The Linkielist

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lee gainer: ‘two months salary’

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Robin

Lee Gainer had a look at what kind of engagement rings two months salary will buy you and came up with some interesting stuff:
1) The two months figure was perpetuated by de Beers in 1947 and has been kept up ever since.
2) To me, it doesn’t seem to matter how much money you spend on them, they all look the same.

Radical Image Optimization Tool Provides Side by Side Image Comparison

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Robin

Windows only: Radical Image Optimization Tool makes it easy to see how compression affects the image quality of the pictures you’re optimizing with a handy side-by-side interface.

Lifehacker – Radical Image Optimization Tool Provides Side by Side Image Comparison – Image Editing

UK Internet records to be stored for a year

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Robin

Well, in the Netherlands they’ve been stored for 5 years since around 2002, so there’s hardly any news there. What is news, however, is that the UK government seems to be giving this information to all and sundry to peruse at their leisure. Whether this is because they know they can’t secure it or because they think privacy is an outdated construct, I don’t know. Glad I’m not living in that oppressive country though.

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