News and other tidbits that Chad Cloman finds interesting enough to share
The linked article has pictures of a very good crocheted model of Discworld, including Great A’Tuin and the four elephants. For those Chad’s News readers who aren’t familiar with the Discworld series of novels by Terry Pratchett, I highly recommend it. Start with The Colour of Magic. My introduction to the series, and still my favorite story, was The Last Hero.
Link: http://www.planetjune.com/…
(via Neatorama)
Comic strip writers David Waisglass and Gordon Coulthart have hit upon the true limiting factor of computer technology: PEBCAK. This ranks up there with placing USER=ID-10-T in the config.sys file. See the linked article for the actual comic strip.
Link: http://comics.com/…
Web developer Mike Cardwell has created a web page that determines if you’re logged in to various sites. It does this by trying to load something (an image, script, etc.) from those sites—something that you must be logged in to access. A script is executed depending upon whether the load succeeds or fails. Quite tricky, and another reminder that online privacy doesn’t exist.
Link: https://grepular.com/…
(via Slashdot)
