Keywurl: keyword search for Safari 05/22/2008 Keywurl is a nifty little Safari plugin that adds simple keyword search to the address bar. Say you wanted to...
Aluminum foil is a scissor sharpener 05/21/2008 I got sucked into reading one of those 15 amazing things you never knew about aluminum foil articles. One of...
Duff’s Device: loop unrolling for interpreted languages 05/20/2008 In 1983, Tom Duff invented a really strange way to use the C language’s switch and case statements for the...
Flying bike for Google Earth 05/19/2008 “Some guy who’s never met Mike” wrote in to tell us about Mike’s Flying Bike, a completely unconventional flight-sim interface...
Make custom fonts with FontStruct 05/18/2008 Paul from the Compiler blog pointed out a cool flash application called FontStruct. It’s basically a WYSIWYG editor for fonts,...
Backyard beekeeping – splitting a hive 05/18/2008 This is my second year as an amateur beekeeper, and this last weekend we split our first hive, creating a...
Protect your luggage with a starter pistol 05/17/2008 I can’t say how realistic this is, and I probably won’t be using the advice myself, but Jon Udell wrote...
Python pizza status 05/16/2008 Nothing goes better with some Python hacking than a little pizza. Nick Jensen couldn’t wait for his pizza to arrive...
Gmail notification cube 05/15/2008 Jamie Matthews created a nifty notification cube that glows when his Gmail inbox has a message. I was given a...
Debian/Ubuntu users: update your SSL keys and certs 05/14/2008 It was announced yesterday that sometime back in September 2006 a line of code was removed from the Debian distributed...