Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-30-2008

• The Northern Ireland Analogy
  And why it's not the same as Palestine
  (tags: israel ireland politics)
• The reality TV school is now open
  "The mission of the New York Reality TV School is to train and develop non-actors," explains its prospectus. "We train students to be exciting, confident members of reality TV casts . . . Students will work rigorously through coaching sessions and on-camera exercises in order to readily showcase the dynamic aspects of their personalities and to be able to shine, showcase, and supersede the expectations of cast-mates, producers and audience ..."
  (tags: stupidity culture TV)

Ubiquity

Julie's taking a post-breakfast nap, and I'm catching up with LJ. I just read robhu's latest update on Ubiquity, which pretty much blew me away. It takes the ideas of GreaseMonkey and Firefox's Quick Searches, and expands them massively, allowing for all sorts of functionality at the press of a couple of buttons.

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

In sosme ways, the best thing about this is that if it catches on it will encourage developers to produce open APIs to their sites, so that they can be used from it (and other apps). Very impressive.

Ikea bed slats going free

I picked up the wrong sized ones - so if your bed is either 90cm (or 180cm) then you can have them for free.

Any takers?

Anyone care to identify this?

Little critter on my floor when Julie and I cleaned and hoovered the place this afternoon:


His back's all covered in little hairs/cilia and he has six legs at the front of his body, but none further back. About 1.5cm long.

Any experts out there?