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Bookmarks for April 10, 2009

3-D Printing Hits Rock-bottom Prices With Homemade Ceramics Mix
I have no personal use at the moment for a 3d printer, but I'm sure the day will come when I will, and I'd really rather not have to pay through the nose for raw materials.

Tags: technology, diy, 3dprinter, reprap
Cover versions – a set on Flickr
Someone has taken classic record covers, and re-imagined them as Pelican book covers. This is absolutely beautiful stuff.

Tags: design, music, books, retro
Daring Fireball: How to Block the DiggBar
Jon Gruber has implemented an anti-DiggBar tool for his pages. I will probably do the same for mine. Read about why and how he's done it, because while this may sound a bit like a crank thing to do, rejecting potential traffic from a popular source like Digg, the important principle here is that what Digg is doing is subverting on of the basic premises of how the web works, and it should be discouraged.

Tags: php, internet, howto, block
Behold the GIGAFLAKE!
Truly, the confectionery of gods and titans.

Tags: funny, chocolate

Bookmarks for March 18, 2009

Kingsnorth report reveals shocking police campaign of intimidation against protesters – Britcit
This one's worth circulating far and wide – police using the various powers they've been given over the last while to suppress a peaceful protest.

Tags: police, uk, power
20 Great PHP Libraries You Need to Know | KomunitasWeb
There's plenty of non-geek stuff in today's pile of links. Just skip past this one.

Tags: php, tools, webdev, library
Undesigning the Emergency @Etech Benjamin H. Bratton
Highlight " Because as software becomes a medium through which the city is accessed and made social, the paired need for both open software and hardware is clear. The design of the open public space is dependent on the design of the open software which is, increasingly, dependent on the design of open cities."

Tags: design, politics, security, architecture
Søren Vind >> pc_user
Might be handy in future projects – one of the first things I almost invariable do it set up a user class to handle logins and similar rubbish, and it'd be nice to have a handy boxed-up model to do all that with.

Tags: php, library, user
iPhone 3.0: everyware-ready? « Magical Nihilism
Matt Jones identifies the really interesting thing about yesterday's Iphone 3.0 announcement, and it's not copy-and-paste.

Tags: iphone, ubicomp
Espionage – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This looks like a fairly decent starting point, anyway. Of course, that's probably just what the government wants me to think.

Tags: research, intelligence
Intelligence cycle management – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Today is "everything you didn't need to know about intelligence, and weren't afraid to ask" day.

Tags: research, intelligence
Category:Secret broadcasting – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fascinating espionage-related stuff I had never heard of before now.

Tags: radio, spies
Computer programmer from Finland has lost finger replaced with USB drive – Telegraph
I probably don't need the little finger on my left hand, you know…

Tags: technology, usb, cyborgs

Bookmarks for March 11, 2009

The Guardian Open Platform | guardian.co.uk
Everyone and their dog is linking to this today. And do you know why? Because it's *fucking awesome*.

Tags: api, news, media, Guardian
/trunk/system/libraries/drivers/Image/GraphicsMagick.php – Kohana PHP Framework – Trac
PHP code of no interest to anyone but me. Move along. This is just so I can find it another time

Tags: php, graphics

Bookmarks for December 15, 2008

Mir:ror – Give Powers to your Objects – Violet •• Let All Things Be Connected
I think I want one of these, provided I can hack it not to transmit to a third party for it's scripted rubbish, because I can do without my private life being profiled…

Tags: gadgets, rfid
DreamHost Status » Blog Archive » debian upgrades and custom php
I suspect I might need this in the next few days.

Tags: php, maintenence

Bookmarks for April 8, 2008

1.3 Megapixel Camera Sunglasses
Sad, I know, but I’m almost tempted. Dealbreakers: crappy resolution, no wireless connectivity. When the resolution improves, and I can auto-email the pics, I’ll get a pair. When they do that, they’ll be perfect for a project I’ve been developing.

Tags: technology, electronics, photo
Timer: Work in 48 minute increments
I’m on a productivity upswing (I have made my peace with the fact that I have periods where I juggle about 47 projects at once, vs periods where all I do is watch the telly) at the moment, and this might help ensure it’s actaully sustainable.

Tags: productivity, lifehacks
PHP Snippets – image_contrast
Increase the contrast in an image with PHP.

Tags: php, photography, image

Bookmarks for February 29, 2008

A Guide to Web Typography | i love typography, the typography blog
Out to be require reading for anyone who is designing a website, be they professional or amateur. The same rules apply to corporate sites as they do to your custom blog layout, you know…

Tags: design, web, typography
Danah Boyd (and Lawrence Lessig and Esther Dyson) join Livejournal Advisory Board
Well, this is sounds like it can only be a good thing. LJ’s new owners will be getting input from some very very smart people to help them balance the needs of the business and the needs of users.

Tags: livejournal, socialnetworking
Preorder Tree Traversal
A technique for structuring parent-child data in a database that I hadn’t run across before and is much more elegant that the methods I’ve used in the past. This will change my approach to certain kinds of data. (The rest of you can wake up now.)

Tags: php, database, development, mysql, hierarchical
MySQL :: Managing Hierarchical Data in MySQL
More stuff about managing hierachical data as infinitely nestable sets. Look, I make an effort to keep too much of this stuff out of this linkblog, but you’re going to have to live with it once in a while, ok?

Tags: database, howto, mysql, hierarchical, tree

A different sort of injection attack, but one I’m noting here mostly as a reminder to myself that just because something’s not going into a database, doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be careful. Email Injection Attacks.

This entry was originally published at my workblog.

Web stats package

Mint. Not currently able to deal with Windows/IIS based stuff, but if it’s any cop with Apache, it might be quite handy…

This entry was originally published at my workblog.

Taking The…

PHP Biscuit – a MVC framework for PHP based on Rails. Definitely worth a look – might speed Londonlist up a bit?

Alternatively, there’s Cake, which seems to be along the same lines…

This entry was originally published at my workblog.

Re-arrange list data easily…

Dynamically sortable lists with Javascript and CSS. Tie that all up with a little AJAX goodness, and suddenly ordering items is much much easier….

This entry was originally published at my workblog.

Tag: php

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Email security things…

Web stats package

Taking The…

Re-arrange list data easily…