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  • bobslobster 7:21 pm on March 18, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Phonecall for Tasty! 

    Need to tell your friends about that sweet lobster harmonica you just bought? If only the phone on this shirt was for sale.

     

  • rajbot 12:10 am on March 18, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Squirrels are Nature’s Ninjas! 

    I always knew squirrels were sneaky creatures of the night, but this tshirt proves it!

     

    • rita 8:26 pm on March 22, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      ive been warring with the squirrels in my yard … i shake my stick at them in anger, but they dont seem to care. the squirrels in this neighborhood have pot bellies … im serious.

  • peliom 8:14 pm on March 17, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Googlewacked! 

    You may be be familiar with the concept of GoogleWhacking, wherein a punter enters two search terms into Google and obtains just a single result. This is more challenging that it might sound.

    Even more challenging is to receive a single search result for just one search term, a feat so difficult it doesn’t even have a name. For a limited time though, you can feel that “SingleWhack” rush by entering in none other than our own official search term: TikiRobot!

    Enjoy it while this while it lasts folks…we will soon have many billions of links as our readership continues to double.

     

    • Katie 7:23 am on July 5, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      i finaly found it!!!!
      The altamit googlewhack is:
      “internet penciled”

    • Erin 6:26 pm on November 7, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      “BANGGER SISTES” GOOGLEWACKED!!!!!!!!!!

    • Ben 12:41 pm on November 22, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      GOOGLEWACKED: INTERNETING TRUNDLES.

    • Martin 12:15 pm on November 30, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Googlewacked; Bildit Wrinkly

    • johnberto 9:07 am on August 1, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      jizzim underfoot…………….boo ya

  • rajbot 5:59 pm on March 17, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Living Art pics from NYU 

    mang has cool pics up from his Living Art midterm at ITP. I love his blue flower! You can see read about the construction process by checking out his living art tag.

     

  • peliom 3:56 pm on March 17, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Horseballs! 


    There is something oddly surreal about watching a bunch of horses run around shaking a big rubber ball like Fido shaking a rubber chicken.

    Link to Horseballs video, so can buy your own.

    According to Technorati this video was a brief internet fad exactly one year ago. Can we get it onto BoingBoing this time around?

    Oh, and while you are wasting time today, perhaps you would like to pop some bubblewrap?

     

  • rajbot 2:22 am on March 17, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    AlphaGrip: is it ergonomic? 

    Is the AlphaGrip actually ergonomic? Could it possibly replace my FingerWorks? Will it reduce RSI? Why is does the pink one on their homepage have a different key layout? Why is the image named “frontbigdummmy.jpg”? Is it mac-friendly?

    I don’t know!! But I’m going to buy one for $100 and let you know how it works!

     

  • peliom 12:14 am on March 17, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    WW 


    wet willies are gross!!!

     

  • rajbot 10:49 pm on March 16, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Liveblogging the Laszlo developer talk 

    It’s totally packed in here! Everyone loves Laszlo!
    The free pizza and b33r doesn’t hurt :)

    7:40pm: Max Carlson, cofounder and lead DHTML architect

    “Open source since Oct 2004!”
    “150K downloads!”

    Open Source: It’s Our Only Hope™

    LZX: Laszlo’s XML App Description Language.. xml all the way down and runtime independent. All Laszlo components written in in LZX.

    Right Now: Flash 6, 7, 8
    Mid 2006: Flash 8.5
    End of the year: DHTML

    Big issues: Accessibility, Browser back/forward, Native (osx, windows) look and feel

    LZPix demo.. thumbnails don’t work in Safari..

    Max: “I can’t commit to a date, but I want to get it out there for you to use as soon as possible.”

    Audience: “What’s still needed?”

    Max: “We need some more work on the compiler, and we’re working on some partnerships with AJAX libraries”

    Audience: “How do you handle rich media types?”

    Max: “Handled via flash player”

    Audience: “Thanks for saving the world!”

    8pm: break time!

    Kent and Pablo of Laszlo: Bring us your resumes! :)

    During the break, Jim says to me, I added XPath to WebKit in 57 lines of Python!

    8:10pm: Antun Karlovac, Web Applications Engineer
    Showing a cool demo of building a web app using Laszlo in realtime. Writing in vi, compiles on the fly, web browser shows the app running on localhost.

