Bookmarks

Interesting links.

GeoDjango and the UK postcode database « lamby

geodjango, gis, postcode, geolocation

Trends | pcapr

couchdb, visualization

If Architects Had to Work Like Web Designers

funny, design, architecture, web

Wiki visualisations with JavaScript: Processing.js and Raphaël · Matt Ryall’s Weblog

visualization, processing.js, raphael, javascript, canvas

Music visualization with Canvas and SoundManager2 - Nihilogic

visualization, javascript, canvas, sound, audio

LyX and Lulu

publishing, latex, lulu, lyx

Introduction to book keeping

bookkeeping, accounts

C.1. UK Vat

accounting, business, uk

LaTeX and lulu.com

lulu, publishing, latex

White Collars Turn Blue

economics, technology

Tales of Future Past

technology, scifi, culture, retro, future

RSA In JavaScript - ohdave.com

javascript, crypto

jCryption - JavaScript data encryption

javascript, encryption, security, crypto

guillaume bort - software designer

textile, html5, canvas, javascript, editor

Protovis

graphics, visualization, javascript, canvas, charts

13 Javascript libraries for visualizations on Datavisualization.ch

javascript, data, visualization, jquery, charts

how to avoid ads in gmail

funny, hack, gmail, ads

WPS: PostScript for the Web

postscript, interpreter, javascript

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

So true!

management, productivity, collaboration

Tools of the Modern Python Hacker: Virtualenv, Fabric and Pip

python, deployment, django, virtualenv, pip, fabric, tools

Shadowbox.js Media Viewer

javascript, media

microprinter / FrontPage

printer, hack, arduino, project

HTTP access control - MDC

woah, crossdomain, firefox, mozilla, security

Why "Click here" is bad linking practice

writing, accessibility, web

HTML5 drag and drop in Firefox 3.5 – 0xDECAFBAD

dragdrop, webdev, html5, javascript, firefox, mozilla

Detexify LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition

latex, mathematics, tools, reference, tex

I've Got Your Number

mathematics, analysis, fraud, numbers, benford, statistics

Sparkle: a free software update framework for the Mac

osx, cocoa, apple, software, update

Nw1AS.jpg

illusion, illusions, brain, science, psychology, tricks

OAuth Playground

oauth, google, authentication, sandbox

RSS to PDF Newspaper | fivefilters.org

generator, pdf, free, magazine

Pure CSS Scrollable Table with Fixed Header

Why don't browsers make it easy to support this?

webdev, scroll, table, design, css, javascript

4.3. Account Register/General Ledger

accounting, bookkeeping

Beer Can Couch

couchapp, photo

Can You Be Too Perfect: Scientific American

psychology, perfectionism, productivity

Nerd Boyfriend

geek, style, nerd, clothes, fashion, blog

schema.js

javascript

Darik's Boot And Nuke | Hard Drive Disk Wipe

utilities, dban, sysadmin, tools, security, wipe

The Book Seer

recommendations, web2.0, books, reading, inspiration, tools, literature

Jinja Ninja - Tracks - SoundCloud

programming, music, free

Fotopedia

couchdb, collaboration, sharing

Tie Knot

knots, windsor, tie

PageRank sculpting

google, seo, pagerank

Brendel Consulting

coding, programming, bestpractice

SWFUpload jQuery Plugin : Adam Royle

jquery, swfupload, upload

Hunch

crowdsourcing, socialnetworking, tools, cool

NOSQL - CouchDB on Vimeo

couchdb, jchris, nosql

Tilted Twister

lego, programming, mindstorms

So, You're Gifted...A Web Quest of Self-Discovery

Handy downloadable Myers-Briggs test

personality, myers-briggs

OS X Keyboard shortcuts (Leopard)

osx, mac, shortcuts, keyboard, reference

Haystack - Search for Django

django, search, webdev, haystack, searchengine

Secure Cookie Authentication for CouchDB | Jason Davies: Web Design and Development

couchdb, cookies, couchapp, security, javascript, webdev, web, authentication, srp, scram, j-pake

Seth's Blog: Saying 'no'

productivity, leadership

Job

job, facebook

#!etsyhacks

etsy, hacks, greasemonkey, business, craft

Labuat

Wow!

