Who invented emoticons? September 19th, 2007
You know, I really do not remember when I first saw the "smiley" characters. I suppose it was the first time I started using email in the 1980s. You know what I mean – the ubiquitous little …
Where does your Internet start and end? September 16th, 2007
So after hours and hours of searching the internet for interesting information to blog about, I came to what appears to be "The End of the Internet".
Trouble is that if there is indeed an …
Donald Duck’s 1937 View of the Future August 20th, 2007
I came across a delightful post on Paleo-Future: A Look into the Future that Never Was titled Donald Duck's "Modern Inventions" (1937).
The post points to the short film "Modern …
Want a laugh? Turn you old monitor into a fishtank August 11th, 2007
So you want something everyone will look at? A fish tank computer monitor?
Instructables has a set of instructions, just eleven steps, to turn your old monitor into a fish tank. I can just picture th…
Wondered how you mouse cursor works? May 27th, 2007
Well have you wondered how the pointer seems to be the first thing going when you fire up and then sometimes move sluggishly to point at what you direct it towards?
There is actually a site online, …