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Rebecca MacKinnon's China Earthquake pledge -- Rebecca MacKinnon pledges another $500 to the Chinese Earthquake fund if 500 people donate at least $20. I've donated, have you?
Singed man sought after bungled arson attempt -- CCTV captures a man trying to firebomb a Manchester nightclub, and end up setting himself and his bike on fire. Story and video. The video is breathtakingly funny.
Nobody likes E-books but me -- Mark notes that major publishers have twisted ebooks by removing the benefits of them, and then they wonder why no-one buys them. Mark describes the three ways major publishers have destroyed the value of ebooks. I'm interested in Amazon's soon-to-be-released Kindle - but its a locked in system. Fail.
Chess Vault - a mine of chess information -- Last century I was an active tournament chess player. But it took too much work to keep my playing strength up. These days I run a chess blog covering the top tournaments, which includes analysis of interesting games. I'm about halfway through my coverage of the recent Kramnik - Topalov World Championship. The passion for chess is still there.
Kramnik is world chess champion -- The 13 year schism in the World Championship title looks to be healed. Vladimir Kramnik now holds both titles. He beat his opponent, the #1 player Veselin Topalov over the board at both classical and rapid play, and he is the moral victor due to Topalov's Toiletgate accusations and off the board antics (and the contraversial game 5 forfeit). Its a good day for chess that the good guy won.
Top 5 Games Of All Time: Lords of Midnight -- 20 years after it was first released, The ZX Spectrum version of Lords of Midnight continues to impress in its depth of gameplay and sheer addictivness. I'm glad to see this game mentioned in a top 5 games of all time (on someone's list anyway). I still play the faithful PC conversion of the game, and its great to see Lords of Midnight is alive and well on the web.
Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer -- The headline says it all really. A genuine entry in the Darwin awards 2006.
How to Shut up and Get to Work! -- 'Set aside a couple of contigious hours of 'alone time' where colleagues know not to disturb you.' I'm thinking of a signal, like a red flag, or wearing a peaked cap. Beats using colourful language.
The Secret Language of Symbols -- More reference material for solving Google's the da Vinci code puzzles. This time an explanation and meaning of symbols.
Wikipedia: The da Vinci Code -- Probably come in handy deciphering some of the hidden questions in Google's da Vinci Code puzzles. Male and female, blade and chalice.
Jack Bauer wasn't born, he was unleashed -- Sun Tzu once wrote, 'If your enemy is weaker, conquer him. If he is stronger, join him. If he is Jack Bauer, you're fucking dead.'
Managing Mavericks -- 'If their energy and ideas aren't properly channeled, mavericks can become bored, unhappy or disruptive. Or they might just leave the company, taking their insights with them.'
Guardian: Zugzwang - a serialised novel in weekly installments -- A serialised thriller novel set to the backdrop of the 1914 St Petersburg chess tournament, and the social tension of pre First World War Russia. One of the psychologists patients is obviously modelled on Akiba Rubinstein. Chess themes and games run throu
BMW Audiobooks -- 'BMW, in conjunction with Random House, brings you BMW Audio Books, a unique series of specially- commissioned short stories showcasing the work of some of the finest contemporary writing talent.'
Henny and her mutley crew -- Dog sledding in the Arctic Circle, raising money for the Bristol Royal Children's' Hospital - and blogging about it. Henny from the RNIB. Good luck!
Pedestrian sign's forked tongue -- In English the sign read 'Look Right,' but underneath the translation into Welsh read 'Look Left.'
SearchWin 2000: The real story behind the Massachusetts ODF flap -- Insightful article: Microsoft Office formats versus the Open Document Format is similar to IBM's Token Ring versus TCP/IP and Ethernet
Allison comments on Brian Jones blog re Microsoft's refusal to support OpenOffice XML formats -- Jeremy Allison, the lead developer of Samba exposes the hypocrisy of Microsoft's refusal to support ODF.
Jacaranda photo gallery -- Wonderful pictures of Jacarandas in full bloom. From Brooklyn, Pretoria, October 2005.
Ambigrams -- Awesome collection of ambigrams in various forms, including the Dan Brown ones. (via Eric Meyer)
Air force payout cures Santa woes -- The Danish air-force has admitted to causing the death of Rudolph, one of Santa's reindeer. They have paid Santa compensation.
Star Trek New Voyages -- Fan produced episodes of Star Trek
So you think you're smart? Too smart for your salary? Then prove it. -- 25/25 for a coefficient of 10. Maths puzzles were interesting.
Discovery returns safely to Earth -- Welcome home Discovery!
EyeOnWiner: Reading Dave's drivel so you don't have to. -- There's a concerted attack by Dave Winer on Adam Curry (and most likely without basis).
BBC: Test your knowledge of the Force -- 'You got 13 right! Excellent. A true Jedi master. You're probably already camping outside a cinema.' - Not quite
Radical Simplification -- Sam Ruby asks 'Do we really need middleware' - provocative and inspiring
Wales 32-20 Ireland -- Rugby: Wales clinch first Grand Slam in 27 years. The days of Gareth Edwards, JPR Williams, Phil Bennett and JJ Williams are back again.
Hobbit picture 'four years away' -- Peter Jackson expects lengthy negotiations, and perhaps starting in 2009.
Developing on Windows, Unix style -- free downloadable tools
How to Study: A Brief Guide -- active reading and note taking.
Crawley pool league tables -- Greyhound B!
BBC: SpaceShipOne 'flies to success' -- Fantastic achievement involving a South African, a Microsoftie and Virgin.
Wikipedia Fundraising -- Trying to raise $50,000. I challenge bloggers to meet my donation of £100 sterling.
Xircom and PCMCIA Fedora Core 2 Bugzilla report -- A workaround for the non-working PCMCIA. Works on my Thinkpad 600.
Anil on Nigritude Ultramarine -- Second deadline coming up - 7th July.
South African at the helm of historic flight -- Mike Melvill and Mark Shuttleworth - the first private citizens in space are both South African
Embedding Atom elements in your RSS 2.0 feed -- Yummm. Funky RSS from the RSS Advisory Board.
Time-traveller busted for insider trading -- March 2003 - but still a timeless classic
Bill Gates and Petals around the Rose -- I think I have it figured after the answer to the second roll
The drawbacks of no export facility. -- Dave Winer: Ask nicely, and you just may get your data back on the 1st July. And you can't tell your readers where your new web log is.
Battle of Normandy - Operation Overlord -- Acts of brave soldiers never to be forgotten.
Nigritude Ultramarine -- I'd rather Anil Dash win an IPod than a blog spammer
Return of Colossus marks D-Day -- A 1944 computer with a better up-time than Windows! (15 months)
May 1994: www.ibm.com is launched -- from the webmaster
Mark Pilgrim: Freedom 0 -- Mark donates $535 to Open Source WordPress instead of buying Movable Type 3.0
Zend: XML in PHP5 -- SAX, DOM and XSLT. Wonder if they've fixed the character set problems?
Fishbowl: Charles' Rule of Arguments -- A HOWTO on preventing recursive arguments of recursive arguments of recursive...
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