Washington post correction:
“A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number.”
Category: Web
Google Public DNS
I’m testing Google’s public DNS servers out. If your ISP’s DNS servers suck or you are just curious, you can try it out too: Configuring your network settings to use Google Public DNS
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Note: They have the coolest IP addresses:
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
Random Linkage 20091130
- Chinese Google Against the World
- Use rotateme.org to rotate any website (here’s this blog rotated) (Note: Doesn’t work with Opera)
- Nicovideo redirector (can be used to view videos without logging in or having an account at NicoNico Douga)
- Self-heating baby bottle
- Best origami with Japanese money, ever
- cornholio
No, not the Hova
The Blueprints Database
I can look at blueprints all day. Unfortunately the majority I saw there were simple sketches with little or no markup.
Google Wave: First Impressions
- It looks just like the Hotmail layout. I only know what the current Hotmail looks like because I saw a noob using it in the wild the other day.
- Holy shit it’s unintuitive
- The difference between nested/unnested replies is, for the most part, totally fucking unclear
- I feel like one of the cool kids now
That is all.
Want a Google Wave invitation?
Hit me up in the blog comments, send an email, or think about me hard enough to set off my spidey-sense.
Note: I plan on giving away a couple; the rest are for family.
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My Wave invite (and Gmail as well) came from Osaka Bill, so anybody who gets an invite should feel compelled to sign the petition for The Cure to play live in Japan (except that the actual signing page seems hosed. Oh, and the deadline passed 2 years ago..).
UPDATE: Invitations have been reserved to be sent to a couple lucky winners; Google says that they aren’t always sent out immediately. Also, the Cure petition ended because they actually played at the Fuji Rock Festival in 2007 after a 23-year absence from Japan. Duh.
Unit Conversion Software
Thinking between metric, imperial, and traditional Thai/Japanese units is not so easy for a math wimp like me, so I rely on unit converters to do heavy (and sometimes quite light) lifting:
For a dedicated Windoze app I use Converber. There are many like it, but this one even has some Thai measurements in it.
A good online unit conversion utility can be found here: Online converter
a comment that can make you laugh or cry
This story was great, but the first comment just made my head explode: Lost in the Waves
Swept out to sea by a riptide, a father and his 12-year-old son struggle to stay alive miles from shore. As night falls, with no rescue imminent, the dad comes to a devastating realization: If they remain together, they’ll drown together.