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Quotes of the Day

"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.": - Edith Sitwell
"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.": - Charles Baudelaire
"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.": - Peter Ustinov
"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.": - Alfred Hitchcock

Word of the Day

Carrollian - adjective: Fanciful, absurd, logic-twisting, or playfully nonsensical.

About iOstrich

iOstrich is a quickly hacked up replacement for iGoogle that I wrote in a few hours.

The name changes every time the page is reloaded because:

naming things is hard, so I decided to skip it
it's a small tribute to FireSomething, credited with the original idea and many of the animals in the list.

There is basically just one feature - you can set the location for the weather forecast. Enjoy!