The BMW Museum's kinetic sculpture takes your brain to another dimension - Engadget - Ready to have your gray matter softly stroked? Perhaps you should take a trip to BMW's recently opened museum in Munich, where a kinetic sculpture comprising 714 metallic balls suspended in air will soothe your weary mind. It's one of those things that's
Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers - Cheat sheets are helpful to have around because they allow you to quickly remember code syntax and see related concepts visually. Additionally, they?re nice decorative pieces for your office.
In this article, you?ll find 23 excellent, print-ready che
MoodViews ? MoodViews - MoodViews is a collection of tools for tracking the stream of mood-annotated text made available by LiveJournal. At present, MoodViews consists of three components, each offering a different view of global mood levels, the aggregate across all postings of
Code Smell - A code smell is a hint that something has gone wrong somewhere in your code. Use the smell to track down the problem. KentBeck (with inspiration from the nose of MassimoArnoldi) seems to have coined the phrase in the "OnceAndOnlyOnce" page, where he also
favicon.ico Generator - Choose a color, Click on the squares and paint your logo, Download when you are finished, Put the favicon.ico file into your webserver directory, Optionally publish it under the CC (Creative Commons) license
Trac Git Plugin - Trac - This is a plugin for Trac that adds support for the Git version control system. We use it here at nanosleep.org. It's our branch of the work done by Herbert Valerio Riedel over at trac-hacks.org (see their project page), with some speedup hacks and bug fi
Convert Youtube and Myspace Video to MP3! Only at VidtoMP3.com - VidToMP3 is a brand new site that allows you to download the audio from none-copyrighted video clips on video sites! We support all of your favorites, Myspace, Youtube, Google video and more. Remember to bookmark our Video to Sound converter for all your
Airworks Inflatables - Giant 22 player table football game for Amstel beer - Advertising stunt for Amstel beer, for a promo during the european champions league finals. This table could accomadate 2 full football teams (22 players). The table can be fully dismantled and put into 6 flight cases for transport.
Hackszine.com: Server-side Google Analytics - When you look at the analytics javascript code you see that it combines several sets of data into an image request. This image request sends the right data to Google (not the javascript). When you know what url you should use for the image, you can call t
Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange - Drop.io enables you to create simple private exchange points called "drops." The service has no email signup and no "accounts." Each drop is private, and only as accessible as you choose to deliberately make it. Create multiple drops, add any type of med
Zed Shaw Puts The Smack Down On The Rails Community - In a post today called ?Rails Is A Ghetto? he tears into a number of leading Rails developers, the community in general, and a number of startups (and Google).
Color Wars 2008 » Youngme / Nowme - Users duplicate a picture of themselves from when they were younger - same pose, the current "me" by the child "me." The results are fascinating." Link
Custom PuTTY Color Themes - igvita.com - nothing is worse than trying to decipher the default dark-blue/green/red colors against a black background in PuTTY
PuTTY Tray - PuTTY Tray is an improved version of PuTTY (Win32). It features some cosmetic changes, and a number of addons to make it more useful and much more fun to use.
* Ruby Script Beautifier - This Ruby beautifier is itself written in Ruby, and it is surprisingly short. It will undoubtedly get longer as time passses and its ability to handle borderline cases improves.
sweeper :: snax - Automatically tag your music collection with metadata from Last.fm.
LiveValidation - Validation as you type - LiveValidation is a small open source javascript library for making client-side validation quick, easy, and powerful. It comprises of two main parts. Firstly, it provides developers with a rich set of core validation methods, which can also be used outsid
Codefluency: Introduction to Ruby - if you?re looking for a brief, code-centric overview of Ruby?s language features and syntax this might be the ticket
Plugins - SuperExceptionNotifier - Agile Web Development - The SuperExceptionNotifier plugin provides a mailer object and a default set of templates for sending email notifications when errors occur in a Rails application, as well as a default set of error page templates to render based on the status code assigne
Google Website Optimizer Announcements - Google Website Optimizer (which was originally launched as a closed beta test in October 2006) has finally dropped its ?Beta? label and been made available as a standalone product, Google announced yesterday.
Clips: How to Fix the Internet (According to South Park) - In the fantastic South Park episode last night ("Did you guys see the ghost?") most of the nation was without internet. What does such an internet-connected society do when faced with such a technological dilemma?