Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Brian Frederick: Glenn Beck can’t — or probably shouldn’t — go home again: Brian Frederick [1]
- DoJ official finds it ‘surreal’ to have to respond to Franken’s concerns about Patriot Act. [2] – Nicely asked.
- The idiot box [3] – I’d say we’re in the 2-4h range/day, average, at the most. And much of that is pre-recorded.
- Hobbit 419 | Live Granades [4] – Heh. Yeah, that fits pretty nicely.
- 5 Ways to Improve Any Photo [5] – Yup. Pretty straightforward, but reliable, pieces of advice.
- Flickr People Really Don’t Like The New “From Yahoo!” Logo [Backlash] [6] – I suppose it’s inevitable … but I’m not particularly thrilled myself.
- Love to Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour [7] – That’s … um … a remarkable video.
- The HyperCard Legacy [Theory, Mac] [8] – I always thought HyperCard was very cool.
- Nintendo makes $200 Wii official, no change to pack-ins [9] – A certain 9-year-old will be very happy to hear this … esp. once we update her checking register.
- post off: how do you arrange your bookshelves? [10] – By fiction genre, alphabetical by author. Non-fiction is grouped thematically.
- Microsoft: Google Chrome Frame makes IE less secure [11] – If MS forced IE6 users to upgrade to IE8, I’d agree that the Chrone add-in was a potential security issue. Until then, though, IE6 remains the biggest security gap on the Internet.
- Three probes send back “unambiguous” evidence of lunar water [12] – Woot! Next up, a Lunar Colony with an ice mining economy … hmmmm, maybe we can make it a prison planet, too …
- US Version of Fawlty Towers [13] – This is, mercifully, from 1999. It’s … not eye-gougingly painful, but it does make one long for the original to a far greater degree than any Americanized remake should.
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1 Comment To "Unblogged Bits for Friday, 25 September 2009"
#1 Comment By BD On Fri 25-Sep-09 9:30pm @ 9:30pm
I may be one of the few people in the country that has seen both the US versions of Fawlty Towers and Coupling when they originally came out and lived to tell the tale.
And thank you dave, I had completely managed to forget everything about “Payne”, right up until the credits started rolling and the bad memories came flodding back.