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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 | permalink | unicode bidi bidirectional filtering php

detecting the click track through science. nice »« 16:00 02/03/09 | permalink | visualization python music

has anyone played with stainless as a browser for osx? »« 21:19 02/03/09 | permalink | browser osx mac webkit software

heston blumenthal's new show sounds awesome [via tom] »« 13:31 03/03/09 | permalink | via-tomcoates 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 | permalink | html wbr css break shy zerowidthspace zws

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 | permalink | music wikipedia albums lists

and worldwide best selling artists is interesting too (yay tom jones - 100m+ records sold) »« 23:56 09/03/09 | permalink | music sales

just finished watching dead set back to back. awesome, awesome stuff »« 23:24 10/03/09 | permalink | tv zombie deadset

the watchmen screenwriter is urging people to go and see it again. shame »« 14:43 11/03/09 | permalink | watchmen comics films movie

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 | permalink | ipod shuffle music apple

this is what IE6 deprecation pages should look like. well, maybe. »« 11:23 19/03/09 | permalink | ie6 humor design browser

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 | permalink | iphone battery power mobile apple

this awesome promo video makes me want to bust out reason right now »« 15:14 20/03/09 | permalink | music video 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 | permalink | astronomy science space planets earth size scale

the movie timeline is a lovely compilation of dates »« 21:28 20/03/09 | permalink | movie timeline reference 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 | permalink | portfolio design agency interactive

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 | permalink | design tools photoshop online software graphics web

american boy on acoustic guitar is kinda awesome. very mellow »« 19:41 21/03/09 | permalink | music chilled mellow guitar estelle kanyewest

book spines as pixel art? kinda cool. but my books are all different sizes »« 21:29 21/03/09 | permalink | design books icons pixels

did i write this? i don't think so »« 21:31 21/03/09 | permalink

i haven't played ginormo sword is ages. yay!! »« 21:32 21/03/09 | permalink | games 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 | permalink

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 | permalink | oauth php

noah stokes' new "portfolio" is excellent. i'd hire him »« 15:52 24/03/09 | permalink | 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 | permalink | sanfrancisco sf

sometimes we can be bad people »« 17:03 24/03/09 | permalink | flickr phones feedback

xtrabackup sounds like really good news for people backing up large innodb instances. streaming backups? yes pls »« 11:37 26/03/09 | permalink | mysql backup innodb percona

"capcom aren't bad people, they're just idiots"  »« 14:02 26/03/09 | permalink | videogames

omg i love crif dogs so much. i can recommend the spicy redneck. not often i say that »« 23:09 26/03/09 | permalink | hotdogs food yummy

omg, shark in venice might just be the best bit of cinema EVER MADE »« 14:28 27/03/09 | permalink | video sharks

omfg, i need a remote control shark. and a public swimming pool »« 22:49 27/03/09 | permalink | sharks 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 | permalink | drupal hate drupalcon

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 | permalink | earthquake

i think this time travel rts (demoed at GDC) might actually be too confusing to play. damn »« 14:47 30/03/09 | permalink | games timetravel rts 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 | permalink | bacon

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 | permalink | amazon cloud aws spoof

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