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Great OOTS today

The Order of the Stick web comic is one of my favourite web diversions. I have fond memories of being a Dungeons and Dragons basement dork back in the days before I knew about exciting things like women, the outdoors, socialising, sport, sunlight,  and… Well, most things.
The Order of the Stick is a web comic [...]

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Dude lands a plane after wing falls off.

Holy crap is all I can say.
Update: It’s fake! Thanks for letting us know Deems!

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The Technium

Very interesting post over at Kevin Kelly’s blog. It basically sums up much of the thought surrounding the idea of a ‘global megasupercomputer’ that is theorised to be developing naturally as a result of all the computers and processors becoming attached to each other via the internet.
From the article:
“My hypothesis is this: The rapidly increasing [...]

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Online legislation

Interesting post by Fayyaad over at Utter Insanity on the drawbacks of current legislation over the online world. Basically, he follows up on a few different articles discussing the fact that progress online is far out-pacing the legislation in the real world to manage it.
What do you do if you create a virtual object in [...]

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Wordpress image issues (2.6 and up)

Luckily this is a fairly easy thing to fix and doesn’t involve getting Wordpress to release new code. The problem is caused by the fact that you are using a theme that has old CSS methods for aligning images. The new implementation of the way Wordpress inserts images uses classes to specify alignment. Most older themes don’t.

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Fantastic Contraption

If you’re old enough to remember DOS games, then you’ll probably have played The Incredible Machine.
Well, this is very similar, only it’s a simplified online version called Fantastic Contraption. The idea is to get the little red thing into the other little red thing. This isn’t nearly as simple as it sounds.

The reason it’s not [...]

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Buy this blog!

The always excellent Utter Insanity blog has a link to this rather funky website ranking web application. Apparently StalkingVenus is worth $2971! God knows how they come up with the results, but it’s a bit of fun anyway.
Do you own a website? Go get yourself ranked!

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Learn a language via social networking

Well now here’s a pretty nifty idea. Palabea.net is a social networking site designed to foster the learning of a new language.
It’s a free service that hooks people up internationally so that everyone becomes both a student and a teacher to someone else. In other words, if someone wants to learn English, I can become [...]

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Horribly addictive online game

I ran across this yesterday and decided I’d give it a try. Several hours later, I forced myself to save and exit, or I would have ended up getting carpal tunnel syndrome in my eyes! GemCraft is one of those really simple games, but with totally addictive gameplay.

The idea is pretty simple. Beasties come out [...]

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