Category: Daily

“I can’t go to the grocery store without imagining what it might look like with empty shelves. […] I can’t look at paper plates and plastic forks without thinking about our “consumption-based culture in which disposability is an added value.””

“I thought you might be interested in the immunological properties of breastmilk, which are occasionally referred to, but rarely described in the popular press.”

My current diary expires at the end of August, but I’m planning on moving over to one of these sooner than that. But which one to choose? Help.

Only two kittens on one treadmill though. I feel like there should be four kittens and four treadmills.

(Ubuntu) I like my Caps Lock to work as an additional Ctrl key. However, the settings weren’t being reapplied each time the computer starts. Here’s a workaround that works for me.

Rip the audio stream from any YouTube video or FLV file. Haven’t tried it yet, but it looks promising.

“Your customers are forced to ask, ‘If Microsoft treats its MSN Music customers so shabbily, is there any reason to suppose that it will treat other customers any better?'”

“Preserving your garden memories in photographs is a great way to extend the growing season indefinitely. Here are some basic tips for improving your garden photos.”

“Theme Test Drive WordPress plugin allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use the default one.” This is also useful for doing a “live redesign” of your blog site without anyone noticing. I eventually dropped this plugin in favour of the Theme Switcher plugin, which allowed me to show the new theme to specific people by sending them the super secret link.

This story reeks of fiction, but it’s beautiful nonetheless. Ah this takes me back to the early days of this site, when you could be pretty certain that every day I’d post a link to an article on ananova. Alas, these days it is no longer my news site of choice.

Flickr now allows pro users to upload short videos. Cat photos => cat videos.

“I chose my internet provider by the fact that the line didn’t drop every two hours. I could then download songs without fear of having downloaded 98% of a song and then lose the whole dang thing.”

This is quite an ugly fish. Still, if the fish was looking at me, he’d probably say “you are quite an ugly human.”

“Details have emerged of how the opera singer was unsure of his weakening voice and faked the live appearance in front of a TV audience of millions.”