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Linked List: January 22, 2006

Sunday, 22 January 2006

Carpenters’ Level Dashboard Widget ★

Free widget by Pall Thayer uses your PowerBook or iBook’s motion detector to turn your laptop into a carpenters’ level.

Jed’s Other Poem ★

Stewart Smith’s wonderful “unsolicited music video” for Grandaddy’s “Jed’s Other Poem”. The video mostly consists of a stream of text on a 1979 Apple II+. The Applesoft BASIC source code is available for download. Be sure to read the release notes in the source code package to learn Smith’s clever solution for getting the source code off his Apple II+ without having to transcribe it.

How to Be a Curmudgeon on the Internet ★

David Pogue’s “rules for being an Internet pill”.