Category: Daily

This must be a joke, right?

Install on ubuntu with sudo apt-get install pidgin-guifications

This woman conducted her own experiment into the health dangers of aspartame, an artificial sweetener, using 108 rats. Warning: there are some graphic pictures of some very unhealthy rats here.

Next up: a car that is powered by a twisted rubber band.

Java version of this magnificent game.

“So the labels […] have to be nice to the artists, as, these days, musicians don’t necessarily have to sign to a major label – to any label – in order to have a career.”

Scarily familiar.

“You’ve never seen monkeys more smug and satisfied. They scarcely moved at all from the sides of the trail. There wasn’t a hunter or a gatherer among them. They sat and were fed and ate with the indolent decadence of royalty.”

“Men who consume two or more sugary soft drinks a day have an 85% higher risk of gout compared with those who drink less than one a month, a study suggests.”

Unlike most other countries who have “discovered oil”, Norway have been careful to keep their fingers in lots of other pies so that they won’t go into recession when the oil dries up. Smart move.

A Linux Gmail notifier that has features missing in gmail-notify. You might need to use the latest version from SVN.

These guys have awesome skills.

A very interesting article about airports and runway capacity.

Hilarious weblog, added to blogroll.

So Microsoft liked the Firefox logo, huh?

I’m very excited about this. Fingers crossed that it meets expectations.

Hahaha. The early adopters are, once again, fucked. And don’t forget the name of the company who did this to you: Sony. Sony. Sony.

Music industry: “I’M MEEEELLLLTTTTIIIINNNGGGG…”