browsers – Alasdair Watson

Bookmarks for September 8, 2011

WebGL "Ginger" manipulation demo: Blend shapes, morph targets with Three.js / Stickman Ventures
This is all happening in real time in your browser. Remember when Toy Story took entire buildings full of servers and custom software and specially trained technical staff years to make?

Tags: javascript, art, graphics, browsers

Creepy Girl In Hotel Hallway Gag
This is superb. And I'm pretty certain that if I turned a corner in a badly-lit hotel corridor, and saw a creepy small child standing there, I'd find another way to get where I was going as well. Start watching from about 45 seconds in.

Tags: funny, horror
Terminally Geeky: use automatic login more securely
Need to set this up on my machines. It's a trivial enough thing, but the articles exactly right about why it's good – if I'm rebooting my machine for some reason, I can disenage from it until I'm 100% ready to come back, instead of having to reboot, wait, relogin and wait again.

Tags: osx, hack
Skulls Direct – Skull Film Props, Human Skull Models, Gothic and Vampire Skulls and Bespoke Horror Film Props
Very specific prop shop. But funny.

Tags: skulls
IE6 Countdown
Even Microsoft want people to stop using IE 6. I'm just saying…

Tags: browsers, ie

Not My Gorilla
This is an excellent argument for developing in the manner one wishes to. I don't need to support IE on my personal sites, and while I'm good enough at what I do that they're going to remain legible, the fact is that I am not going to waste hours of my life on support a product I heartily wish people would stop using.

Tags: web, browsers