I reached a magic number on last.fm today:

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Cows just keep getting more awesome.

Cows have magnetic sense, Google Earth images indicate:

German scientists using satellite images posted online by the Google Earth software program have observed something that has escaped the notice of farmers, herders and hunters for thousands of years: Cattle grazing or at rest tend ...

This past weekend I attended LugRadio Live in Wolverhampton, and had a great time. I took my new Flip Ultra with me, and I've put the resulting video on Vimeo. Mostly the videos are of Saturday night's karaoke, but here's a compilation of the various things I ...

I've just finished setting up Django support on all of our servers at Valcato Hosting. I'm quite happy to finally be able to offer this to customers, and it's only the beginning of a whole list of new features and changes I'm planning to make Valcato ...

I was just doing something in iScrobbler, and a thought occurred to me: Why is it that applications can't figure out in advance on which side a menu is going to open, and place the arrow accordingly?

How it actually looks.

And my mock up of how Cocoa could ...

I love UFO reports. Mainly because I find joy in laughing at idiots. This story about a couple releasing some lanterns at their wedding, and those lanterns later being seen by three police officers in a helicopter who promptly thought they were under attack from aliens, is hilarious.

Phil Plait ...

I saw Chatham County Line on Jools Holland a few weeks ago, and immediately paused the programme and bought their newest album on iTunes. (Available under iTunes Plus, which is always nice.) I can't seem to stop playing this album -- it's 45 minutes of great bluegrass. The second ...

Lord Carlile is apparently practising for Bruce Schneier's next movie plot threat contest. According to the Telegraph, Lord Carlile is reporting that "senior police officers have "real anxiety" about the possibility of terror missions being launched from small airports amid fears over lax security."

However, he said there had ...

The Mozilla web site has a pretty poor list of features in their comparison of Safari and Firefox:

"...personalize your online experience" -- seriously?

This mockup on Flickr mentions my main problem with FF3's design -- that ridiculous back button. Does anyone think that looks good? (Is it just me, or ...

The last week or so I've been working on a Django version of this blog, and I've just made it live. (Sorry to anyone reading this via any of the planets I'm a member of who may have gotten some duplicate posts.) So far I've found ...