links for 2008-08-04 [delicious.com]

Good luck…

Quite a useful page I think.

And you thought pet octopuses were wierd…

A very interesting – and worrying – article on the future of blogging and journalism for successful bloggers

Fabulous: if only British TV channels were so proactive with their websites. What it says on the tin really: a wiki about Mythbusters. Really puts British TV channels' websites to shame.

Octopuses again! Fascinating creatures.

Mwahahaha. What an astounding example of natural selection in action.

A prime example of one of the many flaws of e-mail delivery for newsletters. RSS, anyone?

Intuitor's review of 10,000 BC. I don't think I'll do an Implausible Computers review for it. Can you guess why…?

A really useful resource when it comes to teaching computer newcomers. Written by Dan Gookin, the same man responsible for DOS for Dummies.

Octopuses really are smart animals, and wonderfully elegant too. Not sure about the merits of keeping one as a pet though: it'd be a bit difficult to secure the tank. They're clever buggers, they'd easily escape.

An interesting selection…

Another great article from Matthew P Thomas

A very telling article about why FOSS is such a pain to use

An excellent little application: works very well on my Eee PC, but I need to build in Bluetooth to the machine to truly unlock its potential.

A total sham. No denying it.