Linklog » Archives » February 2005

nyu has a nice win95 download page including the now-old but still useful cosmo vrml plugin. » « 00:45 01/02/05 | permalink | vrml windows software

"it's not a contradiction. neither are you." » « 08:05 01/02/05 | permalink | christians religion lesbians

jones thinks the battlestar gallactica remake was filmed / is being filmed in sunny vancouver. HOW COOL IS THAT? » « 17:34 01/02/05 | permalink | tv movies vancouver

how to build an oo system with inheritance, using just basic lua - the story of o. fascinating stuff. » « 17:48 01/02/05 | permalink | lua coding oop

the wasp t12 speech tool is "well weapon". denise is awesome. » « 18:49 01/02/05 | permalink | design nathanbarely denise trashbat

smarter child is kinda cool. there's a flickr group for the interested. » « 23:40 01/02/05 | permalink | bots aim flickr

a new release of lib_filter (only 2 months late) to avoid the br tag being removed when the b tag should be (bad regexp - no cookie for you!). » « 02:23 02/02/05 | permalink | php lib_filter code

the upside to peer1 is that it's on the 21st floor in downtown vancouver and has an awesome view. the downside? well, we'll get to that in due course. » « 03:39 02/02/05 | permalink | peer1 colo vancouver photos

a very awesome t-shirt. shame that ordering cross-crontinent gets so expensive. teleporters will releave all my tshirt needs. » « 03:56 02/02/05 | permalink | tshirts computers jokes

anime lyrics (rock!) has the words to the rather great opening theme to GITS:SAC theme, "inner universe". i hadn't realised some were in english. » « 07:21 02/02/05 | permalink | anime music lyrics

microsoft's upcoming edition of windows for europe is no longer being given a truthful name in fear that consumers wont want it. err right. of course they wont want it - because the whole anti-trust thing is fucking over the users. what good is a version of windows that you can't watch dvds on, or listen to mp3s with. this is basically just ridiculous. » « 00:18 03/02/05 | permalink | microsoft antitrust media dvds mp3s idiocy

leonard digs up all kinda of cool crap - a nice little md5 app for windows, with context menu integration. » « 05:26 03/02/05 | permalink | applications windows md5 crypto

bash is the font of all knowledge: MCSE = Mindsweeper Consultant and Solitare Expert » « 06:06 03/02/05 | permalink | bash windows jokes

kal points out google for buffy fans. » « 17:39 03/02/05 | permalink | google buffy

the porter stemming algorithm in perl - bookmarked for later programming fun. » « 17:42 03/02/05 | permalink | stemming coding perl

for your coding pleasure - porter stemmer in php » « 21:51 03/02/05 | permalink | stemming php coding

the indispensable jen is going to be a mum. excellent news :) » « 22:21 03/02/05 | permalink | webloggers

A byte walks into a bar and orders a pint. Bartender asks him "What's wrong?" Byte says "Parity error." Bartender nods and says "Yeah, I thought you looked a bit off." » « 08:17 04/02/05 | permalink | coding jokes bash

from aaron: the unix haters handbook. » « 22:09 04/02/05 | permalink | unix

am idea from tom, so i shouldn't take any credit - londonbloggers now has flickr photos for each station. » « 22:25 04/02/05 | permalink | flickr photos rss bloggers london

this is the best thing on the web. a live webcam from the booking area of a tennessee jail. via holloway » « 23:34 04/02/05 | permalink | webcam jail awesome

wulffmorgenthaler is a reasonably good comic. via the long-absent juff » « 23:46 04/02/05 | permalink | comics

a while ago jimmy o'regan wrote a nice article for linux gazette about using flickr with my perl api module. » « 00:07 05/02/05 | permalink | perl apis flickr linux

autrijus is implementing a featherweight perl6 in haskell. it's on cpan. i'm overly excited. » « 07:47 07/02/05 | permalink | perl6 parrot pugs haskell coding

this came up on the b3ta admin list: as excellent base jumping video. maybe the most fun thing you can do without leaving the planet. » « 03:02 08/02/05 | permalink | video basejumping

jc is blogging again on machine. a worthwhile daily read. » « 06:41 08/02/05 | permalink | weblogs jc machine

