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So, Xmas is finally here. You can join in the fun of wishing people well, or bragging about what you received. Lynx have a nice (and possibly not work safe) Xmas greeting for you, while Snopes have more info on that Christmas lights display that's been going around the net lately. After a 6 December 2005 traffic accident in his neighborhood, Carson Williams agreed to indefinitely discontinue his 2005 Christmas light display because it was causing severe traffic congestion problems.
Nigel from PlusCorp spotted this nice article about OCAU from a couple of months ago. Amusingly, the article seems to think the link between OCAU and Gallery Serpentine is that geeks like to wear corsets. Well, that may be true, but in fact the link is that my wife owns GS. :) Nice comments from a few sponsors and others in that article though, thanks guys!
In my wanderings I found this cool article about mirrors on the moon. Thirty-five years later, it's the only Apollo science experiment still running.
Raven spotted these Picks of the Web for 2005, from Yahoo. Some interesting stuff there, including one of my favourites, StuffOnyMyCat. On a similarly cutesy note, be thoroughly nauseated by CuteOverload.
More on Dell's 30" monitor from thedriver: It seems Dell are releasing a 30" LCD monitor (3007WFP) with better specs than the much loved 2405FPW.
The New Year will be a little late this year.. because they're adding a leap second to correct for changes in the Earth's rotation over the last few years.
If you're using pretty much any Symantec product you might want to update it, to fix a critical security flaw with RAR scanning.
Valve have a 64-bit version of their Source game engine. "Bringing the Source technology to the AMD64 processor platform is an important step in the evolution of our game content and tools," said Gabe Newell, Valve's co-founder and president.
Interesting Forum Threads:
Laptop touchpad to desktop PS/2 in Modding & Electronics.
Longevity of LGA775 socket in Intel Hardware.
I have been cooking some awesome meals lately (with pics) in Geek Food.
Your very best of 2005 in Photography.
Two billionaires trying to get kids interested in bridge in The Pub.
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