This is a true curiosity which caused some good laughter today. A colleague showed me his check marks in Firefox today. They were upside down and have been so for a long time. He does not have a clue why they are not the usual way. It does not matter on which web site he [...]
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Konami code on Facebook
The instructions are: “THE FACEBOOK TRICK: press up,up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Enter key, then right click then press up and down and magic circles will appear when you make a mouse click. the only way to get rid of them are to log off or refresh the page…IT WILL WORK! [...]
My latibule
Very early this morning I completed my first adoption ever. I adopted the word “latibule” from the site Save the Words where infrequently used words are made more known through a fun Flash front-end throwing in the occassional “choose me audio piece. The web site is no latibule anymore as people start adopting words. I [...]
Avatar by name
Philipp Lenssen wrote an application for the 24-Hours Application Challenge at Friendfeed that converts a name into an avatar. Depending on how I spell my name and whether or not I include my middle initials, I come up with different avatars.
They look all very male-centric to me. Was it easier to create male faces? Is [...]
Who cares about grades?*
@timbuckteeth (aka Steve Wheeler) tweeted his Twitter grade today (and beat me to a blog post that I got to know about via Twitter while writing this one here). It was at 67. In his blog post, Steve brings up examples of edubloggers that score much higher or are not found at all for no [...]
