September 2003
Got a product promo for LIFT Text Transcoder, which auto-generates a text version of HTML pages. I have no idea how well it works, but I could see it being useful.
“Opsound is a record label using an open source, copyleft model, an experiment in practical gift economics, a laboratory for new ways of releasing music.” (thanks kcole)
I got all excited that there really was such a thing as visual diff, but then I realized it doesn’t actually compare 2 images and tell you the differences like I wanted. It’s just color-coded regular plain-ol’ diff. And, yes, I know that what I want would probably be kinda hard.
Update: James pointed out that Photoshop’s Difference blending mode does exactly what I was talking about. Thanks!
Jeff has a nice forward-it-to-the-VP writeup of the business value of web standards.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Fcuknig amzanig huh? (via taylor)
Update: Here’s an explanation of how this works as well as a debunking of some of the inaccuracies:
I’ve written this page, to try to explain the science behind this meme. There are elements of truth in this, but also some things which scientists studying the psychology of language (psycholinguists) know to be incorrect. I’m going to break down the meme, one line at a time to illustrate these points, pointing out what I think is the relevant research on the role of letter order on reading.
designboom is an industrial design ezine with some actual honest-to-Clyde content, from recycling water bottles to profiles of some of my favorite designers. (thanks to andrew for the link)
Cross domain policy files: “The purpose of this technote is to highlight new security restrictions in Flash Player 7 that can: cause a warning dialog to appear when playing Flash Player 6 and older format .swf files; cause data loading to fail in Flash Player 7 format .swf files.” There’s a bit more on Flash 7 security on MM DevNet.
And this seems to be causing some trouble with web-services. Oops!
Oh, another new feature in the next version of Flash: CSS support.
Pie Menu Central is just that. (via christina via email)
“Bad Toon Rising is a collection of drawings of well-known cartoon characters produced by amateur artists entirely from memory and without any reference materials whatsoever.” (via boing boing)
Stereo Images - Time for Space uses animated gifs to present the left and right views in time rather than space. (via 990000)