So, I’ve been idly poking at Backpack all day, loading various bits of data into it wherever I’ve figured they might be helpful.

I just discovered the coolest use of it.

Each page has a unique email address, and anything sent to that address is squirted straight onto the page. If your email has “note: [foo]” in [...]

I suck when it come to organisation – I always have. I’m trying to remedy that, though, and there’s a suite of online tools I’m finding kinda helpful. They’re from 37signals, a bunch of talented and visionary people. I see these tools as being part of the Web 2.0 revolution – the web as platform, [...]

I’ve posted about this before on my LiveJournal, but it’s been occupying a fair chunk of my brainspace lately, so here it is again.

The Loftcube project was developed by the Berlin Design Studio. It’s a portable living space that can be mounted on the top of flat buildings, constructed primarily from Corian and other modern [...]

We help them locate the one thing that matters most: their gravy train.

(Seen via Lindsayism, a most amusing blog.)

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What do you do when you have four iPod Shuffles and a bit of spare time?

If you’re Jim Wright, you turn them into a 4GB RAID array. This is a really novel thing to do, and it came to mind when I was checking out info on Gmail drives (wherein you can access your Gmail [...]

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Wouldn’t you agree?

Lorem Ipsum has been the standard dummy text of the printing industry since the 1500s; it’s from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

It’s very useful to fill pages, because [...]

One of the Important People at GM uttered this gem of wisdom:We want Pontiac to be a performance-oriented division offering vehicles that can really be driven the way vehicles are meant to be driven.
So, until now, you’ve all been driving cars in ways they weren’t meant to be driven. We know, because GM says so.

Randy [...]

The above is a picture of Kryptos, a sculpture created for the Langley CIA HQ by a man named Jim Sanborn. It includes four heavily-encoded panels of text, and their contents are still a mystery. Three of the panels have been decoded, but the fourth hasn’t. And even when it has been, the contents form [...]

‘It turns out that the “Books for Babies” program is not structured like the “Toys for Guns” programs, so if you show up with babies, you can not exchange them for books. Completely blows my weekend plans.’—Jessa Crispin, at Bookslut

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