the newly launched google maps is probably the best dhtml app ever. stunning. » « 06:42 08/02/05 | permalink | dhtml google maps

so i was half right all along - yellow smarties are dyed with tartrazine (E102) which comes from coal tar. red smarties are dyed with carmine/cochineal (E120), which comes from crushed beetles. awesome! » « 07:30 08/02/05 | permalink | smarties dyes red yellow insects beetles

a nasty four year old bug in firefox is stopping some large corps from using it. ouch! sort out your priorities guys. » « 07:44 08/02/05 | permalink | firefox windows bugs coding

david vignoni, aka icon king, has a really nice free icon set available for download. should pretty-up those network diagrams. » « 10:14 08/02/05 | permalink | icons diagrams

the program manager for visio, Mai-lan, has posted a couple of good pieces about creating good network diagrams with visio. complete with download-and-steal-able files. » « 10:23 08/02/05 | permalink | visio diagrams networks icons

jc points out the w3c column spec for css, which seems to get the point for once. whether and when this becomes a standard (and a supported one) remains to be seen of course. » « 21:53 08/02/05 | permalink | css columns layout w3c standards

installsite has lots of information about building app installers. bookmarked for next time i actually get an app finished ;) » « 22:25 08/02/05 | permalink | window applications coding installers

it's been doing the rounds, but perhaps rightly so - a voting breakdown map of the uk. » « 23:51 08/02/05 | permalink | maps politics

cube zero looks like it might not suck too bad. i'll probably check that out at some point. » « 18:19 09/02/05 | permalink | movies cube prequels

MAGICAL ADVENTURES IN SPACE. SPRING INTO ACTION! JEFF SAVES THE WORLD! » « 23:51 09/02/05 | permalink | comics wigu awesome

a nice flash version of bubble bobble [via lealea] » « 20:21 10/02/05 | permalink | games flash bubblebobble

flickr is one year old today. i suspect there will be a spectacular crash in celebration of this :) » « 20:53 10/02/05 | permalink | flickr birthday

youyesyou once again has the best valentines cards ever. » « 06:08 11/02/05 | permalink | design valentines cards

winspector is a good replacement for spy++, but i need to read the docs to figure out how to only track window creation from a single process. » « 06:37 11/02/05 | permalink | debugging windows

i'm stuck on stage 8 of the imagepuz. i am lame » « 21:44 11/02/05 | permalink | games puzzles

GTPF is a perfect replacement for LDAP » « 01:38 12/02/05 | permalink | protocols ldap unix

awesome lego cosplay. even e might not be too weirded out by that one. via jc via serge » « 17:42 15/02/05 | permalink | cosplay lego

aaron points out the investigation i would have done had i had the time - google maps would take about 8-11TB to store north america are pre-rendered GIFs. looks like it probably is all pre-pendered. but that's alot of gifs :) » « 19:32 15/02/05 | permalink | google maps gifs

php in perl. excellent. now to make the flickr core even more confusing ^_^. » « 21:18 15/02/05 | permalink | perl php

it was really only a question of time before someone tried it - ipod shuffles in a raid configuration » « 23:09 15/02/05 | permalink | ipod apple raid geek hardware

maybe wsse wont be the answer to web authentication problems - rumor has it that sha1 has been broken. oops » « 03:00 16/02/05 | permalink | sha1 cryptography wsse atom

it's much easier to stalk my brother (mt version, now with short hair) with his new 24h webcam. » « 05:24 16/02/05 | permalink | brother webcam bain stalking

save toby is a work of pure web-money-begging joy. with bunnies! and evil! what more could you ask for? thanks jc :) » « 05:29 16/02/05 | permalink | bunnies paypal money

the order of the stick - a comic chub pointed me too. need to read it when i get more time. » « 21:36 16/02/05 | permalink | comics d+d

jojo in the stars looks really good. where does lea find all this great animation? » « 22:59 16/02/05 | permalink | animation movies

robprice found this excellent story on boingboing - jailed for using lynx. onw if only they'd start jailing MacIE users. » « 18:34 21/02/05 | permalink | apple mac ie lynx

the somerville gates might not be as large-scale as christo's gates, but they're still worth seeing. via jallspaw » « 19:20 21/02/05 | permalink | gates art jokes

smarty syntax i wasn't aware of - you can nest array indexes using square brackets like so. the smarty manual needs some serious fleshing out :) » « 20:56 21/02/05 | permalink | smarty php syntax

sometimes i think microsoft is trying to spite me. i mean, wtf? what was mime invented for? » « 02:29 22/02/05 | permalink | tnef microsoft email coding

