Inklings in December 2005
Happy Birthday Woody Allen
Holy crap! I share the same birthday as him!
Taking Firefox 1.5 for a ride with SVG and Canvas
I downloaded and installed Firefox 1.5 last night, and after seeing this, all I can say is holy crap!
Read the letter that won the internet governance battle
In which somebody reveals they have a clue about the Internet. Paragraph 3 reads not unlike some sections of the “Cluetrain Manifesto=”http://www.cluetrain.com/”.
Questionable Content No. 505: The Talk, part 6
Marten is the man!
Pinyin.info
Site on Mandarin romanisations.
Card Toss
Funky little Flash game.
Juggler (Flash Game)
Gaah! Damn you, Caoimhe! ;-)
Cute Overload
The name says it all, really. Move over, Kitten War!
The Wrathful Dispersion controversy: A Canadian perspective
Excellent (and funny) parody of Intelligent Design. Casts language change in the role of natural selection.
Aimsigh
A search engine exclusively for the Irish language. The results are good, even if the presentation could be better.
Which Action Hero Would You Be?
I got Neo?! WTF?!
Best blonde joke evah!
I think this ranks as about the best one I’ve ever heard or read.
Top 7 PHP Security Blunders
Regenerating the session id on login is one I hadn’t heard of before, but I’ll use it from now on. But turning magic quotes on? That’s just moronic. The only truly safe way of doing things right is to use prepared statements (or simulate them).
Silk Icon Set
Schweet and free!
Good and Bad Procrastination
Guilty as charged!
An Operational Foundation for Delimited Continuations in the CPS Hierarchy
Linked to for the rather good explaination of delimited/composable/partial continuations further down in the comments.
How anti-American are the French?
Not all that much, says The Economists, but the situation is more complex than anybody gives it credit for. Read the analysis on AFOE in the via link.
Bill Biggart's Final Exposures on 2001-9-11
These are incredible:
When Chip East was handed the bag containing Biggart’s gear by his widow, Wendy, he was convinced that no pictures had survived. The avalanche of falling debris had blown off the backs of the two film cameras. There were several rolls of film in Biggart’s bag; however, the lids of the film canisters had been peeled back, allowing light to fall into the cassettes. Finally, East turned his attention to the digital camera. It was covered by ash. The lens had been sheared off at the flange. But when he opened the chamber that held the compact flash card, it was pristine.
Canvas in IE
Well, VML had to be good for something, didn’t it?