Linkdump from http://del.icio.us/Hooloovoo
Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam: This is an image of Mount St. Helens, taken from the Johnston Ridge Observatory. This image automatically updates approximately every five minutes.
The Forbidden Library: Banned and Challenged Books: CAUTION! This site features books some people consider dangerous.
Combination laser and ointment therapy effective in treating vitiligo
Researchers create nanotubes that change colors, form ‘nanocarpet’ and kill bacteria
I have 10 gmail invites available.
I was going to come up with some sort of silly contest, but instead I’m just going to hand them out.
If you want one post a reply stating so. First come first served. One invite per person.
Just found this on del.icio.us: http://www.infinitecat.com
I think I’ll be submitting a photo of Briar and Pantha when I get home.
I just got my first block of Gmail invitations. 3 of them are already earmarked for people, so I have 2 to give away.
I’m not giving them away right now, so don’t ask. I’m going to come up with a contest that will (hopefully) be more interesting than “first two replys get the invites.” I’ll post some more details later. (After I figure out just what it is I want to do.)
Aren’t I a stinker?
Edited on Aug 27th 2004, 04:54 by Hooloovoo
I’ve finally gotten fed up with the bounceback spam to my domain email account. I took steps that I should have taken a long time ago, namely setting up my mail server to only allow messages sent to specific addresses to reach my inbox.
The reason I waited so long is that I tend to use a unique address whenever I sign up for somthing online. (It’s actually helped me ID a site that resold thier mailing list – naughty naughty.) I just went through my old mail and came up with 75 different addresses that I would potentially want to receive messages to. Not as bad as I thought. So I’ve set those up on my mail server and I’m currently sending everything else (*@) to my gmail account. I’ll spend a couple of weeks monitoring that box to see if there are any addresses that I missed before I set *@ up to bounce.
Now I’ll finally know how little email I actually get. :p
I just made an Amazon purchase a couple of days ago. I went to the site to check on shipping and ended up poking around a bit when I saw this:
Invader Zim Doom Doom Doom (Vol 1)
CURSES! If I had realized that was out already, I would have snagged it along with Bubba Ho-Tep and Red Dwarf (which are being prepared for shipping as I type – or so the site claims)
I guess I’ll just have to wait and pick it up with Invader ZIM – Progressive Stupidity (Vol. 2) when it comes out. In the mean time, the’ve been added to my wish list.
Edited on Jul 24th 2004, 05:52 by Hooloovoo
I’m reading an article on converting XML to MS Word, and I jusst had to stop to blog this quote
[Quote] …the end users would have high a degree of customization available with very little cognitive overhead. [Quote]
The way that was phrased, just struck me as funny. Kind of an underhanded put-down – but then, not really. Know what I mean? In any case, it made laugh.
from XML to MS Word via Mark Pilgrim’s B-Links
Edited on Jul 15th 2004, 10:11 by Hooloovoo
My home PC now has 3 options in it’s GRUB menu:
Windows 98
Redhat 9
Unununium 0.1
What the hell is unununium, you ask? Its a new OS being written in Python. It’s still REALLY early in development, (I’m not sure you can actually do anything useful with it) but it seems like it has some potential. (That assessment is based on info gleaned from the website.)
(link found here: http://del.icio.us/revjim/)
Edited on Jul 11th 2004, 04:19 by Hooloovoo
From the Feedpalooza Journal
[Quote] In related news: I just noticed I’m European, so from now on feeds will go for €2 instead of $2. [Quote]
That just struck me as a funny way to put it. Thanks for the humor 🙂
Is Funnyness a word?
I just sent an email to my mother from my gmail account. In it I used the phrase:
“I’m beta-testing a webmail service from google.”
You know how gmail displays text ads based on the content of the mail message you’re reading? Check out these:
[Quote]
Sponsored Links:Web Mail for Power Users
E-mail, Calendar, Notepad, & more Secure POP3, IMAP, and SMTP service
www.mailsnare.netWebMail solution
complete webmail platform. 65 Milions users. For Operators.
www.xandmail.comFree Email Account
15 MB Space- no popups/spam shield News, calendar, stocks, weather
mail.egine.com
[Quote]
They just advertised competative products to their service, based (I can only assume) on my mentioning that I was testing gmail. It just struck me as amusing.