There’s a new article on Neal Stephenson and his new book, Anathem, up at Wired: LINK
Category: Web
Airline Fee Chart
Here’s a handy little chart of fees charged by the airlines: LINK
Korean Goat Party
AKA North Korean Propaganda Posters
Go check out the whole gallery
Google it:
Donkey Kong Jenga
Shared server tool
Use this handy site to see what other domains are hosted on your shared server: Reverse IP Domain Check
It was mildly amusing to find a site on my shared server called, I shit you not, “Penguin Sex.” And yes, I was too scared to click the link (well, at work anyway).
Olympics Online
An excellent guide to watching the Olympics online over at the Wired How-to wiki: Watch the Olympics Online
More yummy cake pics
Some people are more frosting specialists than thinkers: What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate
This is apparently a continuation of this photo.
Dave Barry on the Beijing Olympics
Dave Barry is writing again, blogging about the Olympics.
Liukowleezation
This photo has been floating around for a month, usually with a variant of this explanation:
“Preparing for English-speaking visitors, a restaurant in China recently ran its name through an online translator, took the result, then purchased and mounted a large sign displaying the English version of their name: Translate Server Error.”
I tend to be a bit more suspicious – whoever thought up this viral photo strategy is a freakin’ genius! I hope they make money hand over capitalism-loving fist as a result of this brilliant web strategy.