    8:13pm: via iChat, Jim sends me his Python code to add XPath to WebKit (you need PyObjC):

    
Bonjour IM with James Speth .
8:13 PM

      

    1. !/usr/bin/env python

    2. 

    3.  dombridge.py

    4.  by James G. Speth 

    5. 

    
import objc
from Foundation import *
from AppKit import *
from WebKit import *

class DOMNodeList (objc.Category(DOMNodeList)):
    def __len__(self):
        return self.length()
    def __getitem__(self, index):
        if index >= len(self):
            raise IndexError, index
        return self.item_(index)

class DOMNode (objc.Category(DOMNode)):
    def __len__(self):
        return len(self.childNodes())
    def __getitem__(self, index):
        try:
            for i in index:
                self = self.childNodes()[i]
            return self
        except TypeError:
            return self.childNodes()[index]

class NodeProxy (object):
    def __init__(self, node):
        self.node = node
    def __repr__(self):
        return ' %s' % (`self`, `name`, msg)
            raise AttributeError, name
    def getChildNodes(self):
        return [NodeProxy(child) for child in self.node]
    childNodes = property(getChildNodes)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    webView = WebView.alloc().init()
    wso = webView.windowScriptObject()
    doc = wso.valueForKey_('document')
    docProxy = NodeProxy(doc)
    from xml import xpath
    query = '/HTML[1]/BODY[1]'
    nodes = xpath.Evaluate(query, docProxy.documentElement)
    print 'query:', `query`, '\nresult:', `nodes`

    8:17pm: OK, we’re paying attention again..
    Synchronicity – Antun is talking about pointing to widgets using XPath

    hehe.. since Laszlo source code is XML, if you want to use the less-than operator, you type & lt ;

    Demo finishes, small web app built while we watch, using *very* few lines of source! Applause!!

    8:28pm: Kent back on the mic, time for developer demos

    8:30pm: Tom from pandora.com, speaking from the VIP deck:

    Talking about the very cool Music Genome Project.

    Using Laszlo to bring the technology to consumers. Works on all platforms in all browsers. MP3 playback via flash. Been around for three months, millions of listeners.

    Eight months of engineering time to build the app. “Laszlo is the only great choice if you are interested in multimedia and being cross-platform.”

    Their unit tests run in the rhino js interpreter.. rhino is mike’s project. I hadn’t used it until i got interested in ajax stuff.

    “I never said damn that laszlo!“

    8:42pm: Chris and Clint: Sneak preview of Gliffy Online

    An web app similar to Visio. Just 2 guys in 8 months. Wiki-like collaboration.

    “Big props to Laszlo for the rich-text editor”

    Ocean thermal energy conversion:

    Gliffy is contributing Print functionality back to OpenLaszlo.

    8:56pm: Jeff and David doing a demo of HomeBase CRM app

    3 guys, working for two years.

    HomeBase is CRM for the mortgage industry, used to send junk mail. Jeff holds up sample pieces of junk mail.

    The app is cool, but I’m getting bored so I’m going to give Jesse a wet willy and then blog about what happens… (oh shit he read what I was typing)0000nies11111!!!

    UPDATE: I gave Jesse a wet willy!

    This talk has been a great success!

    David finally stops saying “Laws-lo” and says “Laszlo”. He just learned this today.

    Annoying guy from audience: “Why don’t you open source?”

    David: “I live in Santa Cruz!”

    Annoying guy from audience: “And you can sleep at night?”

    David: “Not really, I have a fifteen-month-old son here… he’s going to community college”

    9:10pm: Don Hopkins “from the Community” is showing SimFaux, a parody of Faux News

    Don is showing video in OpenLaszlo

    O’Liely Factor live updating graph!

    Poll: Is Faux News Fair… or Balanced?

    Two streaming videos, one is being composited with alpha over the other..

    Ariana Huffington with blue screen, in web browser:

    Jesse, talking about crazy alpha video overlays: “This is awesome.. we need this in iChat!”

    TicTacFaux: “Right before you are about to win, the computer will cheat, because it is Fox”

    Don’s demo is at the Contagious Festival

    Don: To maximize compatibility, I’m taking all the quotes out of context. That’s good component design!”

