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Snippets » March 2006

• hope yet for the geezers → the difference between a 20 year old and a 40 year old is … less than a generation. #
• cancel your cable subscription now! → and lose weight, save money, become more appealing to the opposite sex, use the internet more often. What’s the downside? #
• Caterina says: it’s a bad time to start a company → 1998 is calling. they want their tech bubble back. I really hope this one hurts less than the last. #
• 6 dumbest ways to “secure” a wLAN → they forgot one. Encryption? I don’t need encryption, why would anyone want to use my connection? #
• A real life Mrs. Doubtfire → gets away with it for 5 years? Ok, that’s just plain bizarre. #
• Google prefers pages with invalid HTML → or maybe it doesn’t and the results do not reflect a realistic test or whatever. yadda yadda, standard disclaimers apply #
• just throw away those knackered knickers → and spraying perfume to make it smell better? Uh, just don’t go there. #
• childbirth is gonna be a one off for this lady → and don’t even think about starting an argument with her. #
• social tagging (or digging) can be manipulated. Stop the presses! → because a small band of taggers or diggers with an agenda can pretty much control what a site promotes - when they want to. #
• Wikipedia degrees of separation → Only 3 degrees of separation between Frank Sinatra and Java. Ya Rly. #
• The uneasy riders? → BS. My landlord has not one, but TWO Harleys. His monthly rideouts have 100+ attendees. Harley Davidson (anecdotally) is doing well out of the UK baby boomers. #
• What do Galletti’s Gonads, Team Nads’ Balls and the McCastrate Sisters have in common? → male sheep wince and cross their legs when the names are spoken #
• More hate on teh Goog → point 7 has been done already, point 9 proves the author is smoking something nasty #
• What’s in a name, a startup name? → Wufoo! I like Wufoo!! #
• John Maddog Hall on Linux → Where do you see Linux heading in the next five to 10 years? World domination. #
• have a beer bath → a beer shower, a beer flush etc. all courtesy of some nice plumber who forgot to connect pipe A to outlet A. #
• Google internals → describes the now famous Map/Reduce framework, the GFS and other details that allow a fast and reliable search of indexes #
• so what’s your five buck idea? → don’t have a business plan, don’t have a model, don’t do anything. Just give it your users, raw and uncut. #
• Find out your Japanese name → Hi. I’m Nakashima Taiki. What’s your name? #
• Supersized, my ass! → “I hope they’re also making the seats stronger. With all the jumping up and down during matches, they are going to get quite a pounding” - umm. They’re watching tennis, not having sex on the seats. (At least, one would hope) #
• any publicity is good publicity, right? → so, how about a kidnap and rescue operation to boost your chances of relection? #
• Cavemen and gentlemen have nothing to fear - blondes are not going to become extinct → Snopes to the rescue, once again. #
• The world’s richest billionaires - mapped → stalkers start your engines! Er.. no. wait. Do not stalk billionaires, for their lawyers are better than yours. #
• An EULA worth reading → promises to provide bug fixes for free and actually describes a method by which the software can be transported from machine to machine by the user. #
• MS Office 2007 User interface screenshot → menus? what menus? we don’t need no stinking menus #
• get smarter in 7 days → Sudoku, Brainteaser, Countdown, oily fish, shower with eyes closed, brush teeth with wrong hand #
• FeedYes - an RSS feed creator for sites which don’t offer syndication → slightly weird output, but perfectly usable #
• Yanni busted for domestic abuse → ooh. poetic justice #
• Valleywag Google Gals final → Trisha! Trisha! Trisha! etc. You get the idea #
• are you taking the piss? → yes. yes, I am. anything to avoid Fosters Lager #
• plasticassets.com - where the jokes come prewritten for you → methinks they’re mistaking plastic for silicon #
• luck in user performance → outliers and statistical anomalies #
• spacetelescope.org - pictures from hubble → stars in your eyes #
• Pixoh = edit pictures online → Cute for quick crops, resizes and conversions #
• Google Drive in the offing? → more googly goodness #
• how to be an expert → summary: just keep plugging at it and hope to outlive every other sodding expert #
• altruism appears in 18 month old babies → the need to help is hardwired in humans #
• programming languages as relationships → so.. yeah #
• Jessica Alba does _not_ appear naked or semi-naked in PB March 2006 → and her expensive legal team will prove it! #
• rotating plug points - well, I never! → manufacturers of large plugs need to get with the program, anyway #

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