Wed 4 Jan 2006
This site provides free (as in Freedom) ‘executables’ that make it easy to sew your own soft-toy Tux — the Linux penguin. They have sewing patterns and a community to sew your own soft toy or stuffed Tux.
If you’re looking for a cute gift to yours truly. Look no further. <wink>
Fri 16 Dec 2005
Depressed and dejected, an anonymous donor left an engagement ring with a note reading: “Merry Christmas. Thank you for leaving your car door unlocked. Instead of stealing your car I gave you a present. Hopefully this will land in the hands of someone you love, for my love is gone now. Merry Christmas to you.”
read more | digg story
Mon 12 Dec 2005
“Tim Bete is to parenting as Michael Jackson is to the music industry — he’s won more awards than anyone can count, he’s amazing at what he does, and most of all, he’s hilarious, too! The world needs more people like this guy!”
– Scott Sevener, editor-in-chief, Just Laugh magazine
Link to best-of archive. Free email subscription.
Sat 10 Dec 2005
Google this week rolled out a fix to mitigate the risk from a newly discovered vulnerability in Internet Explorer that puts users of Google Desktop at risk even if they are running a fully updated system. Microsoft developers thanked Google for their work and say they are working on a patch for IE.
Sat 10 Dec 2005
Tyler Hall has come up with a clever way to streamline edits for CSS constants (same styles repeated in different ids and classes) using PHP.
What’s more interesting though is the activity in the comments. It turned out that suggested technique has a security hole at the time the story made it to the front page of digg.com, in which the author has arrived at a pretty good tip. I’ll make it point to remember that too. ;)
Another interesting technique pointed out in the discussion is the CSS-SSC work by Shaun Inman. Thoughts by Eric Meyer.
Wed 7 Dec 2005
DarkEye is a new breed of “living” web design showcase. You’re in control: you rate, review and submit sites that instantly appear in front of thousands potential users. DarkEye is what you make it so start experimenting today.
Very cool indeed.
Fri 2 Dec 2005
A very nice list of the most used JavaScript functions! A must read!
Pretty cool site design too (best viewed in Firefox)!