animation, flash, music, interactive, art

SMS: "Tim Gowers - Computational Complexity and Quantum Compuation"

cambridge, computation, quantum, complexity

tweetbook.in

twitter, pdf

Apache vs. Yaws

erlang, performance, benchmark, yaws, apache

New Pattern Found in Prime Numbers

primes, science, mathematics

point-at-infinity.org

cryptography, encryption, programming

TG Daily - Next-gen iPhone 'to lose telephony functions'

Other rumored features include a laser rangefinder, infrared night vision camera, altimeter, depth gauge, attack alarm, taser attachment, baby alarm, breathalyser, reading lamp, TV remote, auto-ranging multimeter, guitar multi-effects processor, 802.11G wireless router, pregnancy tester, scanning electron microscope, food processor and an attachment for removing stones from horses' hooves.

funny

CouchDB on Wheels | Jason Davies

couchdb, javascript

Hg-Git Mercurial Plugin

mercurial, git, hg, github

SCRAM

scram, security

Programming

scripts, hacks

marginal hacks

hacks, scripts

PlotKit - Javascript Chart Plotting | liquidx

visualization, javascript, canvas, charts

DispatchConfiguration - webmachine - Webmachine URI dispatch configuration. - Google Code

Something like this might be useful for routing in CouchDB/CouchApp

couchdb, routing

HyperMac External MacBook Power

apple, macbook, external, battery

distributed systems primer :: snax

distributed, architecture, papers

SRP: Design Specifications

srp, cryptography, authentication, security

Official Google Blog: Mowing with goats

funny, google, goats, green, sustainability

The Secure Remote Password Protocol

security, authentication, srp, cryptography

ImageFlow

imageflow, slideshow, javascript

Eucalyptus Systems Inc

cloud, eucalyptus, virtualization

All Sorts

linguistics

ServerJS - MozillaWiki

javascript, serverjs

Tal Leming » Web Fonts

webfonts, fonts, web, typography

JS Bin - Collaborative JavaScript Debugging

javascript, collaboration, web

When can I use...

webdev, web

Typographica

typography

How can I supress the browser's authentication dialog? - Stack Overflow

I don't think there's a good answer to this question :-(

javascript, ajax

I ♥ wireframes

webdesign, design, ui

CouchDB: Perform like a pr0n star

One way to keep developers from getting distracted...

couchdb

Unicode Upside-Down Mapping

unicode, javascript, converter

The method still works - (37signals)

design, ui, usability

Canvas tutorial - MDC

canvas, javascript, tutorial

Netbook Buyers Guide

netbook, shopping

Security ‎(Persevere)‎

persevere, security

4. The Hebrew Calendar

hebrew, calendar

Raphaël—JavaScript Library

javascript, graphics

DD_belatedPNG: Medicine for your IE6/PNG headache!

This looks like the best solution.

ie6, javascript, png, transparency, pngfix

Dynamic Gradient Background

javascript, gradient, background, canvas

JQuery background canvas project

jquery, canvas, background

About - cufon - GitHub

typography, javascript, fonts

Spicy chicken couscous recipe - Recipes - BBC Good Food

Just cooked this and everyone loved it. Left out the blanched almonds and used Mr. Patak's Balti curry paste.

recipe

favikon

favicon, tools

YouTube - Extreme Sheep LED Art

funny, sheep, wales

CSSREMIX

css, inspiration

Designing to Sell

marketing

jQuery GalleryView - by Jack Anderson

jquery, slideshow, gallery

Introducing JSON Template

json, javascript, templating

Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Jakob Nielsen has blessed mega drop-down navigation menus, quick let's rush to implement them everywhere!

usability, jakobnielsen

Running IE6, IE7 and IE8 on your Mac — The Mozmonkey Blog

Useful tip on how to get rid of the BSoD when using VirtualBox to run Microsoft's IE6 VPC image.

osx, virtualbox, ie6

Merge sorted sequences « ActiveState Code

Interesting, Python detects when underlying sequences already have order and runs a C speed merge on the data.

