Rubenerd's 2011 Bookmarks

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2011-12

TODAYonline | Singapore | New airport terminal set to be built within this decade: Analysts: Assuming people will still have money to spend on flying in the future.
the understatement: Pick a Kindle, Any Kindle!: Think the decision is a little easier than Michael is making it out to be, but interesting nonetheless
Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair: "As you stand in endless lines this holiday season, hereě°˝€™s a comforting thought: all those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost."
Is It Time To Abolish The Twitter Retweet Button? | Social Media Today: No.
the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support: The mental gymnastics certain Android users undergo to explain this is rather amazing.
Top 10 Space Stories of 2011: Can't wait to see the fruits of these labours pay off. What will Curiosity find?
Thin Client T5725 Amd Nx1500: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics: Lovely little machines
Sentosa Restaurant Crows Nest, Sydney: Looks like somewhere I should try.
Home - Brot & Wurst: Best German deli in Sydney

2011-11

Winter 2011-12 Visual Guide and Anime Listing: A Toradora OVA? :O
Mike Jones - Google+ - You can't polish a turd, but you can discount it: Think it's still too soon to call whether the Chromebook will be a success or a failure, but doesn't look too good.
+ophanium | autumn edition: [ cosplay ] miyuko : inori yuzuriha: Now *that* is some convincing cosplay!
Google Wave Sucks: I guess they don't have to worry about that any more.
Australia: It Really Is A Big Country: Singapore seems a little large in this picture!
Destination in Focus: Australia « Generation Emigration: Interesting perspective of how the Irish view Australia given their current economic problems (none of which were the fault of Irish people other than bankers, of course)
White House threatens veto over net neutrality issue - Computerworld: Ron Paul won't be happy.
An honest About Us page | ABC Copywriting blog: Would be more impressive if it were actually their about page!
New "Albino" Spider Found in Australia: No kidding! "I nearly fell over when I saw its white head, expert says."
Postcard from Graz XII by =Brunilde on deviantART: Great photo
Korean girl group SECRET releases “CHRISTMAS MAGIC” PV: Another song I may unfortunately develop and obsession for ;)
Embiggen: Home page: This looks wonderful! Skeptics bookstore in Australia.
eBattery.com.au: IBM 92P0999 laptop batteries: Me thinks I'll need to get one of these.

2011-10

JalanJalan » 57: Brunei > Bandar Seri Begawan: Great site title!
Sydney : Anke Schimmer: Some adorable photos of an albino kangaroo! Didn't even know they existed
Telefrench - Online French classes - Learn French langage online: Website we reviewed, 2011.10.21
映画けいおん！GO!GO!FUKUTOSHINジャック～池袋・新宿・渋谷～: Love K-On, and am a sucker for graphics like this ^^
Was Dennis Ritchie more important than Steve Jobs?: Both were iconic people who changed the world in their own ways. Steve built on Dennis' ideas and work.
Ken&Den; picture, Dennis' site on Bell Labs: Dennis (standing) and Ken in front of a DEC PDP-11 in 1972. Look at those tape reels!
Mac Pro - Technical Specifications: From Lion's System Profiler link
At what point does the need for security eclipse... | Lori Dorn: The people responsible for this should all be fired, fined and publicly humiliated. Infuriating.
Hacker News | US, Aus, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and S. Korea sign ACTA: Well crap.
Enselic/GIMP 2.8 - Task Taste Project Schedule: "Official schedule for GIMP 2.8. When the tasks that are listed here are completed, GIMP 2.8 is ready for a release. For each task, an estimate of the time it takes to complete it is given, in 8-hour work days (the 'Size' of the task). Bug numbers refer to bug reports over at our bug tracker."
Green tea may help fight obesity, US study says: It tastes good too :)
SydneyNepal.com: Department of Immigration has launched a blog: This site could very well have the best blog header I've ever seen.
Saltyskins CustomShop - Specialists in supply of great fitting T-shirts, T-shirt Printing and T-shirt Design. FREE amazing customer service | Products: Another site that has potential, but is still on Flash.
What is Gray Water?: Glad someone liked it enough to use it
Adventures in Teal: How Many Books can I read in a week?: Another hotlinker of an image on my sever, but turns out she wrote some great stuff, so letting it slide ;)
Implications of Google's Pharmacy Debacle: "Not only does Google often ignore its stated "policies," but in fact Google staff affirmatively assist supposed "rule-breakers" when Google finds it profitable to do so."
Google Monitor: "Holding Google accountable"

