Designers vs. The Real World: Favourite colour results – “The objective? To see whether designers are really any different from man walking down a street. The prize? Indisputable bragging rights over whose eye really beholds the beauty.”
Archives for September 2004
Flash Time line of Big Bang
Flash time line of Big Bang – A great use of the Web, and Flash in particular, to teach about the Big Bang. Hat tip to Leesa for the link.
Threaded Comments
Threaded Comments – For WordPress
IE Users: Beware of JPEGs
Yet another reason to drop Internet Explorer and Outlook as your browser and e-mail clients: Microsoft has announced a serious vulnerability in the way it handles the most popular digital picture format. As stated in the previously linked, story from The Register, the hole “potentially allows an attacker to craft a special JPEG file that would take control of a victim’s machine when the user views it through Internet Explorer, Outlook, Word, and other programs. The poisoned picture could be displayed on a website, sent in email, or circulated on a P2P network.”
ListZilla
As a follow up to the preview release of Firefox, and my recommendation that you keep track of every installed extension in case the install goes awry (as it did for Pamela), I am posting a link to a new extension: ListZilla
which “Outputs either a plain text, vB code, or HTML file that lists all installed themes or extensions.” That sounds much easier than doing it by hand!
One note, the description says that it is only for current releases of Firefox, so I am not sure if it will work 0.8/0.9, or just the preview release.
Radio Paradise
I have been listening to online radio stations for the last few days, as I had to wipe all of my MP3s as part of the move from the Linux file server to the Mac file server. The great thing about Internet radio is the wide array of stations and formats available. I have been working to the tunes of Radio Paradise this morning, and am in a great mood because of it. Of course, there is always SomaFM as a backup, should I be in the mood for a change of soundtracks.