Archive for September, 2005
links for 2005-09-24
TIME.com – Secrets of the Shy. Studies in shyness, personality, and growth by psychiatrists. (tags: science culture) Tomato Basil Soup. Recipe from This Classical Life. (tags: food) Om Malik: Google Made Opera Browser Free. Apparently Opera has a “referral-for-dollars” agreement with Google and a few other corporate entities. (tags: google opera) Mac Geekery – Video [...]
Hurricane Rita Approaches
Scarcely a month after Hurricane Katrina, now we have a new Monster from the Gulf: Hurricane Rita. (Well, from the Atlantic, actually, via the Gulf, but it’s the warm water in the Gulf of Mexico this time of year that feeds these beasts so they grow monstrous.) Texas and Louisiana are at risk, but having [...]
links for 2005-09-23
The Hasselhoff Image Database. (tags: hasselhoff) Surviving the Slashdot effect. AskMefi on preparing for severe bandwidth spikes. (tags: askmetafilter server slashdot) codebymatt.com – Web Design Cheat Sheets. Includes PHP, CSS, and JS cheat sheets which I could use. (tags: markup) Linotype FontExplorer X. Free font viewer for Mac. (tags: mac fonts) The DCeiver: Get Lost! [...]
A Brief History of Yahoo Acquisitions
You know what really bothers me about the whole Yahoo-Flickr deal? Take a look at each of these sites: RocketMail eGroups Geocities OddPost Overture Inktomi Launch ViaWeb (note that they didn’t even bother renewing the domain) Broadcast.com GamesDomain DotMusic Simplenet.net All of them were bought by Yahoo sometime between the late 1990s and early 2000s. [...]
links for 2005-09-22
Opera browser is now free. (tags: opera free browsers) Opera Browser Wiki (tags: opera) Omnipost. My first job was here, and this is the only web presence they have that I can find. (tags: work philippines) OC Weekly: Cover: The Tragedy of It All. Orange County’s own Hurricane Katrina: the Great Flood of 1938. (tags: [...]
Belated “Blogiversary”
I forgot to post about this last week, but last Tuesday, September 13th, marked this weblog’s fifth year. HNBP is now a super-senior. It all began with “Think,” a spare directory in my old Hypermart space (gone now) where I could tool around with various things — in this case, Blogger — as I reacquainted [...]
links for 2005-09-21
Opera and Del.icio.us bookmarklet issue. The del.icio.us “remember this” bookmarklet only works in Opera if you check “Reuse existing page” in Preferences. (tags: opera delicious) Banana Bunker. Protect your bananas from damage! Real product! (tags: food fun)
links for 2005-09-20
Profaning Mammon. By Farther Steps on desecrating the idol of money by giving it away. (tags: theology faith finance) Challies Dot Com: The Servetus Problem. A bit of Geneva history, and foil to the idea that John Calvin was the city’s tyrant. (tags: faith history) Spaceflight Now: NASA formally unveils lunar exploration architecture (tags: space [...]
Trees on the Mall
(Trees.jpg uploaded by brownpau.) It was nice enough out that I could amble home from work today, so I opted for the “scenic route” along the National Mall. I had to stop at one point and just admire how twilight shone through the trees as a warm northwest breeze rustled the canopy. A heavy sense [...]
Calamondins and Capitol
(IMG_3598 uploaded by brownpau.) Amy came over for the weekend. We sniffed botanical aromas, learned about First Ladies, viewed 15th Century woodcuts and Claesz still lifes, dipped our toes in the fountain at the Sculpture Garden, walked around Watergate, and watched a couple of bad movies. My camera was most active at the Botanic Garden, [...]