February 2009
48 posts
WatchWonderful commercial for French rail company RFF
via TAK!
Fight like Apes - Jake Summers
BBC RAD Labs Blog →
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Last.fm – the Blog · "Techcrunch are full of shit" →
i love last.fm
The Demon-Haunted World →
Man falls from Birmingham Rotunda →
Pretty shocking
the joys of thumbman.net
justine: ha ha
justine: he actually looks like a thumb
BBC - Press Office - Second season of Flight Of... →
thesophie:
Vague! Oh, come onnnn!
First few episodes have been awesome, I recommend that you find it on the internet and watch it now. Then when it’s on BBC 4 don’t watch it, that should even out your licence fee or something.
trying to reduce the amount of non real people that I follow, just found this weirdness which will be no longer cluttering up my dashboard
strtotime is amazing
Work out the date of the fourth Saturday in each month, if that date has passed, tell me when the next one is.
if (date('j') <= date('j',strtotime('Fourth Saturday '.date('F o')))) {
return "The next market is on the ".date('dS F',strtotime('Fourth Saturday '.date('F',strtotime('Next month')).' '.date('o')));
} else {
return "The next market is on the ".date('dS F',strtotime('Fourth...
Jim: anyone that uses a semicolon deserves my respect
“The more interesting thing to me is who is going to control the playlist. If...”
– Music vs. the music industry
WatchCadbury’s Eyebrow advert, the unseen truth on Vimeo!
“The things that people build for themselves are going to be better than...”
– Jason Fried | Creativity Online
andy: do you know much about computer games claire?
claire: I am aware of pac man
The Maccabees - No Kind Words
New single, tad...
learning rails
I brought the book and started watching the screencasts and now it’s finally starting to make sense.
What I like is that rails forces you to do things in a certain way, this is the opposite to PHP which effectively hands you a blank sheet of paper and says “go make a mess”. Limitations are a pretty good thing.
My current problem is that I keep triggering error message and no...
David Holmes - I heard wonders
This sounds so...
“You’ve got to get shit happening – you can talk about it, you can write it...”
– Gary Penn on the rules of game design
Camper →
A Campfire (37Signals) to Jabber interface
time
to learn how to use git & proper version control, FTP and manual updates seem pretty silly
also time to learn ruby and to do more by writing less