Category: Cool

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.

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.

Been meaning to blog about this site for quite a while, but got motivated after seeing that Rob linked to it. suchlike.net: news in haiku, is a brilliantly done site where every day, the author comes up with a haiku using the day’s news. The haikus include relevant links as part of the haiku. Very well done.

A fascinating article about various occupations’ little tricks that keeps them going. They have a pile of them from balloon twister to lounge pianist to lawyer to waitress. They’re all little useful tips that will go a long way. Link via kottke.

Since I will never have the running ability I once had that might have been able to get me to the Olympics, I’m supporting these guys in their wish to get pool and bowling in the Olympics. Then maybe I can qualify playing pool (but as Jon can attest, I need some practice).

Not only will it protect my keyboard, but it will get my baby comfortable with the computer (my 4 year old does fine on the computer). If I had a Mac, I’d install this software, too, so that my kids could pound around and not delete everything. Anybody know if a software like that exists for PCs?

Links via BB.

All you need is an ordinary camera and some good photoshop skills. Via BB.

The interface could use some CSS prettying-up, but otherwise if you want to have a pile of information about a URL all accessible from one place, head to URLinfo. Nothing that it does is done by itself, as it relies on outside tools, but it does put it all in one place for you. More in-depth article on the tool.

I have a newfound respect (though I’ve always liked the guy) for Dick Van Dyke (yes, that Dick Van Dyke). He’s actually really heavily into computer animation, and has been for quite a while. Link via several places.