Here's a meme of my own. A list of links I have on the quick links bar in my browser.

Disaster Preparedness

• Recent Earthquakes – A near-real-time view of seismic activity in my region of meatspace.
• Seattle City Light: Power outages – All the current outages that Seattle City Light knows about. When there's an outage, this page has location of fault, description of work needed to repair, approximate number of customers affected (and the streets bounding the outage!), and the estimated time to repair. Good when you need to rubberneck at the tree on the lines because you don't have any power.
• Metro bus reroutes – Nothing beats missing your math test because you didn't know where your bus's snow route is.
• Real-time 911 Calls – Is there a fire next door? How many fire engines are coming? When was it called in?

Entertainment

• The Daily WTF – Random insanity related to computers.
• User Friendly – Apparently this was one of the first webcomics. It'd be on my friendslist if it offered an RSS feed.

From mercurychaos

• Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
• Turn to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post that sentence along with these instructions on your LJ.
• Don't dig for your favourite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

Sometimes this is natural and clear; at other times it can be cryptic.

(From The White Bible, second edition.)

This book is a classic. I have an unusual edition; mine was printed for the Indian market. The publisher listed is Prentice-Hall of India Private Limited, and the cover has the an “Eastern Economy Edition” logo. There's also a price tag printed with “YIP 940”. I can't find any information about what sort of currency code YIP might be.

Mood: sick

Get Your Cyborg Name

It's all about the nullification.

this = null;

I know I'm not supposed to post this, but I had to.