Tag Archives: web

I catch fish! (…and I’m a PC)

A new colaboration between myself and Mr. Essl. Go submit your cleverness.

Jason Santa Maria versus Adobe Photoshop.

Jason Santa Maria versus Adobe Photoshop. The things twitter messages can lead to. Crazy.
P.S. Can I just point out that my efforts to combine my interests are getting kind of disturbingly effective?

DeletionPedia, or what happens when you add “over” to “moderation”

Wikipedia editors kind of frighten me. How could they delete a page like this for being “fan cruft”? Really.

Hyper Ultra English-challenged Web 2.0 Idea GO!

The Tonchidot team, with their limited English and limitless enthusiasm, were unphased. Exhorting the panellists to trust their imaginations, to “look up, not down”, they parried practical questions with baffling non sequiturs and utter confidence. What happens when the store changes the layout of its mobile phone display?
“We have a patent!”
Huge cheers. The question is [...]

Triple Whammy: #10, #9 and #7

10: The blockquote sandwich
Lede, blockquote, analysis, quip.
The form is simple, and done well, it makes for a perfect post. As a formula, however, it’s poison.

Boing Boing Gadgets (which last time I checked was about…gadgets?) is trying to act as our blogral compass. This should be good, right?

9: The Reblog
This is rewriting something that someone else [...]

IE6, Thickbox, HTTPS: recipe for disaster + fix.

Mostly for personal reference but hey, it’s a personal blog, and this just cost me three hours. cause IFRAMEs without a SRC might throw up an error in IE6 on HTTPS, but they don’t actually make a request so staring at a HTTP sniffer proxy doesn’t do you much good.

That Hansel is so hot right now.

See what’s popular on Twitter, graphs and all. Currently, Ubiquity* is all that and a bag of chips.
* = Which makes sense, because it’s awesome, but I didn’t feel like spending a blog post on what people are already saying.