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I recently bought my first house in the greater Wellington area, so have spent the last four or so months dealing with real estate agents. I think anything to reduce their influenc…

Jef Raskin worked on an OS named Archy that also dealt with this problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy#Persistence

This reminds me of the boxes from Hell Pizza, which can be turned into a coffin "for your remains": http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=hell+pizza+box+coffin&w=...

I didn't realise most puzzles change, I just answered the Meaning of Life three times and assumed I was cheating. As for the sickle balance, I did find it, but think having usernam…

I registered just to see what the puzzles were. Some thoughts: I found that you can answer the same puzzle multiple times, which you probably want to change. For three of the puzzl…

Another method: Right-click picture, "Inspect Element" Firebug expands Right-click highlighted img element, "Delete Element"

Thanks a lot for the feedback (and to everyone else too). I'm going to try both of those ideas when I get home from work.

http://langref.net/xhtml Short version: This is what I envisioned as my ideal HTML reference when I was teaching myself web design. I couldn't find something close enough to what I…

For "Modern Nerd" he didn't mention that the N and the D are the same character, putting two words into one, which I think looks very cool.

There's some cool looking stuff there. I had never seen "Light-Transmitting Concrete" before ( http://en.red-dot.org/2838+M582dcf2224d.html ).

HearWhere placed me in Mt Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand which is slightly off but very close. Two minor things: 1) "DJ Carlito" came up as "Ã�J CARLITO" and when I clicked on "…

nytimes.com busts out of the frame.

I highly recommend Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell. The title is not very imaginative but I found it a great place to start before looking at more complicated concepts. http://www…

The article on one page: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia...

I'm not a game theorist, but wouldn't people just game SpecArena the same way spammers game digg and reddit now? By 'game' I mean automatically rate the competition with low scores…

"Zuckerbucks" was used in a Joy of Tech comic: http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1015.html

Well the secret part is right...

If I really wanted to procrastinate, I would find all the blog posts complaining about lack of unicode, and count how many times a non-ASCII character was used.