The San Diego Union Tribune has an amusing aticle on how Greece still isn’t ready for the 2004 Olympics. Seems that whenever they start digging to build a new facility, they invariably hit some archaeological artefact.
Arrrrgh!
Another quiz this time it’s “What’s my Pirate Name?” Mine’s apparently “Mad Jack Kidd” (I always thought it was “the Dread Pirate Bob”)— what’s yours?
Diamonds are a Geek’s Best Friend
I saw the cover of the latest issue of wired, and had to pick it up. Turns out there’s a very interesting article on the emergence of synthetic diamonds— that is, diamonds that are grown in a lab, but are physically and chemically indistinguishable from diamonds that are mined. This is not your father’s cubic…
Meatspace
Found two cool ways of linking your website to others in “meatspace”: GeoURL will instuct you on how to add meta tags to your web page to place it geographically. If you click on this button: [geourl.org is offline —Ed. 2015-08-22], you can see websites that have registered near me. D.C. Metro Blog Map is…
Station in the Metro Returns
That’s right. The domain name I dropped last December is being resurrected. Why? Well, for the same reasons it was created in the first place. Now that Boszko.com really needs to become dedicated to the family history project that I’m working on (and yes, I am working on it), I need a place for my…
moreCrayons
moreCrayons is an excellent site about color use on the web, proposing a new “web-smart” 4,096 color pallette, and providing links to other resources for smart color usage on the web.
The Geek Test
I just scored 41.22288% on The Geek Test, which qualifies me as a “Major Geek.” I always knew I was special. If you visit and take the test, let me know how you do by adding a comment to this article.