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Posts from January 2010

Links For Friday 29th January 2010

Adria: elBulli Restaurant to Close for Two Years – TIME
Bugger. Eating at ElBulli was pretty much the top spot on the "things to do before I die" list, and yeah, he's going to re-open, but it's still an experience I'm unlikely to ever get to have, in it's current form. I shall revise [...]


Links For Thursday 28th January 2010

Help EFF Research Web Browser Tracking | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Well worth a look. I'm a little disturbed to discover that in over 100,000 people, my browser is unique. Not sure what I can do about that…
(tags: security privacy browser)


Links For Friday 22nd January 2010

Ten years of Boing Boing
God, has it really been going that long? (Yes, I know, the print edition has been going longer.)
(tags: blogging)

back to the past's future – a grammar
"what’s the next era that’ll capture people’s imaginations in that way, as a point of change, a shadow looming over what comes after, the image [...]


Links For Thursday 21st January 2010

BumpTop Mac: Reinventing your Mac desktop.
Trying this out at work. Initial stuff seem positive.
(tags: desktop software interface osx)

Ipredator – Surf the web anonymously and secure
This is very tempting. Certainly, if the DEB bill passes in it's present form, I'll be switching to this, or something very like it. (I tried TOR for [...]


Links For Wednesday 20th January 2010

Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic: case report — Rogozov and Bermel 339: b4965 — BMJ
Ever wondered what it would be like to perform surgery on yourself? No? Why not? Well, anyway: here's a description of what it's like to have to give yourself an appendectomy. In the Antarctic. With next to [...]


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