    9:24pm: Dashwell Project, New Zealand

    Developing apps for mobile devices using Laszlo

    9:34pm: Bob from SVCfinancial.com

    Mazarin Media Platform: named after 14th Century monks who invented encryption

    “Our development team is pretty small.. it’s my son”

    9:42pm: We’re still sober! Time to relocate!

     

    • jim 3:56 pm on March 18, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      raj! you need the indentation for my python code. i’ve posted it at http://end.com/speth/2006/03/xpath-for-webkit/ with the indentation preserved.

      and you guys should turn on trackbacks in wordpress… they make the world go ’round.

    • rajbot 7:36 pm on March 18, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      I tried to fix the intenting; hope I didn’t mess anything up!

      I think trackbacks are on, but the trackback URL isn’t published. Until we fix it, I’m sure you can figure out the url.. :)

  • rajbot 9:31 pm on March 16, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    System 7, Today! 


    This guy has a website devoted to running System 7 (specifically Mac OS 7.6.1) in modern times. He claims it is faster, equally productive, smaller footprint, geeky cool. This is CRAZY!! Everyone knows System 6 is where it’s at!

    Update: Oh crap! He’s got NetPresenz available for download! I remember running a NetPresenz web server on my 8100! This is so awesome!

     

  • rajbot 6:30 pm on March 16, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    mang’s flickr stream 




    Originally uploaded by mangtronix.

    mang’s flickr stream is interesting to watch.. It’s usually filled with pics of the cool tronix projects he’s working on, but sometimes Lenny Ktravitz and Michel Gondry show up.. Ah, to be an artist in NYC!

    Update: check out mang’s blog!!

     

  • rajbot 3:28 pm on March 16, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Happy Birthday FOIA! 

    The Freedom of Information Act turns 40 years old!! In celebration of Freedom of Information Day, check out the EPIC’s 2006 FOIA Gallery, The National Security Archive, The FOI Day Conference, and Sunshine Week!

     

  • rajbot 2:29 pm on March 16, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ 

    Are you a scientist who wishes to break the mold? Are you tired of the receding-hairline-and-glasses-look generally associcated with thinking too damn much? If so, then the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ is for you!

    I nominate Mr.Dr. Foo!

     

  • peliom 8:31 pm on March 15, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Who’s winning? 

    I think the lobster is winning!!




     

  • rajbot 6:23 pm on March 15, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Trip Report: Cafe 2.0 

    If Web 2.0 was a coffee shop, it would be Axis Cafe. It’s everything you want in a post-boom cafe: good coffee, comfy couches, yummy sammiches, a huge outdoor patio, free wireless, and, of course, a fireplace!

    The wireless here is really interesting.. It’s done by a company called PlaceSite. The wireless is free, but the first time you load a webpage, you get taken to a portal page. The portal shows you who else in the cafe using the wireless node and gives you a cafe-specific bulletin board and chat. Here’s Parker, one of the guys behind PlaceSite:

    Check this place out:

     

    • Richard 3:27 pm on March 16, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Ooh… couches… And a fireplace, too? Not enough fireplace cafes in the city with wireless hotspots. I gotta get my hipsterness on and go.

    • rajbot 3:37 pm on March 16, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Yup, here is a picture of their swank fireplace!

  • peliom 3:09 pm on March 14, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    PowerSquid 

    This is the power strip you want to for traveling with geeks. Everybody will love you! Kevin had one at ETech and the power strip itself was a supercollider node :-)

     

  • rajbot 3:51 am on March 14, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Happy Pi Day!! It’s also Albert Einstein’s birthday today! Celebrate by taking a trip to the SF Exploratorium, and spending they day soaking up the science!

    Also check out this *amazing* PI VIDEO!! It might be the greatest music video ever made!

    Pic snarfed from the Exploratorium

     

  • peliom 2:43 am on March 14, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Thursday: Laszlo, Pizza, Beer and AJAX, and Laszlo 

    Pizza! Beer! AJAX! Laszlo! Is the place to be, Thursday night, fo sheez. CELLspace, 7pm, be there.

    Link for directions, more info, etc.

     

  • peliom 1:03 pm on March 13, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Is that a cactus in your pocket? 


    Check the micro plants! These are miniature living cacti you can hook up to your keys or your cell phone. “Victo” brings you luck and “Rance” is for courage. And yes, these are big in Japan. On sale now at Firebox

     

  • peliom 8:05 pm on March 12, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    First Post! 

    Release the pirates!!!!

     

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