fun flickr toys that let you make calendars, billboards, fortune cookies and more out of your photos. fantastically beautiful high speed photos of water, sparks and motion. and lightning.
Category Archives: web
Apple Store bookmarklet
Remix: this movie + WordPress’ PressIt bookmarklet = Apple Store bookmarklet javascript:if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf(‘Safari’) >=0){ Q=getSelection(); }else{ Q=document.selection?document.selection.createRange().text:document.getSelection();} void(window.open(‘http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore’ + ‘?productLearnMore=’+encodeURIComponent(Q))); (I’d make it draggable, but WordPress auto-curly-quoting is being too clever.) Update: the movie is from Jon Rentzsch.
TED’s blog
TED, the uber-cook, uber-exclusive Technology/Entertainment/Design conference, now has a blog.
guerilla usability: ice oasis hockey
For the past two years, I’ve been playing hockey at Ice Oasis. It’s a nice enough rink, but their web site is terrible. While they’ve since ditched the neon colours, the schedule page is pretty awful: you have to see all of the teams at once white text on a red background is hard to …
the YASNS spammer unmasked
At danah’s suggestion, I took the bait and sent a reply to the YASNS spammers. I picked “Carrie,” and sent her a note full of spelling mistakes and a run-on sentence: i got your email on myspacester isn’t it nice you are in san jose too now. its pretty nice but no san frnsacisco. do …
ln-s.net
like TinyURL and MakeAShorterLink, but, well, even shorter: ln-s.net.
more MySpace and Friendster spam
Over at FastCupid, Brent notes some spam in his Friendster and MySpace inboxes. I’ve started getting the same thing. First, on July 5, I got this message from Friendster user Jen, whose account was deleted: Hi there, I’m Jen. I couldn’t sleep so I decided to do some browsing and happened on your ad and …
myspace == ghetto
Paul Scrivens (rightly) notes that MySpace sucks in terms of design: It’s also a designer’s and lover of design’s worst nightmare because the UI of the site is atrocious yet it boasts 17 million visitors a month (and rising) and was recently purchased for over $580 million by News Corp. … Trying to navigate the …
google maps pedometer
YA Google Maps hack: google maps pedometer.