2011-09

Google turns right: Liberal tech giant in 'bipartisan phase' as it starts donating to Republicans | Mail Online: I suppose to be expected, they are a company that pays taxes. Oh, wait...
File:Rainbow fountain Seoul.JPG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Gorgeous :O
Sailor Mercury - Cosplay Island: Ami had Google Goggles before Google Goggles ;)
KDevelop 4.0: A C++ Focused IDE | Javalobby: "The KDevelop open source IDE for the KDE desktop environment has reached version 4.0 after five years of development. The developers decided to focus on making KDevelop a solid C++ IDE for this release instead of adding half-supported features for some of the other languages that KDevelop supports. In fact, many features from version 3.5 were dropped because the "nearly complete rewrite" was intended to focus mostly on C++ features."
seifuku tagme thighhighs torn clothes: Love this art style!
ペルソナ４アニメーション公式サイト: Persona4 is going to be made into an anime?
Wickedly Smart: The JPEG artefacting and Comic Sans are what sell me.
Improvements in Windows Explorer - Building Windows 8 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs: "For love of Pete. How come Microsoft always ends up making their core apps look like the cockpit of an airplane?"
Sembawang, Singapore: Ever wanted to know what the tides were in 1970?
Tenshi-no-Sumika in LA Blog » Blog Archive » Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Dollfie Dream Pre-Order Now!: Oh well, two years late!
Good Morning Yesterday: Wisma Indonesia (in the mid-1960’s): I arrived in the mid 1990s, so Wisma Atria was there already.
File:Thiruvananthapuram Green Road.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The roads in Kerala are better than in Sydney!
OSA milestones: 1967-1974 – OSA GmbH & Co. KG: They might want to update their photo of Singapore ;)
1:400 : Dragon Wings : DW55466 : Singapore Airlines : BAe / Aerospatiale Concorde - DA.C: Most people don't realise Singapore Airlines had a Concorde. Kinda.
Interactive Marketing, Campaign Management, Web Analytics - Unica: MRM software.
File:BA New Club World seat.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Hey, that's my machine! :D

2011-08

subnettingquestions.com - Free Subnetting Questions
File:Ximending at night.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Need to visit Taiwan one day.
Collected - Collect your favorite blogs and news sources, your own blog, Flickr, Twitter or Youtube posts: Seems like an interesting, if derivative idea.
After School officially debuts in Japan: That's a lot of boots.
Tarsnap - Online backups for the truly paranoid: Looks like a great alternative to other creepy online backup systems
3quarksdaily: The Lost City of Ugarit: Reason #423,123,741 why I love the Internet.
Official site of Principality of Wy: Irony is, he has a better website than most of the other councils in Australia!
Home | STGCC: One of these days I'll be in Singapore for this.
Kipi STGCC 2011 « Gordonator: Why am I not still in Singapore? :(
Tomopop Review: Good Smile Company's Senjyogahara Hitagi: I need this!
Hearing Test - high frequency sounds measure hearing loss: Funny, I'm 25 and I can hear all but 22 kHz; apparently I'm supposed to only be able to hear half of that.
Soussan - Unique solutions to uncommon system problems: You can tell how professional he is by the design of his site and included testimonials.
freebsd-chat - Would Linux exist without the Internet?: "If 386BSD had been available a year earlier, I would probably never have started on Linux"
Cumberland Stationery: Great local manufacturer of pages for coins, banknotes and other such fun stuff. Friendly staff and affordable.
Perl globbing tutorial - Reading a directory in perl, learn how to get a directory list.: Ah this takes me back.
Flickr: ozroadwarrior's Photostream: Beautiful photos of the Australian desert.
creative bastard: Another unmaintained blog, alas.
Badrutt's Palace Hotel, St. Moritz: Downloads: That is some amazing scenery, wow!
Tiger & Bunny Wiki: They have wikis for everything thesedays!
Daring Fireball: Resigned: "Jobs’s greatest creation isn’t any Apple product. It is Apple itself."
Otome - Mai HiME Merchandise you DO own?: An underappreciated series. I have a Mai figure :)
姬・HIME’ｓBack Garden - Panty & Stocking with Galterbelt - boy version ...: Some pretty amazing cosplay! I want that wig :)
Security Now! Transcript of Episode #314: Got to get me one of those ARM Cortex-M3 boards!
25 Years of Mac: Product Timeline: Great timeline of Apple hardware and software from the beginning.
Apple - Press Info - Letter from Steve Jobs: Peace out Steve. Good luck.
Steve Jobs and the sound of silence — Tech News and Analysis: Best post I've read about Steve Jobs resigning as CEO. Beautiful.
www.dcerpc.org - Home: "DCE/RPC is an implementation of the Remote Procedure Call technology developed by the Open Group as part of the Distributed Computing Environment. DCE/RPC is most commonly used to interact with Windows network services."
File:Dover Delaware.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Beautiful
Celebrating 30 years of MS-DOS | Crave - CNET: I remember and use it for nostalgic reasons, but it really was terrible OS!
Happy 20th birthday, World Wide Web! | Gaming and Culture - CNET News: "On August 6, 1991--20 years ago--Tim Berners-Lee posted a summary of a project for organizing information on a computer network using a "web" of hyperlinks: the "WorldWideWeb," or W3. At the same time, the W3 made its debut as a publicly available service on the Internet."
Imaging Resource - Nikon D60 Camera - Full Review: Didn't realise just how large the Nikon kit lens for the D60 really was!
If social media sites were superheroes [infographic] - Holy Kaw!: Over designed, but mildly interesting (like most infographics!)
Can New York Rival Silicon Valley for Start-Ups? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com: Interesting discussion particularly in light of recent events.
Opening hours | UTS Library: Ironically, the library at UniSA was open later.
Official.fm - Your music. Your way.: Looks great.
The Rant-O-Matic » High Speed Rail – The Great Australian Pipe Dream: "It’s an idea that has been kicked around for so long it’s basically become The Great Australian Pipe Dream TM"
Unicode Characters in the Miscellaneous Symbols Block: Useful chart showing random UTF dingbats.
Mosman bomb - Sydney Morning Herald: "Sydney police have safely resolved a situation in which an 18-year-old woman attached to what they thought could be a bomb."
CityRail - Our Performance: "The graphs below track our on-time running in the suburban and intercity peaks for the last five business days."

