"The Long Tail" is a blog about, well the long tail. Written by Chris Anderson who can also claim to have invented the term "Long Tail".
Sunday, May 15, 2005
UFO?
Is it UFO? I don't know but that's the question being asked you can see the original google image here. The debate still wages on, But some how I think it's question we will never no the actual answer to.
REJECTED 'LOVE IS..' COMICS
The good people syndicating 'Love Is..' comics recently ran a contest where fans of the long-running strip could submit their own takes on this time-honored classic. This was taken by some to mean that there was an interest in changing or at least shifting the sensibility of the comic, one of the great one-panel strips in cartooning history.
This notion was mistaken. In fact, contained herein are some stabs that very narrowly skirted legal action.
LOL, I don't think there was ever a competition but if there was we should have them more often.
Sprol
Sprol is a planetary sightseeing blog. Visit some of the worst places in the world via satellite imagery. Our mission is to use space imaging to show people the visual macroscopic effects of our decisions and behavior. Since previous generations have not had the advantage of this viewpoint it is our responsibility to use it wisely.I have to say I like the idea behind sprol, let's face it most of these "Eye saw's" are hidden out of site, and no one ever gets to find out what goes on there. Never mind see the consequence's of the choice of location or the environmental implications.
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Extinct "Tasmanian Tiger", Thylacine
I have just been reading over on BoingBoing about the video over on 1 + 1 = 3, of the last known Thylacine.
The Thylacine a marsupial, not a Tiger could open its jaw up to 120 degrees. The 1933 video shows the last Thylacine, which died due to exposure from being left out over night in the Hobart Zoo two years before it's death.
According to the Australian Museum on line there is one Thylacine preserved in alcohol, which could one day be cloned when the technology is ready.
Who knows maybe one day they can bring this creature back?
The Thylacine a marsupial, not a Tiger could open its jaw up to 120 degrees. The 1933 video shows the last Thylacine, which died due to exposure from being left out over night in the Hobart Zoo two years before it's death.
According to the Australian Museum on line there is one Thylacine preserved in alcohol, which could one day be cloned when the technology is ready.
"The Australian Museum has a small Thylacine pup preserved in alcohol in 1866. Its cells could be used for cloning. By chance this Thylacine was stored in a jar of alcohol rather than formalin, which would have destroyed the DNA."
Who knows maybe one day they can bring this creature back?
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Google For MP3
I had tried playing round with this my self, after reading breakingwindows how too.
The only problem being it is slow and complicated, and involved lots of copy and past.
Well now there is a much, much easier way, smacki.com has a page up where you can just type, your artist or track in a box and it will do everything for you, how good is that!
The only problem being it is slow and complicated, and involved lots of copy and past.
Well now there is a much, much easier way, smacki.com has a page up where you can just type, your artist or track in a box and it will do everything for you, how good is that!
Monday, May 09, 2005
Sunday, May 08, 2005
Completing The Look
Some of you may remember the XP to MAC desktop how too, I did a while back, At the time the best skin you could get for winamp was the Ipod skin.
That was until now, Winamp has been buggin me to upgrade for age's now but I always so no, I like to know what these auto updates do before I let them alter my PC.
any way while rooting round the winamp site I found a skin to make winamp look like OSX. It complete the OSX look far better than the ipod make do skin.
That was until now, Winamp has been buggin me to upgrade for age's now but I always so no, I like to know what these auto updates do before I let them alter my PC.
any way while rooting round the winamp site I found a skin to make winamp look like OSX. It complete the OSX look far better than the ipod make do skin.
Saturday, May 07, 2005
Ipod Vending Machine
How cool is this, We never get these in the UK, but then again it would not last five min in the uk.
Speaking of ipod's I cheaked my freeipoduk status to see that at last some one else has completed two offers.
I now have 100 referals under me, But these are the few that matter...
Now all I need is two of them 4 to complete and I should have a mini soon :)
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Adactio Elsewhere
A Meme worthy of linkage,
Adactio Elsewhere
Is a great new idea, taking advantage of the trend to make public API's Jeremy Keith. Has made use of the Flickr, Amazon, Del.icio.us and upcoming API.
I quite like the idea of linking all these things together, and having your information displayed upon your own site rather than forcing visitors to go round 5 or 6 sites to find out information about you, but still allowing me to take advantage of the data entry tools made available on the original site.
I quite like the idea of linking all these things together, and having your information displayed upon your own site rather than forcing visitors to go round 5 or 6 sites to find out information about you, but still allowing me to take advantage of the data entry tools made available on the original site.
Too Picky
Once I updated this site every day, some times 7 or 8 times a day, Now I find that I am updating once a week if that.
