February 2009
31 posts
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My Firefox Web Development Add-ons
If you aren’t using Firefox add-ons, then you aren’t really using Firefox. I’ve heard this many times before - and I agree that it’s true. Add-ons are a definitive part of the Firefox experience. When Firefox first introduced the idea of add-ons, there were only a few available - but these days, the site lists no less than 400 add-ons targeted at web developers alone. ...
Crocodiles With Frickin Magnets Attached to Their... →
“So far the magnet program appears to be working, unfortunately the crocs have started to collect huge amounts of take-out menus and child artwork.” - I admit, I LOLed.
I just need to think of something awesome to do with this: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/24/1918217
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Javascript Life
This is Conway’s Game on Life implemented in pure HTML/Javascript with a little help from jQuery for the events.
This is another idea Matt and I had - he’s working on an alternate idea at http://cribley.org.
Some guidelines:
You can pause the action by hovering over the grid. That’s what that red border means.
All grid cells are clickable - clicking toggles life.
The...
Puzzle of the Day
If the integers from 1 to 999,999,999 are written as words, sorted alphabetically, and concatenated, what is the 51 billionth letter?
(see http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/WordNumbers1/ for a detailed discussion and some nifty Haskell code).
Tables? Really?
Amazingly 10,000 table cells are a faster load than 10,000 instances of a 5x5 image.
Drawing with HTML?
It’s been done before, but I’m working on drawing some things with HTML - trying to decide between table cells and small images - thoughts?
“In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.”
Correction: daylight saving time is bullshit.
Timezones are bullshit.
I’d like to make horrible webpages with you - yes you!
Car is dead. Damn passlock.
I’m in the process of rebooting the comic - hopefully by March there will be some new material! http://skunklogic.com/
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Organic Jabberwocky: Part 2
…and now on with part 2. I’ve put together a basic web interface to use the JSON service. You can check it out here:
http://artlogic.nfshost.com/ojw.html http://artlogic.nfshost.com/ojw/
The scanner is asynchronous, and very fast, but also not the most reliable thing - there’s no retry built in and it’s sort of difficult to stop it once it’s sent out all the...
“You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way...”
– Ray Bradbury
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-8) →
Rod Serling (33)
Foo Fighters (18)
Blind Melon (13)
George Harrison (12)
Badly Drawn Boy (9)
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Steve Wozniak To Appear On Dancing With the Stars →
I honestly don’t know how to feel about this…
http://www.bash.org/?749986 →
Ahhhh, bash.org - what would I do without you?
It turns out that asynchronous spidering is a bit more difficult than synchronous spidering…
Celebrate like it's 1234567890! →
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Organic Jabberwocky: Part 1
It all started with Matt accusing me of thinking I was Neal Stephenson. I threatened to write a gigantic novel with lots of made-up words (think Anathem - which was very good, BTW) and read it to him over dinner. Of course he challenged me to do so. We were at lunch, so it was easy to imply that my computer was writing it while I was away - stringing random sentences together by searching the...
Listening to Twilight Zone radio shows… I love radio theatre.
Watching Blagojevich on Letterman. Not only does he seem unbalanced, but he kind of looks like a mutant.
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Camera Basics Part 2: Film Sensitivity
You’ll find that taking pictures is a mix of artistic and analytical discipline. Composition requires an artistic eye. However. when it comes to light, photographers tend to be very analytical. They use various numbers to describe exactly how much light is getting to the film, as well as how sensitive the film (or sensor, in the case of a digital camera) is. The number used to describe...
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Camera Basics Part 1: Light
I thought I’d write a short tutorial on camera usage for all my aspiring photographer friends. I am by no means a pro, but I know basically how cameras work, and so now you can too!
Cameras work because of one thing - light. Without light, there is no photography. It’s important to get a feel for how much light actually is available. As a general rule there is much more light...
If English was written like Chinese →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-1) →
Blitzen Trapper (30)
Sonic Youth (27)
The Folk Implosion (19)
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (18)
Evan Dando (12)
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