Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
I think I’m going to stick to MovableType vs. moving to WordPress (despite my previous comments), and will make the attempt (at some point) to upgrade to the newly released 3.1. Why? Instead of writing it all down, I think Neil stated it perfectly.
In addition, they’ve also launched a 6A Professional Network, and revamped the MT Plugin Directory (which is now an official Six Apart site) to be MT3-specific. They’re also putting the plugin contest entries into one tidy download.
Here’s something you don’t read every day:
A chimpanzee has taken up smoking and spitting, according to China’s Xinhua news agency.
It is unclear why Feili, 13, has started smoking but her zoo keeper said it was because she was frustrated.
She has turned from a “gentle girl” into a “shrew”, said Liu Bing, director of Zhengzhou zoo, Henan province.
Mr Liu said Feili’s partner at the zoo was 28 years her senior, and was unable “to meet her sexual demands”.
Feili was not addicted to nicotine, he said, but was just imitating tourists.
Thanks Barney for the tip.
Thanks to Jack for pointing out what is one of the most entertaining specialty-niche blogs I’ve seen in quite a while: The Appliance Blog. It’s the diary of a home appliance repairman in Springfield, Oregon. I might have to use the guy’s forums as I have a couple of obscure questions about my dishwasher that he might be able to help me with.
A grieving widow made a wonderful gesture to her dead husband: The remote went with him. Link via Fark.
If you ever want to get on the Price is Right, it might help if you wear one of these T-Shirts.
He went through the effort of bringing in an expert driver to test his Fiat Punto 1.2 liter to prove that there’s no way it could go that fast. The driver came back, and said that the fastest it could do was 104 MPH — going downhill and with a trailing wind. The speeding case was dropped (though he still had to pay £40 for “driving without due care and attention”).
In case you haven’t seen this on the other 2,427 (or so) blogs that have linked to it, here you go. This is so dang cool, and I wish I had Linux and could use it:
GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the filesystem, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail.
GmailFS supports most file operations such as read, write, open, close, stat, symlink, link, unlink, truncate and rename. This means that you can use all your favourite unix command line tools to operate on files stored on Gmail (e.g. cp, ls, mv, rm, ln, grep etc. etc.).
How long do you think until they shut this down like they have other projects? Link via kottke.
Want to have your bank robbery foiled quickly? Be like this local moron who put out a warning sign in front of the Redmond bank he was attempting to rob, causing police to show up rather quickly. Full Story.
Wonder what the rest of the Wonder Years cast is doing? It looks like a few of them are still acting, according to IMDB.
But I’m sure Pfeiffer’s making far more money as a lawyer than Fred Savage is an actor (what was the name of that asinine show he was on a while back? I can’t even remember it was so awful). Link via Waxy.
Thanks to the close-minded attitude of the NCAA (they, truly, are morons, having dealt with them myself), Jeremy Bloom, who skied for the US in the last Winter Olympics, is not able to play Colorado Buffalo football this year. Bloom gives a well-written middle finger to the NCAA, in response.