The Boston Globe often has fabulous pictures in its “The Big Picture” section. Their latest series is no exception – just take a look at these!
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When I was a student, many years ago, I discovered Piet Hein and his fascinating gruk (grook) poetry, which was originally written as a call to resistance during the Nazi occupation of Denmark. I loved not only the poetry, but also the whimsical illustrations of circular-headed little people which accompanied nearly every grook. I . . . → Read More: The versatile Piet Hein Sometimes I ask myself what the developers of the Apple Mac spelling checker are smoking… Fortunately, most people don’t accept that particular suggestion – not everyone was paying attention however… If you thought the current financial crisis was bad news, things are looking even worse for 2030, says an article in the Guardian today: A “perfect storm” of food shortages, scarce water and insufficient energy resources threaten to unleash public unrest, cross-border conflicts and mass migration as people flee from the worst-affected regions, the . . . → Read More: More disturbing news Here’s a good article on Gizmodo, which lists a bunch of useful additions to iTunes, some for the Mac, some for Windows and even a couple to allow you use Linux to play from iTunes libraries. Take a look. I have been moving our music library to a new external disc drive this weekend, and after running the consolidate command from iTunes (File > Library > Consolidate Library) I noticed that although I only have each track listed once in iTunes, I have two files for each track in the iTunes music directory . . . → Read More: Removing duplicate files in iTunes Knight Frank have a handy service, if you want to keep an eye on how property (residential or commercial) prices are developing world wide. They publish a trend summary for around 50 countries twice a year. Here’s a list of many of their regular reports (scroll down for the international ones). Jonathan Jarvis has produced a clear animated explanation of how the credit crisis came about. The work was part of his thesis at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Worth watching. (via Daring Fireball) Ruth unloading her summer tires Ruth ordered her Honda Civic on July 5th, 2008. It was finally delivered yesterday evening. Time to deliver: 231 days or 7 months and 16 days. Difficult to understand that Honda has just closed their factory in the UK, where Ruth’s Civic was manufactured, for four months, when . . . → Read More: Crisis? What crisis? You may have wondered why, when you comment on some blogs these days, you have a little symbol like the one to the left, displayed with your comment. It is because many blogs allow people to define a gravator (globally recognized avatar), which identifies them when they write a comment. The gravator can be . . . → Read More: Gravators |
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