For those folks who need bigger text when they’re looking at search results, and a browser’s adjustments aren’t good enough for you, just try this site which takes Google’s results and supersizes them. Thanks Jo-Anne for the link.
Category: Cool
Some Folks Have Too Much Time On Their Hands
But I will admit that this scale model of the Sears Tower made entirely out of Jenga blocks is pretty damn cool.
Top 40 Magazine Covers
This has been floating around the Web the last couple of days, and the reason I’m linking to it is because I love good covers (studied Magazine Journalism in college, after all). But the American Society of Magazine Editors has named it’s top magazine covers of the last 40 years, and there are some great ones (that’s a mirror link as the original is down — you can download a torrent of them here).
Waste Your School Day Away
If you’re one of those cool kids that has a TI-83+ or TI-84+ model calculator, you could very easily kill off your entire math class playing this Dance Dance Revolution clone on your calculator. That’s, of course, assuming your batteries last the entire class, as this is probably pretty hard on them. Link via BB.
Connect to Multiple WiFi Networks at Once
I actually have a few different access points accessible from my home, so I’ll try this later tonight, but this is pretty dang cool:
VirtualWiFi is a virtualization architecture for wireless LAN (WLAN) cards. It abstracts a single WLAN card to appear as multiple virtual WLAN cards to the user. The user can then configure each virtual card to connect to a different wireless network. Therefore, VirtualWiFi allows a user to simultaneously connect his machine to multiple wireless networks using just one WLAN card. This new functionality introduced by VirtualWiFi enables many new applications, which were not possible earlier using a single WLAN card.
Hat tip to Greg for the link.
Free SharePoint Applications
I’m experimenting with SharePoint a bit here at the office, just to see what it can do, and I came across this on Greg’s site for a pile of free SharePoint templates for those of us who are not really in the mood to create all of this stuff from scratch. I’m mostly bookmarking this here for my reference, but it might be handy to a couple people who read this site.
Eugene to Host 2008 Olympic Trials
I remember reading last week about how Eugene was trying to pull this off after hosting Olympic trials back in the 70s and 80s. But after seeing dozens of meets at Hayward Field, I’m glad to see that Eugene will once again be Track Town, USA. Hat tip to Rob for the tip, though I linked to the local paper in Eugene instead of USA Today.
Congrats to the City of Eugene and the University of Oregon for landing this great event. Now where can I buy tickets? I’m a track junkie (ran distance events in high school and college), and really want an excuse to make a trip back to Eugene for a meet.
Definitions of Profanity
I have no idea what 90% of those words/phrases mean, but if I ever wanted to know what that swear word/phrase meant, I can look them all up here. I’m sure this will come in very handy when my kids get older so I’ll know what the hell they’re saying.
How People Get High-End Government Jobs
It’s common knowledge that there are a ton of government jobs out there that are held by folks who don’t deserve them. The objective of Find The Brownie is to find an important government job occupied by a person with no apparent qualifications other than strong personal, political, or business ties to a member of the administration.
Next MS Office Will Have Native PDF Support
Well it’s about damn time. Now if MS could just get support on the OS-level like certain other folks, then all the better.