The “Animate Route” bookmarklets are fabulous.
Awesome use of the Bloglines API to provide a new, smarter interface to your subscriptions.
Bank of America have decided they don’t want to pay to rename the FleetCenter, so you can buy the naming rights on eBay… for a day.
Reduce Labour’s majority at the next election, to give the party the kick up the arse it needs.
Gorgeously grungey replacement icon set for OSX.
Cool visualisation of Flickr buddy networks.
Firefox plugin which makes Atom/RSS feeds less ugly when clicked on. This should be rolled into Firefox itself.
BBC opening up some of their internal toys a la Google Labs?
“Sheriff David Pender accepted Senna’s name did not reflect the speed he had been doing at the time of the accident.”
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contribution to the Long Line project: www.flickr.com/groups/longline/
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Wicked awesome cool Flickr project. Create joining tiles, then link ‘em together like Pipe Mania!
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contribution to the Long Line project: www.flickr.com/groups/longline/
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Another boring “it’s been done” problem re-solved in a funky DHTML way by the brains at Google.
Lemon Jelly sticker
"This is our new album. It's not like our old album"
Gradiated map of British political persuasion. Slightly flawed in that it ignores the nationalist parties in Scotland and Wales (Those big patches of Tory Blue in Scotland represent the SNP seats), but gorgeous nonetheless.
The UK version of “The Apprentice” starts up next week.
Yummiest ad of the Superbowl.
What else would you do with four MP3 players? Play *music* on them?!
Wow, this is a beauty of an exploit. Hyperlinks can lie!
Firewallin’
A thoroughly satisfying weekend of hackery—I finally got my home firewall set-up the way I wanted.
Some background: My ADSL is provided by the fantastically forward-thinking and geek-friendly ISP Speakeasy.net. They’re not cheap, but they have smart policies. As an example, I get four static IP addresses for my home network.
In the past I’ve used these by sticking my PCs directly onto the public internet. This has meant that I’ve needed to run software firewalls on each computer, all with different rules and ways of configuring them (Zone Alarm on Windows, Brickhouse on OSX and Firewall Builder on my Linux boxen.) This has been a pain.
But yesterday morning, a brainwave struck me: I have a Linksys WRT54G wireless router providing my wireless network. It’s powered by Linux, which means that it’s relatively easy to hack and make more powerful. Surely that could be my firewall.
So a toast, then, to the geniuses behind OpenWRT, a teensy little Linux distribution which sits on the router giving you oodles of room to build. Combined with the Shoreline Firewall running in Proxy ARP mode, I’ve been able to set everything up exactly as I’ve wanted to do for years.
I have to confess that I’ve frightened Joy this weekend, due to my occasional schoolgirl-ish giggles as I hit WhatIsMyIP.com and get the result I hoped for, or see Joy’s shared music pop up in my iTunes for the first time ever. But that’s the price she pays for marrying a complete unashamed spod.
In case you’ve managed to get the original Magical Trevor tune out of your head, here’s the latest.
Stair navigation avec balloon
Bacon attempts to climb the stairs whilst gripping between his teeth a balloon larger than his stumpy little legs. Lots of fun to watch.
Bacon at his most puppyish
Mr. Dogg manicly rushing around chasing a big balloon, which has already become his new favourite toy. Until it bursts, which it is bound to do in about 5 minutes, the way he's attacking it.
Zach Dirt
Our nephew, Zach, in his stylish mullet wig.
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