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18 Foods That Make Your Skin Glow

May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Yahoo has a selection of foods that will improve the look of your skin. If you are like me and spend way too much time bathed in the glow of LCD lighting then this may be very useful!
Firm and Bright
You’re probably up to your eyebrows (Botoxed or not) with hearing “eat more fruits and vegetables.” [...]

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Security and Protection Plugins for Wordpress

April 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Now here’s a post that very important to all Wordpress users: The security of your blog. The whole Speckyboy article lists 10 useful plugins that will help to secure your WordPress site.
Just think about it — all your posts, comments and even your theme, GONE. No way to get them back.

Now that you have that [...]

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The Manned Cloud - Airships

April 7th, 2008 · No Comments

As you may be aware, airships are my thing. So this one makes me very happy indeed. Take a look at the gallery:
MANNED CLOUD Cruise Airship, Paris, France
Living in the sky, watching the Earth from above. Rediscovering the marvel of traveling, experiencing contemplation. Exploring the world without trace
Manned Cloud is an alternative project around leisure [...]

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Checklists for … everything

March 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Create online checklists with checkser. When you’ve made them, share them out for others to use. I’m something of a checklist fan, so I appreciate this website, even if I’m late to the party. So what checklists already exist?
Setting up a blog
Facebook Closure
Moving Home
Self Management
Divorce
Cosplay
How to review a book
Home Buyer Checklist
Things to do when buying [...]

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Operating Systems and Browsers of users coming to CR

March 11th, 2008 · No Comments

CR gets OK readership, over 2.5k unique hits a day, serving almost 5000 pages (using wp-cache) which amounts to 200MB bandwidth a day and 33k hits. So what OS and browsers statistics can I pull from these figures? It breaks down like this:
Operating Systems Hits Percent
Windows 259428 78.4 %
Macintosh 55468 16.7 %
Unknown 10909 3.2 %
Linux 4172 1.2 %
Sony PlayStation Portable 466 0.1 %
Symbian OS 71 0 %
BSD 45 0 %
Sun [...]

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Art of Jake Parker

March 9th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve seen his work before, in Flight 2 I think it was, and here’s his website. His art is just wonderful, the flash website sucks though. Ah well, worth it for the artwork, just check this out:

Isn’t that picture good? Damn it, wish I could be that good. Oh well :)
Link

Tags: art, blog, robot, sci-fi

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The Speed Download - Macheist saga

March 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I purchased the last pack of applications from the Macheist people, and I was burned by the Speed Download 4 (SD4) fiasco. TUAW has a good write up on it, but more exists.
the SD5 update was pushed down via the automatic updating system [built in to SD4 and switched on by default-CR], apparently catching [...]

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Tags: Consumerism · CreationRobot · Software

The Garfield Strip, Minus Garfield

February 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Presurfer, one of my fav blogs to read, has this nice write-up on the minus Garfield site:

Link to strip
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?
Meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and [...]

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