Archive for April, 2008

April 29 2008

links for 2008-04-29

CSS Dock Menu
(tags: javascript jquery dock menu via.jodyferry)

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
Big ups to J. Ferry in a zeldman post.
(tags: zeldman jody homies portal outsource web2.0)

Gnarls Barkley | ELPUOC DDO EHT
I like this background image
(tags: background image isniice design)

Beware the New New Thing - New York Times
(tags: toread internet neutrality)

April 28 2008

TripIt Invites are Misleading

Recently I created an account on Tripit.com. I usually don’t do this, but I decided to invite a few friends through the interface they provide. Why not get our social network on, web 2.0 style, I thought.
I found out today that that invites sent out contain a link that automatically creates an account when it’s […]

April 26 2008

King Corn

In “King Corn” two filmmakers grow an acre of corn in Iowa and follow where & how it gets used in our food chain. It turns out, our bodies are mainly corn because everything we eat is mainly corn. You likely know a little about corn in our diets, so expand your knowledge with the […]

April 26 2008

links for 2008-04-26

Google Video gets a facelift
There’s a pretty cool timeline view, where you can really find out what was popular at any given time.

April 25 2008

links for 2008-04-25

Golden Eagle Throws Goat off Cliff

PayPal to Block Users With Old Browsers - Yahoo! News
Having nothing to do w/ standards, and all to do with their lack of phishing filters, Paypal will block IE 3 and IE 4 after a period of time warning these users to upgrade.

Google Video Outdoor Campaign
Nifty ad campaigns are the […]

April 16 2008

links for 2008-04-16

GrabUp - Lightning Fast Screen Grab Sharing!
Remove the need to upload when you want to share a quick screenshot. This app automatically uploads your screenshot and puts the URL in your clipboard.

Jody’s Hypertext Font Picker
Stop pretending you remember what they look like. Have a look at your hypertext font in action.

GridFox - The Grid Layout […]

April 8 2008

links for 2008-04-08

The New York Times in Google Earth
The New York Times offers geo-coded news, and Google Earth offers the platform for reading that news in a 3D browser.

Tom Gleeson on James Blunt’s You’re Beautiful
Pretty humorous

NoSquint: Firefox Extension
NoSquint remembers the text zoom level per site. Now, if only the people for whom this is useful, knew what […]

April 6 2008

Kids Choice Awards

Susan & I weren’t able to attend, but my sister and her fiancee were able to catch Mark looking like Ryan Seacrest and behaving like Joan Rivers. There’s a couple more snapshots on Flickr.
I snagged the pics from my soon-to-be brother in law, Brian, who blogged all about it on: Live from Rodney Drive.

April 6 2008

links for 2008-04-06

Attempting to Rickroll the Mets
This might have a lot of Diggs, but I doubt Diggers will follw through and actually vote to have “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley be played in the 8th during the Mets last season at Shea. Even if it won, anything’s better than “Sweet Caroline”.

Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients […]

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