Prizewinning pot videos
NORML has announced the winners of its “Ron Mann’s Cannabis Clip” video contest. There’re some damned funny pot videos here.
[Via Boing Boing]
Archive for February, 2007
Novo formato de catavento poderá impulsionar geração de energia eólica
A energia eólica é uma das grandes promessas em termos de fontes alternativas de energia. Gerar eletricidade a partir do vento não polui, não depende da extração de petróleo e não inunda grandes extensões de terra. Mas o elevado custo da geração de energia elétrica a partir do vento ainda continua a ser um desafio a ser vencido.
[Via Inovação Tecnológica]
Art Threat
For those of you who like your art to bite back, Art Threat is a new political art blog. So far, it’s packed with interesting content – delving into the issues behind the images.
[Via Drawn]
Browser testing CSS and JavaScript
After reading Andy Clarke’s article CSS: Browser testing order I’ve been thinking a bit about my own approach to testing CSS and JavaScript during development. My testing order, why I test in the browsers I do, and why I do it in that particular order. I’ve never taken the time to document my testing process, so this was a good opportunity to get it done.
[Via 456 BereaST]
Gawker Video Prank, Plus Challenge
Most of you have heard of the Mosquito Ringtone, or Teen Buzz, by now. Originally developed as a security device to keep those pesky kids away from your shops, this high frequency pitch was quickly hijacked by terrorist youth who used the weapon for their own text-messaging-during-class gain.
[Via Gizmodo]
Airline loses “armless” dog that walks on two legs
Faith, the world’s second most famous bipedal dog (behind Snoopy), was temporarily lost at Orlando Airport last Wednesday. American Airlines accidentally put Faith (who was born without front legs) on the wrong flight, but she was later reunited with her grateful owner.
[Via Boing Boing]
The Charlie Rose Cartier-Bresson Interview
The Charlie Rose interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson has made its way online.
[Via The Online Photographer]
JavaScript currying
Currying in JavaScript, in my own opinion, leads to clever programming. It is also one of the places in JavaScript where functional programming wins over object oriented practices. Sometime last year Dan Webb wrote a post on callbacks and partial application which essentially uses a pattern technique called currying. In his article, he gives a few examples which essentially prove the usefulness of currifed JavaScript.
[Via Justin Diaz]
Free Hosting of YUI Files from Yahoo!
Coinciding with this week’s release of YUI version 2.2.0, the one year anniversary of the YUI open-source release, and as announced at the YUI Party just moments ago, we’re opening up free YUI hosting from the Yahoo! network to all YUI implementers. If you’re using YUI for your own project, we’ll serve the files for you — gzipped, with good cache-control, using our state-of-the-art network, for free. You can count on these files being continuously available because they’re the same files, served by the same source, that we use for most YUI implementations at Yahoo!.
[Via YUI Blog]