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• wombert: The World’s Best Countries August 18, 2010

  wombert: The World’s Best Countries Read more ⇒

• A nice modern take on the original Stratos by Pininfarina set to… August 15, 2010

  A nice modern take on the original Stratos by Pininfarina set to be sent into production. Thankfully they preserved original rear end lights and lip spoiler. Not so sure about the headlights. hotvvheels: Stratos Read more ⇒

• August 10, 2010

  Firefox with Radio Inputs and it’s Annoying Autocomplete I recently had problem with Firefox’s autocomplete when using a jQuery star rating plugin. The linked article explains the problem more in depth and the code snippet below should get you going. if ($.browser.mozilla) { $("form").attr("autocomplete", "off"); } Read more ⇒

• Drop Cap with PHP Regular Expression August 9, 2010

  This is a simple regular expression I wrote to convert the first letter of an article into a drop cap. It will surround the first letter with a span tag containing the class drop-cap. You can then apply any styling you like to the span with CSS. It will skip over any HTML encoded characters or tags at the beginning of the article as well so it always highlights the first letter of the content and not any HTML formatting. Read more ⇒

• Updated: Back up Tumblr Blog and/or Disqus Comments August 9, 2010

  Updated: Back up Tumblr Blog and/or Disqus Comments A simple and somewhat dirty script for backing up Tumblr and/or Disqus via its API to an SQLite DB. It now handles backing up Disqus comments to SQLite as well. Read more ⇒

• Backing up Tumblr blogs with PHP and SQLite August 8, 2010

  Backing up Tumblr blogs with PHP and SQLite I have knocked together a very simple and somewhat dirty PHP CLI script to download copies of an entire Tumblr blog through their API. I have imaginatively called it Tumblr Backup PHP. I will be adding extra features as and when I can. The first new feature on the list will be ability backup the associated Disqus comments at the same time. Read more ⇒

• Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks at TEDGlobal 2010 July 20, 2010

• sharonov: 1970 Adenauer Forst crashes June 28, 2010

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• How to make something impossible for someone to use without a ma… June 11, 2010

  How to make something impossible for someone to use without a manual. Have dials that rotate clockwise and anti-clockwise Put the final unit (1kWh) before all the other units just to confuse the hell out of ’em Make your instructions inaccurate (see below) Here is how you are actually supposed to read this horrendous piece of design (or not-designed as the case maybe): Dial meter Your dial meter comprises of six dials. Read more ⇒

• Gives an amazing sense of speed. missedapex: Norma M20 makes its… June 10, 2010