April 19, 2004
Link Splurge #3
I have recently been indirectly accused of zero-effort blogging, and really I have to plead guilty. So, in a bid to counter this, and try have some actual worthwhile content around here (yeah, yeah, I know) I'm going to share all those links I wanted to post but didn't really have more than a few words to say about. So, here comes part 3 in an ongoing series...
- Ghost Town - a journey through the area affected by the Chernobyl disaster, which is more interesting than I expected it to be.
- How do spammers work? - a well written article about just what hard work goes into making sure my mailserver gets enough work to do.
- Now, take a look at this photo, before you read any further. OK. Now, you might or might not have noticed there's a face in it. If you didn't, look again. Can you see it? Good. Whose face is it? No, no, that's a fair point — I have no idea how you're supposed to know. I can't tell, that's for sure. Except some teenager in the US has decided that it's Jesus. Well, I mean, duh, it's so obvious now! Personally I prefer the theory that it's George Lucas. (Comparison photos)
- Everybody but me seems to be going Geocaching these days. I think I want to give it a go, but I don't really have £100 to spend on a GPS. Maybe if I smile sweetly at carlandsusie I could go with them :-)
- This page, on generating gaussian random numbers, is probably interminably dull, by and large, but I found it really handy last night when I needed a quick way to do exactly that, and the relevant page on Wikipedia was down.
- I've got this far without mentioning all the faff about the results you get when you search Google for the word "Jew," but I suppose I ought to, if only to join in the attempt to move the Wikipedia definition up in the rankings a little. Blah censorship blah antisemitism blah, or something.
I could go on, but I'm not that cruel. We now return you to your scheduled broadcasting.
Posted by James at 20:25
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