Train Spotting Sim

The javascript train spotting sim - careful now, stop blinking, you may miss something [via daisy].

Entry 773, Tuesday, March 9th 2004, Filed In Stuff
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The only legit use of the greatly loathed <blink> tag. I'm afraid you have to be a HTML g33k for this one...you know who you are.

Entry 772, Tuesday, March 9th 2004, Filed In Stuff
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Unreliable Facts

Because everything you read on the internet is true... Many of the "unreliable facts" at thebrainstrust will raise a titter or two. From a quick browse through one of my favourites was:

The last time anyone used the "Scroll Lock " key on a computer keyboard was on April 7th 1988, when Miguel Santinez, a Computer Science undergraduate at the Sorbonne, missed when aiming for the "Break" key whilst debugging a program in Pascal.

What is that key for? Come to mention it I don't remember using "SysRq" either.

Update: On second thoughts that really was an unreliable fact as I remember using the scroll lock key quite recently with a switch box (i.e. one keyboard & monitor, many actual PCs/Servers).

Entry 771, Tuesday, March 9th 2004, Filed In Stuff
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Calvin And Hobbes Strip Search

Text search for all your favourite calvin and hobbes comic strips with this very nice search engine at martijn's [via del.icio.us].

Entry 769, Wednesday, March 3rd 2004, Filed In Stuff
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Feck! Girls! Drink!

Video clips from Father Ted, one of the best UK/Irish television programs ever. Pictured is the one where they protest against the immoral film: careful now, down with this sort of thing!

Entry 768, Wednesday, March 3rd 2004, Filed In Stuff
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Diesel Station

Fuel for your desktop - nice automotive wallpapers for all you car lovers out there. Obviously I'm perusing the Mini section.

Entry 766, Monday, March 1st 2004, Filed In Stuff
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PigeonRank

At the heart of Google's search technology is PigeonRank running on lin/ax. By collecting flocks of pigeons in dense clusters, Google is able to process search queries at speeds superior to traditional search engines, which typically rely on birds of prey, brooding hens or slow-moving waterfowl to do their relevance rankings...

I can't believe I hadn't seen this before, many thanks to new boy Adam at work for enlightening me. I did actually LOL.

Entry 765, Monday, March 1st 2004, Filed In Stuff
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Some Eedjit's Cut My Niece's Hair

My absolute favourite UK television advertisment du jour, James Nesbitt and the disastrous haircut for Yellow Pages, on-line in big and small versions. See more entertaining UK ads over at adwatch.

Entry 764, Monday, March 1st 2004, Filed In Stuff
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Splutterfish

The Splutterfish gallery is, technically, a showcase for the Brazil rendering system, but it also makes for a rather fine selection of desktop wallpapers. "Can't rain all the time" (pictured) was my wallpaper up until recently.

Sidenote: for reasons unknown even to myself, this and the rest of today's links are all pictorial. I could make up some nonsense about brightening up a Monday, but it's much more random than that.