Scantips

Scantips. Ways to improve your scanning.

The secret lives of numbers

The secret lives of numbers. These people searched Google for the number of occurrences of EACH number upto 1 million.

ZX Spectrum emulator

Gosh, a ZX Spectrum emulator in Java. Hadn’t thought of the day when the most powerful computer I had once touched would be reduced to an applet.

Looplabs

Looplabs. Make your own music with a Flash synthesizer. I still have no clue how to work the controls. Comments ujubhai 2 Apr 2007 5:12 pm: yeah.er..how do you play it then?

Spyware

Spyware.

The deaf use mobile phones

The deaf use mobile phones through SMS. Good idea.

Netsurfer Digest no longer free

Pity… Netsurfer’s Digest now costs $20 a year. They’d been hinting about it for a while. I’d probably pay for it, if there weren’t alternatives. I find myself using them less, and substitutes like Metafilter are pretty good too.

Erics treasure trove of life

Eric’s treasure trove of life. It’s about Conway’s Game of Life. It’s got animations, details about the authors of these patterns, and references.

Peter Jackson

Reviews of Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson, Stephanie Zacharek). Full of glowing praise, but with a kind of detail I liked.

Good designs

yugop.com: great flash design. kottke.org: good blog. shift.com: interesting magazine. After seeing these, I should revamp my site completely. It’s boring.

Indo-Pakistan tensions

The Onion on Indo-Pakistan tensions.

Lord of the Rings by other authors

The Lord of the Rings, by various other authors.

Which side of the road

All you ever wanted to know about which side of the road to drive on.

CSS is boring

The author of CSS is boring is now making one CSS sheet a day.

Google speaks Klingon

Google speaks Klingon, Hacker, Hindi, Tamil, and several other new languages. (Be careful about the “Save preferences” button, if you picked a language you don’t understand.)

Googlewhacking

Googlewhacking.

New York is selling park names

New York is selling park names. Not a bad idea.

eBillPost

The post office offers eBillPost. Comments Yuvaraj S 18 Dec 2006 9:28 am: I would like to know more details about e-billpost to implement the same features in our comapny. pls help

Economist Style Guide

The Economist Style Guide. The part on inverted commas is insightful, especially in contrast with brackets.

English domination on Internet ending

UNESCO says the domination of English over the Internet is ending.