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DNS pre-resolution | Dalke Scientific - http://www.dalkescientific.com/writing...
DNS pre-resolution in Google Chrome and elsewhere. Interesting, though I wonder if this is one of the reasons the Chrome UI seems to freeze sometimes, with mouse-over not leading to rollover effects. - Chris F Waigl
Astroturfing 2.0.: Using the virtual world for real political effect. http://www.businessinsider.com/health-... (via @MelindaShore but on Facebook )
My Reaction to Eric Schmidt - http://www.schneier.com/blog...
What Would Jane Austen Have Twittered? - http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...
This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics | John Baez's Stuff - http://math.ucr.edu/home...
Now this is something to read with a fresh mind. Beautiful visulaisations, though the question is "of what?" - Chris F Waigl
lolSQL | Aaron Bassett - http://www.aaronbassett.com/tag...
First we had LOLcode. Now we have... HAI! I'M IN UR `table` - Chris F Waigl
Beautiful post by Lynne M (separated by a common language) on AmE/BrE cooking pitfalls http://separatedbyacommonlangu... . Now where to find Quark?
How to slice your bagel - Math geek style: http://www.georgehart.com/bagel... (via Chris Heilmann)
had a comprehension problem today with a store employee's dialect, after being directed to floor number "one aw". Aw, for "riverside".
one of the things I dislike about Tweetdeck more than the memory leaks is the inability to insert IPA characters. ü ß <- ok. ɔ <- invisible
Zero Geography: Mapping the Geographies of Wikipedia Content - http://zerogeography.blogspot.com/2009...
More fine-grained maps by population density would be interesting. - Chris F Waigl
Twitter in den Zeiten der Lautverschiebung - http://www.iaas.uni-bremen.de/sprachb...
the best & most touching "inappropriate use of Comic Sans" story, evar. http://www.metafilter.com/86695...
Wishing on a typeface | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog - http://ilovetypography.com/2009...
The name of the Neue Helvetica Arabic typeface is evocative of several different cultures. Here are notes of its designer, Nadine Chahine. - Chris F Waigl
24 ways | Have a Field Day with HTML5 Forms - http://24ways.org/2009...
Nice, short and sweet tutorial how to mark up and style forms now and in the future. Contains conservative use of HTML5 input types and CSS3 selectors. You wouldn't believe how often I see ugly tables (late 2009) delivered by someone who had to make a quick form. - Chris F Waigl
Hexes & Ohs – Alive Until Saturday Night - http://www.last.fm/music...
iPlayer's down... again? #BBC #iPlayer
Perch - A really little content management system (CMS) - http://grabaperch.com/
Perch appears to be a small commercial but low-cost CMS in PHP/MySQL. - Chris F Waigl
IBM Developerworks | UNIX turns 40 - http://www.ibm.com/develop...
Short write-up of the history of Unix, culminating in the history of AIX (well, it's an IBM article). Reference link section at the end. - Chris F Waigl
Commute home along the Thames towpath, 2009-12-01 7:30pm http://chryss.posterous.com/commute...
Royal Society puts 60 seminal scientific papers online - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
Royal Society - Trailblazing - http://trailblazing.royalsociety.org/
The Royal Society is putting 60 seminal scientific articles online. Excellent science education and history of science initiative. - Chris F Waigl
This American Life now has a Paypal option for donations: https://secure2.convio.net/wbez... - if you were put off by the long form, like I was.
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