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Interesting Links 005 [ 24th January 2009, 13:33:33 ]

5 psychological experiments that expose humanity's dark side, the one with administering the electric shock is incredible. So is the lack of help when people think others will help.

Simpsons does Apple Satire, very good, its Mapple and Steve Mobs, very thin vale their then!

Useful tips for using google search - getting the current time is an excellent one, as is the cache one.

kitchen sink animation in ascii, quite cool. You can even switch the tap on and off!

Get your Mac to talk to youOn your mac turn on your speakers, launch Terminal and type: say hello world

Geektool top on destkop











Geektools - put your system monitoring on the desktop (on your mac), download the app here

Displaperture - get rounded corners back on your mac, yeah! This is brilliant I've got my round corners back!!

Common myths, really interesting, lots of these I thought were true but aren't, what do I know eh?!

If Perl was a religion it would be Voodoo - "An incomprehensible series of arcane incantations that involve the blood of goats and permanently corrupt your soul. Often used when your boss requires you to do an urgent task at 21:00 on friday night." If programming languages were religions - this is quite amusing and they don't call me voodoo Kev for nothing!

Programming quotes - I like some of these quotes, they have an eerie resonance for my work

Great exam question answer - I like this, the other one similar to this is the maths question that asks to find x, and the person has circled x and said there it is, brilliant!

Interview with the inventor of C++ - eek is this really true? did this guy really make up C++ and all this object oriented stuff just to make it really difficult so programmers could make lots of cash? If this is true; genius? And presumably Windows 95 was written in C++? Does that mean that Windows Vista is written in C++ would explain some things, I wonder what language Mac OS X is written in? Looks like Vista is written in Assembler, C, C++ and maybe even some C#.

256 web safe colours and their # codes, awesome I am going to be using this.

www.jumbojoke.com - Good joke about the empire state building

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