python

Browser Ball

javascript, cool, game

punymce - Google Code

tinymce, punymce

Adroll.com - Welcome

Nice cross-fade slideshow.

inpsiration

Cucumber - Making BDD fun

Teh cool!

programming, development

Technobunkum

technology

Collaborative Map-Reduce in the Browser - igvita.com

This is like, a totally awesome hack...

awesome, mapreduce

Pinax

Useful set of Django apps. One to watch.

django

Are bad sleeping habits driving us mad? - health - 18 February 2009 - New Scientist

Very interesting, makes a good case for powernapping!

sleep

Understanding the Forms Authentication Ticket and Cookie

security, cookies, authentication, formsauthentication

Flowplayer - Flash Video Player for the Web

web, video, flv, opensource

PixelMachine

Impressive stuff

programming, 3d

Seth's Blog: Don't Shave That Yak!

So true :-)

funny, productivity

Coderspiel / Sling shot to CouchDB

The "Edit the Friday site" demo is pretty cool: editing pages is a joy with JSON.

couchdb

Monmouth Coffee Company - Home

https://twitter.com/tferriss/status/1179647797

coffee, london

InfoQ: CouchDB and Me

Inspirational talk by Damien Katz

couchdb

New CSS Sticky Footer - 2009

Awesome, I've always wanted one of these...

css

http://mappinghacks.com/code/geohash.py.txt

Might be useful for implementing geospatial stuff in CouchDB.

python, geohash, b-tree

Obamicon.Me - Home

I'll be trying this out when I get my webcam back...

obama, graphics, cool

Rands In Repose

This looks like a really nice blog, well written.

blog

cost_longlife75.gif (GIF Image, 594×459 pixels) - Scaled (99%)

Surprising.

politics, statistics, graph

Review: 2.53GHz Apple MacBook Pro - PaulStamatiou.com

Nice review of MacBook Pro

mac, apple

Dive Into Greasemonkey

Handy reference book by Mark Pilgrim.

greasemonkey, javascript, programming

tircd - Google Code

Piece of awesomeness. I'm worried that if I use it I'll start posting junk on twitter like I do on IRC.

irc, proxy, chat, tircd, twitter

Welcome › Zine

Interesting Python-based alternative to Wordpress. Project lead is Armin Ronacher, who is behind Jinja, Pygments and Sphinx.

python, blog, wordpress, zine

Resolving "Setup did not find any hard disk drives" during Windows XP Installation :: the How-To Geek

Handy notes on how to mod WinXP to install on a SATA system

slipstream, winxp

David Baker :: WEB :: Free Remote Desktop Support

Handy little tutorial for doing remote desktop stuff if you're into IT support.

remote-desktop, support, vnc

blb – MacPorts

After many frustrating hours of searching, this seems to explain possible solutions for the _iconv issue I am having with MacFUSE + MacPorts. I will add myself to the ticket's Cc and wait! Update: the easy solution (using MacPorts image downloaded from Google) to the pkg-config problem I was having: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/wiki/FAQ (essentially set PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig)

macports, macfuse, iconv, pkgconfig

the explicit

Ze Frank's side-blog, might have some interesting thoughts

zefrank

how to install lxml python module on mac os 10.5 (leopard) « LSD::RELOAD

Useful howto for installing lxml on Mac OS X (10.5).

python, mac, lxml

Edit CouchDB Attachments Directly with CouchDB-FUSE | Jason Davies: Web Design and Development

Post announcing my CouchDB-FUSE project. Please post feedback!

python, couchdb, fuse, couchdb-fuse

Gotten vs. Got

Interesting notes on the usage of "gotten". I still haven't gotten my head round it, but I guess that's because I'm British.

grammar, gotten, english, language

s3Slider jQuery plugin - Overview

Nice little jQuery slideshow plugin.

javascript, slideshow, jquery

Typealyzer

Interesting personality tester for blogs. Doesn't allow me to bookmark the results though :(

personality

jQuery Edit In Place

Awesome, I've been looking for something like this for a while. I'm a big fan of in-place administration ala Flickr.

jquery, javascript, awesome, ui

Aeracode :: Denormalisation Follies

This sounds very useful.

