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Great - Java Idioms at the Portland Pattern Repository. (for the navigation of this site, there exist a set of road maps)

Ideas are useless, collects a high “obvious, but well-reminded” score for Torrez. Via decafbad.com, some months ago.

Golan Levin and Adrian Ward (auto-illustrator) amongst the performers (and hopefully discussion participants) at ultrasound. Audio and visual play. Weekend starting Thurs 28th nov, 2002. In Huddersfield, which is near Manchester.

Sam found this site off it, not experimental, just someone’s playlist, with live links. which i am enjoying.

Capturing Engine Sounds for Games, from Gamasutra. Also from there, but I haven’t read it yet: Distributing Object State for Networked Games Using Object Views.

ooh, eclipse maven plug-in, too!

101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot.. No categorisation, so it’s a long list.
I still use IE, and have Opera kicking around on most machines. My biggest previous IE gripes regarded bookmarks, but Google has largely replaced the need for most of them. Now the first thing I can think of that I want is the ability to script on top of the browser. I guess many of the following can be done with javascript bookmarklets: collect all links from this and linked pages, append this page to that page, extract plain text, collapse tables, lose margin on the left so that this doc will print, extract all nodes of type T, apply XSL sheet to the current document, Collapse all paragraphs that don’t have the sought text in them (and maintain this view while printing). Bookmark to THIS point in the document (regardless of whether there are anchors present). That and a thread-conscious browse history, rather than the simple chronological one. And in-browser page rankings, and categorisation (i guess I just want a personal account with Google - surely coming soon, if I haven’t already missed it).

A Learning Guide To Design Patterns is a nice paper which suggests a navigation through the patterns, and has advice on how a study group can be used to really think about and learn from the material. (via Doug Lea’s bookmarks).

gfx toys: very nice sluglets demo (inc source (director)) and explanation, at setpixel. Doing the same thing as Golan Levin’s yellowtail.

Amazon developer competition is a bit cheap. Win a $5000 Amazon voucher for designing a store-builder. Only 5k! Amazon are getting this development work cheap, if anyone participates. Could get some innovations through into usage, though. Follows Amazon’s upgrade to their web services (follow competition link for docs). I think the Google programming contest was a lot more interesting. (admittedly nothing to do with web services).

Oh that’s Ramadan started. Have got to stop offering my observing flatmate sweets and such during the day. Sunset at 4.30pm here, though. And it ought to count you can eat on rainy days - when it rains it is dark throughout. I shall make him a Yoshimi Battles CD instead of things to eat. (Crunch, splinter). The stuff we can get from work’s vending machines I bet doesn’t count as food, anyway.

Great album: ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots’, by The Flaming Lips.
Favourite tracks so far: Fight Test (despite being a near-total lift of Cat Steven’s ‘Father to Son’) Do You Realize?? In the morning of the magicians Yoshimi Battle the Pink Robots, Pt. 1 Yoshimi Battle the Pink Robots, Pt. 2 And for those who know the album, here are some notes on the songs - “To derive one’s happiness from only specific moments in time is to miss out on the cosmic accident that is all of life’s moments…”

carrera: quite gorge fun car physics, made, i think, with shockwave 3d with physics by havok. Requires hware openGL support (or a bit of imagination). Here’s interstate demo - another, with same tech.

e-toys: Golan Levin’s Floccus, and many other nice toys at yugop.com. I am back.