Category Archives: Hyperlinks

Reading this interview with former president Bill Clinton [part1, part2](via Metafilter) , the following portion stuck out (on meeting Mandela): I said that, ‘Now, come on, when you got to walk out of prison the last time, didn’t you hate … Continue reading →

I haven’t read or touched Alternet since last year and when returning today I must confess I’m impressed with the site’s layout that it makes me wonder what they are running on their backend. (Compare it with the 2004 site). … Continue reading →

One article that caught my eye was this one over at Ars Technica: The iPod generation that becomes deaf (originally via Slashdot/Wired article): Researchers fear the growing popularity of portable music players and other items that attach directly to the … Continue reading →

Hey. Google has added Blogsearch. Fantastic, eh?. A quick search tells me that yours truly isn’t even listed. On any search engines. That’s good news. update: 7:11 PM, Looks like Slashdot is down. Must have been because of the Blogsearch … Continue reading →

Has anyone ever noticed the similarities between Boing-boing’s Doctorow and Half-Life’s Freeman? Or am I the first one to notice this? Wait: maybe there was a look-a-like contest. Update 2: OK: one of them is a bit more chunkier (just … Continue reading →

Earlier today, I found this gem: a multi-messaging protocol supporting curses based messager CenterICQ. It works too, as you can see from the images. It really works, and you have to take my word for it. The good thing is … Continue reading →

After playing with D-lusion’s ‘Rubberduck’, which is actually fun, I skidded towards the Propellorheads’ ‘RebirthMuseum’ site to see if I could try it. Yes, I ‘ve read today’s Slashdot discussion about this one too. If I remember correctly, the link(s) … Continue reading →

Via Scoble, Google has post-Katrina maps of New Orleans (Scoble link). According to Scoble, the Microsoft Virtual Team is on it too, but I guess, Google beat them to it. Watching CNN the last couple of days, I noticed that … Continue reading →

Since I was not in the state (work!) to reply in the comments section of Alan’s (excellent) post and since I do not want to end a thread as the last person ‘trolling’, a quick overview here: In my comments … Continue reading →

I‘m one of the lucky people who managed to get the free Opera license key. Cheers to the Opera Dev. Team. Testing it, I found out that I didn’t like the default ‘Opera look’: something I managed to reset to … Continue reading →

All sillyness aside, I feel terribly bad about the hurricane victims of Katrina. I saw that over Google, there are 6,000+ related links about this disaster. I know exactly what this feels like, when Juan hit Nova Scotia, a couple … Continue reading →

Call me old fashioned, but I have to smile when I read the following over at Kottke: For those of you who read the remaindered links in a newsreader, you may not have even noticed the change. Kottke on reading … Continue reading →