November 30, 2005 – 10:14 pm
Now I’ve seen everything… geometry of Genesis 1. I suspect maths can go too far in looking at certain things.
November 30, 2005 – 2:30 pm
[kottke] Ah, innovation: Top 10 Songs That Rhyme “Bacardi” with “Party”
November 30, 2005 – 10:14 am
Movie: Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
Visually excellent, this kids movie (it’s a musical, of sorts) has some quite scary moments for small children, but tells a compelling story. A little too short, perhaps. Christopher Lee is excellent. Watch on DVD, I think, though, on the big screen, some of the words were hard to pick, and [...]
November 30, 2005 – 9:39 am
playing jokes on the contractor
November 30, 2005 – 9:26 am
[coudal] origin of the the wire coat hanger
November 29, 2005 – 1:37 pm
How political correctness and cultural changes have influenced Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever,1963 and 1991.
November 28, 2005 – 5:17 pm
Talk about cashing in on your mistakes: the man who was sacked the US government’s emergency response to Hurricane Katrina - Michael Brown - to start consulting business - on emergency planning.
November 28, 2005 – 11:58 am
UN debut for $100 laptop for poor.
November 27, 2005 – 10:29 am
Actor Pat Morita dies, aged 73
November 25, 2005 – 8:54 am
[fg] RSS feeds - what are they good for? Full marks for using a Venn diagram to good effect.
November 24, 2005 – 6:54 pm
After a less than wholly productive day of study, I’m off to sit an exam for a correspondence course on the Old Testament… I can’t say I’ve missed sitting exams.
Update: It was okay. At first reading, it was pretty frightening, but I managed to find four out of the eight questions that I could answer. [...]
November 23, 2005 – 2:44 pm
[panther] Odd traffic calming approaches
November 22, 2005 – 4:20 pm
BBC News: Literary classics become txt msgs; eg:
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November 22, 2005 – 10:05 am
Word of the day: Monergism
November 22, 2005 – 9:17 am
DVD: The Usual Suspects
An old staple, this kept me company while I ploughed through some housework - I still notice the odd subtlety that I haven’t spotted in previous viewings.
November 22, 2005 – 9:16 am
DVD: Ross Noble: Unrealtime
An amazing sequence of improvisational comedy, although quite crass in places. Two shows on two DVD’s, with a few special features showing that perhaps Ross is like this all the time.
November 22, 2005 – 6:51 am
[Forever Geek] What won’t be fixed in IE7
November 21, 2005 – 4:00 pm
Making an Isometric Pixel Kitchen
November 21, 2005 – 10:30 am
back to grind
Originally uploaded by cafedave.
Those of you familiar with Cronulla might spot this picture and have a knowing smile on your face. Yes, Grind has reopened (and Richard - the coffee king - is back). I was wearing my Grind t-shirt as we walked through Cronulla, [...]
November 21, 2005 – 7:34 am
[fg] Installing a Mac Mini in a Millenium Falcon (with iSight camera).