flickr is full of little gems » « 01:20 01/05/04 | permalink
the helvetica vs arial game. must remember that for the hv blog. » « 03:52 02/05/04 | permalink
these photos from iraq are amazing » « 04:00 02/05/04 | permalink
somebody tries to figure out all of the kingdom of loathing references. what a great game. » « 04:37 03/05/04 | permalink
this movie is utter genius. funny, clever and oh so right. [via coates] » « 05:33 04/05/04 | permalink | culture flash movie nukes
if you mail stuff in the us, you appear to be able to get packets, boxes and tape for free from the us postal service. now *that's* a good idea. » « 09:15 04/05/04 | permalink
linux stupidity of the day: if you call "mount -a" repeatedly, it keeps all mounts in the fstab mounted. if you call "mount /path/to/mount" repeatedly (where /path/to/mount is a mount defined in the fstab), then the mount will be mounted once for every time you call it. you can quickly end up with a volume mounted 1000 times because of your cron script to ensure it was mounted at all. and to unmount it? you have to call the same umount command, "umount /path/to/mount", 1000 times. nice :/ » « 23:46 04/05/04 | permalink
chay pointed me to this lovely project. collaborative online unfolding art. like the consequences game, but with pictures. » « 02:55 07/05/04 | permalink
Stewart lacks organisational skills: tar: File name too long for ustar dvd/Desktop/April 2003 desktop/feb2003 desktop crap/Desktop/October Desktop/desktop/desktop crap feb/Doors 6/5k_nov7 Folder/sylloge2000/archives2_sept2000/sylloge_archive_03-14-00/www/animations/cover animation/gifs for ani/text w_ shaded pics/TND and houses.txt » « 04:10 08/05/04 | permalink | culture
yafro is interesting, but this photo is excellent. » « 00:20 10/05/04 | permalink
theyrule is pretty cool, but lacks a nice way to surf from people to companies (they have the other direction working well) » « 00:55 10/05/04 | permalink
omg. 8 bit d&d. makes me pine for a tabletop rpg. » « 02:01 18/05/04 | permalink
nice article supporting table based layouts. unfortunately brings out the css-morons with great comments like "makes code uneditable". yeah, right. every page on the web before two years ago is uneditable. uh huh. and complex css hacks are somehow better than 100% valid XHMTML. tell me more oh genius. i'm still adamant that the client side is a stupid place to seperate style and content from the developer's pov anyway. in an article i'm writing for dw i'll talk about the four layered abstratcion - presentation, markup, code, data. sexy :) » « 07:22 18/05/04 | permalink
A complete spectrum emulator, in pure perl. that's a serious beast [via 2lmc] » « 23:34 22/05/04 | permalink | language
oregano looks like a nice opensource xml socket server for flash multiuser stuff. pointed out to me by leonard » « 23:35 22/05/04 | permalink
i put these tools online ages ago. just logging the link incase i forget where it is in future. » « 23:39 22/05/04 | permalink
ladder theory is, of course, totally true. [via dn] » « 23:46 22/05/04 | permalink
katie has dissapeared from the web. sad times indeed :( » « 23:50 22/05/04 | permalink
"probably the most stylish computer available in the western world". given the dire state of current cases, this is probably true. when i originally bookmarked this (via james.c) it was called netbox.com. my bookmarks need a cleanout. » « 23:52 22/05/04 | permalink | language
this is a nice architecture review. i think this is where i first read about the gridshell, something i'll have to go and see in the future. [via giles] » « 23:55 22/05/04 | permalink
so apparently all my counterstrike: condition zero practice wouldn't necessacarily mean i could do it in real life. yeah, riiight, hehehe. (i realise this story is from two years ago - just clearing out my bookmarks). » « 00:03 23/05/04 | permalink | hardware
Ody: I just invented a totally b3taworthy snack Ody: The pizza burger Ody: :D Me: oh? Ody: 2 bits of pizza Ody: used instead of bap on a burger Ody: so it's like, pizza, burger, upside down pizza Me: oooh Me: /me might make one of those for dinner Ody: :D Ody: I strongly advise the allowance of a long cooling time though Ody: right now it feels like I've burnt my lip :{ Ody: but that could be the drugs talking » « 00:36 23/05/04 | permalink
prayer looks interesting. an imap webmail client, written in c, rumored to suck less than squirrel mail. i shall have to give it a try. » « 01:29 23/05/04 | permalink | language
