Just for fun I plotted all the Freecycle groups in the US on a google map (as you do). An interesting side-effect is that the map shows population density, the darker the area the greater the population. It is easy to spot the cities:
The data is fairly old, there are almost certainly more groups than this now.
Have your IP address ‘moaned’ to you at moanmyip.com, a useful diagnostic tool. Possibly NSFW.
This is a photo of me taken at cameroid.com with my iMacs built in iSight camera.
Fun! And yes, Paul, it does look like me :)
And now Carl has done one too, an improvement over the original I feel:
From the office IRC channel:
[15:16] carl: http://www.cameroid.com/9OJ-A1, me > mona lisa.
[15:16] greg: lol
[15:16] greg: is that going up on your blog?
[15:16] carl: No!
Correct, it’s going up on my blog!
Greg has also been playing, though unlike Carl and I, Greg has decided to take a photo with no comedy overlay:
For all you people in London, the London Tube journey planner. I really wish this had existed when I lived there, and it brings back many good memories scrolling around the different stations.
Site administrators use CAPTCHAs to prevent automated scripts from performing certain functions, such as creating an account, sending email to a distribution list, or participating in a discussion thread.
That’s fine, as far as it goes. But, frankly, I’d also like to see certain people on the Internet prevented from doing certain things. You know, like: logging onto the Internet.
And so, a modest proposal: Internet Access Captchas, built right into browsers, designed to greatly reduce the overabundance of youtube commenters, MySpacers, and bloggers.
Prove your eligibility to use the internet here. Great idea!
As some of you saw last week at WWDC, we have a brand new version of the Web Inspector. We know that a lot people have found the current Web Inspector useful, and we have gotten a lot of feedback and sugestions about how to make it even better. And boy have we been listening! We have taken the current Web Inspector and have added a bunch of new features that you will find invaluable for web development:
- Completely redesigned interface, no longer a transparent panel
- Works with any WebView inside third-party applications, not just Safari
- Supports docking to the inspected page
- Shows all resources included by the page, sorted into categories
- Global search through all text-based resources
- Console to show errors and warnings with live JavaScript evaluation
- Network panel showing resource load timeline along with HTTP request and response headers
- Resource size and load time summary graph in the Network panel
- Syntax highlighted HTML source
- Inline JavaScript and HTML error reporting
Leftlogic has released a HTML entity search based on how the entity looks:
The lookup searches the html entities for matches to the searched character based on how your character looks. For instance, the letter c would match © and ¢ entity, because of the way they look.
Excellent, but it is even better because there is a Mac OSX Dashboard widget available too!
I was most envious of the resizable text areas new to Safari 3. so I went in search of a plugin for Firefox to do the same and I found one!
So far it has worked really well. I’m surprised this isn’t a bundled feature of most web-browsers, the number of times I have cursed a tiny text field is huge.
Lee Byron has come up with a really cool way of visualising last.fm data. Here is the graph for the 29degrees office since we set the jukebox up in mid-April:
If you have your own last.fm account you can generate your own graphs here.
