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Some links posted on Twitter

Mon, 19 May 2008 03:00:38 GMT

These are a summary of links posted on my twitter profile this week for the benefit of those who aren't using twitter yet.

Article about fostering innovation at Pixar

Listening to moloko but now giving a try to infected mushroom.

Just learnt about the bradley effect.

Perspective aricle by doshdosh about getting twitter followers.

Interesting Infovis videos.

Find hot singles in ...

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:15:09 GMT

After two weeks, today I made friends with the internet again.

I had a ton of bookmarks to sort, and while I was going through them I clicked on Scary Personals site. This image came up on the left menu bar. I'd say the probability of meeting any one of those chicks in that village is just about 1/27,500,021. What a whole load of bullocks!!

For any Simpson's fans out there. On this site you can watch all the 19 seasons of the simpsons for free.

For any alcohol fans:-

Albatross wallpaper

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:53:32 GMT

This month on National Geographic there’s a special feature about one of my favourite birds – the albatross. There are some great wallpaper pictures of these glorious birds.

This is the link of monthly wallpapers from National Geographic. For the Albatross pictures select December 2007.

From Alaska to Argentina's Southern Tip - by bicycle.

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:19:14 GMT

Check out this video preview of Dominic Gill who's cycling from Alaska to Ushuaia in the southern tip of South America (20,000 miles) by a two person bicycle. The plan is to find people along the way to help him cycle all the way through. He's in Cuenca Ecuador at the moment. Dominic keeps a journal and some travel stats at his site, take a seat

Via Vagabonding

Cat links and cat firefox theme

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:08:21 GMT

This cat thing is becoming a bit of a paranoia. I'm seeing cats all around me from featured animals on the animal of the day site to firefox theme, to my inbox. In the last weeks there were two uncommon cats featured on the AOTD site, the Andean Mountain Cat (Leopardus jacobitus) and the Palla's cat.

Then yesterday I found this firefox theme (a way to customise the look and feel of your web browser). I think this theme is so cool that it might even appeal to non cat lovers. What's more is that it's very useable. I particularly like the cat bouncing the world globe on the top right when a page is loading.

Last but not least, extreme cat lovers might want to read this article about how researchers found that cats cannot taste sweets. Thanks to Melissa for this who sent me the link by mail ... at least somebody is reading the blog :))

How many of the 100 words you should know, do you know?

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:17:38 GMT

The editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries published the list of 100 words every high school graduate should know. You can find a list of the words here.

Matthew Baldwin, the writer of one of may favourite blogs defective yeti, wrote a small application you can use to test yourself a number of these words. Words Test.

Also, if you're a word lover you probably like scrabble. You might want to check out this Blitz scrabble.

What does a Uzbekistani accent sound like?

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:45:28 GMT

Have you ever wondered what a girl from Uzbekistan sounds like speaking English? Or maybe a Chadian?

The speech accent achieve has a huge set of sound files with annotations and phonetic transcriptions of people from all parts of the world, speaking English. Apart from being an invaluable resource for Linguists, and probably Speech and Language Therapists ;) it's also good educational fun for the rest of us.

I still cannot recognize the main accents though after playing with it.

How-to identify constellations, give a back massage and get rich

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:49:16 GMT

These are some good resources to add to the expand your mind folder for when I'm at a loss what to do on the internet.

How to give a back massage - A short video and text explaining how to relief someone from the stress of the day.

Get rich - A list of youtube videos on personal finance.

Identify star constellations - A step by step guide on how to identify the major constellations and hints how to remember them.

What are you cooking tonight?

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:53:50 GMT

Rouxbe delivers step-by-step video recipes of cooking some equisite looking dishes from homemade mayonaise to slow roasted lamb loin. All the videos are very high quality and very detailed. All you have to do is signup for free and pick up the pan.

I picked up a selection of 3 dishes to whet your appetite. I'm sure somebody is going to get really hungry seeing them.

How mainstream are you?

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:46:07 GMT

This this cool lastfm.com site tells you how mainstream the music you listen to is.

I'm currently 12.32% mainstream.