⇒ useful little things

dreamstime stock photos
broadband plan comparison

showcase magazine: possibly the LONGEST page I've ever visited

fuel search

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⇒ Feb, 06th

let's see what's goin on today:

news:

NSW is hot
news corp:$9.7B loss...oh, that recession
australia's most popular youtube-r

MAKE:

xhttp://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/02/modeling_a_character_for_3d_printin.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
y

sweet!
xhttp://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/02/popup_book_ideas.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
y

mayhem and chaos in snow globes
flashback urban camouflage
metalworking supersite
tim sees steampunky ceramic art
financial data as music excel as art
i did something like this circa 2005...data sonification

MISC:

new M:UA 2 trailer
dragonball trailer
Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy
technical miscellanea in hard drive wiping--do I wipe more than once to be secure?
details that matter
excellent (web) design industry advice

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⇒ constructive web catchup

a list apart:

elevate web design at the university level
brighter horizons for web education
return of the mobile style sheet
semantics in html 5
return of the mobile style sheet

campaign monitor blog:

nested tables in HTML email: how much is too much?
Q&A newsletter
Improved authentication and Yahoo! integration
Voices newsletter
Giving back gets going
Export and share campaign reports
Nyman ink newsletter
Dialogue from Dialect
Should your plain text be exactly the same as your HTML?

Google analytics blog:

mastering-motion-charts-trend-analysis
9-steps-to-becoming-analytics-emperor
new-video-see-what-people-are-searching
tracking-google-sites-with-analytics
join-discussion-with-comments
short-answer-is-you-dont-have-to-change
announcing-winners-of-website-workout
eyes-on-prize-with-custom-reports
gaac-attack-year-end-fun-for-google-analysts

MacOSX hints:

Enable mounting of remote CD/DVDs on any Mac
use VLC to watch incomplete movies
Set preview frame during QuickTime movie export
Customize those boring blue folders using Preview

Matt Cutts:

four things you need to know about Knol
detecting googlebombs
Talking to a Wiimote in Ubuntu 8.10
“Preventing Virtual Blight” talk

javascript image galleries:

lightbox
Imago
Hoverbox (modified)
Spry
FrogJS
slideViewer 1.1
lightbox 2

Vitamin feed:

tips for freelancers starting your own business
how to: RSS-Enabled, Micro-Blog with Twitter

other:

why text is king
premium business cards
Officeworks business cards
UK webhosting
Set up new virtual hosts by creating new folders
Google zeitgeist 2008

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⇒ long weekend web catchup

Recession update:
Sun confirms 1,300 layoffs
Sprint Nextel plans to cut 8,000 jobs in quarter
Philips to release 6000 employees into wild
several IBM employees report being laid off on Alliance@IBM
IBM confirms layoffs
AMD reports $1.4 billion loss
Microsoft slash jobs
ING Direct slash 7000 jobs
Citibank cut jobs
Macquarie Bank cut jobs
holy crap! the recession sucks! how is it that no one is legally culpable for this mess?

1914 Cyclopedia of 5,000 Puzzles...By Sam Loyd flickr photo set


note: link goes to carboard shoe show in NYC

getting_started_in_circuit_design

conductive_plate_design

ottawa_boys_invisible_invention_war

javascript_captcha_decoder

Megaupload captcha auto-fill

youtube_as_musical_instruments

picaxe_software_for_maclinux




how_the_computer_gets_the_answer

error_prompt_etching

how_to_led_papercraft_lamp

plastic_polygon_man_watches_your_ev

a_river_of_light_illuminates_from_a

boot_beep_the_story_of_the_macs_boo

lasertracing_emissions


webdesign things which will help:
101-css-techniques-of-all-time-part-1.html
101-css-techniques-of-all-time-part2.html
vector-people-illustrations/
using-css-to-fix-anything-20-common-bugs-and-fixes.html
solving-5-common-css-headaches/
10-best-css-hacks/
9 top css essential skills that every web designer should learn
sprites2
how-to-css-large-background/

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⇒ 2 shocks

snooping around my blog today, I got 2 shocks:

1. someone (more than one person) flagged my blog as having inappropriate content. Really? Which part?

and

2. people read my blog? Really? It's called supplementary notes for a reason. I blog to clear my head and enhance my netting experience...