2011-07

Mac Pro Farm | Flickr - Photo Sharing!: That's a lot of pro Apple kit!
Hackergate - How Steven Nott tried to raise the alarm in 1999: If this site is true (and @StephenFry seems to think it is) there are some grave questions to be answered.
FOX News Facebook Page on 9/11 Cross Generates Death Threats Against Atheists « No God Blog: That's okay, it's politically correct to attack atheists like me.
rubenerd | Twitter Grader: Got a grade of 97.2 out of 100. Now if only I cared about these "grading" systems, I'd be impressed!
The 23 Blogger Breeds—Which Are You?: I generally loathe these kinds of lists that seek to quash individuality and place people into easy to delineate buckets... but according to them I'm most likely a #1: The Machine. Not sure if that's good or not.
Cirrus Logic CL-GD5446 driver - Cirrus Logic Video Drivers - k54462e.zip: Cirrus drivers here no longer work with 0.14.1 and Windows 3.1, or at least I haven't been able to get them to work.
Drivers for QEMU devices: Cirrus drivers here no longer work with 0.14.1 and Windows 3.1, or at least I haven't been able to get them to work.
TripCase - Get a Handle on Your Travel: Wish I'd had that when I was living in two different places at once!
Using SFTP and SCP Instead of FTP | Liquid Web Knowledge Base
Commercial jet crashes in Guyana - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): Incredible. "A Caribbean Airlines flight with 163 people on board crashed and snapped in half as it landed, causing several injuries but no deaths."
Welcome to eCensus: The Australian eCensus site, hosted by IBM Australia if I'm reading the server data right ;)
Environmental Activist Tim DeChristopher Sentenced to Prison: "Tells the Court: This Is What Hope Looks Like"
Moshimoshi Harajuku Kyary Pamyu Pamyu [CD]: Pon Pon, Wey Wey Wey!
McDonalds Wi-Fi Guide. Windows VS Mac: Says it all.
Vim Essential Plugin: NERDTree | Nettuts+: Still my favourite extension for Vim.
Vim made easy: how to get your favorite IDE features in Vim: Nice guide, really got to try TagList.
10 Sleek Google+ Icons for Your Website or Blog: I'd be happy with just the ability to have text links, but if icons rock your boat.
Raven Blog: This site design had the potential to be clean and simple, yet eye catching. That said, of all these types of design agencies I've seen, it's the least overdone.
Redesign set to make Firefox more responsive | Deep Tech: Firefox 4.x and 5.x (which is basically the 4.x stream before they got Google Chrome versioning-itis) have been snappy enough for me, but I suppose any improvement is a good thing.
THORAnime tracker: If I downloaded fansubs, THORAnime would be the ones I'd get them from. Because I don't. Yeah, that's it.
Tom Anderson - Google+: Tom from MySpace is on Google+, and he even has the same avatar! Almost nostalgic.
Google+ | CrunchBase Profile: Glad to see at least CrunchBase doesn't have that garish new TechCrunch site theme!
INTERSTELLAR - web site design, construction, copywriting, photography, domain names, hosting, on-line shops, email management, search engine optimisation: This could very well be the best site design site I have ever seen.
One of the cooler kits I brought from HLJ clearance sale abou... on Twitpic: Cute! "One of the cooler kits I brought from HLJ clearance sale about two years ago. (Featured in Megami magazine Vol.8)"
Huffduffer: Don't quite understand what this is, something to do with creating podcasts.
Register of Open Branded Products: "The top level summary of the Open Brand register of certified products by major product standard type follows below. See the links on the left panel for full details."
Mule Design Studio’s Blog: Density and Difference: Comparing and contrasting Twitter and Google+. Well made point.
The problem with urban noise: All the more reason to build metro lines underground.
The Most Incredible Thing Fox News Has Ever Done - James Fallows - National - The Atlantic: A complete whitewash of the News of the World sh*tstorm. To be expected from Fox News, but still abhorrent.
What do I need to know when driving in Malaysia for the first time? | Men's Health Singapore: Funny that people in Singapore think Malaysia is big ;)
Ravenclaw + sorting-hat.com +: I'm allegedly from this house, having done several quizzes. I gave up on Harry Potter after the Order of The Phoenix was such a watered down disappointment, but still.
How I currently feel... on Twitpic: Just... wow.
Alpine and Gmail: "After looking through several websites on configuring Alpine, here is how I got it to work with Gmail via IMAP"
Alpine Technical Notes: Building and Installation: Now just need to figure out how to import Thunderbird/Mozilla mail into it, or if it's even possible.
Student homes away from home with 'all the mod cons' | UTS News Room: Looks pretty fancy!
