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Complete Tosh, by Neil McIntosh: Ten technologies to blow your 1995 mind

Neil ponders things that seem normal now that would have been unbelievable just ten years ago…

Yesterday I mentioned that all this fuss about Yahoo and Flickr would, simply, have been unintelligible to someone ten years ago. And it got me thinking – what other techy/new media-esque things that we take for granted today would have seemed impossible to someone locked up in solitary these last ten years?

It’s a good list. Google is probably the biggest one for me. The idea that there’s a simple, single text entry box on one web site that seems to be able to answer almost any question that comes to mind. It’s hard to imagine what we did with this Web thing before Google, just as when the Internet got popular, it became difficult to imagine what we did with computers without it.

I’ll have to take is word for the hinges.

gnomz.com – comic creator – comics creator

Good for a bit of fun – make your own comics – pick the setting, pick the characters or make your own, and put the words in their bubbles.

Via BoingBoing.

Slashdot | Ask Jeeves Bought for $2 billion

CNet’s reporting that Ask Jeeves is being bought by InterActive Corp for $2 billion.

OK, just don’t break Bloglines.

Ourmedia

Share your videos, audio files, photos, text or software – for free – with a global community of creative individuals.

Your files, that is, not stuff you nicked from file sharing networks, or ripped from the CD

Looks like a place for hosting media files of your own creations without facing the hosting bills. Could be useful even if you have your own web site, as high bandwidth hosting isn’t free.

Oh, nearly forgot – via Dan Gillmor

Finally on eReader…

Getting Things Done

If you read books on your Palm or Pocket PC with eReader (as I do), and you’re one of the people hanging around PigPog in the vague hope that I will one day say something interesting about GTD again, you can console yourself with the eReader edition of GTD.

Oh, if you are one of those people, do head over to the productivity section of our new Wiki – my old articles are now there for public ridicule and editing.

Boing Boing: HOWTO transform an iBook into a furBook

Graphic designer Cynthia Malaran offers simple directions to make a stark, cold iBook a bit more cuddly through the magic of fun fur.

Normally, I wouldn’t recommend clicking any link on the Interweb that metions “Furry”, but this one’s ok.

43 Folders: 43 Folders Wiki

If you’re here for the productivity and GTD side of PigPog, you’ll probably be more interested in Merlin’s new Wiki than in our own new Wiki. Actually, at this rate, Merlin is soon going to take over the whole of the Interweb. Even the Badger Dance will be replaced with dancing Merlins.

The long-promised 43 Folders Wiki is finally up and running at http://wiki.43folders.com/. W00t.

With the help of a few intrepid barn raisers, we’ve started slapping together the beginnings of what I know will become a fascinating adjunct to the main site and our 1,600-strong Google Group.

Merlin, Merlin, Merlin, Merlin, Merlin, Merlin, Merlin, Merlin, Merlin, Merlin, Merlin, Merlin, Hipster, Hipster.

Well, we’ve finally made the leap from Blogger to WordPress. This is my first test post from the new system, so sorry if it all goes a bit wrong. I’ve aleady managed to republish all the old items with invalid URLs on the RSS feeds whilst attempting to import the old stuff. Still, everything should be here now.

This one blog should replace all the other blogs we’ve been using for PigPog – the filter, my blog, Sam’s blog, the News blog. Not sure about the PhotoBlog yet.

We’re even using a standard pre-made theme with WordPress – the sand coloured version of Mike Little’s excellent Journalized theme. A bit of hunting through the themes list showed up very few variable width themes, and I do hate that narrow-with-a-huge-picture-at-the-top look that most blogs seem to go for.

We may well do a bit more playing yet, but it’s all looking pretty good so far. Sorry again for all the reposts to RSS readers – it shouldn’t happen again now.

Just a quick stop-by to check out our new home. If you’re reading this through the RSS feed or via the Group (yes, hello Darren), go check it out. It’s really rather groovy.

While watching ‘Homer’s Enemy’ last night, I realised who Frank Grimes reminded me of…

"I have had to work everyday of my life and what do I have to show for it? This briefcase and this haircut."

You forgot Lockergnome, Gnomedex, blogging, your show… hey, life ain’t that grimey!