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Not completely squirrel-proof

This guy… … just loves his peanuts… The feeder is squirrel-destruction-proof, but it doesn’t stop him helping himself!

Lost in translation…

…(otherwise known as www.tashian.com/multibabel) is an interesting web site if you want to try repeatedly translating a phase or sentence back and forth between English and a series of other languages. The result is much like you got if you used to play Chinese Whispers when you were younger.

For example, after ten . . . → Read More: Lost in translation…

Do you favour Microsoft or Open Source software?

Take this Implicit Association Test (being run by Harvard University, the University of Virginia, and University of Washington) and find out.

Some background information on Implicit Association Tests from the participating universities: Psychologists understand that people may not say what’s on their minds either because they are unwilling or because they are unable to . . . → Read More: Do you favour Microsoft or Open Source software?

Identity theft 101

How much information about someone can you find out, starting with a discarded boarding card stub and just surfing the internet for 15 minutes using only data available in publicly available databases? Address? Who you are living with? Passport number and expiry date? Where you studied? Date of birth? Nationality?

Well, all of those . . . → Read More: Identity theft 101

Acid-stained concrete floors

Ruth was just reading about someone’s house (on a quilting web site, where else?), which has acid-stained concrete floors throughout. Sounds a bit weird, but it looks great. We took a look at Faux Real Flooring’s web site to see some examples (Take a look at some of the photos in their gallery). . . . → Read More: Acid-stained concrete floors

Lots of blog-spam

The above picture is of my blog admin interface some 12 hours after I last deleted the spam comments that had been entered, linking to dubious web sites selling all manner of things. One hundred spam comments in 12 hours, which have been blocked from ever being entered on the blog and which . . . → Read More: Lots of blog-spam

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