TODAYonline | Sports | Thorpedo targets Singapore Sports School: It's an absolute non-story, just shared because I didn't realise anyone outside Australia knew who he was.
The NERD tree - A tree explorer plugin for navigating the filesystem : vim online: "The NERD tree allows you to explore your filesystem and to open files and directories. It presents the filesystem to you in the form of a tree which you manipulate with the keyboard and/or mouse. It also allows you to perform simple filesystem operations."
BBC News - Austrian driver's religious headgear strains credulity: Nicely done! "An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as religious headgear."
Retro Toshiba Display Drivers: Latest drivers are from 1997. For their machines from that time.
Libretto 70CT Model Content Page: Official drivers page for the Toshiba 70CT. There are better ones, but these are the fall back.
lynlotus: genderbent mugi and yui ftw: I cosplayed as Genderbent Mugi :)
Project: Retroputing ‹ View topic - FS: Toshiba Libretto 70CT: Nice comparison between the Libretto 70CT and an iPhone. Such a compact little machine, a decade before netbooks!
UMBPCI - a hardware UMB driver for DOS and Win95: Ultimate low memory use replacement for DOS EMM386 on PCI hardware.
MDGx Complete UMBPCI.SYS Guide: Excellent guide on maximising conventional memory in DOS, provided your machine has the luxury of a PCI bus ;)
Tutorial - Perl and Java: "[..] we are generating Java opcodes by walking Perl's syntax tree. This is very different from converting Perl to Java. It's a lot easier!"
Perl on Java? An Introduction to the Sleep Language | Java.net: "The most popular scripting languages are available in some form for the Java platform. [..] Sleep is a Java-based scripting language heavily inspired by Perl."
Sydney Harbour Bridge - BOS: More of a studying site, but still interesting.
Uncertainty starts to set in as the shuttle's roar fades | Chronicle | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: No kidding. Sad, really sad.
What do you love about Singapore? - Channel NewsAsia: I'd do this... if I were talented!
Local students dress up city area with art works - Channel NewsAsia: You can't have a news article about art, then not have any pictures!
Ireland's credit rating slashed to junk status | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 13.07.2011: Another dubious report by a credit rating agency that didn't see the biggest recession since the Great Depression coming. Forgive me for not taking them too seriously.
Installation Guide - Arch Hurd Wiki: "This guide is for installing Arch Hurd using the LiveCD; if you wish to install from within another distribution, have a look at the Alternate Installation Guide."
The Ghostbusters’ Risky Business Plan | Overthinking It: "Welcome to Overthinking It, where we subject the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve."
Ghostbusters - Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Games Database: Was published two years before I was! Wait, I was born, not published... [insert metaphysical discussion here]
Ducky and Abby - NCIS Photo (5672220) - Fanpop: Would make a great caption contest photo!
Theory of Knowledge by Bertrand Russell: One of the all time classics. Required reading, if I may say so!
Google+ Cheat Sheet offers helpful tips and tricks | Geek.com: I did formatting by accident before I found this.
David Cameron is in the sewer because of his News International friends – Telegraph Blogs: Even the conservative Telegraph on the UK is ragging on David Cameron over the #NOTW scandal. Incredible.
Carrying your Apple TV in style | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog: "I'm not sure why you need to haul your Apple TV around [..], but if you do find yourself moving Apple's set-top box often, you might as well do it in style, right?" Aw yeah :)
RIM Suffers Further Decline in U.S Smartphone Market Share - HardwareZone.com: Both Android and iOS pushing ahead, if you'll pardon the pun. Where's my beloved MeeGo and webOS?
AntBlog701: Hello Windows 95: I didn't know Microsoft bundled Plus! with Windows 95! I loved Plus!, it had those system themes ^_^
reiuji utsuho touhou - Konachan: Anime Wallpapers
LincityWiki: Huge SimCity fan since I was a kid, maybe I should check this out!
[UPDATE - a few more photos] Richard Dawkins celebrates 4th of July in Jackson Hole Wyoming - - - - - RichardDawkins.net: Sometimes I worry Dr Dawkins is *too* awesome!
MLP:FiM - Pony Creator Beta by ~generalzoi on deviantART: Spent a disturbing amount of time on this.
Goodreads: P.G. Wodehouse Quotes: "I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis."
SQUIBY - Welcome to Squiby: An artists, non-Disney version of NeoPets? Might need to tell my sister about this!

