“Passclicks is a new way to login to websites without users having to remember thir old style textual password. Studies have revealed that humans are way better in remembering visual things than textual things. With passclicks your normal textual passwords are replaced with a sequence of clicks on an image.”
Channel4.com - IT Crowd. (UK-only) downloads from channel 4. boingboing suggests bit torrent.
Ah, Father Ted, funny…
Father Ted: Now concentrate this time, Dougal. These [he points to some plastic cows on the table] Father Ted: are very small; those [pointing at some cows out of the window] Father Ted: are far away…
Well, that’s horrible… Police station intimidation via BoingBoing.
Free Learning | MetaFilter. A list of free learning resources, like MIT’s OpenCourseWare
Live Thumbnails tutorial at WebMonkey. You probably want to start by skipping straight to the demo page and click around.
Electroplankton — Nintendo’s hot new DS title — is not really a game. It doesn’t have any goals; all you do is nudge virtual plankton around onscreen until they produce pleasing tunes. Technically, Electroplankton is a toy — yet it’s modeled after the music-editing software professional sound engineers use to produce songs. And the results, in the right hands, can be remarkably similar. - Clive Thomson, “DIY Tunes Turn It Up”, Wired.
Yahoo! Mindset That slider need only be a checkbox, an opt-in for crazy people to say “actually, i’d like to shop, please”. The default being “i’m doing research, only”.
java.net: Smooth Moves - smooth animation in java. Via erik’s linkblog
Kill Harry @ Crazykimchi.com. Yes, that Kill and that Harry.
Terrain, Part 1, through Part 10 from “Twenty-Sided ?”
Ten posts on a month-long development of a terrain engine (for fun, learning) from the ground up, using new code.
“Strong” quake last night here in Mozambique (GMT: 22nd Feb 2006, 22:20, but 23rd Feb, 00:20 local time).
(em português - yahoo, noticias (maputo)).
In Maputo we’re fine. The epicentre was 330 miles north east. The only injuries here in the capital were caused by people panicking while leaving their buildings in a rush. Can’t blame them - earthquakes are rare here. Last night’s 7.5 was the strongest quake in Africa in 100 years, according to the BBC article. Historical seismicity charts for Mozambique (USGS).
This “did you feel it?” map shows very few reports anywhere near the epicentre in part because there’s no one with internet there. Manica province only has around 18 people per square km (source).
I thought it was re-ocurrence of a balance problem I’ve been having, and was relieved when I realised it was just a quake.
Haven’t had time to try this out yet. Clay - Database Modeling in Eclipse from Azzurri.
Supports DDL generation and reverse engineering.
update: Hmm, it’s throwing NPEs here and there, but struggling on. I couldn’t add a foreign key either.
Twelve Best Practices For Spring XML Configurations by Jason Zhicheng Li. Be sure to check out the comments under the original blog post.
“Eclipse: Managing Multiple Eclipse Installations” and “Setting up eclipse for painless upgrades”. “This method is suitable for installing any plugins - for example, I install the WTP plugins and all its prerequisites (emf, gef, gem) in a separate extension location so that I can install/uninstall/reinstall WTP as a whole”.
Screencast: Selenium with Rails, at andthennothing.net.
“In the demo I create a new Rails project, install Selenium on Rails, create a test case using Selenium IDE, create another in RSelenese, and run all the test as a Rake task.”
(in firefox, and in IE)
via Rick Bradley.
Slashdot | How Do You Store Your Previously-Written Code?.
This writeup on the Rails wiki is useful on some of the same issues. The Big Picture.
“The new computerised MOT test means you can now search a car’s MOT history online with the number plate and the reference number from the V5C document.”
Useful if, as in Dan’s case, the person trying to sell you a car is pretending the car hasn’t been MOT’d in a while.
Rails Application Visualizer + Graphviz. Makes simple diagrams of models and controllers. The source should be a good example to learn from.