Yummy Wakame

Wired: Foil those pesky wire taps on your phone!

Thanks for jogging my memory! I look back on one of my favourite days of awkward youth, sitting on the sidelines watching the boys doing amazing skateboard tricks at the park and wishing I could just have one as a friend (I daren’t even imagine that he might some day even want to be my boyfriend). I liked to sit there and watch them on Saturdays hoping that one of the cute ones might notice me in the shadows and ask me to pull up my skateboard. As I sat there watching and having my day dreams they’d all eventually become my friends over the next few weeks and teach me their signature tricks until I would eventually excel over my teachers and became The Most Famous Skateboard Girl In The Entire World. I would fly my old krew out with me to all the most awesome competitions around the world and still have time to follow my other pursuits like winning drinking battles against large hairy bikers for money, and smoking without coughing. I look back on those days with such awe and admiration for what I achieved in such a short lifetime.

I truly am Awesome.

Bike Pittsburgh – ClickNathan’s best work yet!

Gorgeous…

Fans turning away latecomers to all-night game console campouts

and the inevitable depressing comic week

My unending fascination with the Bermuda Triangle is fed further: “Islands in the Bermuda Triangle were photographed levitating by as much as 10 miles off the surface of the ocean in this recently-declassified image from a U.S. spy satellite.” (photo)

Wow…

Found on Caiterwauling

A newly formed biofuels company in South Africa has secured the rights to use a system that recycles CO2 in industrial plant flue gases into clean, renewable biofuels such as biodiesel.

“When algae are introduced to a rich carbon source, such as the flue gas emissions of a power plant, they propagate exponentially compared to traditional agricultural crops and do not compete for land or water that might otherwise be used for food production.”

www.infinitibiodiesel.com

Wowwee!!

Thanks ken!

After loads of research over the weekend to find the perfect host, I finally moved my site today. What started off as a honeymoon romance a few years ago with LunarPages quickly soured over the last year as their tech support is now virtually non-existent and my site has frequent outages.

After careful and thorough research I finally decided on AN Hosting as my new host. They are a division of the more famous MidPhase, but they offer outstanding value for money. For less than half the price of LunarPages package I get loads more disk space, more bandwidth, my site loads faster, 24-hour tech support that really supports (I thoroughly tested this overnight during the move), and trusty cPanel. And for all intents and purposes, they are MidPhase.

When I grow out of their shared hosting, I can move over to one of their dedicated plans. They even offer Windows hosting with all the usual components.

Lets compare the two: more…

Shawn man, seriously dude, just don’t freak out on me!

This NSFW link was provided by Pieter.

Canada.

Thank you EllynAnne and Andrews McMeel Publishing for sending me a copy of your gorgeous book!

The Apron Book is a beautifully photographed historical documentary of the American apron.

This great American icon for mothering and pop-culture is back in contemporary fashion. Each page is lovingly put together with photographs from EllynAnne Geisel’s vintage apron collection — over 300 collected from around America — as well as apron patterns. Apron lovers from the past and present share their stories and memories. I love this book. It fits in perfectly with my quirky little collection.

Take a peek inside the book or visit EllynAnne’s site to learn more at apronmemories.com.

Fairy Godmother Inc. is waving its wand throughout South Africa helping ordinary people turn their dreams into reality.

Prior to being a Fairy Godmother, Donna McCallum was a serial entrepreneur who has started, run and sold a number of successful businesses in both Marketing and IT. Her latest workshops – “Dream Mapping” – is just one of the many fabulous offerings of Fairy Godmother Inc.

So what is Dream Mapping you may ask? more…

This is how they do it. Very clever!

I’m so thrilled with this service. The lines are high-quality and clearer than any paid calling card I have ever used… certainly 100 times better than skype. Unfortunately their lines have been down the last 2 days but I still keep trying.

The EERE Consumer’s Guide shows you how to detect air leaks, set up correct insulation and ventilation to avoid the buildup of indoor pollutants, and shows how moisture control improves a home’s energy efficiency.

“TreeHugger is a fast-growing web magazine, dedicated to everything that has a modern aesthetic yet is environmentally responsible. Our goal is to make sustainability mainstream and to be the one-stop for the environment. If you want doom & gloom, this is not the place. We are looking for solutions, constructive developments and positive initiatives.”

Articles of note:

• Starting in 2007, a new daylight savings time will save us upwards of 3 billion kilowatt hours of energy.
• How to green your life: How to green your meals and your public transportation.
• Reinventing the bike shed – new solutions to the bike parking problem.

An article on the MSDN network explains the differences between how IE6 and IE7 interperet CSS.

Thanks Pieter.

ClickNathan has written a solid article on How to Use WordPress as a CMS.

Nathan has a huge amount of experience creating content managed sites for clients such as the Lippis Report so this article is pretty in-debth with links to all the plugins you need and how to get it up and running.

As promised (sorry they’re a little late) – pics of our costumes just before heading out to Evaline…

RIPunzel & Space Pirate

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