Earth: Mostly Harmless

Del.icio.us Firefox extension

Though I don’t often use Firefox myself, but this extension for it is really pretty nice. It doesn’t go as far as Flock, but it does add a nice social bookmarking dimension to FF, and it’s a bit nicer to use than a JavaScript bookmarklet.
Del.icio.us Firefox extension:

Social bookmarking site del.icio.us has recently released their very [...] (…)

Coolest. Traffic lights. Ever.

Animated “walk-don’t-walk” man on Taiwan’s traffic lights:
Mark Frauenfelder:
The little “walk-don’t-walk” man on Taiwan’s traffic lights appears in a grid of green LEDS. As the countdown timer ticks down to zero, the little man “walks faster and faster and breaks into a trot in the last seconds.” Link
(Via Boing Boing).

Pretty much a more advanced version of [...] (…)

Superb browser stats

Ok, so statistically this isn’t really fair, because the sample size so far is pretty small, but I just thought it said something really positive about the state of innovation and open-source software that open-source-based browsers (and I include Safari in this given Apple’s recent moves to give back their code to the KHTML community [...] (…)

What are they teaching the children???!

This is the most disturbing kids TV programme I’ve yet seen. So disturbing I found it necessary to encode it into H.264 and upload it here…
It’s called Lazytown, and it’s about a town full of laz… no wait, rubber people. Right.
Apparently it’s Icelandic, despite the ostensibly American cheesyness. Would you just look at the dial [...] (…)

Saltire Centre atrium

Saltire Centre atrium

Originally uploaded by BigRedBall.

This is a pic I took today on my mobile during a tour of the Saltire Centre at GCU. Despite it not being finished, it was easy to tell that it’s a really well thought-out building, and it’s going to be beautiful.
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