Wall Desktop

Can’t even remember where I found this - some blog or other. What’s kinda neat is that this is the company (Core77) that Jaq came runner up in a design contest in a few years ago. (Not strictly MacOS X, more OS 7/8, but there’s no category for that in my list…)

UNIX palindromes #1

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There exist a “test” command and a “tset” command, but tset does not do the reverse of test. I consider this a lost opportunity.

Teaching Humour

Most of what comes up on xkcd.com is nerdy humour. Nice to see something teaching-related: Certainty on xkcd.com I have other reasons for considering alternative careers to teaching, but this one counts a bit too!

Slow Down • Morcheeba • Charango (Instrumental) ★★★½

Resistor Colour Codes

LMAO!

Wilfred

There’s a new show starting soon on SBS, Wilfred. After seeing the advertisements a couple of times, it looks really good. The premise is that a girl’s dog, the Wilfred of the title, loves his owner, but hates the boyfriend. He manages to sabotage just about everything about the relationship. Sound interesting? It’s a comedy, and did I mention that the dog(s) in the show are men in dog suits. However, something I just read might turn me off it, before I’ve even seen it. Apparently, it’s by the same guys who created the despicable excuse for a comedy that is known as The Wedge. The only saving grace may be that SBS has picked it up, rather than one of the commercial stations (notably Channel 10?) Perhaps that will mean it is actually good. </TV Snob Mode&rt;

xkcd.com rocks.

If you haven’t been there before, you must go to xkcd.com, and read all of his comics. Most of them are excellent, some are truly magnificent. Randall really seems to hit the spot, focussing on nerdity, and pointing out how amusingly stupid many of the things we do and say are.

90s Flowchart

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

PostSecret, Sunday 14th Jan

This one gets a gig because it’s funny. I wonder if they noticed? This one gets a gig because everyone knows it’s true. Except in my case, of course. This one gets a gig because the poster didn’t pay enough postage. This one gets a gig because I’m an apostrophe nazi. Does he mean his friend has multiple wives, as it is written. Or does he really mean friends’ wives. I mean, he could be in Utah. This one gets a gig because we used to do the same thing, years and years ago. Our phone number was one digit different to a Hospital, and we used to have people ringing up at all hours looking for it, so we started answering with “Hello, Northern Community Hospital.” But we never managed to answer like that when it was a phone call for the hospital.

Independent Front Suspension

See it again at Toxic Junction. I seriously think it’s being done by pulling on the straps. Looks good anyway.

CLI-fu

LMAO! (from xkcd.com)