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⇒ RSS

RSS subscriptions--can't get enough, can't read them all.
Writing content that works for a living | Progressive enhancement with JAVASCRIPT | Working from home | Anti-spam laws | Smarter newsletters | Jakob Nielsen-email is a user interface | Emails and Web applications

does anyone else think Jakob Nielsen looks like a pre-ring Gollum?



you can never have enough papercraft!
Click on image to go to site.

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⇒ constructive (work-related) post about the web

study on 'new' Facebook here and more tips for using twitter here
Potential for Twitter as tool of terrorism here
Twitter 4-month critique here

Reasons to use LinkIn here
how to use a YouTube container for search here

Gmail modes explained

Revamp online advertising with these tips here
123 people, a site that searches for peoplehere
Something about the 'future of search - Faceted search' here
Uses for Facebook here
Social networking for marketing purposes blah blah blah here

Email campaigning - lower bounce, get more conversions here

Local area social networking here

SEO/Search stuff

Beginners checklist for writing benefit focused ads here
Keyword research mining here
5 SEO tools here
5 SEO fallacies here

sources:
SearchCap 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | | |

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⇒ iconfactory

cool stuff from iconfactory:

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⇒ newspond

seems to be a website aggregating other news items from the web, like an RSS, but only more website-like, and with more emphasis on geek-stuff.
All | Tech | Games | Science

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⇒ design

http://www.designfloat.com/
http://9rules.com/
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/minimalistic-web-design/
http://www.rgbgarden.com/content/darkvibrant-web-designs
http://inspiredology.com/so-fresh-and-so-green/
http://inspiredology.com/webs-brilliant-blues/
http://inspiredology.com/32-wicked-white-websites/
http://inspiredology.com/43-decent-dark-websites/

http://www.boogiesbc.ro/blog/photoshop-tutorials/weekly-top-quality-photoshop-tutorials-14/
http://www.designioustimes.com/freebies/free-vector-illustrations.html
http://dzineblog.com/2008/07/portfolios-of-the-month-july.html
http://www.afterglow.ie/

http://bestwebgallery.com/
http://www.vectorstock.com/index/
http://www.seodesignstudio.com/
http://flashden.net/
http://page-flip.com/?c=69
http://www.jam-factory.com/

http://www.haveamint.com/
http://www.speaklight.com/
http://www.afterglow.ie/signatures.html
http://www.microangelo.us/xpref/How-to-make-icons.asp

http://w3-markup.com/example

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⇒ new look

implementation of new style 50% complete.

It's taken me almost 2 years to be bothered enough to edit the style sheet. I wonder how long it'll take to finish the other 50%?

NB: other 50% = background images, inverting b&w CSS, creating style tags for video media, debugging, etc.

R E D A C T E D

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⇒ four C's of web design

Diamonds are rated by what is called the 4 C's. The 4 C's represent Carat, Color, Clarity and Cut. The rating for these features determines the intrinsic value of the stone. Carat of course is the stone weight, Color is evaluated in terms of its' whiteness, Clarity is the determination of the stone flaws and the Cut is the stones shape. As these ratings go up, so do the values of the stones.

A website has a similar and secret 4 C's ratings system; only the 4 C's values of a website's design are Clarity, Content, Consistency and Credibility. Just like a diamond, the highest score in each of these categories can determine a high website's rating. Search engines usually use the 4C's evaluation to rank your site. They don't tell you about the 4C's. They use terms like Meta Tags and keywords and tell you how important they are for your position. (See how search engines use Meta Tags here). Don't get me wrong: these items are important for the spider robots and should be used. Lets face it, however: to get really a good ranking, the visitors and the number of other sites linking to yours links are the key to a success on the World Wide Web. Search engines secretly track external site linkages and visitors traffic. They use this information to move sites up or down the rating scale. Your Meta Tags and keywords have little to do with your position on a search engines list. If your site is on the 3rd page, or further down the list of a given search result, it is unlikely to be viewed.

That is why the 4C's features are critical component to a good website design. People don't see your Meta Tags and keywords - they see the 4C's. Websites are all about traffic, subsequent visits and viral marketing. (Viral marketing is also called "word of mouth". We all know that if a visitor saw a great site, he would tell his friends, and they would pass the message further on their friends etc.) If your site has a high 4 C's rating, you will have the traffic and encourage other websites to link to yours.

from: http://www.ipages4u.com/How_to_Achieve_A_Top_Search_Engine_Rank.htm

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⇒ island.lens.laser

buy an island: http://www.privateislandsonline.com/

custom eye lenses: http://www.fxeyes.com/custom_lenses.html

uber-powerful laser: http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/16/university-of-michigan-creates-most-intense-laser-in-the-univers/
to get an idea of how powerful it is:
"contains 300 terawatts of power (or 300 times the capacity of the entire US electricity grid)..."
"If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of [HERCULES]." shiiiiit!

