Labels: News to Me
- 07 August 2011
f.lux
Not new but new to me, this free program adjusts your monitor to fit better with the expected light intensity of the room your computer is in, throughout the day.
'f.lux makes your computer screen look like the room you're in, all the time. When the sun sets, it makes your computer look like your indoor lights. In the morning, it makes things look like sunlight again. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.'
Labels: News to Me
17 February 2011
Good music - I'd never heard of them before Vivianne pointed them out on SCmkII.
Labels: music, News to Me, Second Citizen, yootoob
02 March 2010
There.com is closing in a week.
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11 November 2009
An old post on Mental Floss investigates a mysterious website of photographs:
He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died
This photograph is from 06-06-79 on the website.
Labels: News to Me
05 May 2009
A Street With A View
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania made sure they made a splash on Google Street Views!
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11 February 2009
A Year-Old Story, But Who Is Counting.
Anyone who plays Entropia is familiar with the concept of gathering sweat - here's a real-life sweat-gatherer, though, courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald, which incidentally has "lathered" instead of "slathered" (unless hippo dung has foaming properties I am unaware of).
Labels: News to Me
04 December 2008
Well, the idea of Evelyn Waugh's Daily Beast has always made me smile, so I am not sure if I'm irritated or happy that Tina Brown has started (in October, but I just saw it today) a website with that name - it is a great name. I'm not an anti-Tina-ite, because although she certainly didn't do The New Yorker any good when she was editor, she is well-suited to projects with more of a popular culture slant. I decided that if the website clearly says where the name is from I'd be OK with the reference, but since the DB website might end up being known to more people than Scoop it would otherwise have the uncomfortable feeling of boosting something belonging to everyone and making it into one person's brand.
/me goes to check on the DB website.
No reference to Waugh. Oh, well - I can hardly blame her for wanting to use the name, and it makes the name live in another realm, so all is not lost, but the site's content is rather soft.
Labels: News to Me