django

Wesabe: Make Wesabe Better: Receipt archive

Interesting discussion about scanning receipts into an archive.

receipts, scanning, accounting

NEAT Receipts Scanner - Manage Receipts Organizer - Call: 866-NEAT-REC

Looks kinda handy, but my ScanSnap probably does a good enough job for now, except for the OCR stuff.

receipts, scanning

Twitter / Mr Messina: ☠ ☠ ☠

Pirates!

factoryjoe, twitter, unicode

ART OF MONEY GETTING

entrepreneurship, business, @toread

webdev.stephband.info - jParallax

Wow, this is so cool!

awesome, webdesign

Telephones UK - BT Network Service Codes

reference, telephone, bt, codes

Yiying Lu

design

How to Be Interesting

interesting, inspiration

Python best practices

python, programming

Instant Origami

Weird!

weird, funny, origami

17 Mistakes Start-Ups Make

business, startup, tips, entrepreneurship

Golden Ratio Calculator

design, goldenratio, tools

Working Productively in Bash’s Vi Command Line Editing Mode (with Cheat Sheet) - good coders code, great reuse

Wow, this is a nice surprise! Now my l33t vi skillz can be used in bash!

vim, linux, cool

Biggest Drawing in the World

Awesome!

art, cool

Web users 'getting more selfish' - BBC News

"In 2008, said Dr Nielsen, only 25% of people travel via a homepage. The rest search and get straight there."

usability, webdesign, search

316kxhd.jpg (JPEG Image, 626×378 pixels)

Randall Munroe is the creator of xkcd, of course.

funny

7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen Covey)

I've read this book and it does have some very good approaches to dealing with situations and life in general. This page is a useful summary of the 7 habits.

productivity, life

oranges

Genius. What more can I say?

oranges

Proper Wedding Invitations Wording, Stationery Etiquette

Important to get this right!

wedding

My Paperless Personal Finance System: A Work in Progress ∞ Get Rich Slowly

I personally have a ScanSnap and it has massively reduced the amount of paper I have. Now I just have to make sure it's properly backed up otherwise I'm screwed.

finance, lifehacker

www.ngtech.gr » My new StumbleUpon favorites export to XML / CSV / Firefox bookmarks script.

I had to patch this script to make the CSV export work properly. Now my data is no longer locked inside StumbleUpon!

stumbleupon, programming

Websiteoutlook Website value calculator and web information

Interesting value calculator for websites. This seems pretty inaccurate for my domains, at least, but nice idea.

seo, web

YouTube - One Of The Best Pitches Ever Made

Wow. I wonder if that was a legal pitch though?

funny, video

SitePoint Blogs » Two Hidden Features New in Firefox 3

Interesting notes on Firefox 3's "hidden" features: inline blocks look kinda useful. The soft hyphen presumably was supported in the Unicode standard anyway, as 0xAD, but I'm not sure if that would've worked in Firefox.

css, firefox, webdesign

How to do a "Mail Merge" from a Calc spreadshee

Handy for when I create my Wedding invites tomorrow!

openoffice, mailmerge, howto

Typogridphy — A Typographical and Grid Layout CSS Framework From Harry Roberts of CSS Wizardry

Interesting new CSS framework. There are quite a few around now, and I was under the impression that BlueprintCSS was the most featured last time I looked...

css, framework, typography, webdesign

7.3. Case Study: Roman Numerals

Mark Pilgrim's code for deciphering and ciphering Roman numerals is packaged as python-roman in Debian.

python

:..........GVETCHEDINTIME.COM..........:

Crazy. This guy must have so much patience. Really cool.

art, cool

Welcome to the Chicago Postcard Museum

I should post a postcard to these people, would be fun to see it listed.

history, postcards, interesting

Annals of Innovation: In the Air: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

innovation, genius, creativity, interesting, gladwell

cmypitch : coming soon

business, youtube

Flip

This is pretty darn great! ¡ʇɐǝɹƃ uɹɐp ʎʇʇǝɹd sı sıɥʇ

flip, cool, fun

logo.jpg (JPEG Image, 782x215 pixels)

design, wedding, gothic

The Maximum Subsequence Problem

programming, python

Jason Davies: Lorem Ipsum Generator

Useful lorem ipsum generator made using Django.