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⇒ cracked

the writing style has won me over:
http://www.cracked.com/article_15819_5-movie-martial-artists-that-lost-deathmatch-dignity.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_15679_5-upcoming-comic-book-movies-that-must-be-stopped.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_15853_6-cutest-animals-that-can-still-destroy-you.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_15859_10-words-phrases-you-wont-believe-shakespeare-invented.html

http://www.cracked.com/article_15001_insane-japanese-halloween-costumes.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_15670_25-most-baffling-toys-from-around-world.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_15833_9-most-racist-disney-characters.html

http://www.cracked.com/article_15062_ridiculous-overseas-rip-offs-american-films.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_15856_7-most-unforgivable-grammy-award-snubs-all-time.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_15827_pimp-my-plate-most-retardedly-expensive-5-course-meal.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_9-manliest-names-in-world.html

http://www.cracked.com/article_15714_9-most-unnecessary-greatest-hits-albums-all-time.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_14979_6-most-terrifying-foods-in-world.html

Tyson, the skateboarding bulldog http://www.skateboardingbulldog.com/
when will my dog be this awesome?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeroy_Jenkins
original 'the thing' script:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Highrise/3756/jc/who/bonusid.htm

superman III: the smallville cut here: http://fanedit.org/wpTF/?p=303

the truth behind chimps and dolphins:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0304/feature4/online_extra2.html
http://outside.away.com/outside/magazine/0999/199909outthere.html
they have homicidal tendencies

Come to me, son of Jor-El! Kneel before Zod!

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⇒ random

from http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=11457

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darian_calendar

extra-terrestrial stuff
http://www.crowdedskies.com/download_files.htm

cool website
http://www.nexusproductions.com/MailLoadFavourites.php?f=53_

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⇒ web stuff

flash basics
building a flash website
simple flash website
actionscript
flash web tute
w3 school flash
kirupa flash

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⇒ JAVA phone benchmark

site which details your phone's JAVA performance: jbenchmark.com
here's my phone. Incredibly, I remember our first PC--it was only 66Mhz compared to my phone's 110Mhz!
Free mobile games here. Just set your phone and pick out your soft...simple.

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⇒ things to see and read...

http://atasteforthetheatrical.com/

http://thegothamtimes.com/
http://www.thehahahatimes.com/

http://reactor88.blogspot.com/2007/12/totem-nintendo-64.html

http://www.darkhorse.com/zones/buffy/downloads.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumi-e
http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/polymer-vision-announces-rollable-displays-are-in-production/

finally beat diablo II:lord of destruction this morning...i had some trouble with Baal, but ultimately he was more manageable than Diablo (!). Anyhoo, killed his ass in one sitting, no townportalling back and forth for potions. Yeah, I wrecked his shit!

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⇒ not much goin on...

japan's latest crime-combating tech:camo-wear. I'm not joking, they design clothes/accessories to resemble regular street items such as vending machines, sewer covers, etc. Read the full article here

i quit (officially stopped work) Thurs, Oct 18th, 2007.
I've been working since Mar. 0Xth, 2007. I know it's a short time, but I learned so much about work and myself. In addition to uni, I felt like I've lived 2 lives this years (felt twice as long)--also, during winter, I was pretty much sick for all 3 months!

hell-a cool Devil May Cry website:
http://www.devilmaycry.com/home.html

arnistotle's website:
http://arnistotle.deviantart.com/
very cool artwork!

bruce lee's ab workout here
using a different font 'cause i feel like it...

days unemployed: 4

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⇒ free & strange

read:
http://photoshop.weblogsinc.com/2006/07/13/tips-for-mocking-up-a-web-page-in-photoshop/
http://photoshop.weblogsinc.com/2006/07/13/free-stock-photography-resources/
http://photoshop.weblogsinc.com/2006/07/13/animated-plane-flying-through-clouds/
http://www.cinematical.com/2007/10/13/cinematical-seven-non-horror-movies-that-scared-the-crap-out-of/

uni:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/new-tachikoma-spider-robot-on-the-loose/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/u-tsu-shi-o-mi/

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