A short while ago I wrote about my desire for something that would scan Filofax pages.
Could this Fujitsu scanner be it?
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Filofax scanner continued?
US Geography quiz
It’s quite common for Europeans to joke about how unaware most Americans are of world geography and to forget that the USA is more like a continent than a country. We may know where America is, but how many Europeans could pinpoint South Dakota on a map?
This jigsaw from Maps.com gives you a chance to demonstrate your knowledge of the US States, and it’s quite a good way to learn them, too.
A couple of hints:
- This is a Flash application, and most Flash players will allow you to zoom in if you click the right mouse button. It can be useful when you’re trying to position Delaware!
- If you’re not familiar with the abbreviations for the States, this page can help.
They have more free stuff here.
World Cup Mode
There’s been much debate here in the UK about whether the BBC is giving too much coverage to the football (soccer) World Cup. On their web site, they’ve come up with a neat solution: you can choose whether or not to put the site into ‘World Cup mode’.
It probably won’t be long before we’re able to do such things with our TVs and radios as well. The concept of discrete channels is so 20th century; soon your channels will be hierarchical. (‘Tonight I’m going to watch cnn.sports.hockey’). Or maybe you’ll simply tune your TV to a set of your favourite keywords…
mtr for Mac OS X
MTR is a useful command-line utility which combines ping and traceroute to display the path packets are taking between two machines.
I’ve compiled mtr-0.71 it for Mac OS X, and you can get it here: mtr.zip.
The zip file contains a universal binary, a man page, and a README file telling you what to do with them.
If you like this, you might also like my ports of wget and bacula-fd.
Lean on your patents
Michael Jackson can lean forward at 45 degrees to the vertical. On stage. How does he do it? His patent reveals all…
Googlicious!
Hee hee! Lots more fun stuff!
Google Earth 4 is in beta. Amongst other things, it’ll be able to show much more sophisticated building models, with rendered surfaces.
So how will people create these models? Using Google Sketchup – a lovely simple 3D modelling tool which you could use for all sorts of other things too. It also links to a community-generated online library of models.
Sketchup has some good clear video tutorials here. Have a play!
Kitty vs Frontrow
Ah, lots of fun stuff this weekend. Here’s a great video clip showing what the kitten of today likes in the way of toys.
Thanks to Tom Coates for the link.
Microsoft FlexGo
Have posted some thoughts about this over on the Ndiyo blog.
Some more light entertainment
Alan Becker’s Animator vs. Animation is a very nice bit of work.
If you’ve used Flash or any similar design tools, you’ll enjoy this.
Diet Coke and Mentos
What do Mentos mints do if you mix them with Diet Coke?
THIS. It’s fabulous.
Thanks to James Duncan Davidson for the link.
How to kick Silicon Valley’s butt
Guy Kawasaki has some interesting observations on what makes Silicon Valley work, for those wanting to replicate its success. Some of them are quite unexpected:
High housing prices. If houses are cheap, it means that young people can buy housing sooner and have kids. When they have kids, they can’t take as much risk and don’t have as much energy to start companies. (I have four kids—I barely have the time and energy to blog, much less start a company.) Also, if houses are cheap, it’s easier to “”make it big,”” and you want it to be hard to make it big.
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