Test your googling skills by playing The Gwigle Game. You need to know a fair bit about pop culture ‘tho. Actually, it’s a rather good training aide. Maybe Google will give the guy a big pile of cash.
I got so far as the paintings before I got bored. What comes after that?
Brandon U. Hansen tries to figure out if he can get to work faster – beating traffic.
The world is full of traffic and people who hate it. This article analyzes a year of data to determine if minor tweaks to departure times can significantly impact commute length – or if it is all out of the driver’s control.
Well, duh. Of course it does. But who’s going to go to work at 11:00 and return home at 19:00?
Anyways, looking at his opening figures is weird, because he says that driving to work soaks up 100 hours a year, and involves 15,000 miles – which implies an average velocity of 150mph. Even if he forgot the trip home, you’re looking at 75mph (120kph), which is unlikely unless your cousin is a cop or you live right on top of an Autobahn. Perhaps they’re driving to work in a rocket tractor – which I always thought was one of these, with one of these attached – but it seems most of the net thinks they’re one of these, and that would never work!
There’s a tool to test a website for references to sites that don’t appear in Google, which implies that the site has been banned. I’m not sure what the implication of referencing such a site is, but it would be reasonable to guess that Google would punish your site for being a collaborator.
10 Strangest DIY gadgets – the coolest of which is the Functional Hard Drive Clock.
Making Silkscreened images made easy… ish. Includes more explanatory links.
Engineers hack management for good rather than evil. A guy at Amazon invented and deployed “other customers bought…” in violation of management direction.
Some Americans hate IVR systems. Oh, that’s Interactive voice response.
Some kid has hooked up what he calls MIDAS: Multifunction In-Dorm Automation System, which seems to be something to turn on a laser light show at the press of a button. It’s also got CCTV monitoring, touchscreens, web-control and a smoke machine.
You know what? I don’t think anyone would want any of these features in a home automation system, perhaps save the CCTV.
Some guy reprogrammed Electronic Road Signs that were annoying him. Signs were removed.
On a related note, Wikipedia has an article on Street Sign Theft. Is everything encyclopedic?
Rob Gonsalves, who is Australian by birth, does some pretty Escher-esque paintings that are reproduced by inkjet.
Curmudgeon Gamer shows a History of Console Prices, trying to show that in inflation adjusted terms, PS3 isn’t going to be so expensive.
But the price comparison between it and the XBox360, wow. And the XBox ain’t cheap either. I can buy a PC for that kind of money.
SkeyMedia asks “Is it Time to Abandon 800×600 for our web page designs?”
Yes it is. But not to persue 1024×768, but flexible widths. For the love of God people! Fixed widths screens went out with button-up shoes!
Sitepoint tries to figure out how well the Web2.0 works for blind people.
Basically, no US gov website, and none that loves blind people, will be able to implement a AJAX-only site – a noscript verson will have to be available. And this stems from the fact that it’s too hard to make the various screenreaders act in a standard way in response to changes to the document. Which sounds to me to be a perfect problem for World Wide Web Consortium standardisation.