XyzzyB - quicklinks

See ya Wikipedia

2008-07-24T11:24:00Z

Knol, Google’s online encyclopedia with articles written by verified users, is now publicly accessible. It looks great and already has lots of good content. Hopefully it won’t devolve into the deletion bickering of Wikipedia.

Edit the text of any website

2008-07-08T14:47:00Z

From Cut and paste one line of code to make any website editable:

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true';
document.designMode='on'; void 0

What’s that you ask? That is an awesome small chunk of JavaScript that allows you to make the text of any website editable within the browser window. Just:

Copy the code to the clipboard
Browse to the site you want to edit
Paste the code into the address bar and press return
Edit the site’s text however you like

Let the pranking begin.

Like Twitter, but fast and open

2008-07-07T15:55:00Z

Dave’s article How to think about identi.ca on his excellent blog Scripting News pointed me to the nice new twitter replacement, identi.ca. I’m now on it as xyzzyb. Currently the service is really snappy, we’ll just have to see how it scales as more users load it up. One nifty feature (although I probably won’t use it) is that it can slurp your IM away messages as status updates. Now I just need an iPhone/iPod touch API.

Internet traffic shaping howto

2008-06-27T12:41:00Z

Internet traffic shaping howto

TCP Shaper Script

Mars has water ice!

2008-06-20T13:47:00Z

Either Mars has water ice or Doctor Manhattan is messing with our heads.

BMW Gina

2008-06-11T15:59:00Z

The BMW Gina concept car with a fabric, instead of metal, skin looks amazing.

"AJAX Head" Design Pattern

2008-05-29T00:28:00Z

AJAX Head design pattern

Connect ssh sessions as local folders

2008-05-19T20:35:00Z

connect ssh directories as local folders

Javascript Video Lectures

2008-05-15T19:32:00Z

Javascript Video Lectures

The videos are extremely well done. I rank them right up there with the videos of Knuth lecturing about TeX for clarity and flow.

Make Your Own Techno

2008-04-16T12:57:00Z

make your own techno

Teaching Computer Science without a Computer

2008-04-09T20:08:00Z

I am so going to be all over this in a few years: teach children Computer Science without a computer

Caffeine protects brain

2008-04-03T13:30:00Z

Woo! Daily caffeine may protect the brain from the damaging effects of cholesterol They say that this may explain why caffeine drinkers have a lower risk of alzheimer’s. Bacon, eggs, coffee. Eat it up.

PHP Logging Class

2008-04-02T16:48:00Z

PHP logging class

Groundhog Day and Nietzsche

2008-03-31T23:28:00Z

Groundhog Day and Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence

Science

2008-03-30T05:21:00Z