2011-06

Safebooru - Anime picture search engine! - Walkure Romanze: Ah, the art of completely implausible armour.
Nokia N9 hands-on - Pocket-lint: Absolutely gorgeous! I want!
'Apple in big trouble - can't survive' - Pocket-lint: Can I see the source code for the controllers in your engines then please? ;)
windows · A List of People Who Need to Stop Writing Software: Thank [deity] on the Mac and *nix side we've largely been spared from this.
Generic Tuberculosis Medicine Shows Promise for Reversing Type 1 Diabetes - Bloomberg: Would be great, if it works. My family has a history of Type I diabetes, but my father and I seem to have dodged the bullet.
Three arguments against the singularity - Charlie's Diary: Best argument I've read against the concept. I've never bought the idea of the singularity, though it seems most people into the subject think its all but a certainty.

2011-05

Kimi ga Nozomu Eien pictures - Anime pictures - Pictures gallery - Anime Paper: They have a "frenemies" tag for anime as well? ;)
BSD Administration Scripts | Download BSD Administration Scripts software for free at SourceForge.net: The original reason I got a SourceForge account! Then... subsequently changed my password for said SourceForce account.
Sophos Security Topics | Switch to Sophos: Worh it just for their heading: "Why Are You Upgrading to Symantec 11?" ;)
Why do you blog? | Reasons behind Blogging and why many Fail: I do it for fun, which makes me a "rare breed" apparently! I also do it for keeping track of things
MacSparky - Blog - Dancing with OPML: Interesting post on a complete OPML workflow, desktop and mobile. Really need to start doing this
Metro Lyrics: While My Guitar Gently Weeps: George Harrison was my favourite Beatle :)
BlueberryMuffin.jpg (JPEG Image, 291×291 pixels): That is one tasty looking stack of blueberry muffins!
Sydney Opera House at Night Wallpaper and Photo (High Resolution Download): One of these days when I find my proper tripod in one of the millions of packing boxes, I'm going to attempt shots like this :)
いつもの『Fate』とはちょっと違う『Fate／EXTRA（フェイト／エクストラ）』 - ファミ通.com: I'm an unabashed fan of Type/Moon's art, but a translucent dress? Oh dear.
Google Named Most Reputable Company in U.S.: Most reputable to their customers, but not taxpayers.
Breaking News: Flash floods hit Singapore | The Online Citizen: Again?! How much money was spent on those brand new massive water pump systems from The Netherlands?
Freakonomics » Ten Reasons Why I Would Never Donate to a Major Charity (How to Be a Superhero, Part 2): Leaving aside the fact most charities spend more on themselves than people in need, or that religious ones have more strings attached than Mr Squiggle.
Main Page - Digital Media Asia: Singapore Management university project about digital media in Asia-Pacific. The grammar is a bit off at times, but useful.
Atari Nerd Chronicles:Retro Shopping Centers with Video Games: Artesia and Sepulveda (North East Side) | 8bitrocket: Retro shopping centres FTW.
Safebooru - Anime picture search engine! - nichijou: Saw someone at uni with this printed as a giant poster and the name of his club in the sky. Looked great!
Dancing duck (GIF Image, 500×375 pixels): Also... can't... stop... watching... for different reasons!
SongMeanings | Lyrics | Brilliant Green, The - Brownie the Cat: "Ridiculously cute song about a kitten."
Animated Mugi (GIF Image, 600×400 pixels): Can't... stop... watching
RGB #B634BB RGB Chart & Multi Tool • Color • PerBang.dk: Prefer my purple to have a little more blue in it, but this is Pantone Purple
La Patisserie icon set, IconSeeker.com: Tasty!
Postie definition - English Slang Dictionary: For those who didn't know what I meant when I said I got mail from one recently ;).
Download Bauhaus 93.TTF | Fontonic | Designers Resources: Not sure if you need a licence to download this (I have an old copy of Office which I think qualifies!) but an awesome font, one of my all time nostalgic favourites :)
cookies 512 PNG/ICO/ICNS easyicon.cn: Unsure as to the origin, claims its from SmashingMagazine.com. Great icons though!
Mp3 tag editor Tag&Rename - edit tag in mp3, wma, mp4 files, automatic amazon and freedb import: Great way for Windows users to clean up ID3 tags and other metadata in lots of audio formats.
A Note about DeDuper & New Pricing from TuneUp CEO, Gabe Adiv : TuneUp Support: Lesson for internet companies: bad customer service and trying to fleece your customers doesn't work here. Much easier to call you out.
[SOLVED] Xfce screenshot - Ubuntu Forums: I prefer to use scrot too. Easier, and can be timed.
The Introspective Pet Shop Boys FAQ: Comprehensive, 1990s design-esque and almost unreadable! :)
Kokido Kombine :: Home: They host some great anime and tech blogs.
GnomeKeyring/RunningDaemon - GNOME Live!: Starting and stopping the Gnome Keyring Daemon, and technical details.
GnomeGames - GNOME Live!: There's a certain charm to these games, just like the old Windows Entertainment Packs of yesteryear :)
ColorMeSubbed: Looks like the best fansub group doing The World God Only Knows.
archlinux.de - Mirror-Status: Useful for tracking how long you can expect an update to reach you.
Anime TWGOK II BD Cover Art Matches Well With The One For Bakemonogatari | Jake's Anime Blog for Otaku ~de geso: Hey yeah, they do!
How to capture audio with Soundflower | Music and Audio | Playlist | Macworld: Used these apps for ages, but never properly I suspect!
crowdflow: combining crowdsourced geodata: "You probably know by now that your iPhone/Android collects the position data of wifi and cell networks near by. [..] We would like to combine as many of these log files as possible, create an open database of wifi and cell networks and thus visualize how these networks are distributed all over the world."
Open Data Commons: "Open Data Commons is the home of a set of legal ‘tools’ to help you provide and use open data."
LibreOffice 3.3.2 on Ubuntu Natty: Looks like Mac OS X. Huh.
Eight reasons to not die by *elsevilla on deviantART: "Never give, even if you are out numbered by eight."
IBM ThinkPad X31 - ArchWiki: "The IBM Thinkpad X31 is a wonderful little laptop which contains everything you need for your everyday work" The X40 is almost as affordable, and even more awesome too :)
Installing Arch Linux on a ThinkPad X40 - ThinkWiki: I do things a little differently, but a good starter guide.
Branson: I wish we’d been branded as Virgin Australia ten years ago - mUmBRELLA: "With Virgin Blue, I don’t think we got it wrong, but I think times have moved on and there’s just sort of this realisation that why let Qantas keep all of that money? It would have been better had we done it ten years ago but we finally realised."
Obama's 'poker face' hid world's best kept secret - The Times of India: "BOSTON: Between attending a glamorous White House correspondents' dinner and meeting families of victims of the Alabama storms, US president Barack Obama successfully managed to put up a "poker face" for nearly 72 hours before he announced Osama bin Laden's death to the world."
IP Australia : Trade Marks
Trade Mark Application Process in Singapore