the great drew is finally overcome with Internet freaks. a sad state of affairs indeed. "I have friends and a wife and I eat food and drive a car and spend all day working and do some creative things in my spare time and I have neither the desire nor the time to screw around with people". way to shatter the illusion :'( » « 02:25 23/05/04 | permalink | language
canadians freak me out. getting out of the lift today, some random guy, who i hadn't made eye contact with, said "see you later". this is entirely normal in my building. it reminded me of an event a couple of week ago. i was heading home from work. on the second floor, i girl got in the lift, obviously just been in the gym on that floor. eye contact, smiles, the usual. when we got to her floor, 14 i think, she walked out of the lift and turned to walk down the corridoor. she then stopped herself, turned, waved, and said "goodbye". this happens all the time. » « 03:01 23/05/04 | permalink
i fancy the girl at the store. well, sort of. her name is julia. i see her maybe every other day. i don't know what it is i like about her. she's pleasent, but then they all are. she wears lip gloss, which is probably a factor. but much more, she reminds me of someone from school. someone i ran into in london a few months ago, who sometimes caught the same train as me. i went to school with her for 9 years i think. but until i met her in london, i'd never really liked her in that way. i'm not sure what happened in the years between leaving school and working in london, but my outlook on everything is so vastly different. that's why i like julia. » « 03:05 23/05/04 | permalink
flight is a beautiful comic. via return to sender, which is updating again - woo! » « 08:15 23/05/04 | permalink
my new favourite band are the decemberists. Their 2003 album "Castaways and Cutouts" really rules. I must get hold of their 2004 EP. » « 00:21 24/05/04 | permalink | culture
awstats looks quite nice. i might install it on one of the b3ta servers and trial it alongside webalizer » « 03:01 24/05/04 | permalink
man, i fucking love domo-kun » « 03:05 24/05/04 | permalink
the upcoming s700 has a 1.3 mega pixel camera. obviously, i want it » « 18:12 24/05/04 | permalink
design eye for the usability guy is genius. i'm becoming a real fan of the didier/keith combination » « 18:39 24/05/04 | permalink
i get stacks of auto reply mails for spam spoofed form my domains, and they're occasionally great. like this one: i don't live here anymore. if you are a human being and are emailing me here, just so that you know, i don't check this email often. use one of my alternate addresses. if you don't have one of those or aren't aware of what it is, i must not like you. meow! » « 01:39 25/05/04 | permalink
i'm still stuck on the decemberists. they have awesome lyrics (though no lyrics on the offical site, which always bugs me). » « 06:02 25/05/04 | permalink
romeo and juliet in l33t is genius. ignore the porn popups and learn some literature N00B!!11 » « 17:24 26/05/04 | permalink
in 15 days time, my old department's domain name expires. sad times. » « 17:58 26/05/04 | permalink
trimmed down troy is even shorter than troy in 15 minutes. a reduction into "messenger speak" makes it pretty hard to follow, but very condensed,. » « 20:37 26/05/04 | permalink
noooooooooooooooooooooooooo! dr who and billie piper do not mix. » « 20:57 26/05/04 | permalink
the breedster people have released a bunch of diagrams, animations and thoughts about the breedster experiment. very interesting stuff. » « 21:34 26/05/04 | permalink
a periodic table of the perl 6 operators. sterling (if scary) work. it would be interesting to do the same for perl 5 and compare. uri said: "are you going to predict any new operators based on missing boxes as mendeleev did?". maybe this is the way to organically design feature sets ;) » « 04:10 27/05/04 | permalink | language
bad spelling can be really addictive. » « 05:25 27/05/04 | permalink | bash
matrix revolutions in irc speak: Smith: "I R teh Ubermensch! U R 0wn3d w/ my awesome Will!" Neo: "No! Because I will refute teh diabilical existential angst w/ kung fu!" Smith: "Argh! Now I must stand in the rain and shake my fist at you! Why? Why?" Neo: "Ha ha! I win by losing! I R teh Jesus!" The end. » « 05:31 27/05/04 | permalink
dinner with nick finck and dave shea (pronounced 'shay' according to stew - crazy canadians). nice guys. i didn't realise dave was in vancouver. » « 06:17 30/05/04 | permalink | vancouver
white lint is the best kind of lint because in large quantities (e.g. in the tumble drier filter after drying tea towels) it looks like snow. discuss. » « 07:31 30/05/04 | permalink