It's not that I stopped going thought the 1st 50 links on the blog dex, it's not that I stopped reading 25 articles a night, Ok so I don't update on the weekend but I let my self have that off now I am back in work.
Ok so decent meme's are have thin on the ground for the last 6 or 7 weeks now, but that is not it. I think after spending 4 months searching out good meme's. I have become hardened to new ideas and have high standards, I must admit that some times I read stuff and say "once I would have linked to this, Now it's not worthy".
I think really it comes down to a more fundamental change blogger was always crappy and problematic, It was not till other blogger user's told me about the problems that they where having with blogger that a noticed or cared it was not till every blog I read was slagging off blogger. That I even gave it a second thought, but now every time I think about posting all I can think about is, is it going to be worth it spend 20 - 25 min's writing a something only to hit publish and have blogger crap out.
Let's face it, it's not like it takes 25 min to wright most of my peaces but by the time you have spent 15 min trying to sort out blogger and do the republish your entire blog thing to get it to work again. It's just such and arduous chore now, where as in the passed I never noticed and never cared. Now If I even thing about blogger all I can think about is losing half my life, just to make one post.
Maybe it's time to jump ship.....
(Just one last grip why the Fuck when using the blogger spell checker. Does it not have the word Blog or blogger in the dictonary?)
It's not that I stopped going thought the 1st 50 links on the blog dex, it's not that I stopped reading 25 articles a night, Ok so I don't update on the weekend but I let my self have that off now I am back in work.
Ok so decent meme's are have thin on the ground for the last 6 or 7 weeks now, but that is not it. I think after spending 4 months searching out good meme's. I have become hardened to new ideas and have high standards, I must admit that some times I read stuff and say "once I would have linked to this, Now it's not worthy".
I think really it comes down to a more fundamental change blogger was always crappy and problematic, It was not till other blogger user's told me about the problems that they where having with blogger that a noticed or cared it was not till every blog I read was slagging off blogger. That I even gave it a second thought, but now every time I think about posting all I can think about is, is it going to be worth it spend 20 - 25 min's writing a something only to hit publish and have blogger crap out.
Let's face it, it's not like it takes 25 min to wright most of my peaces but by the time you have spent 15 min trying to sort out blogger and do the republish your entire blog thing to get it to work again. It's just such and arduous chore now, where as in the passed I never noticed and never cared. Now If I even thing about blogger all I can think about is losing half my life, just to make one post.
Maybe it's time to jump ship.....
(Just one last grip why the Fuck when using the blogger spell checker. Does it not have the word Blog or blogger in the dictonary?)
Saturday, April 30, 2005
Japan
Some of you may remember this post from the other day, after the site was boingboinged (I saw it 1st thou). I noticed that there are a lot more pics if you go in the front door.
Double Guitar
This has to be a really cool but utley usless talent, but then again I can not play one Guitar never mind two at the same time.
One day
I will stop doing this crap.....
Your Birthdate: April 19 Your birth on the 19th day of the month adds a tone of independence and extra energy to your life path.
But at the same time, it poses a number of obstacles to overcome before you are able to be as independent as you would like. The number 1 energy suggests more executive ability and leadership qualities than your path may have indicated.
A birthday on the 19th of any month gives greater will power and self-confidence, and very often a rather original approach. However, a somewhat self-centered approach to life that may be in conflict with some of the other influences in your life.
This 1 energy may diminish your ability and desire to handle details, preferring instead to paint with a broad brush.
You are sensitive, but your feeling stay somewhat repressed.
You have a compelling manner that can be dominating in many situations.
You do not tend to follow convention or take advice very well.
Consequently, you tend to learn through experience; sometimes hard experiences.
The 19/1 is a loner number and you may experience feelings of being alone even if you are married.
You may take on a tendency to be nervous and angry.
blogthings.com/whatdoesyourbirthdatemeanquiz/
Your Birthdate: April 19 Your birth on the 19th day of the month adds a tone of independence and extra energy to your life path.
But at the same time, it poses a number of obstacles to overcome before you are able to be as independent as you would like. The number 1 energy suggests more executive ability and leadership qualities than your path may have indicated.
A birthday on the 19th of any month gives greater will power and self-confidence, and very often a rather original approach. However, a somewhat self-centered approach to life that may be in conflict with some of the other influences in your life.
This 1 energy may diminish your ability and desire to handle details, preferring instead to paint with a broad brush.
You are sensitive, but your feeling stay somewhat repressed.
You have a compelling manner that can be dominating in many situations.
You do not tend to follow convention or take advice very well.
Consequently, you tend to learn through experience; sometimes hard experiences.
