Archives for May, 2003
2003.05.31 (Sat)
3 Changes
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Made a few changes recently based on other people’s brilliant ideas.
No More Bryce for Macintosh
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Speaking of weather, in this case virtual renditions of it, MacCentral reports that Corel has announced it’s bailing on further Mac development of Bryce. Yappari, as they say.
Weather Map Project, Summer 2002
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Asahi shinbun weather map animation, July, 2002. Part of my daughter’s summer holiday weather tracking project. We never had QuickTime movies when I was a kid.
It’s raining hard here, hardest rain of the year, a real rainy season feel to it. Like the sky has bad Tourette’s and the raindrops are all the words it can think of.
2003.05.29 (Thu)
Bush: Made for TV
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Take me back to the White House now, dammit! My country needs me.
2003.05.28 (Wed)
The High Cost of Killing
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War is now a U.S. franchise, and for the coalition of the willing, it’s time to settle some bills.
2003.05.24 (Sat)
Daikon Odori
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One doesn’t just watch the Daikon Odori, one bears witness to it. I witnessed it again today and it never fails to impress as an astonishing example of the utmost dedication in service to the bizarre.
2003.05.23 (Fri)
A very belated congratulations to Six Apart for TypePad. Screen shots today, and they’re beeyooodiful. This is going to rock big time.
2003.05.22 (Thu)
Those Bloody Buttons
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I knew those buttons would come back to haunt me.
2003.05.21 (Wed)
If I had a dollar for every photograph of rust that’s ever been taken, I could buy that island in the Caribbean I’ve had my eye on.
Tokyo’s Getting An Apple Store!
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Tokyo will get the first Apple Store outside the U.S. Can’t wait.
2003.05.20 (Tue)
MT Rebuild Mod
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Verily there is much sweetness in the land these days. Sean Willson’s MT rebuild mod lets you control how each index template gets rebuilt.
404 to Search Page
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When you try to access an address on a site that doesn’t exist, you get a 404 error. What you should get is an attempt to find the page you’re after and, if that doesn’t work, a search page where you can enter a string of your own devising. Thanks to this ingenious PHP snippet from Erik Barzeski that’s exactly what you can offer wayward visitors to your site.
Safari Displaying Source Code
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When clicking on a link, Safari can sometimes display the source code for the page rather than the rendered result of the code. Hitting reload displays the page properly. Anyone have any info on this? I can’t find a lead anywhere.
Without Christo
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude don’t have a monopoly on wrapped buildings (or mountainsides for that matter).
Character to Entity Encoder Bookmarklet
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Steve Minutillo’s character to entity encoder bookmarklet is pretty damned good
2003.05.18 (Sun)
Edit This Page
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Various ‘Edit This Page’ methods in MT
2003.05.14 (Wed)
Photopal 1.0 Beta
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Photopal: image organization system featuring template driven layout, automatic thumbnail creation, RSS feeds, picture level EXIF date extraction, and picture level descriptions, all without the need for an SQL like database.
Sunday’s Earthquake
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During earthquakes you seem to become extremely aware of your thought processes (perhaps it’s the radon seeping up from the ground activating generally unavailable cortices). Here’s 15 seconds from my mental log files of last Sunday night.
2003.05.13 (Tue)
Another Buddhist Action Figure
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Is it time for another Buddhist action figure? Yes, it is. Karma never sleeps.
2003.05.08 (Thu)
CSS Zen Garden
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“A demonstratation of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.” To which I can only say, bravo!
Teknonymy
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I knew I had one, and I’ve grown to love it, but I never knew it was a teknonym.
2003.05.07 (Wed)
The March of the Tchotchkes Continues
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More action figures! This time from the long-running TV show Kamen Raidaa.
2003.05.06 (Tue)
Mediaburn on the Legality of Gulf War II
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Gary Santoro of Mediaburn on the legality of Gulf War II
The CSS Debate: When Dinosaurs Attack!
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Some people seem to be missing an important point in the CSS vs. Tables debate: it’s not an either/or proposition. Use tables for tabular data – that’s what they’re for.
2003.05.05 (Mon)
White House Aid Quits…?
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Just received e-mail from a friend: White House aide quits over the Iraqi museum business. He saw the headline tick by on his TV screen. Haven’t been able to find details on the story online yet.
Ripped Off Again! (Does The Replacement Infringe?)
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Last week this site was ripped off again. Now the person who did it wants to know if their replacement design is OK. What do you think?
2003.05.04 (Sun)
Background Patterns
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Jeffrey Zeldman mentions that “Repeating background patterns, once the shame of web design, have recently made a tasteful comeback.”
Annoying Bugs
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Troubleshooting an annoying high-pitched sound from my computer turns out to be an interesting lesson in cognitive psychology and the miracle of binaural hearing.
2003.05.03 (Sat)
Would Somebody Please Give the U.S. a Big Joint. Now!
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How fucked up is America these days? From CBC: A top White House drug policy official is threatening retaliation from the U.S. if Canada relaxes its laws against marijuana possession.
MT Tags in Pull-Down Menus
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I get enough mail from people asking how to make the pull-down menus in the side bar that it’s probably a good idea to write it up. This is for people who are not quite as familiar with HTML and MT tags as they will be after a bit more playing around.
Foot-Tappin’ Fascists
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Q: So, Jeremy, what made you become a fascist?
A: Oh, the music. Definitely the music.
2003.05.02 (Fri)
Signal Blockers in Cinemas
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From the BBC: Cinema owners in Dublin have come under fire for stopping customers from receiving calls on their mobiles in the middle of a movie.
Dunlop Dancers
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Shibuya presents certain weirdnesses - here, the Dunlop Dancers
Bush Plays Dress-Up
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Bush’s Dukakis-in-a-tank picture
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