Archive for February, 2006
Flickr mashups
26 February 2006If you’ve been reading this for a while you’ll know what a mad keen supporter of flickr I am, well today I’m looking through flickr mashup sites - sites which make use of the publicly available API that flickr publishes. I’ve currently visited 2 of the top ten listed in this wired review and had […]
Weird abbrieviation
24 February 2006If you are running firefox as your primary web-browser you’ll probably be familiar with the Mozilla Foundation who look after firefox distribution. You might also have potentially shortened their name to the unlikely MoFo - hilarious!!
But not so funny as the legal firm Morrison & Foerster which share the unlikely abbrieviation (www.mofo.com). This gets even […]
Non-boring thumbnails
23 February 2006Saw this little article on wired and thought I’d preserve it for when I do some more web-development. Basically it’s a method for growing thumbnails into the fullsized image directly on the page - full description or just a demo for those of you who don’t care about how it’s done.
From the demo I […]
Adam in Japan
22 February 2006Well I’ve been up since 5:30am this morning taking my friend adam out to the airport for his return to Japan. He’s been in town for a whirlwind 2 day visit and staying with us while here. Adam used to live with myself and my other friend Batya in Paddington before he chucked it in […]
Just deserts for talking while driving
22 February 2006The following is ripped directly from the wired gadgets blog.In
a car crash that perfectly illustrates the importance of hands-free
mobile devices, a Kentucky woman flipped her truck after veering into
the median, and severed her arm in the crash. Fortunately, the woman
[…]
Scary
19 February 2006This kind of freaks me out and annoys me at the same time. Miller (the makers of the terrible American beer - no offence Chris) have tracked down a person who used a throwaway email address to enter a competition and automatically started to send email to their main email address.
“Thank you for being […]
X-box Media PC
19 February 2006This one is pretty much for my own later reference, been thinking about buying a cheap second hand x-box and modding it up and this guide gives you a no-soldering solution to hacking your x-box and installing a streaming media center on it. Thats right you can stream all those mp3s straight from your PC […]
VG Cats
18 February 2006Once again I am encouraging everyone to check out VGcats, one of the best online comics around (in my book anyway) - anyone who can bring hitler and jiminy cricket together in one strip deserves serious praise!!!
Robot Slime
15 February 2006A while back I saw an article describing how scientists had connected a flight simulator to a petri dish of rat brain cells and that those cells were doing a passable job of keeping the flight simulator running on a smooth course. Well it appears that these scientists from Japan have gone one step further […]
Transformers
13 February 2006I’m waiting for some files to copy and came across this little gem… a real transformer (from car -> biped -> car again). Cool to watch!