Everything in the 'Notable Web Stuff' category

Look Who’s Seven

Wikipedia turns 7 years old today. Happy b-day!

Logo Designer David Airey’s Domain Hijacked and Held Hostage

A gmail security vulnerability (now fixed) allowed a domain extortionist to hijack logo designer David Airey's domain. Fortunately he had a a .co.uk backup and is online. But he's still...

What ever happened to stamps, filing cabinets, and the mailman?

At long last, Gmail Paper is in public beta.

Code of Conduct?

It makes me a little sad that Kathy Sierra has been intimidated by a handful of asshats who undoubtedly had their books dumped one too many times in high school....

Mrs. Marv is Becoming an Iron Chef of the Internets

Mrs. Marv’s popularity has es-ploded lately. The most recent lovin’ is coming from Slashfood – Corn soup, the remix. Who knew remixing food was even done? Does this make her...

Make Your Snail Mail Web Based

We’ve taken another little step toward living in the Jetson’s age. Not pneumatic elevator tubes, but almost as good. Your own personal mailroom to be the front line in dealing...

9 great old punk videos (Plus a few more)

Mark Frauenfelder over at Boing Boing has done the heavy lifting and searched through YouTube for this list of 9 great old punk videos. The Sonic Reducer footage is amazing....

Sometimes the British Speak Differently

Someone made a comment on Metafilter about how they were struck with the BBC’s usage of the the term “beat off” being…er, different than the American usage. I’m as likely...

My Personal DNA, or the Worst Christian Rock Band Name EVER

<div style="position: relative;overflow: hidden;width: 236px;height: 30px;" </div> Benevolent Creator </div> I love this sort of personality profile thing. They don’t really explain the specifics of how the test works beyond...

Where Are My Pants?

Worth 1000’s Where Are My Pants? Photoshop contest has some truly awesome entries. Entrants take a crack at digitally (de)pantsing the famous. Of course, some of the entries are horrible....

Earth Nighttime on Google Maps

NASA makes lots of high-res images of their assorted projects available on their website. I’ve always found the nighttime sat photos of the Earth fascinating. It’s neat to see how...

wikiHow OR what, are you stupid?

I threw the RSS feed for wikiHow into my feedreader a while back and sometimes an intriguing one comes through. But, if someone’s going to start an entry it should...

Military at Burning Man

I'm not too concerned about whether or not Burning Man is under military surveillance. In fact, I'd be surprised if it weren't. Lot's of young pilots are out flying maneuvers...

Minneapolis Metro Blog Coming Soon…

UPDATE(10/11/2004): Minneapolis Metroblog is online.

FavIcon From Any JPG or GIF

This is slick. Making a “favicon” for a website isn’t hard, but can be tedious to get the results you want.

Print Your Images Big As Hell!

This seems simple enough to do, but once you see the Flash interface for the Rasterbator, I think you’ll be as impressed as I was.