Baltimore Squirrels

This is over a span of about 30 seconds.

Via The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory on Wired.com.

Make Your Workstation Fit You:

Things to remember: Eye height should be level with top of the monitor screen. However, if using bi-focals, lower the monitor and tilt the screen upward to avoid neck strain. Elbow height should be level with the top of the keyboard. Seat height should allow your feet to rest flat while maintaining 90° at hips. See our Ergonomics Tips page to learn more.

Via Geeks Are Sexy.

It’s interesting to imagine the circumstances that make this kind of setup necessary:

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Some interesting reading over at Think or Thwim

Apparently Google is getting involved in this whole social bookmarking thing.

I normally don’t care about these things, and I think Google has been less impressive with their web software of late, but I still like their simplicity and lack of annoying bling.

Via Mashable (which always has very annoying MySpace layout ads at the bottom of their feeds. I don’t mind ads in feeds, but the fact that they are MySpace layout ads reminds me of the demographic they apparently think I’m in, which pisses me off.)

Here’s a nice little gem:

Now that the NY Times has discontinued their Times Select subscription program and made much more of their 150+ years of content available for anyone to read and link to, let’s take a look at some of the more notable items that the non-subscriber has been missing.

Items include the first mention of the internet in the Times in ‘93, the first mention of television in 1907, and even Lincoln’s assassination. Very cool.

Via Daring Fireball…

They have started blocking any streaming audio or video sites at work. I can understand why, there were a few of people using p2p software at some point, and a few who would listen to internet radio all day which would of course take up a fair portion of the bandwidth and slow things down for people connecting remotely via Citrix, making their work conditions even worse than they already were since they were required to connect remotely via Citrix.

Still, it sucks. It lowers the quality of life. It makes work just a smidgen less enjoyable knowing that I’m now enclosed in a parentally controlled internet environment. They are also blocking Craigslist.org but clearly the software they are using is written by a bunch of f-ing morons because subdomains to craigslist.org still work, like baltimore.craigslist.org. sigh I so hate the idiot world of Windows software… (And yes, I’m a snobbish geek.)

Luckily, some little gems are still available elsewhere:

A good explanation of a wiki for the non-techie:

I recently helped a friend (hello Sharon) setup a Wiki for the research department at work and was a bit surprised to learn that pretty much nobody knows what a wiki is…

I love the people I work with, but part of me wants to go find a nice job at a tech-savvy company, preferably Mac-based…

Bullies harassed the boy, called him a homosexual for wearing pink and threatened to beat him up, students said.

(…)

“I just figured enough was enough,” said Shepherd.

They went to a nearby discount store and bought 50 pink shirts, including tank tops, to wear to school the next day.

Aww…

Via Reddit