September 12th, 2007
http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.htm
Source: UserFriendly LOTD
What is it: I’ll just quote the page: “This World Stats Counter shows current statistical figures for world population, births, deaths, deforestation, and much more. Except for population and earth temp, all stats reflect the growth since the beginning of the selected time period. You can choose to show growth since the beginning of the year, month, day, or from the moment you click the Now button”.
You see, some nice piece of web-stuff but is it really worth a bookmark if you can find it here at any time? ;-)
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September 5th, 2007
http://www.userfriendly.org/
Source: browsing in the dawn of time
What is it: Easily one of the oldest webcomics around, UserFriendly has provided a daily comic (without any interruption whatsoever) since Nov 17th, 1997. that’s almost 10 years, folks. It may take a little time catching up but what else is there to do if ever you should find yourself lonely, aching and depressed on a 10-day strech of heavy rainstorms? ;-)
The comic usually is satiric, funny, bean-counter-phobic, evil (ask Erwin) and - in the case of Dust Puppy and the cat - totally cute. On many occasions current events are commented on, inducing wide grins all round at tech offices. UserFriendly also comes via RSS, including the “Link of the Day” that provides me with some of the stuff here.
Go check it out! Now!
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August 29th, 2007
http://xkcd.com/
Source: *shrug*
What is it: I’ll just cite the tagline: “A Webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language”. Very often Randall Munroe simply hits right on the mark with a witty remark, a funny line, or the “alt”-text of the image (Hover your mouse on the comic). He has quite a following, usually totally crazy people. Also check out the “blag” linked on the comic page.
Btw, lately XKCD has been featured on Ehrensenf .
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