Month: April 2010

Do you know that you can directly save any Wikipedia page as a PDF file without requiring any extensions or print drivers. In fact, you can even collect multiple Wikipedia pages in a basket and convert them all to a single PDF document (just like an ebook) with just a few mouse clicks.

This would definitely have come in handy a couple of weeks ago…

Definitely read through this article explaining the recent and upcoming changes on Facebook. Some new features could prove to be useful, but be aware that “In short, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation put it, ‘Facebook removed its users’ ability to control who can see their own interests and personal information.’”

Douglas Adams himself has a simple explanation for his answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything:

“The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought ‘42 will do’ I typed it out. End of story.”

The McSweeney’s Internet Tendency quiz “Death Metal Lyric or William Blake Quote?” is surprisingly tough…