Archive for the 'The wonderful world of the world-spanning Internet' Category

JavaScript animated effects

Just stop it. Please. Making me wait for things that should be snappy doesn’t make your web page better.

Gah.

Amazon.whut?

I wonder how many people had to buy those two books to make that particular link a recommendation.

Amazon recommends

Amazon recommends

Felleangst?

Wikipedia fund raiser. Bah.

Wikipedia is having another fundraiser. I’m not donating, and this is why.

We luvs the internets

Oh, and God is a ninja.

Eit par avisklipp

Eit par interessante overskrifter, courtesy of VG og Dagbladet. Eg synest spesielt Afghanistan-saken var smakfull.

Smakfull dekking av Afghanistan-konfliktaOverskrift om prinsessa

Internet madness

No actual content, just a list of fun, addicting and/or insane games on the intarweb.

<Hoffa> Ekle Åsmund, legge ut linker til spill på nettet sånn helt uten videre.

And after tea, you have an appointment to destroy the Earth, sir.

Finally, somebody took the trouble to enumerate and rank the various methods for destroying the Earth.

HSD på sjø og land

… eller Tide, som dei kallar seg no. Forresten, viss du ikkje er sunnhordlending og/eller ikkje veit at HSDTide har mista ferjegromruta Halhjem-Sandvikvåg til FylkesbaataneFjord1, så kjem ikkje dette til å bety stort for deg.

I alle fall. Eg skulle heim i helga som nett var. Så då lurte eg på om eg kunne ta siste dagtog til Bergen og koma meg til Sandvikvåg same kveld. Tide presenterte følgjande framlegg til reiserute.

(Hint: Tide har ikkje tenkt å fortelja deg at Lakrisbaatane seglar Halhjem-Sandvikvåg no.)

Google Transoceanic

I’m probably the fourth last in the world to notice this, but Google Maps has this quite nice routefinding system. It’s particularly interesting for transoceanic travels, as you can see below.

Travellin’ with Google

I just wish Google Maps would offer something more than just Mercator.

Hooray internets movies!

Okay, so this is clearly the most brilliant thing I’ve seen so far on Youtube.