Haitham Sabbah

Human chromosome

by Haitham Sabbah December 1, 1999

An international team of scientists announced it had virtually mapped a human chromosome.

Company Names

by Haitham Sabbah November 30, 1999

An excellent article at Salon about how companies get their names.

A Day Without Art is fast appraoching. The Web site is a little confusing on the subject, but basically the idea is for people to place a DWA banner on their site on Dec 1 as a way to get visitors to your site to think about AIDS. Some people even take down their site [...]

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Soopa Famous

by Haitham Sabbah November 26, 1999

How to be a soopa-famous underground design Web.celeb. This is so great!

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Browserola

by Haitham Sabbah November 25, 1999

Browserola is a Windows program that emulates the rendering engines of major and minor PC browsers. Looks good, quite useful. Download the demo and see for yourself. (Thanks MetaFilter.)

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The origins

by Haitham Sabbah November 23, 1999

A discussion of the origins of and the differences between the terms "geek" and "nerd". Interestingly, "nerd" seems to have been derived from a Dr. Seuss book.

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Search of the day

by Haitham Sabbah November 19, 1999

Search of the day: "naked boggle".

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Uploading has launched

by Haitham Sabbah November 15, 1999

Uploading has launched. I don’t quite know what it is, but I imagine you can find out at the site.

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Today’s date: 11111999

by Haitham Sabbah November 11, 1999

How Neat! The next time this pattern happens? It happens twice more in just three months: 222000 (Feb 2, 2000) and 2222000 (Feb 22, 2000). The next time after that? 222200 (Feb 2, 2200) and 2222200 (Feb 22, 2200). After that, it doesn’t happen for another 800 years or so, until March 3, 3000 (333000).

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Why?

by Haitham Sabbah November 11, 1999

I decided I needed to start writing things down. Because I think better and feel better when I write. I used to write often but got away from it. So here it is again.

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