2011-04

xmonad: Hardcore Window Management | Jupiter Broadcasting: "We break out our ugly sticks and beat our desktop into an ultimate nerd power-station!"
Ad campaigns are the last resort of failed lobbyists « Drag0nista's Blog: "Advertising is the lobbyist’s last resort because it’s effectively an admission of defeat by those running the campaign."
Real IRA vows to oppose Queen's visit : World News Australia on SBS: "An Irish Republican Army splinter group has vowed to oppose next month's visit to Ireland by Queen Elizabeth II and to keep killing Northern Ireland police officers - particularly those recruited from its own Catholic heartlands."
Forrst is a community for developers and designers - Forrst: Seems like a good idea, even if the site design is another cliche bubblegum web 2.0 thing.
Amazon.com: The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power (9780312601867): Geoffrey Dunn: Books: "The Lies of Sarah Palin is a journalistic tour de force that vividly reveals the Queen of the Tea Party movement as a vengeful and manipulative empress without clothes. This is the definitive book on Sarah Palin."
Lobotomo Software: MoofMenu: "Fan Control adjusts the minimum fan speed depending on the current CPU temperature. For safety, it leaves the original automatic fan speed control intact."
Safebooru - Anime picture search engine! - kitsu chiri: Epic art, go the colour! :D
How to differentiate your Asian languages. on Twitpic: Cute, though knew it already ;)
Express buses: Is there a "Megabus effect?" | The Economist: "The problem, as Businessweek's Ben Austen decribes it, is that express buses have so changed "the way Americans—especially the young—travel" that "they may help kill plans for new railroads."
Intel shows off more of its MeeGo Tablet UI, still needs lots of work -- Engadget: Hope this goes somewhere, interface looks gorgeous and QML would be too much fun.
Haley Barbour doesn't care about born children - War Room - Salon.com: "Mississippi leads the nation in almost everything that a state doesn't want to lead the nation in. Mississippi is the poorest state in the union, with the highest poverty rate and the lowest quality of life. And the state government is ineffective and oblivious when it isn't just plain corrupt."
Greens fear return to temporary visas - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Asylum seekers who commit criminal offences in detention are likely to be denied permanent visas in a move opponents say is a return to the temporary protection visas of the Howard government."
Core77 / industrial design magazine + resource / home: Another design site, another overuse of Georgia :/
aGIEn.png (PNG Image, 755×500 pixels): "Just because you're not smart enough to know what the f*ck they're talking about doesn't mean God exists!"
The only gay marriage graph that really matters - Peter Black's Freedom to Differ: This.
Atmosphere's worth of dry ice found at Mars south pole: "... scientists have now found a potential resting place for some material that was once in the Martian atmosphere: a huge deposit at the south pole that holds nearly as much CO2 as the planet's current atmosphere."
DIRTY, DANGEROUS & DESTITUTE | NEW YORK IN THE 70s – ALLAN TANNENBAUM « The Selvedge Yard: Amazing photos of a bygone era.
Quote - Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he .. on Quotations Book: "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
shaun's website: Quite possible the greatest website ever.
Merry Nightmare by saiki2: If only it were larger for a full screen desktop background!
Android phones record user-locations according to research | Technology | The Guardian: Seems MeeGo is the only option, and its being made by a sinking ship. Just our luck.
The Falafel Album - EP by GoRemy - Download The Falafel Album - EP on iTunes: Saudis in Audis and the Metro Song are my favourites :). Despite the stronger Aussie dollar we still have to pay double though.
Download Yumekui Merry Episode 8 – Anime Take: Who did that artwork? Its amazing!
Jesus Venn DiagramYYxn4.jpg (JPEG Image, 342×320 pixels): Zombie, Dracula, Frankenstein... ;)
Poster for Fundraiser 2011 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!: Finally got a Marian Call poster! She's awesome :)
flukeformac - Play FLACs in iTunes - Google Project Hosting: "Fluke is a small utility for Mac OS that lets you play FLAC files right within iTunes."
Play .wma, Ogg, and FLAC files in iTunes | iPod & Entertainment | Playlist | Macworld: Wonder if there's a way to do this for FLAC > Apple Lossless?
Intel, Micron open US$3 billion NAND flash facility in Singapore: Micron are huge in Singapore, as are AMD. Interesting to see Intel was part of the mix too.
IKB Travel - Singapore: Go the old photo!
Marina Barrage: "Built across the mouth of the Marina Channel, the Marina Barrage creates Singapore’s 15th reservoir, and the first in the heart of the city. With a catchment area of 10,000 hectares, or one-sixth the size of Singapore, the Marina catchment is the island’s largest and most urbanised catchment."
consistency and ecosystem opportunities - Twitter Development Talk | Google Groups: Clearly Twitter are trying to figure out a business model, by trampling on their developers. At least that's what I think it must be, they certainly aren't making much sense.
Idiots strike again at Sydney Airport | Plane Talking: Australian airports are terrible. I'm a citizen and I'm treated with less respect in my home country than I am abroad. Well, except maybe for the US :P
sandpile.org -- The world's leading source for pure technical x86 processor information.: Wow, just wow. So comprehensive!
OpenRCE: "Founded in June of 2005 as the brainchild of Pedram Amini, the Open Reverse Code Engineering community was created to foster a shared learning environment among researchers interested in the field of reverse engineering."
NASM Manual: "This manual documents NASM, the Netwide Assembler: an assembler targetting the Intel x86 series of processors, with portable source."
TODAYonline | Singapore | 'More green discussions in Parliament, please': They're right. Its way too difficult to be a home recycler in Singapore.
cplusplus.com - The C++ Resources Network: Seems like a pretty comprehensive site for C++ devs, including docs for the standard language library.
Sailor Scouts, raven555temari on Photobucket: Nice colours!
AnimeWapers.com 77616 bleach kuchiki_rukia vector.png: Yo! ;)
Australian Broadband Survey 2011 Report: Surprised that I'm not so surprised!
Dropbox: 25 million users and counting - Fortune Tech: "I loved dropbox until the insecurity of it was identified. Services like this are about trust and they have lost mine"
Sailor Saturn by *Priscillia on deviantART: Gorgeous! :O
HTML 5 + XML = XHTML 5 | HTML5 Doctor: Me too! "I like the xhtml syntax. It’s how I learned. I’m used to lowercase code, quoted attributes and trailing slashes on elements like br and img. They make me feel nice and comfy, like a cup of Ovaltine and The Evil Dead on the telly."
Build iPhone Apps, iPad Apps & iPod Touch/iTouch Apps - iPhone Application Framework|Taplynx
Home Price Guide - House & Property Prices, Auction Results
Why are heads rolling at the ADFA? - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): What a crock. This passes as journalism?
BitchX IRC Client: Uuuuuuh yeah :)
0000145: Mysql Starting error - XAMPP BUGS
Gisle Aas / HTML-Parser - search.cpan.org
Simplified Packaging: "Minimalist effect in the maximalist market"
WordPress › simpleX « Free WordPress Themes: Beautiful. Simple! Clean.
coding in the rain · Homebrew for OS X: Nice summary for those of us turned off by the suggestion that Homebrew should be installed by a user taking ownership of /usr/local!

