan Stanley v Meow at the end of last month, the arbitrator, Richard Hill, noted that the respondent claimed to be a cat, “that is, a well-known carnivorous quadruped which has long been domesticated”.
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