The CannibalRabbit bites back
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Sometimes you just get to many not quite right results from Google. The Get More Out of Google infographic [^] from Hack College shows you how to get what you need. It shows you how to limit searches to certain file types, sorts of websites, and even authors.
In Before Netscape: the forgotten Web browsers of the early 1990s [^] Matthew Lasar at ArsTechnica takes us back to that time to those early days and shows us how far we have come in the 18 years since Netscape’s Mosaic launched.
Before Internet Explorer, even before Netscape, there was a whole ecosystem of different browsers that were evolving. This was back in the early 1990s when the concept of the publicly accessible internet, the information superhighway, was just beginning to catching on.
Pundits were still trying to tell us that this new thing was just a passing fad and it would never catch-on, it was just too complicated. But new browsers seemed were springing up all over the place. Some of them were even able to show in-line image, rather than having to open them in new windows, then came sound and video.
PHP is one of the cornerstone languages of the web today. But what would happen if it had used British English rather than the abomination that is US English? AddedBytes shows us what the programming world could have been like If PHP Were British [^].
From:
$variable_name
To the obviously superior:
£variable_name
Their view is a little wordier, but the spelling is vastly improved.
It is amazing what some people will throw away. The Exploring Westminster blog has a series of posts that show photos taken while Tower Bridge was being built [^]. Apparently these photos were found in a skip outside the office of the original builders of the bridge.
The second set show a slightly later phase of construction [^], with the bridge looking a little more familiar. The final six still haven’t been posted but I’m waiting for them with bated breath.
I guess that really proves the point that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. The very fact that anyone would even consider throwing these photos away is almost beyond belief; they are a valuable part of an icon’s history.
Thank you Peter Berthoud from bringing these photos to the wide internet, and thank you to his neighbour for rescuing these gems from destruction.
Blogger Identities
IanVisits has an interesting post on the way that the media insist on treating the identities of bloggers [^]. As Ian points out it is common practice for celebrities to referred to by their stage name; like Michael Caine rather than Maurice Micklewhite.
However, when it comes to bloggers the media often insist on using a blogger’s “real” name rather than their pseudonym. In most cases a newspaper will not include a web-address for a blog. If you can search for their online identity you stand a good chance of finding them. With only their real name you stand very little chance of finding them, and finding out if you want to follow them, their blogs or twittering.