lorem, webdesign, design, web, django, typography

success_large.jpg (JPEG Image, 1155x1330 pixels)

inspiration, funny, success, art

Typographic Contrast and Flow

design, css, typography, usability, web

Hebrew Calendar | Bet Ha Bracha

Nice Hebrew calendar, generated using hebcal.

hebrew, calendar, jewish

Best of CSS Design 2007

css, design, inspiration

2007: More Web Design Trends & Cliches

design, creativity, inspiration

Usability is a Conversation

usability, webdesign

NetSpade: Cookies in JavaScript

javascript, cookies

CSS Reference

css, reference, design

Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids

education, psychology, parenting, science

YouTube - てすと28

nintendo, video, music, youtube

Open Flash Chart -

opensource, graph, chart

Black Lily Wedding Invites

gothic, wedding, invites

Genius: 2012

video, genius, gladwell, intelligence

ROFLMAOBBQ

funny

Google Announces the OpenSocial API

google, opensocial, social

Another Way of Knowing » Jared Diamond: The Worst Mistake

history, science, sociology, anthropology

The Superest

illustration, art, funny, comics

snowclone.pl

snowclones

If Eskimos...

linguistics, snowclones

Zero Sum Mind: 1337 Katz0rz

language, linguistics, fun, lol

The Snowclones Database

language, linguistics, english, snowclones

Evolution and Wisdom of Crowds

essay, science, evolution

JQuery Cycle Plugin

jquery, cool

humanmsg - Google Code

cool, design, javascript, programming, webdesign, web

Conceptual Trends and Current Topics

psychology, weird, life, blog

good-cheap-fast.jpg (JPEG Image, 640x480 pixels)

business, humour, fun, cool, photo

NeuroLogica Blog » Left Brain - Right brain and the Spinning Girl

Aha, the right/left brain optical illusion is debunked!

debunked, psychology

PeerGrab

news, blog

Coudal Partners' Layer Tennis | Presented by Adobe CS3

design, photoshop, competition, art, fun, cool

Orangepulp

oranges

5min - How to do a backflip - Video

tutorial, video, todo

Judaism 101: Current Calendar

hebrew, calendar, jewish

Quality products from the land of Israel | Bet Ha Bracha

israel, jewish, judaica, e-commerce, django

Freelance Switch

business, webdesign, programming

What Should I Read Next?

reading, books

Descriptive words

Kinda interesting.

language, reference, writing

glTail.rb - realtime logfile visualization

This is just awesome! Shame I don't have enough traffic to make it worthwhile...

cool, hacks, linux, ruby, visualization, stats

Amazing Way to Tie Your Sneakers

Wow, I should try some of these funky methods...

fun, shoes, laces

fbfriends

facebook, django

far from fearless

webdesign, design

Creative Design ::

design, blog, webdesign

Django snippets: Welcome

django, programming, python

CheeseRater

django, python, programming

String Formatting in C

C#, .NET, programming

NetSpade: Web Programming Resources for Web Programmers

webdesign, tutorials, design, web, internet, programming

Jason Davies

web, webdesign, jason, davies, django

Seth's Blog: Wow!

funny, photos, vista, microsoft

Doctor Who Tardis 4-Way USB Hub

doctorwho, cool, usb, gadget

CSS tests

css, web

Speed Up Firefox web browser -- Ubuntu Geek

firefox, browser, software, ubuntu

Rachel Lovell ~ Orange Fairy

orange, fairy, friend, rachel, lovell, oranges, fruit, citrus

Notepaper Generator

notepaper, tools, cool

Bowden's Hobby Circuits

cool, circuits, electronics

Optimus keyboard

fun, keyboard

How To Look Like A UNIX Guru

linux, reference

Google Maps API

google, @toread

Google AJAXSLT

google, ajax

JS/UIX - Terminal

ajax, cool, unix, javascript

Flickr

flickr, photos, art, design

Bhargav's Collection

books, compsci, math, physics

Breaking Firewalls with OpenSSH and PuTTY

ssh, linux, firewall, putty

INTJ

personality, mbti

Mixing Memory

blog, psychology

How to Start a Startup

business, startup, @toread

A Programmer's Guide to the Mind

psychology, mind, cognitive, science, programming, @toread

The Selfish Class

programming, software, @toread

Cognitive Daily

cognitive, science, news

Best Hacking Tools and Tutorials

hacking, security, @toread

The Web Design CD Bookshelf

web, design, book

How to Write a Resume

cv, resume, job

alan kay

@toread

Notemaking

@toread

HOW TO STUDY

@toread

So you want to be a consultant...

