2006-12-03 (Sunday)
Links
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Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog
Lots of very funny, obfuscatory and incomprehensible diagrams about Web 2.0. Couldn’t be spoofed better. I thought diagrams were supposed to make things *simpler*. (via Haddock)
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How to Install Two Versions of IE (IE6 and IE7) on One Machine
Looks a bit laborious but might be handy sometime.
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vi-R-us » Blog Archive » Planets
Total Perspective Vortext / Powers of Ten style images to make you feel very, very tiny.
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World Geography Quizzes - Hundreds of Map Games
Loads of very good educational map games for dumbos like me. (via Haddock)
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Caledonian Global Challenge - Caledonian Business School
Europe-based map game. I’m embarrassingly poor at even this. (via Haddock)
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Geosense: an online world geography game
What it says. Good one, you can play against others (or click ‘Visit’ then ‘Play alone’). (via Haddock)
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World Map - countries of the world
Educational map game (my geography is terrible). (via Haddock)
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Voice of a City Paris
A group blog about Paris — get the hang of the place from what the locals say I think.
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Things magazine - Images from The Wood-Engravings of Robert Gibbings
Nice wood cuts, for inspiration. (via ChrisDodo)
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eG Forums -> Best Pastry/Cake shops in London?
Mmmmm… cake. To my shame I haven’t even heard of most of these. Must explore… (via ChrisDodo)
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Musical copyright terms ‘to stay’
Yay. Is making money off your work fifty years after you did it not good enough!?
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Hawk Wings
Apple Mail blog. I was thinking of switching to Apple Mail from Eudora when I saved this link, but probably won’t now. But just in case…
Tweets
Where did that weekend go? Off to bed with me.
Off for dinner (roasted vegetables) while watching 'How Music Works with Howard Goodall'.
Wishing Pepys had done many fewer things each day.
Dragging myself away from educational map games to do some more work.
Pleased that I can buy mince pies guilt-free now it's December.
Off to buy groceries and something nice for lunch.
Up late, head shaven, breakfast eaten, starting work. The Lord wouldn't be happy with me if he existed.