Posts tagged: FUN

I wasn’t able to get to OSCON this year, but this photo is definitely a winner in the category of impromptu geek performance art:

Ruby on Rael

Somehow I don’t think this is worth making a filtering rule for, but it’s amusing. How many characters of this header to you need to scan before you know it’s forged?

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After the frameworks post I kept thinking about this. Of course any generalizations I make are heavily colored by my own direct experience, but the progression seems to go along these lines:

1. Make static web pages.

2. Make modular pages using simple includes (in SSI, PHP, ASP, or what have you).

3. Make pages with more involved functionality (form submissions to database, basic CRUD).

4. Get sick of re-building dynamic stuff for every project; write your own kinda portable library or framework.

‘Twas google/ig, and the odeos
Did skype and quimble in engrade:
All simpy were the buzzingos,
And the feedpaths carbonmade.

“Beware the Frapprflock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Yubnub bird, and shun
The del.icio.us Offertrax!”

He took his orkut sword in hand:
Long time the slawesome foe he sought –
So rested he by the Numsum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

I don’t remember when I bookmarked this URL, and I don’t know how long this has been a problem or how long it will last (presumably not very long if word gets around), but I hereby present for your amusement the Magical Endlessly Redirecting eBay URL:

http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MyEbayLogin

(You have to be signed in to see the MAGIC. Also, it’s only theoretically endless – your browser will eventually give up.)

When I’m using my PowerBook with an external screen in spanning mode, this sequence happens more often than I’d like:

1. Working on in Application A on the internal screen, I need to refer to something displayed in Application B on the external screen.
2. I look over at Application B and read. When I’m done reading I realize I don’t need that window anymore, so I press cmd-W.
3. Frontmost window of Application A closes – say, a browser window with unsaved content in a web form.
4. I make an “aaaargh” noise.

In the world of window management, there’s click-to-focus, and there’s focus-follows-mouse. What I really want is Focus Follows Eyeballs.

From dialog05.com, an exhibit of conceptual USB hardware. Imagine all the email. “WHERE CN I BUY 1 THANX!!!” I trust that the USB Implementers Forum Compliance Committee has been appropriately consulted.