June 2009
92 posts
Jetstar left high and dry - opinion - business |... →
This is a good business-focused article
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-28) →
Amon Tobin (98)
Cujo (73)
Salmonella Dub (32)
Pink Floyd (20)
Fat Freddy’s Drop (20)
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Gmail Script: Disable "Sponsored Link" Ads
So I got really, really sick of seeing totally irrelevant (and sometimes offensive) adverts in my Gmail’s Web Clip bar (along the top of my inbox). So I built a script to disable that crap.
My script simply simulates a user click of the “next clip” button whenever it detects a sponsored link (and optionally a gmail tip). Source is available here.
It also disables the sidebar...
Top 10 Raw Deals for Gamers | GameLife | Wired.com →
Air New Zealand's "Bare Essentials of Safety"... →
Hahaha
11 Things The Bible Bans, But You Do Anyway →
Firefox Addon: Google Page Speed →
This runs smoothly hand-in-hand with Firebug, and is totally epic. Going to run through with this on all my major websites.
Let's make the web faster - Google Code →
Mostly real simple stuff but a few goodies that I didn’t know about.
Aerial Virtual tour of New York →
Epic awesome
“the boys’ parents explained to police the children had gone out to...”
– Toy sparks radiation lock-down | Stuff.co.nz
Man, when I was a kid I played “cops and robbers” and “spotlight” - in Germany you play “NUCLEAR POWER STATION”… epic
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-21) →
Trentemøller (16)
Deadbeat (5)
Klute (5)
Burial (4)
Mogwai (3)
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How Contact Energy lost $97,275 - by chasing $25 →
This is a good read
Feverº →
matthewb:
Shaun Inman’s long-awaited feed reader app, Fever, sees the light of day and damn if it isn’t another sweet piece of work. It’s a self-hosted PHP/MySQL app that bubbles up the most talked-about items from your feeds. US$30 for WebKit and Gecko browsers only, plus it runs in Fluid and is iPhone optimised. What are you waiting for?
Review: Wi-Ex zBoost zPersonal YX300 Cell Phone... →
This is pretty cool
WatchInvisible Rope Prank | Manolith
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-14) →
Simian Mobile Disco (25)
Salmonella Dub (21)
Fat Freddy’s Drop (12)
Shapeshifter (11)
Reign (6)
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Sniffing Browser History with NO Javascript! →
Wow this is epic!
msteigerwalt - Ghetto Geolocation →
Awesome - these guys use adult advertisements to get their own Geolocation tool by overloading Javascript functions. Epic.
Walken the Walk →
matthewb:
The greatest impersonation challenge probably ever. Needs more Kevin Pollak.
Haha epic awesome
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Win 7 Theme - Chernobyl
This is my first Windows 7 Theme, which is basically a window colour, a selection of backgrounds that change every 3 minutes, a sound theme, and a couple of optional gadgets for your desktop.
It includes a series of images of Chernobyl from Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons. It also includes the epic Now Playing gadget for your music, and a Server Ping gadget which is useful for checking...
7 of The Best Prank Calls You’ll Hear Online |... →
NSFW.
RegExr: Online Regular Expression Testing Tool →
Holy awesomeness (via jbd2)