Wallpapers,fonts and icons
On Lifehacker:
posted on: 29 July 2008
posted on: 23 July 2008
PNG fix
A PNG transparency fix for IE6:
posted on: 21 July 2008
Beautiful fonts
Via noupe.com:
posted on: 21 July 2008
posted on: 21 July 2008
IP to Country
Creating a database to map an IP address to a country:
posted on: 18 July 2008
The birthday of Mandela
“ Nelson Mandela, the man credited with ending apartheid in South Africa, has marked his 90th birthday by calling for the rich to do more for the poor.
“If you are poor, you are not likely to live long”, he said at his village house in Eastern Cape province for a birthday interview. ”
posted on: 15 July 2008
Abstract satellite images
“ The images ... were taken at the turn of the Millennium, when NASA's scientists had a brilliant idea: to scan through 400,000 images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite and display only the most the most beautiful. A handful of the best were painstakingly chosen and then displayed at the Library of Congress in 2000.”
posted on: 10 July 2008
Democracy
“ Democracy (“rule by the people” when translated from its Greek meaning) is seen as one of the ultimate ideals that modern civilizations strive to create, or preserve. Democracy as a system of governance is supposed to allow extensive representation and inclusiveness of as many people and views as possible to feed into the functioning of a fair and just society. Democratic principles run in line with the ideals of universal freedoms such as the right to free speech. Importantly, democracy supposedly serves to check unaccountable power and manipulation by the few at the expense of the many, because fundamentally democracy is seen as a form of governance by the people, for the people.”
An extensive analysis by Anup Shah. What I think is that too often manipulation takes over and the basic idea of democracy gets altered by the politicians in power at that moment to ensure specific economic gains. The problem, though, is that most people don't want to use common sense and prefer to follow and blindly believe what they are told, letting the few free to decide for the many.
posted on: 10 July 2008
Practical Evolution: weed species part 1
The first part of the first article on Practical Evolution by John Hawks:
posted on: 07 July 2008
Javascript binding
“ Overall, binding in JavaScript is not a difficult concept, but it is far too often ignored or glossed over by JavaScripters, which leads to confusion.”
posted on: 02 July 2008
Clouds of text
“ Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.”
posted on: 01 July 2008
Polychrome decorations
In his 2-volume work, 'Décorations Polychromes', artist Ernst Ewald assembles what amounts to a grand tour through some of the most important elements from the decorative arts output of the Renaissance, found in buildings from Europe (and North Africa).