... as predicted in 1954 - Click to view.

Whoa, it has a typewriter interface and FORTRAN? If only our technological advancements could live up to such grand predictions...

(via presurfer)

So, what are you doing tomorrow? To be honest, I don't really care what you *were* going to do, only what you will now be doing. For tomorrow is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, yarr.

For your convenience, here is a simple guide on how to pirate-ify your day:

• First, think of what you *were* going to do tomorrow
• Next, insert the words "Talking like a pirate, while" in front of this.
• Congratulations, you are now ready to participate in International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Here is a simple example, to clarify the pirate-ifying process:

You were: "Surfing the net and chatting to people."
Now you are: "Talking like a pirate, while surfing the net and talking to people."

See how it works? Good.

Ok, so I wanna get an mp3 player. The ipod is clearly the best looking player out there, but I don't think my wallet can take the hit.. So I'm having a look on google for places in Australia that sell the new Rio Carbon, and I get only one result, from eXpansys.

$489 AUD??? Thats ridiculous. I have a look at the other mp3 player prices on the same site to see if the site was all just really overpriced. And what results do I find?

$489 => Rio Carbon 5GB MP3 Player
$489 => Apple iPod 20GB MP3 Player (4G - Australia/NZ)
$624 => Apple iPod 20GB MP3 Player for PC and MAC (4G)

Lemme get this straight. The 20GB iPod is going for exactly the same amount as the Carbon (5GB)? And there's two nearly-identical listings for the 20GB ipod, with nearly $150 the difference?

Something aint right here...

Coral is a system to distribute http requests through a P2P-like network of volunteers. In layman's terms it means that when a site struggles under the load of a sudden spike in requests, servers on the Coral network can help by serving out the site instead. Coral requests the page once, and then all Coral servers can serve it out without needing to contact the original site.

So, the next time a site you're trying to access gets slashdotted, you can use this handy bookmarklet (drag it into your bookmarks and click it when you need it) to access the site via Coral.

Credit for the bookmarklet goes to Keywords

Dave linked me to the following flash portfolio site: Monkee Hub.

In particular, the Creep Video Clip is an incredibly good watch, with really great flash animation. I haven't checked out much of this guy's work just yet because I really should be asleep, but the site looks pretty slick and I look forward to exploring it further (and reccomend you do the same)...