Jeremy Hardy's Linda Smith Obituary from the Guardian.
bollix word game. Very addictive. In brief - See how many words you can make from a bunch of letters in 3 minutes.
freesmug has lots of wonderful Open Source software, with a few links to other similar sites. Very Useful if not invaluable.
StreamRipperX Record songs from your favourite Internet radio stations as individual MP3 files.
tickr for flickr has images from flickr scrolling across your screen dependents on the tag word you feed it.
The death of Smash Hits
Shira browser
Tweaking iTunes
Go 'back' to a new tab in some browsers
Art flower printer prints on flowers
sewing machine can work with both downloaded patterns and digital photos to make custom designs
Germaine Greer says some of her smartest students learned everything they needed from watching Friends, while John Sutherland laments the triumph of the 'swotocracy'
Onlife
tracks pages you have visited, documents you have read in a visual way, has a little browser that allows you to view selected items in a pane below
It Tracks apps like safari, Firefox, Camino, Real Player, Quicktime, Mail, Vienna (my Favourite RSS client), NetNewsWire, TextEdit, - and t'others.
OK. The purge has taken place, that really was just one long unsorted splurge. but it feels fitting somehow.
2 comments:
hehe acomplished duck :)
and you're a nerd duck. i love it.
Hi Duckie!
in my role as matchmaker to the nerdy duck world I thought you might be interested to have a look at 'Le Canard Noir' - otherwise known as the 'Little Black Duck of Doom'
http://www.quackometer.net/blog/
(I came across your blog because I'm also a fan of 'The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin)
-thanks for your link to the Jeremy Hardy Linda Smith tribute.
Deano
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