2011-03

sandaleo.com :: pantone color web conversion: More of a rough guideline, but still useful
Taking Stock: July 2010 Archives: Some of those cows look like sheep! Wait, how did I get onto this site again?
Febi-desu, Nyan!: MOE: Surprised that I knew nearly all of these already :)
Share House | Australia's FREE Share House Website: Sounds like a great way to travel on a shoestring. Accommodation thesedays is often more expensive than the actual travelling!
The Code of the Geeks v3.12: Aww I remember this!
The Moe Coalition
New Chrome browser ready for the world: Taken straight from a PR release, no doubt
FeedFunnel: News from Gitmonation
Chinese XML FAQ: "This FAQ is about using XML for Chinese-language documents"
Employing the link rel > Tag: "This tutorial provides a guide on how to make best use of the link> tag"
About PIE – CSS3 PIE: CSS3 decorations for IE: "PIE stands for Progressive Internet Explorer. It is an IE attached behavior which, when applied to an element, allows IE to recognize and display a number of CSS3 properties."
Enhanced DOSKEY.com -- with auto-completion Paul Houle 6/29/2009: "This program is an enhanced, drop-in replacement for DOSKEY.COM"
Wi-fi promise for Sydney trains and buses - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): I'll believe it when I see it.
How airlines use Twitter [infographic] - Holy Kaw!: I thought airlines used Twitter to ignore their customers and dismiss negative PR... :P
Code Pizza: Hut of the Geass by ~RyuseiHikari on deviantART: "Support the rebellion! Support Pizza Hut!"
LTA awards first two Downtown Line contracts: Meanwhile, where tax dollars are being used to build forward thinking public transport infrastructure...
FreeBSD's INTx Implementation: IRQs are Yummy Cookies
iiTrial: A green light to disconnect pirates - Telco/ISP - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au: "Film industry granted path to cut infringer's net access." Be afraid.
Claws Mail - the email client that bites!: This looks like a really beautiful, lightweight alternative to Thunderbird.
Alt Text: Not Everyone Subscribes to Apple’s Plans for Domination | Underwire | Wired.com: Great satire ;)
ABC The Drum - Liar, liar, shock jocks on fire: Glad some people are finally working up the guts to call people like Alan Jones out. They're the Becks and Limbaughs of Aussie radio.
Hipster Bingo by HipsterBingo on Etsy: Hipsters have co-opted my style! Well at least some of it, I can count a few of these as being things I am/have/are! But I'm not a hipster, don't worry.
Photos: Boeing 767-224/ER Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net: The "UNITED" lettering on the 767 is far more balanced in this scheme than the 747.
Photos: Boeing 747-422 Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net: I'm (clearly!) in the minority of people who think the combined United/Continental livery looks really classy, especially on this airframe. The titles are far too small on the 747 though.
Taiwan’s contentious past: The KMT's original sin | The Economist: A look into a darker chapter of Taiwanese and KMT history. Worth reading for the comments people have left.
Share Free WP theme, SEO, personal experience and WE tips: It's like looking into a time machine! For many years this was what Rubenerd.com looked like before I started using it as a blog. Except mine had green and pink as well ;)
Subatomic Brainfreeze: Cost-cutting in Anime: How To and How Not To: Lamenting the "demise" of anime quality... again?
Coffee machine Icon | Download Office space icons | IconsPedia: A cute little coffee machine icon
IBM X40 ThinkPad Makes the 'Weight' Worthwhile — Datamation.com: That headline is just awful!

