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How to price freelance work
Anil Dash has some sage advice for freelancers: I talk to a lot of consultants, freelancers, and small businesses who do web work, and I used to be a freelancer myself, so sometimes I get asked for advice on how to price one’s goods and services. I think I came up with my best suggestion…
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Forgive them, for they know not what they have done
It’s always interesting to discover the history of things, even when those things are really annoying. It turns out that Crazy Frog started life as an animation called The Annoying Thing, and the soundtrack – which we first saw on the net as the Stupidity Test, which seems rather appropriate – was a genuine attempt…
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Now I really want an Xbox 360
The MTV launch was pretty pathetic, but Tom’s Hardware has a proper, grown-up look at the next Xbox. The media center features aren’t as comprehensive as I’d have liked, but there’s some smart thinking about digital cameras and portable music players.
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Taboo for Safari
I’m in Safari, I’ve got loads of tabs open, and I press Command-W to close the current tab. Arse! I’ve hit Command-Q instead! The whole bloody thing’s shut down! Taboo, I love you. You’re free and you stop me from shutting down the whole sodding browser by mistake. [via unofficial apple weblog]
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Live Aid? No! Sex aid!
Tragedies are, of course, tragic, but sometimes funny things happen too. According to the Sri Lanka Daily News (as reported in this week’s Private Eye), one package of aid contained, er, marital aids: “We had a staff of eight on the ship travelling to Sri Lanka,” Elli Xenou told journalists in Colombo, “with six hundred…
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Too much power to the people?
Original post deleted because, after a bit of research, I realised it was complete and utter bollocks. .
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If you want something done, ask a lazy person
Sure, you could ask a hard-working person – but the lazy person will without fail come up with the simplest, easiest, laziest option. Most of the great inventions of our time were a boon for the lazy: the car was ideal for people too lazy to walk. The telephone is ideal for people too lazy…
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PETA: People Euthanising Thousands of Animals
There’s a fascinating discussion on MetaFilter about PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and a critical site, PETA kills animals. The latter attempts to expose the fact that PETA kills thousands of stray animals each year, but the Mefites quickly uncovered the PETA critics’ rather shady origins. It’s a great example of why…
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The iTunes movie store?
iTunes 4.8 was released this week, and it includes something quite interesting. If you buy certain albums – such as the new Gorillaz album – from the US music store, you get videos too. Previously you could watch videos in iTunes, but you couldn’t download them. Is Apple dipping a toe in the water of…
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A real rhyming dictionary
The OEDILF is an attempt to define every word in the English language – in the form of a limerick. For example: aglycone by Chris Doyle (Limerick #5325) When a glycoside enters the gut, By hydrolysis it will be cut. The aglycone’s the part That will pass to the heart While the sugar goes straight…