after a weekend of dorking around with bidirectional text on the web, i've put together a short guide to understanding bidirectional text in unicode. comments welcome »«
23:40 01/03/09
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detecting the click track through science. nice »«
16:00 02/03/09
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python
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has anyone played with stainless as a browser for osx? »«
21:19 02/03/09
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browser
osx
mac
webkit
software
heston blumenthal's new show sounds awesome [via tom] »«
13:31 03/03/09
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food
tv
the quirksmode page on wrappable zero-width spacing for the web is interesting. seems like we still need to browser detect, but we can use ­ everywhere but FF2, so it's not a tough detection (=~ /Firefox\/2\./). I wonder though, does putting the hyphen within (as in ppk's example) a function name cause ambiguity? maybe zero-width space (with wbr tags for old IEs) is a better generic solution. what are other people using? »«
16:25 03/03/09
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it's wikipedia evening! the world list of best selling albums is really interesting. a bunch on there that you wouldn't have suspected. the uk list is a little more embarrassing »«
23:50 09/03/09
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albums
lists
and worldwide best selling artists is interesting too (yay tom jones - 100m+ records sold) »«
23:56 09/03/09
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just finished watching dead set back to back. awesome, awesome stuff »«
23:24 10/03/09
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tv
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the watchmen screenwriter is urging people to go and see it again. shame »«
14:43 11/03/09
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comics
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the new ipod shuffle looks pretty cool - tinyer than ever and now with playlists. the voiceover stuff is barely better than text-to-speech 10 years ago though. i wonder if itunes on your mac generates the speech files, or if the ipod has the software to do it at runtime? »«
19:45 11/03/09
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shuffle
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apple
this is what IE6 deprecation pages should look like. well, maybe. »«
11:23 19/03/09
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i need to get me a juice pack for my iphone. extended battery life and much harder to break than the ones that extend downwards (oops) »«
18:57 19/03/09
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mobile
apple
this awesome promo video makes me want to bust out reason right now »«
15:14 20/03/09
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music
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awesome
gear
via-rebeccareeve
i'm not sure if the sense of scale measurements are correct, but it looks great »«
21:20 20/03/09
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astronomy
science
space
planets
earth
size
scale
the movie timeline is a lovely compilation of dates »«
21:28 20/03/09
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history
database
film
not sure why i have fluid design in my 'to read' folder. i mean, it's pretty stuff. maybe i know someone who works there? maybe you work there? hmmm? »«
00:02 21/03/09
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aviary is very very well done. the demo videos are pretty well put together. barrier to doing something slick on the web has gone up a lot lately. »«
00:05 21/03/09
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design
tools
photoshop
online
software
graphics
web
american boy on acoustic guitar is kinda awesome. very mellow »«
19:41 21/03/09
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chilled
mellow
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estelle
kanyewest
book spines as pixel art? kinda cool. but my books are all different sizes »«
21:29 21/03/09
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books
icons
pixels
did i write this? i don't think so »«
21:31 21/03/09
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i haven't played ginormo sword is ages. yay!! »«
21:32 21/03/09
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awesome
the readability bookmarklet seems like a good idea, but i haven't found a site it works on - just ends up only showing the navigation or some other small crap. am i using it wrong? »«
10:22 22/03/09
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a couple of patches for my php4 OAuth library - it now correctly url-encodes spaces (that explains the intermittent failure!) and works with E_WARNINGS. now with a test case too :) »«
14:59 23/03/09
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noah stokes' new "portfolio" is excellent. i'd hire him »«
15:52 24/03/09
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portfolio
design
inspiration
css
html
jquery
ajax
javascript
a nice piece on the constant redevelopment of sf's market street »«
16:14 24/03/09
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sanfrancisco
sf
sometimes we can be bad people »«
17:03 24/03/09
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flickr
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feedback
xtrabackup sounds like really good news for people backing up large innodb instances. streaming backups? yes pls »«
11:37 26/03/09
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mysql
backup
innodb
percona
"capcom aren't bad people, they're just idiots"
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14:02 26/03/09
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omg i love crif dogs so much. i can recommend the spicy redneck. not often i say that »«
23:09 26/03/09
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hotdogs
food
yummy
omg, shark in venice might just be the best bit of cinema EVER MADE »«
14:28 27/03/09
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sharks
omfg, i need a remote control shark. and a public swimming pool »«
22:49 27/03/09
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awesome
who i hate drupal is a nice variation on mu django talk, but one that's more needed - that group has been headed in odd directions in the last few years »«
13:10 29/03/09
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the rich data being capture and shared around everything these days is awesome - the earthquake a few minutes ago, available seconds after it happened »«
11:05 30/03/09
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i think this time travel rts (demoed at GDC) might actually be too confusing to play. damn »«
14:47 30/03/09
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games
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strategy
video
via-myles
the oakland tribune covered san francisco's first baconcamp, including a photo of me judging some bacon-wrapped dates on the front page of the timeout section »«
11:37 31/03/09
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AWS FACE - because the cloud should really be in a cloud. maybe the only amusing thing we'll see on 4/1 this year? »«
19:16 31/03/09
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amazon
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