"i know we're all going to die and it's bad for old people and, i dunno, ducks and stuff but it looks SO GOOD." - denise tells us it's snowing in london. » « 04:05 22/02/05 | permalink | london show pep

PWN u n00bs! w00t! microsoft tells it like it is. via the b4ta collective » « 04:11 22/02/05 | permalink | microsoft slang leet

has jko gone mad? the answer is probably yes, but if not i'll soon be doing this fulltime ;) » « 17:34 22/02/05 | permalink | blogging weblogs kottke

e points out this fantastic guide to the forthcoming zogg invasion. be ready! » « 03:45 24/02/05 | permalink | religion

"Looking for good things about you is like looking for a needle, in a pile of needles, on Planet Needle." not the best pickup line ever, but easily transferable to other more useulf situations - "looking for bugs in flickr, etc etc". » « 17:34 24/02/05 | permalink | flickr bugs pickuplines

a scanner darkly is being made into a film. the trailer looks very promising. » « 01:23 25/02/05 | permalink | movies animation

airbag industries has a really nice kottke interview with all the stuff wired missed (because we need to know if he blogs in his underpants). » « 06:03 25/02/05 | permalink | kottke blogging weblogs interview

i'm sure it's been up for a million years by now, but su's redesign is mighty fine. » « 07:06 25/02/05 | permalink | design weblogs

dave hoffman wrote a song titled 'i was a teenage billionaire psychopath' (j-ro reference) and it's not bad. » « 07:08 25/02/05 | permalink | comics music

it look like j-ro is going to be doing a joanna shirt - utterly awesome. » « 07:52 25/02/05 | permalink | tshirts joanna wigu comics

striatic's webcam is awesome. this is what my house will be like. » « 08:04 25/02/05 | permalink | webcam

joel talka about monkey leather and small bonsai trees. and a kangaroo. who wouldn;t want to live in joel's house? » « 21:28 25/02/05 | permalink | weblogs joel monkeys kangaroos leather

linuxvirgin might actually be the oddest site on the net. probably nsfw » « 23:16 25/02/05 | permalink | linux movies porn

everyvideogame.com is super-fun for playing sonic. who needs consoles. how long before the latest xbox games are running in a java applet over the web? » « 23:46 25/02/05 | permalink | games

via lealea: the blind pianist has released a free album or mario and ff themes. » « 23:47 25/02/05 | permalink | music games mario finalfantasy

if the ability to drop food on oneself were a super-power, i'd be the best super hero EVER! as it is, i just appear retarded » « 00:12 26/02/05 | permalink

tom insam does good presentation slides. i will bear these in my if i get round to doing slides for etcon. » « 00:43 26/02/05 | permalink | presentations perl unicode

the googlemini seems pretty damn cool. i want one, if just for the case. » « 03:41 27/02/05 | permalink | google hardware search geek tech

shuffleart, via the coatesweb, looks pretty fun. shuffles are still on 2 week order from the local apple store. » « 04:03 27/02/05 | permalink | apple ipod hardware tech

ok, so, i talked about cube zero, the prequel to cube, before. don't bother seeing it. it's awful. if you've only seen the cube, don't see hypercube or zero. a good film ruined by crap sequels. » « 06:09 27/02/05 | permalink | movies cube

uncubed looks like a good cube fansite, with info on all three films and a forum of cubists. » « 06:13 27/02/05 | permalink | movies

gah. tom's got me playing freenet again. 107/104 on the largest size. i need some practice. » « 06:32 28/02/05 | permalink | games

the spectaculator is a pretty good spectrum emulator, but the amsuing thing - to emulate a machine with 128k of ram, it requires....128MB. now *that's* efficient. » « 07:40 28/02/05 | permalink | spectrum emulators

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