2011-02

search-engine-logos-main.gif (GIF Image, 400×872 pixels): I remember most of these search engines :)
Evolution of Logos – Past to Present | Corporate Talk: Fascinating compilation of logos and how they've evolved!
Bush cancels Europe trip amid calls for his arrest - War Room - Salon.com: He SHOULD be arrested.
Long Range ZIP | freshmeat.net
xz vs rzip - Rusty Russell's Coding Blog
Photos: Boeing 747-8JK Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net

2011-01

Mojo Upgrade: People need a website to tell them these things?!
Cosplay.com - Asahina Mikuru - Starlightslk: Wow!
Gordonator: Yuki’s Day at the Beach
No Stasi Refrigerator Magnets from Zazzle.com: They're so professional :)
Property Market | Economic Analysis | World Economy | Ronan Lyons: "This post outlines 11 reasons to be cheerful about Ireland."
BBC News - Australia floods: Queensland rebuilding 'huge task'
Osborne 1 computer
Nearly 2 in 3 Singaporeans shop online
Privacy Commissioner investigates alleged Vodafone breach - Security - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au
Find Windows XP Secret Song | Cool Stuff - ebcak: From the installer, I think.
World News Australia - Byte Me - Harvey's GST call gets little love from consumers
The rise of heartland malls - Straits Times
Young Americans: Left out in the rain | The Economist: "Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It’s Good for Everyone. By Richard Settersten and Barbara Ray. Bantam; 272 pages; $15."
BBC - Weather - Why is Queensland flooded?
Youthphoria - Singapore Toy, Games, Comic Convention
National Registration and Inquiry System - Australian Red Cross
For heaven's sake, Pope hopes to end trend for exotic names - Europe, World - The Independent
Aerials of the Brisbane River - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Dramatic footage from Queensland flood disaster - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Adobe claims rtmpdump 'can be used' to infringe -- Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
Multiboot directly into WinNT/Win95/DOS/Linux from the NT Boot Loader: "It is possible to boot directly into each of these operating systems using the Windows NT 3.51 boot loader (note that this procedure will not work with NT versions prior to 3.51, and I have not tested it with version 4 yet). Specifically, one can boot directly into DOS, without going through Win95, from the NT multiboot menu. In fact, I have no doubt that OS/2 and other operating systems can be added to this procedure given an understanding of the way the particular boot sequence works for the operating system."
Christopher Spry's Web: Guidelines for installing 'NT 4.0 workstation' on Toshiba Tecra 730XCDT computers including suggestions for software, service packs and hardware settings.
Mirrored: Toshiba U.S.A. - Satellite Pro 430
Vladimir's Blog | A blog by Prelovac Media CEO Vladimir Prelovac
K-ON!! Winter Days……. | Jake's Anime Blog for Otaku ~de geso
Newsweek in 1995: Why the Internet will Fail.
Panic - Transmit - The ultimate Mac OS X FTP + SFTP + S3 app
tagbooru - Project Hosting on Google Code: "Yet another danbooru downloader which automatically renames the files to their ID and tags"
Yoko by Gift - TOMOPOP - COLLECTIBLE TOY CULTURE - Vinyl toys, Papercraft, Garage kits, Gamer toys, Japanese toys, robots, movie toys, and more.
Yoko Littner - Chewiki
skyline.jpg (JPEG Image, 500×807 pixels): Various city skyline silhouettes. Obviously not really to scale ;)
MacThemes Forum / [Icons] Latté - A 48px Icon Set for Developers: A really beautiful set of Mac icons for developers.
Michael Franks Scatsville Lyrics: One of my favourite new songs of his in a while :)
Photos: Lockheed L-1011-385-3 TriStar 500 Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net: Wow, look at the shimmering heat :O
American Politics Journal -- The Real Reagan Legacy: "Reagan was by far the most overrated man in American history."
ITT Post pics of your city's skyline - IGN Boards: Pretty ^__^