On the BBC Annotatable Audio project… (plasticbag.org)
“an experimental internal-BBC-only project designed to allow users to collectively describe, segment and annotate audio in a Wikipedia-style fashion”.
Flash, ajax, html, the article hints.
Programming The Nintendo Game Boy Advance by Jonathan S. Harbour. “[This] was not released in book stores due to legal problems with Nintendo. As a result, the “e-book” edition is available here, exclusively, for free as a downloadable PDF e-book.”
IBM Redbooks | WebSphere MQ V6 Fundamentals.
“This Redbook describes the fundamental concepts and benefits of message queuing technology.”
List of neologisms on The Simpsons - Wikipedia, some of which are perfectly cromulent.
“In the episode “Homer vs. Dignity”, Chief Wiggum explains to a financial planner that retirony means he’ll get shot three days before retirement. Seemingly a portmanteau of ‘retire’ and ‘irony’.”
“Withstandinator“Ooooh, floor pie!”
A great, home-made AT-AT Halloween Costume - a flickr photoset (page 1, page 2).
Via longboard again, where it comments that “Chicks dig Imperial walkers”. Chicks dig baby-elephant Imperial walkers, perhaps, but probably not the smelly, sweaty dude inside. I’m just envious.
Emoticon Tutorial. via airbag industries’ longboard feed, as was the brilliant header image tutorial by Veerle.
I just started in relative earnest on another brilliant tutorial I blogged a while ago - urban giraffe’s wordpress theme dissection. Really applicable as a how-to for any web layout with a header a footer and various columns. CSS still yuckky.
About The Scout Report - weekly update on valuable resources on the internet.
“Published every Friday both on the web and by email, it provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet. Our team of professional librarians and subject matter experts select, research, and annotate each resource.” Via researchbuzz.org - 10 years of The Scout Report.
Initial alpha release of the Gruff Graphing Library for Ruby from topfunky.
Schneier on Security: Supermarket Loyalty Program used to pinpoint defendant’s location. good read.
actually points to this times article (six months old) but the comments on Schneier’s page may also be of interest.
Worth1000.com stamps contest, “Going Postal 5″. via boingboing.net
Kubrickr. Pick an image from flickr and this app will help you crop it and convert it into a kubrick-theme header.
Gamasutra - Feature - “Proof of Learning: Assessment in Serious Games”.
“Serious games, like every other tool of education, must be able to show that the necessary learning has occurred. Specifically, games that teach also need to be games that test. Fortunately, serious games can build on both the long history of traditional assessment methods and the interactive nature of video games to provide testing and proof of learning.”
Designing from anywhere: Best Practices. Some practices for remote working. Many applicable to open source project contributors as well as designers wanting to work from home some days. I’ve not seen this work well yet - nothing like having the architect in the same room. Depends on the project, I guess.
“Jeff Chapman has posted the third release candidate of BrowserLauncher2, a free-as-in-speech (LGPL) Java library that loads a URL into the user’s default browser on Mac, Windows, Unix, and Linux.” - Cafe au Lait Java News and Resources.