Jack Slocum has just created an incredible comment system for WordPress. The demo lets you add comments to any block in the post just by clicking in the left margin. Yellow tags show the number of comments for that block of text, just click the tag to view the comments. What is really nice is [...]
Overclock your toothbrush! Just don’t shred your gums A fantastic Honda Civic commercial with a choir doing the sounds effects. Sling snotty slime around devious mazes. A tutorial on how to make steel and glass icons in Photoshop. The results look very impressive. Using ScummVM and DOSBox to play your favorite old classic games. Howtoforge [...]
Some actually useful and quite surprising household tips from some program on Japanese TV the other night. Make tangerines or oranges extra sweet by putting them in 40C water for 10mins before eating Old jeans are great for cleaning scum from baths and stainless steel basins If you’re trying to push a stalled car, don’t [...]
The International Salary Calculator is a good site for those interested in comparing incomes between cities. Basically you punch in your income in the city you currently live in and then pick where you want to live and it will tell you how much you need to earn in the new country/city to have the [...]
Strange how Metacrawler is almost unheard of these days. Before Google, this used to be my favorite web search tool.
DreamCalc is the de facto standard photo realistic scientific calculator for Windows. What’s more, it’s free! It is the only choice, which allows you to throw away your existing desk calculator. Supports natural fractions, extended trigonometry, conversions between metric and US or Imperial measures, scientific constants, optional true order mode, engineering, and base-n modes. Windows [...]
One of the best collections of digital art I have ever seen is at http://www.depthcore.com/ Which ones are your favorites?
My head hurts. Musta been all the beer last night. Hirame is in Tokyo for a week so we went out with her last night. It was fun, the bits I remember anyway.
Researchers at Cern and Californias Caltech have tripled data rates over existing infrastructure by tweaking protocols. They averaged 923Mbits/sec using Fast TCP compared to 266Mbits/sec using standard TCP. By aggregating 10 channels they achieved 8.6Gbytes/sec! FTCP is one of the results of research into the recently launched Grid, a network for distributing computing power rather [...]
Standard 802.11a 802.11b 802.11g Max speed 54Mbps 11Mbps 54Mbps Avg speed 20Mbps 4.5Mbps 20Mbps Outdoor range 30m 120m 50m Indoor range 12m 60m 20m Frequency 5GHz 2.4GHz 2.4GHz Channels 8 13 13 Users/access point 64 32 32 Officially ratified yes yes yes Wifi certification yes yes end 2003