Earth: Mostly Harmless

links for 2006-05-30

- the european archive : item page: Pedestrian Crossing -
An interesting item - a Hitchcock-alike tries his very best to cross the road, to Frank Spencer-esque slapstick consequences.
(tags: publicinformation government funny film archive europearchive blackandwhite blackwhite)

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Dracula’s kebabs, Kraków

Just remembered this one.
Kraków. What a town.

Dracula’s kebabs, Kraków

Originally uploaded by BigRedBall.

Looks like The Count, no?

One Zloty, ha ha ha.

Two Zlotys, ha ha ha.

etc. etc.

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“Let’s Go Dutch!” and other useful English phrases

Another clip from Gavin Purcell’s excellent TV In Japan blog.
I don’t actually have words to describe this clip, and even if I did I think they might fail miserably to convey the utter sense of confusion that the clip engenders. So you’ll have to watch it instead - be sure to stick with it all [...] (…)

Towel Day

I hope you all had your towel with you today. You never know when it might come in handy.
Though these people on Flickr clearly do.

Towels are the most useful thing it is possible to have handy in a crisis. One of the first things that Ford Prefect did for Arthur Dent after the demolition [...] (…)

links for 2006-05-22

DAG: Tunneling SSH over HTTP(S)
(tags: ssh security howto http apache network linux firewall Hack hacks reference server tips tools tutorial tutorials web tech technology guide information)

Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Ajax Tabs Content script
AJAX tab-switching niceness
(tags: javascript Ajax tabs)

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