Here’s a handy guide for telling the major denizens of the Anglosphere apart. No mention or apology is made for excluding New Zealanders, Indians or South Africans. Aussies: Dislike being mistaken for Pommies (Brits) when abroad. Canadians: Are rather indignant about being mistaken for Americans when abroad. Americans: Encourage being mistaken for Canadians when abroad. [...]

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Slayer is on the front page of Wikipedia. I suppose this is hardly news, but still, it’s an event when a thrash band from the heyday of thrash makes it to the front page of anything. That being said, if Wikipedia’s frontpage topics are chosen at random, then the significance is reduced to nil. I [...]

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Here’s what I coded a few days ago using the Facebook and Google Maps APIs. It’s buggy, only displaying the first 25 friends, with the tooltip display awry in all browsers except Opera as well. Well, I’m a neophyte at this sort of stuff, so I’m quite pleased with it. You need a Facebook account [...]

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