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Textual web apps

Another couple of “Web 2.0″ apps which may turn out to be of some use: Chris Locke, in his capacity as Chief Blogging Officer, points to LibraryThing, where we are offered the opportunity to catalogue our books, and to network … more…

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Self-portrait as South Park character

Create yourself a South Park character. You know you want to. I alternate between these two: Should you wish, you might equip your character from an exciting range of weapons, props and what-not… (via LifeHacker)

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Clustrmaps beta (+48 hours)

There’s been a Clustrmaps script running on the page for about 48 hours at the time of this writing and we’ve got all the continents covered. Exc-cel-ent. I am really tickled by this utility: traffic to this site is plotted … more…

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GetContentSize, Gimboland

GetContentSize is a brutally simple utility that will calculate the percentage of actual text on a given page, relative to its file size. In other words, it will give you a very rough idea of how lean your page is, … more…

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The lure of the code…

It was only about three hours ago that I read the latest variant on the old saw that if the gods wish to drive someone crazy, they give them exactly what they want. Don’t remember the source, but I’m sure … more…

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“John Macenroe quotes” and a fiendish notion…

Generic google search related post: enthusiasm is in the top twenty results (at UK Google) for john macenroe quotes. I know this because somebody just visited, clutching that search string in their hot little browser-mitts. Mentioning this bizarre factoid might … more…

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Rapture Index

Rapture Index – loopy fundamentalists have cooked up this Index of End Time Phenomena, which shows how their apocalypse is coming along. My first thought was, if you could get a strip of code to include in a page, I’d … more…

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Axis Applet

Not sure what axis that any three countries in the world might be the axis of? Wonder no more, just check it out with this rather clever but completely daft Axis Applet by Golan Levin (via JOHO)

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Strange referral script behaviour

Well, here’s a funny thing. Just downloaded Netscape 7.0, fired it up and it seems to render this page rather well, which is a good start. I’ll reserve judgement on the new browser until I’ve spent more time with it, … more…

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