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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

MAKE: Blog: Open GPS tracker - A low cost, simple, GPS tracker
pachube :: connecting environments, patching the planet - - "a service that enables people to tag and share real time environmental data from objects, devices and spaces around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual."
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe - "I've taught it obstacle avoidance and blogging."
Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org - Fascinating background on the game that wasn't to be. The comments are worth reading, as my of the parties involved have commented - not all happy about the article.
Home Easy - SAVE your money, by reducing ‘Standby’ power and wasted electricity. - The range of home automation products that B&Q sells.
Ethernet shield for Arduino - Ethernet enabling an arduino - including running a webserver on the board. Interesting possibilities for tweetjects. Update: odd that I bookmarked this one, and not the one I actually bought.
BBC NEWS | Magazine | World’s best-known protest symbol turns 50 - Interesting history to the CND logo. Never knew it was based on the semaphore for N and D.
We Tell Stories - ‘The 21 Steps’, by Charles Cumming -

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks - “Great” stuff.
Nifty Corners Cube - freedom to round - Javascript library for adding rounded corners to elements on a page. Some very Nifty examples.
BBC - Radio Labs - Now Playing in the Cloud - Using XMPP to be notified of what is being played on BBC radio stations. It will be interesting to see what else is done with this. XMPP is being used to glue more and more parts of the internet together these days.
FreakAngels - “FREAKANGELS is a free, weekly, ongoing comic written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Paul Duffield.”
Five Chinese Crackers: Misquoting the Archbishop - 5CC does a great job of pointing out the flagrant misreporting in the tabloid press. The incorrect reporting of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech from last week is a great example. For all those calling for him to resign, I wonder how many have actual