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Toogle performs a google image search and returns the result as ascii text from your search term. Useless and fun.

For my RSS fix, I’ve used netnewswire at home on my Powerbook and newsgator at work on my ThinkPad. While both do their jobs exceedingly well, I’ve switched to Bloglines because I no longer need to synchronize my feeds between home and office, the new UI and feature enhancements are intuitive and useful, and its [...]

The weblog for new dads, by way of snowdeal, via Greg Allen

Take an hour or two and enjoy flash in its element.

Spiffy little Dubya speechwriter, in a partisan sort of way. It’s clever, but also a cheap shot.

“With an Imaginary Girlfriend, you can carry on a completely fictitious, yet authentic looking relationship with the girl of your choice… Just make up how you met and include any details about yourself that you want your new girlfriend to know. Within days you’ll receive personalized love letters by mail, e-mails, photos, special gifts… even [...]

Cross cute baby boy, dad with industry connections, and stars up the yin yang: Who is that with Jeremy? Name dropping was never so entertaining.

MSNBC gets a redesign. I like it.

Neocon or not? Take the Christian Science Monitor’s thoughtful Neo-Conservative quiz. I was rated a realist whose past and modern-day counterparts include Dwight Eisenhower and Colin Powell, respectively.

Browser security check. Test your browser’s security. I don’t even want to know how unsafe IE is, although that isn’t a problem for me since I use Safari / Opera / Camino / Firebird / Links.

The last time I read Dervala, she had divorced her husband and abandoned her Silicon Alley life in New York and Brooklyn to explore the vast mosquito net induced haze that is South-East Asia. It now appears she’s jumped the continent and is currently meandering somewhere down in South America.

Buttons up the yin-yang. Peddle any pet-project, better-than-thou application, operating system or politically irrelevant aphorism imaginable through the power of pngs and the concept of jumping on the bandwagon. Copy and paste. You know you want to.

Useful features I think Google should implement: web search using regular expressions and the use of word proximity. Regexes are, well, self-explanatory for those who would bother to use them. It wouldn’t surprise me if they’re already trying to solve this problem right now.
Word proximity is something that DejaNews used to implement when [...]

Froogle.

Search the web with a keyboard-enhanced Google. Sort of neat, but still not as good as using Opera’s Q-A or W-S keys.

I love the Beeb, but I loathe their front page, especially that useless headline
applet near the top. Recently, I discovered their text-only site so I am a less
bitter news reader. Now only if CNN would follow their lead. That goes for
you too IHT. Know any other useful text-only
news sites? Yeah, I guess Google is,
once again, [...]

RIP AudioGalaxy: The story of Austin-based Audiogalaxy, through the eyes of a former web developer. An ill wind has blown through the filesharing and streaming music community these past couple of weeks: firstly the settlement between AudioGalaxy and the RIAA, and then the major blow: the announcement of the final CARP rates which effectively killed [...]

The Oracle of Bacon. Not surprisingly, most of my favorites actors have a bacon number of 2.

Plastic.com: Slashdot/Metafilter for the Salon/Suck crowd. Actually, it looks like they are using slashcode, the package that slashdot runs on. Yup they are, if you append a “?light=1″ to “index.pl”, you get the light version of the site. The light version, by the way, is the only way I read Slashdot nowadays. Much easier on [...]