The 19/1 is a loner number and you may experience feelings of being alone even if you are married.
You may take on a tendency to be nervous and angry.
blogthings.com/whatdoesyourbirthdatemeanquiz/
Kittenwar.com
Kitten war let's you rate Kitten's on how cute they are, in this day and age of the "butiful people" what more would you expect.
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Monday, April 25, 2005
Guess The Google
Is the great new game by Grant.Robinson where you have to guess the search term that generated the results, my only complaint is that the top scores are all near perfect.
grants sites.
grants sites.
Sunday, April 24, 2005
Round, Round
After having the crazy idea of driving round the world in my truck, I spent all day on the net looking round for information.
I came up with the three roots show above, the black root goes the "classic" root around the world, this would also be the most hassle free root, as being a UK Citizen The only paper work I would need is business visa for Russia which is easy to get.
The EU and USA/ Canada should be no problem, unless you spend to long there, Ofcourse there would be the usual import export paper work for the truck, but that would be just that paper work as it would not be staying in the USA.
After looking at this map of Russia I came up with this root.
*UK*
Liverpool,
London ,
Dover,
*France*
Callia,
Paris,
*Luxembourg*
*Germany*
Frankfurt,
Leipzig,
Berlin,
*Poland*
Poznan,
Warsaw,
*Belarus*
Brest,
Minsk,
Mahilyow,
*Russia*
Smolensk,
Moscow,
Nizhiny,
Kazan,
Ulfa,
Chelyabinsk,
Kurgan,
Petropavil "Kazakhstan"
Bmsk,
Novosibirsk,
Tomsk,
Kransbyarsk,
Irkutsk,
Ulan Ude,
Chita,
At this point on the map the road runs out, forcing you to go down in to china or get a train to "never" and drive to tynda then go vier Neryungri, Aldan, Yakutsk, Magaden (a large mining port).
Going into china really put me off, I can imagine the paper work, for the "crazy westerners".
I did a bit more digging and found this great site, Practical details on driving through Russia and Mongolia (Feb-2005)
They drove the opposite way from Vladivostok to Southampton, The site has an alternative root following the transiberian railroad.
I have yet to explore ether of the other two roots both of which head down under china, after going past the middle east. One root then goes up and thought Japan and the other goes down thought indonesia and south America.
I think I have final found something to do with one of my domain thingstodobeforeidie.co.uk. Now all I need is some cheap hosting, and more importantly the funds to do it, taking a year or so off work wont be cheap. Never mind the £4000 that would be needed for shipping costs alone.
I came up with the three roots show above, the black root goes the "classic" root around the world, this would also be the most hassle free root, as being a UK Citizen The only paper work I would need is business visa for Russia which is easy to get.
The EU and USA/ Canada should be no problem, unless you spend to long there, Ofcourse there would be the usual import export paper work for the truck, but that would be just that paper work as it would not be staying in the USA.
After looking at this map of Russia I came up with this root.
*UK*
Liverpool,
London ,
Dover,
*France*
Callia,
Paris,
*Luxembourg*
*Germany*
Frankfurt,
Leipzig,
Berlin,
*Poland*
Poznan,
Warsaw,
*Belarus*
Brest,
Minsk,
Mahilyow,
*Russia*
Smolensk,
Moscow,
Nizhiny,
Kazan,
Ulfa,
Chelyabinsk,
Kurgan,
Petropavil "Kazakhstan"
Bmsk,
Novosibirsk,
Tomsk,
Kransbyarsk,
Irkutsk,
Ulan Ude,
Chita,
At this point on the map the road runs out, forcing you to go down in to china or get a train to "never" and drive to tynda then go vier Neryungri, Aldan, Yakutsk, Magaden (a large mining port).
Going into china really put me off, I can imagine the paper work, for the "crazy westerners".
I did a bit more digging and found this great site, Practical details on driving through Russia and Mongolia (Feb-2005)
They drove the opposite way from Vladivostok to Southampton, The site has an alternative root following the transiberian railroad.
I have yet to explore ether of the other two roots both of which head down under china, after going past the middle east. One root then goes up and thought Japan and the other goes down thought indonesia and south America.
I think I have final found something to do with one of my domain thingstodobeforeidie.co.uk. Now all I need is some cheap hosting, and more importantly the funds to do it, taking a year or so off work wont be cheap. Never mind the £4000 that would be needed for shipping costs alone.
Rent My Son
I want to rent my own chain smokeing child to do the house work, but i dont live in the USA :(
I hope RentMySon.com is real, the world would be such a better place if it was.
I hope RentMySon.com is real, the world would be such a better place if it was.
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