Sunday, April 29, 2007

Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com have it right

Their "Dictionary", "Thesaurus", "Reference" links across the top work in the way I expect. When I type a new word into the box, I don't have to "Submit" before I can switch to a different tab. Unlike other sites, where my input is ignored if I click a link, it actually reads the input from the text box even if I don't click the submit button. Good job, Reference.com.

Geek Humor — Why Yahoo Might Want To Hire Another Ad Agency

As with real estate... location, location, location.

For the non-geeks: 404 is a common HTTP error code meaning "file not found."

Catching Crooks with Social Engineering

Why don't more police do this?

This was a simple trick, but it could probably be applied to many more circumstances.

A German phone thief led police right to his front door when they called the stolen mobile to say he had won some free beer and he willingly gave his address.

"An officer called and said, 'You've won a crate of beer'," said a spokesman for police in the eastern town of Neustrelitz Friday.

"Then he asked where he lived so he could drop the beer off, and the guy told him. I think the man was drunk."


Reuters.com

Friday, April 27, 2007

Interesting stuff - Daily Trojan, BrainFall, Beryl

Daily Trojan: Partial-birth abortion. 7 interesting comments as of now.

BrainFall.com: I should be an engineering major. Find out what major you should be. "The FIRST personality QUIZ site exclusively for FACEBOOK."

Beryl for Ubuntu Linux: eye candy is not a reason to get Windows Vista. Would this work on my ThinkPad? What's a good laptop for this? Can I use this at Google?

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Amapedia - Amazon.com's Wikipedia for Products

This is interesting. Amazon.com recently launched Amapedia, and it's integrated on most Amazon.com product pages.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Mongrel - Ruby on Rails Web Server

For when I learn Ruby on Rails on the future, there's Mongrel.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Old Apple TV Ads

TV ads from Apple's 1997-2002 "Think different" campaign are still striking, even today. Take a look.