Bourne Shell Server Pages are ordinary ASCII text files, with the special extension .shit, which denotes “Shell-Interpreted Template.” The result of invoking the page compiler on a .shit file, is, naturally, a shell script. (It occurred to me that this file extension might seem objectionable to some, but since it quite accurately—if unintentionally—conveyed my sentiments toward Web technology in general, I decided that it should be left unchanged.)
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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Friday Link-o-Rama
A small one this week, and I missed out last week, sorry!
Origami CD Case
Unpleasant, but ornately so.
MXC – TOP 25 most painful eliminations
This is hilarious.
The England team at their best.
Top 10 Bizarre Mental Disorders
Pimp My Card: How to Skin Your Credit Card
Top 10 Most Extreme Custom Cars in the World
Supervillain Henchman Training Video
Tesla Coils Playing the Mario Bros Theme are Unsurprisingly Awesome
Nerdy pleasures.
Scratchcard withdrawn due to withering levels of ignorance
Tina Farrell, from Levenshulme, called Camelot after failing to win with several cards.
The 23-year-old, who said she had left school without a maths GCSE, said: “On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn’t.
The best bit however comes next:
“I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher – not lower – than -8 but I’m not having it.”
Tina for president, I say.
Friday Link-o-Rama
A short one this month, I didn’t have the time!
It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.
I will do my best…
A niche market…
SurveillanceSaver
SurveillanceSaver is awesome:
SurveillanceSaver is an OS X screensaver that shows live images of over 600 network surveillance cameras worldwide. a haunting live soap opera.
Linux visitor numbers
After writing about how Ashley Highfield (BBC Head of Technology) claimed that only 400-600 out of 17.1 million users of bbc.co.uk run Linux I started to wonder what the proportion of visitors to my own jokes site were using Linux. Here are screengrabs taken from my google analytics account:
Nearly 94% use windows, 5% use Mac. OK, that matches Ashley’s claims. But wait, 0.9% of my sites visitors use Linux. That is significantly more than the 0.00003% that Ashley Highfield claimed use bbc.co.uk. If we use that 0.9% figure against the 17.1 million visitors he claims visit bbc.co.uk the number of Linux users would be closer to 154,000.
Where the hell did he get his numbers from?
Just for fun, here are the browser versions. Good to see Firefox doing so well:
400-600 out of 17.1 million users of bbc.co.uk run Linux
Bollocks. Either Ashley Highfield (BBC Head of Technology) has someone particularly stupid interpreting the stats for the site, or he is trying too hard to justify the BBC’s recent use of Microsoft client only technology.
Sign the petition to let the BBC know you use Linux. Found at PerfDave.
Edited to add: I estimate they have closer to 154,000 Linux users.
Friday Link-o-Rama
In a nerdy way.
Re-enacted in Lego!
20 Things You Didn’t Know About Living In Space
A useful tool.
Thirty Illnesses, Sorted According to Whether or Not You Can Eat the Victims
Neat!
Stupid Shit People ACTUALLY Put On Their Resumes
I am sure this is completely true. How can it not be, it’s on the internet.
Catchy…
A fun adventure game.
Driver threatens police officer for writing speeding ticket too slowly
Stupid.
Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future
Tasty
Eight of the World’s Most Unusual Plants
