10 things I didn’t know last week

Temperal Paradox
Originally uploaded by Pat’s Piks.

1. The BST change at 0100 GMT was the last one to be signalled from Rugby.
2. tumblelog was coined by Why the lucky stiff. I’ve got mine. Have you got yours yet?
3. Enough water is locked up at Mars’ south pole to cover the planet in a liquid layer 11m (36ft) deep.
4. “World Water Day” to draw international attention to the critical lack of clean, safe drinking water worldwide.
5. Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) are the property rights to the environmental benefits from generating electricity from renewable energy sources
6. Fewer than one in 200 British homes would qualify as zero energy building (ZEB)
7. Found Khoi Vihn‘s presentation at FOWA [via]
8. fag, a ciggarette (British) and urban dictionary, a slang dictionary.
9. about:cache, about:plugins and more about links in Firefox [via]
10. Inventor of Fortran and BNF, John W. Backus (1924 – 2007) R.I.P.