Shane's blog » Twitter http://blog.shamess.info Personal blog of Shane Preece. Occaisional politics and tech minddump. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:28:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Link round up http://blog.shamess.info/2009/03/12/link-round-up/ http://blog.shamess.info/2009/03/12/link-round-up/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:53:10 +0000 Shane http://blog.shamess.info/?p=530 Continue reading →]]> I got home about seven today, with achy feet, and I decided I was in need of a nap. That nap lasted from seven till midnight, so I’m fairly alert now. I managed to get through sixty RSS items, and even wrote up some ideas on two of them (which you probably just read). Anyway, on my travels I stumbled upon very few interesting things. I did find out amazingly that awesome things happen when you live in San Fransico.

Prager, producer of Diggnation,  had a random guy just stumble into his apartment, use his bathroom, take his trousers off and try to go to sleep. Being a third generation news provider that he is, he decided to twitter and ustream it up. I saw that article on in Reader and thought “lol, some people are dumb”. Then realised that it was Prager (why isn’t his name headline news? that guy’s awesome) and lolz ensued and I was slightly less shocked.

Lifehacker found an awesome Greasemonkey script that keeps your place on long pages. (In fact Lifehacker didn’t find it, gHacks did but their website is ugly, I mean serious, more ad space than content.) I was actually just about to make a Firefox extension that allows you to click a place on a page which inserts a name link tag, so that you could then bookmark that. But since I’ve just found this, I guess it’ll do.

If you find that you do decide to read Watchmen, then you’ll be needing something like this comic book reader. Whilst I’m linking to comic book stuff, I rediscovered StopTazmo the other day, free manga for the win.

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Depending on how long twitter keeps your tweets, and if they let you search them (I’m sure there are tools), it’ll be cool to see what I’ve tried before and see how my diet changes. I’ll also put if I like that type of food so people can see and know what I like. It’s not exciting but meh, it could be fun, if not interesting.

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