Planetocopia, the World dream bank:
Planetocopia is a group of model worlds supporting intelligent life. Some of these worlds are set in our future, some are alternate Earths, some are purely imaginary experiments in planetology, biology, sociology. They fall into four series: Tilt!, Futures, the Biosphere Variations, and Caprices.
[via Kenneth Hite]
The geology and the maps are lovely; the biology not as much.
What’s sillier then a Dalek? A Dalek with an outrageous accent.
Found on the JQuery mailing list, here’s a javascript hack to preload hidden images to a webpage, by Luke Lutman – (this is just a quick note for myself)
$(window).bind('load', function(){
var preload = [
'/images/assets/file/1.gif',
'/images/assets/file/2.gif',
'/images/assets/file/3.gif'
];
$(document.createElement('img')).bind('load', function(){
if(preload[0]) this.src = preload.shift();
}).trigger('load');
});
Every day, I do my bit to help keep the Internet read. And in my feed aggregator (Google Reader), I’ve got “Starred” items and “Shared” items. The “Shared” list looks kind of lean, perhaps because I felt a subtle pressure to tag only carefully read and reviewed, “curated” links there. The “Starred” stuff, though, is a steadily growing collection of things that “look interesting but that I don’t have the time, or the speakers, or the privacy to get to right now”. Presumably one day I’ll go through them, or not.
I should just call those “Electric Monk” items – bookmarked so that I can avoid actually reading/viewing them.
Speaking of reading feeds, a technique that’s working quite well for me and which I haven’t seen described elsewhere is to split feeds between Firefox’s Live Bookmarks and a proper feed aggregator.
I use the aggregator for feeds where I want to read (or at least skim) each entry – blogs and the like. I use Live bookmarks (which just gives you a regularly-updating menu of about 20 titles with links for each feed) for feeds belonging to one of two categories:
Hummph. I didn’t plan to get all technical, starting this post.
Anyway, going over the stuff stashed in my “to look at later” items, I found a link to a Hebrew MP3 blog, which I think I bookmarked because it had a picture of a naked chick. And then I looked at the photos and realised I know that person (well, vaguely). Oddly, this isn’t the most dramatic example I’ve seen tonight of someone I know exposing themselves online: Here’s an amazing look at the inside of Folger’s brain.
Finally, it seems that the inline frames introduced in HTML 4.0 will be mostly harmless.
Having stumbled across that text less then 24 hours after dealing with a hacked site that had it’s pages modified with an invisible iframe that attempts to load a malicious site, I couldn’t help thinking idiot! as I read that.