So I'm looking for something in the format "foo-bar", with those exact characters including the dash. I'm pretty sure the next word contains a certain character too, let's say 'z'. I'm completely failing this search ( Read more... )

Selected twitter snippets from the past two weeks ( Read more... )

I love the Talking Time forums over at Gamespite. Keep in mind the following exchange took place in a religion thread in the Pit of Flames sub-forum, where people are less polite than usual yet still more civil than probably 90% of forums on the internet. The emphasis in the first quote was added by the quoter.

--- To a Christian or a Muslim, ( Read more... )

You know how a lot of blogs, especially ones that have traffic-driven revenue, will have a whole list of little social networking site icons at the bottom of every post to let people propagate links every which way? It suddenly occurred to me that if you take some of the most common site icons and rearrange them a bit, you can reveal some ( Read more... )

Today, Facebook has a friend suggestion for me ( Read more... )

I love sensible licensing of user-generated content. I love creative commons. I love letting people re-packing information in new and useful ways ( Read more... )

So I'd been noticing a particular variety of spam at my work account recently which had incongruous subject lines that looked for all the world like they were ripped from some 70s PSA about terrible, terrible reasons to have sex. A little Googling turned up this: 237 Reasons To Have Sex. Which is, in fact, a psychology paper (the actual paper is ( Read more... )

I don't know if there's anyone who reads my LJ that has more than cursory contact with Wikipedia, so this may be useless ranting, but what the hey ( Read more... )

Hey, when did Google Maps go gloabl without me noticing? Ok, so the only place with street maps besides the US is the UK (they even mark Underground stops in London, nifty!), but the point is there's detailed "satellite" view areas all over the place now! Tokyo, Rio, Iraq, you name it ( Read more... )

So, while I was out of the country, the anime club I'm in put on "Eva! The Musical" at the local con. It looks to have been a blast. As the resident web-lemur, I've thrown up this web page with materials. Still rough at the moment, but it has the hilarious script and some other links. Fun stuff. I, along with everyone else, am waiting for a ( Read more... )