Category: "Amusements"

Wordle

I was reading an article on text visualisation and came across this site. Very cool B) I've not completed a real blog post in a while - there are plenty sitting both in draft status and in my head, I'm sure I'll get to them eventually. more »

Write 'uʍop ǝpısdn'

Neat trick (so long as whatever you're using to view this supports Unicode, and your font has full support for all the possible characters) - a little utility which translates each character of the input text, using a symbol lookup table, to a character… more »

Google Accessible Search

A bit of Google day here in the Boog Link Blog. Discovered this earlier in the week. I was quite pleased to find that, mostly, pages I've been involved with do better on the accessibility search than they do on standard Google - my employer's website c… more »

Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design

Also on the front page, but I couldn't figure out a permalink. Warning, language is not work safe :) Edit: The link broke, so I've uploaded my own copy. more »

Lawrence.com

I was shown this site at the London Web Frameworks Night - it is built on Django and is the 'Youth culture' site of Lawrence local newspaper. Aside from being an interesting example of a web framework in action, it also features many MP3s uploaded by ma… more »

What's the time?

Nothing too clever, find out what the time is (to within less than a second) and view a nice map showing where the daylight seperator is (requires java plugin). more »

The Generator Blog

Hours and hours of (nerdy) fun. :) more »

Mozilla Pinball Theme for Firefox

This was (and still is) my favourite theme for the Mozilla suite - I only found out this week it's available for Firefox too! more »

Installing Radeon fglrx drivers

Got a new graphics card today - a Radeon 9800Pro. Spent some time trying to get it working on my FC3 box, in the end I ignored the livna RPMs mentioned on the page above and installed the stock ATI RPM to get things working, but the rest of the instruct… more »

Hot Swedish Love

No I've not been overrun by spammers (yet!), this is an amusing online comic strip. more »

Political bias?

A useful document for concerned parents? Notice how they don't actually specify who is performing the illegal activity. Parents, if you spot your children using these terms, please remember to ask them if they've been involved in illegal abuse of their… more »
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