bitful http://www.bitful.com UK-based weblog on technology, queerness, language and fitness Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:42:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en My week on the web http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bitful/~3/471084071/ http://www.bitful.com/2008/12/01/my-week-on-the-web-55/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:41:49 +0000 Luca http://www.bitful.com/2008/12/01/my-week-on-the-web-55/ Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

  • Runners' Medical Resource
    'This website is a good resource for runners who may want some guidance in preparation for - and on the day of - a big race. '
  • gwap.com - Home
    Games With A Purpose: 'By playing our games, you're training computers to solve problems for humans all over the world.'
  • BBC - Archive Project - The Genesis of Doctor Who
    'Here, we tell the story of the creation of 'Doctor Who' from the very beginning, starting with a report on the possibility of making science fiction for television and leading up to the moment a new drama series is announced in the pages of 'Radio Times'.'
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  • The tallest building in Europe (the 268-metre Naberezhnaya Tower) is in Moscow, where construction of an even taller building was stopped this week.
  • Ping.fm also lets you update your (Twitter, Facebook, etc) status via IM.
  • You can skip typing 'www.' and '.com' in the address bar if you press Ctrl and Enter together. Found out in Chrome but checked and it works in Firefox, IE7 and Safari.
  • Greasemonkey's founder, Aaron Boodman, works on the Google Chrome team.
  • Illy coffee and Coca-Cola announced a global joint venture to produce a premium ready-to-drink espresso in October 2007. My caffeine days are over, but I am curious to know if this is out yet, or if it has flopped before even being released.
  • Music producer and songwriter Felix Howard (who wrote, among other things, Stronger for the Sugababes) was the child dancer in Madonna's 'Open Your Heart' video.
  • If you copy some text and paste it into a folder, Windows will create a 'Scrap Object'. I accidentally found out at work using XP, then tried it at home but the paste option does not seem to be available on Vista Home Premium.
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  • 'Mr Smith', the alien computer in The Sarah Jane Adventures, is voiced by comedian Alexander Armstrong.
  • You can easily get the higher quality version (if available) for any YouTube video by sticking &fmt=18 at the end of the URL (or &fmt=22 for highest quality).
  • Cyndi Lauper's mother, Catrine, played herself in the 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' video.
  • In Google Chrome you can right-click the top of the browser window, or right-click the taskbar tab to access Task Manager.
  • In Lichtenstein women were granted the vote in general elections in 1984.
  • The word galore, meaning in abundance, descends from the Gaelic (Irish 'go leor' and Scottish Gaelic 'gu leòr') expression meaning enough, plenty.
  • The largest fully functional WiMAX network in the world is in Pakistan.
    • ]]>     http://www.bitful.com/2008/11/18/7-things-i-did-not-know-last-week-65/feed/ http://www.bitful.com/2008/11/18/7-things-i-did-not-know-last-week-65/     My week on the web http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bitful/~3/455650153/ http://www.bitful.com/2008/11/17/my-week-on-the-web-53/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:11:50 +0000 Luca http://www.bitful.com/2008/11/17/my-week-on-the-web-53/ Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

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  • Leonardo DiCaprio's mother is German.
  • The record for most voices recorded on an audiobook by a single person is held by Jim Dale for his 146 voices in Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows.
  • Apple released a games console (the Apple Bandai Pippin) in the mid-nineties.
  • The Google Reader shortcuts to add subscriptions and email items are respectively a and e.
  • Wile E. Coyote's middle name is Ethelbert.
  • Wile E. Coyote is a pun on the word 'wily' (shrewd, cunning) - a word I have learnt this week.
  • The origin of the name London might be traced to the pre-Celtic Old European 'Plowonida' meaning 'boat river or flooding river, river too wide to ford'.
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  • Benicio del Toro was an extra in Madonna's La Isla Bonita video (you can spot him sitting on the car at 3:14).
  • You can now link to a precise point in YouTube videos. If you have not done so already, click on the Madonna video link above to check it.
  • Rudyard Kipling had a swastika on the covers of his books until the ancient Indian symbol was appropriated by Nazism.
  • If you hit the Shift key five times you can turn on 'Sticky Keys', an accessibility feature that lets you type multi-key combinations with one finger.
  • Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen prefer not to be interviewed together.
  • Gwyneth Paltrow has a website called Goop.
  • Davina McCall is Britain's favourite gym buddy.
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    Here is the chart for my Twitter feed:

    Bitful's Twitter chart

    If the time on the chart is right, it appears that I tweet mainly on a Saturday and generally between 6 and 8pm.

    Via Micro Persuasion.

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