Pingdom’s full page test will tell you exactly how long it takes to load a given web page and is various sub-elements. Website Optimzation’s Web Page Analyzer gives detailed information about the size, etc. of every object that is being loaded when a given web page is accessed along with other details (it notified me,…
June, 2008
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Nice Nintendo-themed t-shirt from 80sTees.Com
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Enterzon is a free, web-based MMO that is specifically design to teach Mandarin Chinese. Developed and hosted at Michigan State University, the idea is to engage players in the game and thereby encourage more natural learning of Mandarin Chinese, on is a multiplayer, online learning environment designed to teach Chinese language and culture through gameplay.…
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LinuxHaxor.Net has a nice article on a number of different methods to do screen capture/casting in Linux.
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The other day I noted a Pew poll where 1 in 5 self-identified atheists said they also believed in God, and likened it to similar number of vegetarians who say they occasionally eat red meat — these folks aren’t atheists or vegetarians, but rather clueless. Anyway, the Secular Coalition for America has a slightly different…
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Boing! Boing! Gadgets recently pointed out this gallery of photographs from the Tokyo Toy Show 2008, including this amazing gaint Ultraman made from smaller Ultraman figures, Makes me want to hum the Ultraman theme song.
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Like a lot of people, I have thousands of photographs preserved on 35mm slides and negatives that I’ve really wanted to get scanned. There are a lot of companies that will do that for you, but the two leaders in that area are DigMyPics and ScanCafe . . . two companies that have often had…
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Roo Reynolds’ 3 minute presentation on Lego is one of the best presentations I’ve seen in quite awhile.
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The Picnik Firefox extension adds an “Edit in Picnik” menubar option in Firefox that makes it simple to import any graphic file into Picnik for editing. Very nice.
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Theft of World of Warcraft accounts is a huge problem. The perception is that gold farmers are finding it much more lucrative to simply hack people’s accounts by tricking them into to installing keyloggers rather than actually use in-game bots to farm resources. There is an entire class of trojans now aimed largely at WoW…