Userscripts.org: IntelliTxt Disabler is a Greasemonkey script that gets rid of those insanely annoying advertising links that have polluted sites like rpg.net and devcenter (to mention just two of the less evil ones).
I don’t have to mention that it’s for Firefox, do I? If you’re not using Firefox, why, the terrorists have already won.
Grazr is a cute javascript widget that can view OPML files; OPML are these outline files used for storing blogrolls, or RSS reading lists in general. And I see there’s a list of Israel blogs posted byxslf, who also links to some others. I’ll mention David Abutbul‘s, because he commented here.
Anyway, behind the cut is xslf’s blogroll in the grazr widget, looking better in my blog then on their page because this page is UTF-8, so you can see the titles in Hebrew.
Unfortunately, once you expand the tree and get to the actual content of the feeds in the reading list, things get messed up.
Ran and Greif already linked to this, but I have to add my own recomendation: if you think computer games are cool (which I do, in the abstract, I don’t actually play them myself sort of way), you should watch Will Wright’s demo of Spore, a game in development that has been described as from bacteria to galactic god
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There are a lot of cool things to say about this, but I think the main thrust is the shift from player as consumer of canned media (the CD-ROM view of reality) to player as creator and storyteller. Also, and I think this is sort-of cool, the game uses networking in an interesting way: instead of players beating on each other’s characters, anything they design gets uploaded to a server and used by the game to generate challenges for other players (or offer them cool toys).
Long ago, when I was scriptwriting for Neora’s CD-ROM/Internet game, I thought of something vaguely like this: to design a game for a slow network, you should have something smart to send over it, like a corewar bot the player can design or something. But that idea is like a bacteria to this galactic god game.
Programming languages and their relationship styles:
Smalltalk won’t meet you outside Smalltalk’s apartment…. assembler just lies there… Telling people you’re happy with FORTRAN is like telling people you’ll be happy taking care of your cats for the rest of your life and don’t really need another person.
The comments have some more good ones, mostly by
C likes to give cops the finger and grin and speed away. Mention that you’d like something, and C will pretend to ignore you; the next day, C will bring you one, no questions asked, and toss it to you with a you-know-you-want-me smirk that makes your heart race. Where did C get it? “It fell off a truck,” C says, putting away the boltcutters. You start to feel like C doesn’t know the meaning of “private” or “protected”: what C wants, C takes.
And:
Perl6: Like Perl, but after major body-alteration surgery, just to make you happy. Perl6’s body certainly looks younger and firmer, if you can overlook the frankensteinian scar tissue. Moreover, there are certain… enhancements. All of perl6’s joints bend both ways; all of perl6’s body parts are fully reconfigurable any way you like them. If your friends could see what you do with Perl6, they’d learn more about your taste than you necessarily want to make public.
I spent some time last week making a “tabs” UI with javascript/CSS, what Yahoo’s developer site calls “Module Tabs“, because they don’t navigate to other pages but rather show/hide parts of the existing page. What I came up with is this (here’s the javascript file and here’s the CSS). Of course, I only did it because I didn’t find an existing hack I could easily adapt. Then, tonight I read a blog post that links to two different implementations. Bah.