yahoo have opened up access to public apis. copycats
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matt smith is writing games again. awesome. though it might turn out to be a big dissapointment. i'm working on a spectrum games myself at the moment (though porting it from spectrum to php :)
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lea find all the good pages on wikipedia: a list of films ordered by the number of uses of the word fuck.
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aaron points out that cpan search has maintainer independant urls for modules, for even better linkage than version independant ones.
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fuck fuck fuck fuck. the uk trailer for the new hitch hikers movie looks awesome.
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sarah hatter is clearly trying to impress me - a chantico-based cake recipe. mmmm
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jeffld pointed me at instant-demo a while back for making screen movies. i find it easier to use screencam, edit it in premiere if needed, then add stuff in flash.
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i'm not sure how old this is (just turned up on oc), but weebl's style is awesome. and disturbing, if you watch for long enough.
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excellent - i found an online version of the spectrum +3 manual - complete with chapter 8, the guide to +3 basic.
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steve fossett, the guy that flew round the globe in a hot air balloon, has now done it in a plane. he clearly needs a job.
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i've been looking for this forever - oe-quotefix makes outlook express stop top-quoting, put a proper attribution line and indent without wrapping everything. perfect!
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world jump day sounds slightly crazy. after fixing global warming by jumping, maybe we can fix poverty by standing on one leg.
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typographi is a good typography blog. bookmark that one.
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the html validator plugin for firefox is neato. saves uploading your work and tkaing trip to the validator pages.
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fontsmith's channel4 interstitial font is awesome. via the coates weblogging machine.
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webb's post about the accelerometer in the new powerbook is great. i *so* need one of these.
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nick clark really does hate software.
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hanni found this excellent photo. great colors.
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the first episode of the new doctor who is doing the rounds - it's excellent. eccleston is brilliant as the doctor, and the humor is spot-on.
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welcome to the future. how long before they become self aware and form a union?
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it didn't take too long - aaron points out the first google maps-based app. firefox only (gah) but still fun. and vancouver-centric.
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samsung introduce a 7 mega pixel cameraphone. wtf. it's more like a full-on digital camera with a built-in phone. the lens is huge. but still.
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wow - sxsw has an awesome bag this year. i *so* need one of those.
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sugarape is well mexico. only a single episode of nathan barley left. ack.
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tog really hates the osx dock, and with good reason.
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smugmug's article about printing color photos, color spaces and icc profiles is very interesting stuff.
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ms has bought grove and installed tay ozzie as cto. vaugely interesting stuff.
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i'm talking at etcon next week - you're going to be there, right?
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ie still hasn't fixed this dumb css borders bug (was evident on lea's site). grr. hurry up with ie7 already.
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"Your favorite cereal is now off the market? Cereal?? HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BATHE IN A SEA OF REALLY POINTY DAGGERS???"
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ourtunes is excellent - it allows you to easily browse and download itunes tracks on your local network. works on windows too.
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chris wilson, ie team veteran, talks about commitment to standards support in IE7, and credits eric, amongst others, for marking the way forward.
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in hammerseley's etcon talk at the moment - he's recommendeing Lip::Pod for documentation love.
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a good gzip compression browser support summary. if you want to lower your bandwidth at the cost of cpu time, then it's well worth a try.
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TreeMenu3 looks like a nice robust dhtml tree menu (if such a thing can exist), which is built entirely by transforming ul/li elements in-place, so degrades beautifully.
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wired is talking about how the new dr who episode might been leaked on purpose. i don't buy it - the bbc aren't that smart.
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"it's not good because it's rude. It's good because it *looks* like it's good because it's rude"
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webb produced a barley phrase generator. very cool stuff.
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awesome
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more slashdot traffic headed our way. hopefully it wont make a dent in the mrtg.
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how to explain REST to your wife - a nice concise explanation of what's cool and what's awful about web services.
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it's great having esther as in investor - she can take great photos :)
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su claims this is the best hip-hop video of the year staring men in animal costumes. i think it's probably the best hip-hop video ever staring men in animal costumes.
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the bbc is to cut 3780 jobs. fuuuuck, that's alot of friends' jobs on the line.
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an art deco dock for the ipod shuffle. kinda awesome.
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alien love predator is a great web comic. [via matts]
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tom points out this amazing eboy london poster for sale. i think i need one.
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mr hammond is doing cool things with flickr - his contacts' most popular tags. nice
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the ring two is the worst movie i've seen this year. unless i saw alexander this year. but it was close - very nearly as bad.
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so easter is in march this year. the 'ecclesiastical' rules for calculating the date of easter sunday are: 1, easter falls on the first sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox. 2, this particular ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon). 3, the vernal equinox is fixed as march 21. this page has more information and a code sample for calculating the date for any given year.
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and here's that code in php for your enjoyment.
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jbum/krazydad is doing some *very* cool things with flickr - A Thousand and One Sunsets
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phil doesn't believe ruby on rails exists: "Personally I prefer Cobra with the Spoke and Hairnet modules compiled in. But I've heard Gerbera on Souflé is even more powerful, particularly if you already have a load of Buckingham code"lying around.
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microsoft have a free windows ce emulator for windows, so you can test your sites from the comfort of a "real man's" computer.
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apple's batteries page is pretty informative.
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...but not as informative as these two guides to taking apart ipod shuffles. to replace batteries, amongst other things. sooo tiny.
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drama in http status codes. presumably this wasn't what sam ruby was talking about at etcon, but it *should* have been
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just came across this brilliant piece of zefrank advice which i haven't seen for a while. bite me, jackass.
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i hate peta
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coates is a mad unstoppable genius.someone needs to give him a bunch of money and a room without windows to make this stuff.
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tom's obsessed with jamie4u. he's convinced it's a parody, but i'm worried it's not.
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lea points out this awesome pocky ad and the translation of the bizarre frech. japanese television is scary-awesome.
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awesome tshirts and bags via my adopted sister.
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montage-a-google is a really neat little app for generating a zeitgeist via keywords. but using google? pah!
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random images from the flickr-stream: fractal architecture. anyone know where this it?
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an excellent slide from autrijus' perl 6 talk at yapc::taipei. i'm going to keep that one in mind for future presentations.
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yoz linked to a good resource for anyone thinking of developing moz extensions - worth checking out.
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