Bringing new meaning to “Enabling with Google”
I don’t really want this site to become a linklog, but I couldn’t pass this one up. The Beer Hunter uses the Google API to display locations of alcohol retailers in the Toronto area. If they’re open, the icon is solid. If they are closed, the icon is translucent. Clicking on an icon gets you the address, the hours (with the opening hours for today highlighted) and their status.
Less delicious than I would have anticipated
I’m pulling the automatic del.icio.us updating from my site. I like it in theory, but in practice all I’m getting is a site full of bulleted links. While I think it is great that people may get the impression I’m updating my site much more than I am, you could easily get the impression that all I do is crap out bookmarks. Plus, you’re probably not interested in all the ephemera I grab from the web. Yesterday’s wealth of presentation-oriented javascript libraries, windows file managers and ext2fs drivers really drove that home for me.
I do intend to create a links of the day posting, but that will include only stuff I tag appropriately. This will be up as soon as move to my new host that supports cron.
More paper!
I’ve popped up a few more wallpapers to my flickr account.
Back to Montreal:
Over to France again:
And one last one from The Ex this past summer:
links for 2005-11-07
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also vr Halflife
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papercraft mac classics with some fly art
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The Thames Estuary Army Forts were constructed in 1942 to a design by Guy Maunsell, following the successful construction and deployment of the Naval Sea Forts. Their purpose was to provide anti-aircraft fire within the Thames Estuary area.
links for 2005-11-05
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Alternative desktop manager for Windows XP that arranges your windows into a loop. Similar to the Looking Glass interface.
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command line tools for the Windows Shell, from Cygwin with dependencies
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uses a skin and extension that grabs XP UI styles. the end result is bang on
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wall sockets with rotating plugs to accomodate big wall warts
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Eugene Lazutkin has started to implement a rich ui for OpenWrt by creating an ajaxian host editor for OpenWrt using Dojo.
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Provides shortcuts to handle much of the simple templating I do all the time: tables, tabs, flyout menus, etc
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MochiKit is a highly documented and well tested, suite of JavaScript libraries that will help you get stuff done, fast.
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like the python interpereter, in your web browser. demo of mochikit’s DOM api
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This demo does “live” Regular Expression matching to help you toy with JavaScript Regular Expressions.
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Spyce is the server-side page scripting language for the XBox Media Centre
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The GoAhead web server is the embedded web server used in the XBox Media Center
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Python scripts for the XBox media centre
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Salling Clicker offers the ability to control popular applications from mobile phone or handheld computer through a user interface similar to that on a portable media player.
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Tutorial on transfering a WordPress blog from one site to another
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Automated WP backup tool
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simple augmented reality toolkit that uses a webcam
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An intimate look at Gypsy refugees in Belgrade suburb who make a living by transfoming Citroen’s classic 2cv and Dyana cars into Mad Max-like recycling vehicles, with which they ollect cardoard, bottles and scrap metal.
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built from an old sega handheld and a cigarette lighter adapter
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The ëOpen Source IPTV Production Suiteí is an ensemble of high-level animation, 3D, compositing and editing tools that are available as free, open source GPL applications. However, this is not a direct attempt to duplicate the production tools found i
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I have this running on my USB key. I set it up to work with Outlook in about 10 minutes
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HID drivers are available, so you can use both USB devices on XBox and XBox controllers on the PC
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plasma-fieldsy screensaver
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Make great eyecandy, including a screensaver
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Holding Pattern turns your idle computer screen into an airplane window, complete with a moving aerial view. Each time the screensaver plays a unique sequence.
links for 2005-11-04
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symfony is an open-source PHP5 web framework with easy AJAX tools
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Conversate lets you create instant online discussion spaces. It’s simpler, faster, more polite, and less annoying than group emails.
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The NSA on how to really, really, REALLY secure your desktop
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Directory of game modifications, TCs and related projects
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use the Vapour Software to automatically download and update games and mods. like steam for mods
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tool to create virtual albums of photos
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Have you always harbored a secret (or not so secret) yearning to write? This course is designed to help you learn many of the skills you need to write successful science fiction and fantasy stories.
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And, dutifully, I will eventually check out each and everyone of them. But I WILL NOT add them to the root level of my RSS reader.
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During the last two weeks of January 1975 Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire lifeís work. These thinking out loud lectures span 42 hours and examine in depth all of Fuller’s major inventions and discoveries
links for 2005-11-03
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predominantly web-based applications
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Includes shout-out box where people can drop names of torrent sites
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tv torrent site
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modification of tiddlywiki
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lots of pointers to wiki solutions
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Is there enough meat in Star Wars to tickle my communication studies nerd as well as the regular old nerd?
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The Jack-PC from Chip PC Technologies takes “zero desk space” by converting existing enterprise LAN jacks into full-function Windows CE-powered thin client computers, without requiring additional cabling
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Turn those scam “Recovery CDs” vendors ship into a real, usable Windows installer
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I used to have an Applescript that autoexpired my “Downloads” directory in the OS 7.6 days.
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vPod is a program for transferring music to your iPod from Windows. It presents a unified view of all of your music and lets you see what is and what is not already on your iPod.
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hand-configuration for the modified dash
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The xboxmediacenter.xml in Detail
Web what now?
I accidentally clicked on a link in my del.icio.us inbox that got me to an article on Web 2.0. I think that this pretty much sums up what most people think about this way-way-new-web malarky way better than a translation would.
My $0.02
links for 2005-11-02
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Potentially great use of those flyers you can’t seem to stop
links for 2005-11-01
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Festival Speech Synthesis Systems is a free software multi-lingual speech synthesis workbench that runs on multiple-platforms offering black box text to speech
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How to use a new feature of del.icio.us that gives you a list of all your postings during the day