How to Check if your Website is Blocked in China A list of three handy tools (Just Ping, Watch Mouse, and Website Pulse) that let you see if your website is blocked in China.

The Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) is looking for suggestions about which Geocities sites to index before Geocities closes permanently on October 26, 2009. So submit ( Read more... )

riizu, perhaps you'll appreciate this.
Make the Logo Bigger The Song. (via hack2work)
"Finally, for the graphic designers among us. Enjoy a two minute and thirty-six second rock rendition of that client request you've heard time and again."

Super Grub Disk is like a superhero for booting computers. It has saved the day for me more than once. Hooray! Thank you Super Grub Disk.

An artist named Moldover has released a CD of electronica music that has a built-in theremin in the CD cover. He demonstrates it briefly on Youtube. (via musicradar and westword)

The Onion has a spoof of an advice column called "Ask A College Professor Having Trouble With The Audiovisual Equipment" (via bohemianseacoast)

"At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz." (via Long Now Foundation Blog)

Strangemaps has a chart that shows "If extraterrestrial civilizations are monitoring our TV broadcasts, then this is what they are currently watching."

Laurell K. Hamilton has some good advice "Let go of the ______ you had planned and enjoy the ______ you've been given."

Hexayurts!

I've had a few conversations about Harlequin Romance novels in the past couple months. Here are some excerpts.

flying_squirrel *looks at book cover* It says 'Baby Bling'. I see the baby. Where's the bling?
enleve I don't know. There's no bling in the story either. Unless you count his millions of dollars.
flying_squirrel I wasn't expecting a cowboy. I was expecting a rapper ( Read more... )

This wedding dress is made out of toilet paper. It is the winner of a contest for toilet paper wedding dresses. I would not have realized it was made out of toilet paper without the caption. It is quite stunning.

There is a livejournal community for fans of colm_feore. I learned this today, and signed up immediately.

Cyrano was great. I enjoyed seeing Colm Feore play him. He looks great with long hair! And he's such a talented actor! But I knew that already. :)

There's an interview with Colm Feore and his wife Donna Feore, who directed the play, at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Youtube Channel. (Here are the links: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.) ( Read more... )