➠ January 4, 2007
BBC NEWS | Opera treatment for Question Time
The creators of Jerry Springer The Opera are composing five 30-minute operas for the BBC, based on TV shows like Question Time and Wife Swap.
Daylife’s photo-to-name matching algorithm needs some work
Two out of six isn't bad, I suppose.
(Captured from Daylife, a Google-News-on-steroids news aggregator.)
Official Google Reader Blog: I like big charts and I cannot lie
Google Reader do cool personal “what have I been reading” datamining. Google Reader’s come on by leaps and bounds since its launch — If you’re still using Bloglines, it’s well worth trying out again.
ASCII by Jason Scott: Freedom, Justice and a Disturbingly Gaping Ass
Jason Scott does the standard “replace a hotlinked image with goatse” trick, on a mindbendingly massive scale. 25,000 people a *day* are getting goatse’d by him!
Link Alert | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation
Firefox plugin which overlays an icon onto the mouse pointer when you hover over links to PDFs, or DOCs, or new windows, or other annoyances.
Picnik
Wicked nifty-cool Flash-based photo editor for Flickr. Sign up on the webpage, and you should get access within minutes. Tip: Clicking on the Picnik logo in the top-left puts you into full-screen mode.
Trashbag Balancing Thursday 7:25 am 1/4/07 Somerville, Massachusetts
Somerville changed their Trash pickup policy on the 1st January. Now trash will only be accepted if it's in, or on, a trashcan; you can't just leave the bags on ground level. I forsee my future of creative stacking. (Or, perhaps, going out and buying a second bin.)
The B-List: Django tips: Hacking FreeComment
HOWTO hook Akismet (the anti-comment-spam service) into Django’s built-in commenting. I think I should have commenting for groovymother live by the weekend.
The Xapian Project
Open-source C search engine. I still prefer Lucene, but PyLucene is notoriously flakey under mod_python, so I’m using XapWrap to power the groovymother search.
finetune wii player
Finetune, Boston-based music streaming playlist geezers, have a nice Flash-based player designed with the Wii web browser in mind.
Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Good to know — how to cleanly reboot a frozen Linux box when you can’t even get it to give you a terminal prompt.
Wormux
Open source Worms-a-like. Far too many of my student hours were taken up playing “Worms 2” against my flatmates. Admittedly, most of that time was taken up by giggling as we named our worms things like “Sean Is A Virgin” and “Jim’s Cock”, but I think the game was fun too.
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