• had a few hundred lines of compliant CSS shot to pieces by IE6, which got me wading neck-deep into the muddy waters of the Underscore hack over a few late, late nights.
• was trying out this funny joke about how two antennas got married — apparently, the wedding was terrible but the reception was great!
• discovered that to get an RSS feed of your Amazon wishlist, you now have to authenticate your request with a secret key, find the wish list ID, request for an XML file, create and apply some XSLT, store some of this somewhere on the Amazon Cloud, blah, blah. All this acrobatics for an RSS feed of my effing wish list — how about just giving me a bloody RSS feed like everyone else, Amazon?
• broke up Isaac Asimov’s 1956 short story, The Last Question, into manageable 3 minute sections to read to my daughter before she sleeps.
• stumbled onto a bookmark for Nutrition.com.sg, a horrendously ugly but possibly useful site which lists nutritional content of local foods.
• have been playing a wee bit too much Nintendo in my browser than I should be.
• was wondering if the 4 day × 10 hour work week idea would make any sense/difference in some industries.
• thoroughly enjoyed the new Arctic Monkeys’ new album Humbug, although I am a little disturbed to realise that the first track might be about a guy singing about his penis.
• visited makephotoshopfaster.com which has precisely two tips to make your Photoshop go faster.
• installed The Onion Router for fun and now occasionally run a (non-exit) node.
• read a poignant essay from the Iraqi shoe thrower.
• was really excited about getting the first printed XKCD book, though I haven’t quite had the time to buy it yet. (Yes, that’s how crazy things have been the last week or so.)
• found a new way to reset my sleep pattern and it seems to be somewhat working.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

›› Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., (1841 – 1935)

Promising band, beautiful song and a very nice video.

Who would have known RoboCop had a shiny, chrome body when he turned up in Korea through television sets? And who would have known he was into fried chicken?

Not sure if it’s true though. I am still researching, but the drawings on Learn Something Everyday are just great.

In celebration of SpongeBob’s 10 years of existence (What? He’s been around that long?), the guys at Nooka are coming up with a series of commemorative timepieces, starting with the first piece, the yellow as hell SpongeBob Spongelevator.

I am quite a fan of Nooka’s watch line though I don’t think I’ll be queuing up for this one. And thankfully, The Daughter is not old enough just yet to make me buy stuff.

[Via Josh Spear]

This is good programming shit, made with good ASCII art shit.

Speaking of which, have you noticed the Google logo when you search for ascii art?