 |
Thursday, March 11, 2004 |
More Firefox search plugins.
I've added a few more search engines to Firefox, and I'm parking them here so I can easily transfer them to my other machines.
|
|
The Building-Block PC. Opinion:
We think our PCs are upgradeable, but they're really not. They're a
collection of parts, only some of which can be replaced. What about a
truly upgradeable PC -- one that fits together like builing blocks? [Extremetech]
|
|
Automated font-identification.
Nishad sez, "Ever wanted to have a font just like the one used by
certain publications, corporations, or ad campaigns? Well now you can,
using the WhatTheFont font recognition system. Upload a scanned image
of the font and we'll show you the closest matches in our database!"
Link
(Thanks, Nishad!) [Boing Boing Blog]
|
|
Random synonyms for masturbation. Funny Javascript mad-libs toy generates random synonyms for masturbation:
Charming the mink
Violating your goalie
Using the Force on the witness
Punishing the gator
Tenderizing the unicorn's horn
Loving Isaiah
Assaulting the possum
Twanging the antenna
Link
(via Fleshbot) [Boing Boing Blog]
|
|
Tucows registers 4M domain names. Tucows Milestone: 4mm names in the bag.
Sometimes good ideas do translate into good businesses. This is a
huge milestone for Tucows. We got into the competitive registration
business officially in 1999 when we were accredited as a fully-fledged
registrar by ICANN. Prior to that we were simply a reseller for Network
Solutions who had a monopoly on all sales of .com, .net and .org.
We did our first competitive registration on January 12, 2000. We were 85th in the market according to DomainWatch. Last night, we registered our 4,000,000th domain name - one in ten gTLD registrations is managed through Tucows.
Thanks to the entire team, the last four years has been a blast and
achieving little milestones like this here and there seems to indicate
that the best is yet to come.
[Random Bytes]
Congrats to Elliot and Ross and everyone at Tucows! 10% of that
market ain't bad! I wonder who the 4Mth name was? Did they get a prize? [Marc's Voice]
|
|
Disney builds a Green Line at Disneyland. Disneyland is adding a Green Line -- a security gate to "stop terrorists."
Reality is coming to Disneyland's fantasy world, in the form of
permanent security gates. Bowing to terrorism fears, the Walt Disney
Co. plans to build the gates at the Disneyland Resort next fall. The
company had resisted security gates around Disneyland and the
California Adventure theme park next door, believing the sense of
fantasy would be spoiled.
Link
(Thanks, Ian!) [Boing Boing Blog]
|
|
Iran threatened to withdraw from IAEA. It wants entry into the nuclear club. This has been building since Sunday.
Iran sought to raise the stakes in its dealings with the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Wednesday, threatening to
stop cooperating with the UN's nuclear watchdog unless it stopped being
"influenced by the Americans". [John Robb's Weblog]
|
|
Imagine a facewall like
this as active wallpaper on your PC desktop. Each picturre would
contain one click contact info (VoIP phone, IM, e-mail threads, and
fax), presence (IM "I'm online"), GPS data (for your family), etc. New
messages would be highlighted on the picture. Contacts can be
grouped/outlined by high level pictures (family, company, etc.), just
click to drill down. [John Robb's Weblog]
|
|
Three hilarious remixes of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Yoz Grahame has remixed my novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom with a bunch of really whacky and wildly imaginative perl scripts:
* Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom (CAPIPA Remix) - in which the
original has its words reordered alphabetically, using PIPA's new
cousin, CAPIPA, which retains capitalisation.
"Beautiful,"
BEAUTY beauty, became. BECAME because because because because because
because -- because because because because because because because
because because because because because because because become become
become become become become become bed bed bed. bed bed bed bed bed bed
bed bed bed bed bed, bed bed bedroom bedroom bedroom-bedroom beds
bedside bedside bedside.
* Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom (Sausages & Mash Remix) -
in which the original has all words beginning with the letters S and M
replaced with "Sausage" and "Mash" respectively, in accordance with the
classic children's game.
He chuckled. "No sausage, not mash. I'm into the kind of mash sausage that you only come across on-world."
* Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom (More And Bloodier Wars
Remix) - in which the original is run through Babelfish several times,
from English to French to German and back to English again.
I
never thought that I would live, in order to arise, where the
maintenance would decide A-Movin ' Dan at the person in possession of a
favour light up to the death of the heat of the universe.
Link [Boing Boing Blog]
|
|
New DARPA Grand Challenge live action website. Just launched: a website promising live virtual coverage of this weekend's Grand Challenge race, in which robotic vehicles will race accross the California desert.
Live
Tracking will show relative positions of the Challenge entrants, and
requires a 7 MB download each time you use your browser to view the
tracking. The Status Board provides a 30 second update of the status of each Challenge team. The Image Gallery will contain the most recent images from the Challenge, updated nightly through March 14.
Link [Boing Boing Blog]
|
|
Black, magnetic silly putty. Puttyworld sells a $9 magnetic silly putty substance -- and it's goth black to boot.
Black Thinking Putty noticably responds to a magnet. Try pulling out a
thin strand with your fingers and holding the magnet nearby. Or roll it
into a ball and watch it roll right to the magnet, even uphill. The
stronger the magnet the better the result, Neodymium Iron Boron works
best. You can purchase some from our accessories category.
Link
(via FARK) [Boing Boing Blog]
|
|
Remixing "Construction Kits" are the future of the music industry?.
Inspired by the Jay-Z Construction Set (a CDROM and .torrent full of
Jay-Z vocal tracks, samples and art, intended for remixture), Ernest
Miller has written a shrewd editorial about a potential path for
musicians to engage their fans with their work through the release of
similar kits -- he likens this to videogames that encourage players to
invest in making or seeking out custom mods.
Many videogames permit players to create new content for the game
engine, such as levels, maps and mods. This new content is freely
distributable (at least for noncommercial purposes) and frequently
incorporates content created by the original game designer along with
new user-created content. This has been incredibly successful for
videogame companies. The more content there is, the more popular the
game becomes. The ability to create and add content creates feverish
and committed communities of fans for a game. Imagine if musicians had
such communities working for them.
Link
(via A Copyfighter's Musings) [Boing Boing Blog]
|
|
On Feb 24 I asked for visions of the future of weblog software from Scripting News readers, and got a huge response. At last Thursday's meeting at Berkman, I asked three people, Lisa Williams, Shimon Rura and Jay McCarthy to read each of the posts, collate them, group and summarize so we could make sense of what people were asking for. Lisa's summary is available for review now. [Scripting News]
|
|
© Copyright 2004 William J. Maya.
|
|
|
