iamcal.com Since May 2000

No way - return to sender, previously assumed to be cancelled, has been updated!

Broog, the alien film critic, is unbridled genius. [via tom]

Webb is at it again with an RSS feed of your life's causal event horizon.

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry at nVidia's competition. [via ste]

Purty pictures. I should probably have a proper dig around Deviant Art at some point.

The Japan SAQ is quite interesting. [via b4ta]

Don't forget: the london java/perl xmas social meet is tonight.

I've finally figured out how to get my pixel fonts working in flash (The only one converted so far is hellovetica). Because it's such a large number of hoops to jump through, i've written up a tutorial for creating pixel fonts.

I now have handy instructions for people sending me stuff.

New funky USB devices: A glowing duck hard disc and a coffee warmer. Anyone who speaks japanese: i'd love one of the ducks and would pay you for it if you can sort out the actual buying part. [via pep]

Feeling guilty about your illegal mp3s? Then send them back! [via #h8luff]

Any london tech geeks around on the 15th of december should come to the london java/perl xmas social meet.

Possibly the best thing ever invented for lazy cooks: the fridge/oven combo. Put your meal in the oven in the morning, keep it refridgerated all day, then cooked automatically to be ready in time for dinner. [via jeffld]

I can only get one answer in this 1980's pop quiz, though to be honest i didn't try that hard. £20 prize when the winner is picked on christmas eve [via freston]

If you use bash then this handy guide to customising your prompt is very cool. Changing the prompt color based on whether you're logged in as root is a great visual marker.

This script for handling telemarketers is excellent [via giles]

A nice and simple history of windows version releases [via london.pm]

A novel method for catching script kiddies [via k-zed]

My latest bit of toy code is a perl script for converting "pixel art" bitmaps into eps's for use in print: bmp2eps

This would be the best site on the internet if it had a request form for you to fill out.

If you're in the uk and looking for sgi/sun parts then you'd be silly not to check out 13w3.

It's been around for ages, but Routergod still rules: Arnold Schwarzenegger on PIX Turbo Access Lists!

good news! pixie, my ibook, has returned from the apple hospital and is doing well. thanks to all the people who mailed in messages of support, especially the powerbook and the g5 (who knew computers could write email themselves?)

could this be the future?

i meant to post this about a year ago, but luckily it's almost christmas time again, so it still applies :)

Buffy human-vampire population equillibrium [via UfoZ]

fsv is really cool. make the pseudo-technical world of Jurrassic Park unix come true!

Guy is back and on top form.

i saw these a few years ago, but just came across them again: photos of a young mr gates. err, bill not gareth

the best use for a g4 cube? not that they're rubbish or anything. infact, they're rather super.

some new fonts from the iamcal foundry: braille and hellovetica

Misspato is my favourite new design portal

This is something i've always wondered about: how lego is made

There is dire. millions of dollars spent developing it, and it ends up as a crap 3d shop. this review sums it up perfectly. but i didn't dislike it enough to complain about it until i tried to unsubscribe from their "There Fun Times" email newsletter. did they have an unsubsribe link? nope. how about an address i could mail? which i had to have a certain subject line and body? fair enough. but them i'm told it'll take 5 working days to remove me from the mailing list. WTF!? we're talking about computers here - it doesn't take 5 days to remove me from a mailing list. "There" is hardly state of the art - don't waste your money.

when your ipod battery starts to die, you can buy a new one. but would you dare fit it yourself?

why don't they do this set for a double bed? it's a crime that so much of the ppg stuff is aimed at kids ;)

you can test your digital iq online (i got 232)

"Things my girlfriend and i have argued about" - the movie? [via grim]

This god/beliefs game is pretty nifty. [via outis/gne]

From bash this week: this is some serious ascii dancing

This 3d tube map is very cool, but what it really needs is some form of data export for others to play with. [via tom]

More about the [secret santa project](http://www.thinkblank.com/santa2003/) this year: How to deal with [naughty santas](http://www.nosila.org/archives/000268.html)? [Imitation](http://www.arsenic.net/santa/) is still the sincerest form of [flattery](http://santa.sherunsaway.org/), right?

i have sad news. pixie (my beautiful ibook) was taken into apple hospital today, after a hard disc failure. please send your get well soon messages to pixie@iamcal.com

luckily the nice people at square group (more specifically, the extremely foxy "mia") have said that she should be ok again by next tuesday. i do hope that's the case :'(