Tim on July 1st, 2008

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.”This may be the best four minutes and twenty-eight seconds of your week.”, said the entry at Boing Boing. Well it’s only two days into it, but I’ve a pretty good feeling it will be.It’s basically a goofy dance done by Matt, “a 31-year-old [...]

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Tim on May 7th, 2008

Last week’s TIME had an article about the diary of Rutka Laskier, a Polish Jew whose diary had been found and kept by a friend for 60 years. It outlines four months in 1943, before Rutka and her family were sent to Auschwitz and killed.

If you’ve read the diary of Anne Frank, you’ll find haunting [...]

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Tim on April 16th, 2008

Note: I was planning Snippets to be just a mishmash of everything interesting I find on the Web but would never have the time to blog about. I thought making it a fortnightly thing would be fine, but it appears a lot happens in two weeks :/. Oh well.
Malaysia

Hamilahton, mother of maths prodigy Sufiah Yusof [...]

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Tim on March 31st, 2008

Teh Internets

60% of all Photoshop users are pirates (sample size: 500).
Adobe launches Photoshop Express, a stripped down version of its flagship product. Focus is on community and “family” functions.
Torrentspy.com, which was once the most visited BitTorrent site, shuts down in the face of MPAA suits.
Firefox 3 will debut in June 2008, fixing its memory-hogging.
[I still [...]

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