create your
own visited country map
Kind of boring, really. I need to travel more. I need to see Ireland
sometime, and Japan and Australia are pretty high on the list. Iceland
and the Scandinavian countries would be pretty neat too.
Is it just me, or would this have worked a lot better with a Mercator
projection?
I’m a bit of a language nut — the sort that not only reads usage guides
for fun, but contrasts them for fun — and I’ve wanted A
Dictionary Of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (Walter Avis et
al., eds; Toronto: W.J. Gage, 1967) for some time, but best as I can
tell it only made one edition, and has [...]
My tastes in furniture tend toward the capital-M Modern — Eames,
Breuer, Saarinen, Le Corbusier, Gray, and so on. (Of course,
I can’t afford much to any of that, but still.) Because of this,
I always enjoy looking through catalogs from Design Within Reach, a web- and
mail-order company which provide the sort of furniture you would
usually only find [...]
I want to tell you about snow. Specifically, I want to list all of the
neat things that go with snow that make me really enjoy this time of
year.
Full disclosure: It is not snowing here currently. This brings me to
the first reason I like snow: there is no escaping winter here, so it
is going to be [...]
Just found out from Freeside that
his baby, SPF, has been implemented
by AOL:
$ host -t txt aol.com
aol.com text “v=spf1 ip4:152.163.225.0/24 ip4:205.188.139.0/24
ip4:205.188.144.0/24 ip4:205.188.156.0/24 ip4:205.188.157.0/24
ip4:205.188.159.0/24 ip4:64.12.136.0/24 ip4:64.12.137.0/24
ip4:64.12.138.0/24 ptr:mx.aol.com -all”