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Entries for week beginning February 22, 2004

February 28, 2004

Veggies Rock

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Spotted in the local supermarket. Because 8-year-olds aren’t eating brussel sprouts purely because of the branding, and not because they taste like the devil’s own snot.

February 27, 2004

Salling Clicker v2.1

Woo! Now I can control iTunes with my Nokia 3650 cellphone — and see the album artwork on the display.

February 25, 2004

Californian Geography

“This is New England. It contains most of the 50 states because the Pilgrims thought small. That’s why they’re so rude over there on the East Coast, you know.”

~stevenf: Touchy Feely

I have to confess to being a total Staples-whore too.

b3ta.com: yowzer browser

If the Inertnet was MODE 7

February 24, 2004

Caller ID for E-Mail

Microsoft’s attempt to beat spam. Should be interesting to compare with SPF.

snopes.com: Internet Petitions

“Claim: Signing and circulating online petitions is an effective way of remedying important issues. Status: False.” I ♥ Snopes!

February 23, 2004

Unsafe at Any Speed (or The Return of Darth Nader)

“<i>Fuck</i> The Real World, I’m Voting Nader.”

“We don’t support that”

“We’re not here to help fix your computer. We just want to get you off the phone. A tech-support slave tells his hellish tale.”

Animals on the Underground

Doonesbury: His teeth were there: Was he?

“help us flush out an authoritative witness to President Bush’s tour of duty defending the skies over Alabama — and put this tired, recycled AWOL story to rest once and for all.”

February 22, 2004

My-Symbian.com: Autolock

Automatically enables key-lock on your cellphone after a defined timeout.

Subversion 1.0 released

And just in time for a meeting I’m having tomorrow to discuss source control for my new project!

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