consultant, tech, job

Introducing JSON

json, programming

ASCII Generator

web, tool, art

Extreme Perl - Home

perl, programming

The 25 most difficult questions

job, interview, tips

Bunny suicides

fun, comic

Answers.com

reference

Principles of Program Analysis

compiler, optimisation, compsci

Silt 3.0: Transcripts - Power of Nightmares

Interesting documentary about the rise of fundamentalism in recent times.

terror, fundamentalism, documentary, transcript

Cool!

favelet, dom, javascript

Sons of Suckerfish - HTML Dog

html, javascript, css, web

GUUUI - Navigation blindness

web, design, navigation

Torrent Site Status

bittorrent

Calendar

calendar

Tsunami

Amazing destructive power of these waves

tsunami

Apache Lenya

web, cms

Spectacle - Website Color Schemes

web, design, colour

TinyP2P

p2p, programming, python

Python Vs Ruby

programming, python, ruby

PLAYER PIANO REBIRTH

midi, music, piano

What Not to Do

business, money

12 sided calendar

crafts, fun, origami

we make money not art

business, money

Optics pages

photography

Let them sing it for you

art, cool, music, sound

Optimizations

asm, optimisation

NASM Manual

asm, manual, nasm

The Lua Virtual Machine

lua, programming

C/C++ Reference

c, c++, programming

Software Engineering Proverbs

engineering, software

John Baez's Stuff

math, physics

Things to make and do.

cool, diy, hack

GDB Tutorial

gdb, tutorial

How to be depressed

depression

I Know Why Software Sucks

development, software

Grand Illusions

cool, fun, origami

Photoshop for Photographers

graphics, photography, software

TCC : Tiny C Compiler

compiler, programming

The Small language

compsci, languages, programming

Fun With Words: Letter Frequencies

cryptography, statistics

Halo 2 Strategy Guide

games, halo2

"Software Quality at Top Speed"

development, software

Hopscotch

games

Tricks of the Trade

hacks, tricks

c h r o m a s i a

art, photography

The Inner Light Theory of Consciousness

compsci, mind, philosophy, thinking

Thirty-eight dishonest tricks

logic, thinking, writing

Subdivision Surface Theory

compsci, graphics, subdivison

Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces

compsci, graphics, subdivison

Computer Aided Geometric Design - Final Project

compsci, graphics, subdivison

nothingisreal.com

software, writing

Learn to cook

cooking, food

Logical Effort

compsci, vlsi

Subdivision.org

compsci, graphics, subdivision

Mate in 271

chess

phong [ tutorials ]

art, design, tutorials

OS-History : Non-Unix OS timeline page

computer, history, poster, timeline

Computer Languages History

posters, programming

Security Posters

posters, security

Welcome to threetwoone.org

diagram, poster

Welcome to biblediagrams.com

bible, christian, diagram, poster

Outline Maps

maps, print

Thinking in C 2nd ed Volume 2 rev 19

c, compsci, programming

deviantART: where ART meets application!

art, design, graphics, photography, wallpaper

GNN - Eat Less, Live Longer?

health, lifehacks

Free Shell Accounts

free, linux, shell

LaTeX2HTML

latex, math

Jabberwocky

poetry

The Science of Word Recognition

ai, compsci, science

Eddie's Anti-Procrastination Site

gtd, procrastination

The Problem of Procrastination

gtd, procrastination

lua-users.org

compsci, lua, programming

Google Hacks

google, hacks, programming

City Life Church

christian, church

Comp.Theory FAQ

compsci

ACM Queue

compsci