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jQSlickWrap - Slick text wrapping for jQuery
by vrossign
To do this, it needs to have access to the individual pixels of the images it's operating on -- which is why for jQSlickWrap to work, you need to have a browser that supports HTML 5's new canvas element.
Here's an overview of the algorithm:
1. If necessary, pre-load the image.
2. Determine the CSS styles for the image (float and padding).
3. Create a canvas element and set its dimensions to the size of the image plus its padding.
4. Draw the image onto the canvas in the top-left location.
5. Figure out the "background" color of the image by examining the pixel data at the top-left corner of the image.
6. Fill the canvas with this background color.
October 2009
CSS Tools: Reset CSS
by mozkart
& 1 other
(via)
The goal of a reset stylesheet is to reduce browser inconsistencies in things like default line heights, margins and font sizes of headings, and so on. The general reasoning behind this was discussed in a May 2007 post, if you're interested. Reset styles quite often appear in CSS frameworks, and the original "meyerweb reset" found its way into Blueprint, among others.
The reset styles given here are intentionally very generic. There isn't any default color or background set for the body element, for example. I don't particularly recommend that you just use this in its unaltered state in your own projects. It should be tweaked, edited, extended, and otherwise tuned to match your specific reset baseline. Fill in your preferred colors for the page, links, and so on.
In other words, this is a starting point, not a self-contained black box of no-touchiness.
September 2009
Latest busks | BANDSTAND BUSKING
by gregg
There are loads of bandstands in parks across London, and most of them are looking fairly tattered from lack of use. When did you last see/hear one surrounded by hordes excited by the sounds? ...well we hadn't so we decided to do what we could to change that, to fill the parks once more (at least for a wee while every couple of weeks) with some talented people capable of carrying a tune or two.
~IDENTITÄT – The »Gestalt« of digital identity
by karlcow
More than one hundred thousand personal raw data sets were crawled from the web to fill this parameters with subject matters. Based on the thesis that the digital identity is measurable and comparable these data sets were visualized using custom computational tools.
These studies were designed to understand the data and determine its characteristics regarding the construction of digital identity.
After the analysis phase the data was visually abstracted and interpreted to give the disembodied digital identity a unique and characteristic »Gestalt« in form of a generated sculpture.
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August 2009
La biographie à l’anglaise s’enfonce dans le sordide - La république des livres - Blog LeMonde.fr
by paulantoinem
Mais le pire concerne William Golding(1911-1993). A la “une” de l’hebdomadaire en ligne, on apprenait la semaine dernière que l’auteurde Sa Majestédes mouches avaitvoulu abuserune fill ...
bridemate's guide
by blackgoldfish
(via)
You can download the template to make a little accordion fold booklet, fill in relevant details (important dates, the dress shop's card, fabric swatches, etc.) and tuck it all into an A2 envelope.
April 2009
March 2009
FIVE LITRES EXPERIMENT - THE CONTEST
by Krome
Is it possible for a man to fill up a 5 litres bottle of his own sperm? How much time would it take? If you think you will be able to reach that goal, go for it!
February 2009
Exits: Yahoo's Do-Nothings Set to Bleed Purple
by greut
The nature of corporations as they grow is to become glacial and bureaucratic because no one trusts anyone. You spend half the day reporting on what you do so execs higher up can keep an eye on you because they believe that some how, you're out to destroy the company. And probably, some number of employees are. Or at the very least, not working up to their potential. Here's an idea, do some careful hiring and recruiting, hire people who are excellent at their jobs AND have some moral fiber, and set them loose to do what you hired them for. No one gets hired to fill out status reports, but that's mostly what we all end up doing. So the good people leave for greener, entrepreneurial pastures, and the people happy about status reports stay, get promoted and the whole thing perpetuates itself until you have Yahoo, GM or any other number of glacial bureauracracies.
the only value of valleywag hides in the comments.
Only Python: A small svg module
by karlcow
>>> from xml.etree import ElementTree as etree
>>> from functools import partial
>>> Circle = partial(etree.Element, 'svg:circle')
>>> c = Circle(cx='100', cy='200', fill='red')
>>> etree.tostring(c)
'<svg:circle cx="100" cy="200" fill="red" />'
Strimko Set#2
by smartkit
Play Smartkit's new online puzzle Strimko2. Can you fill in the grid so that each row and column has a different number?
January 2009
Megaupload Auto-Fill Captcha - Greasemonkey - OCR in Java
by decembre
Auto-fills the megaupload/megarotic captcha and optionally auto-starts download: Rewritten to do OCR in javascript, auto-submit for captcha form. Warning: This runs methods from unsafeWindow, so don't use it if you don't trust megaupload.com since it's possible to use that to run javascript with more privileges. I might write a GIF decoder to avoid this soon.
keep your heart
by blackgoldfish
"Keep your heart free from hate, your mind free from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. It’s the way to happiness. Try this for a week and you will be surprised." -- H.C. Mattern
December 2008
Delicious button for Google Reader for Greasemonkey
by damdec
Add a "Add to delicious" button next to buttons "Next/Prev element" and react to the shortcut "d".
Pre-fill the form getting title, url and selected text for the description.
November 2008
NOTCOUTURE
by sbrothier
& 1 other
NotCouture.com launched July 2007, because there was something missing from our world covering design/tech/art and food... Fashion! The art of wearables and accessories which complete our trifecta of designer passions to obsess about. So NotCouture has stepped in to fill the void with all of your luxe and fashion indulgences. Some of the mens and women's pieces that appear are truly inspiring visually, even if they don't make it into your closet.
Play | Audio Media Player
by garret
& 1 other
Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.
Play currently supports playback of FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Musepack, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, AAC, Apple Lossless, MP3 and various other audio file formats.
For lossless formats such as FLAC and WavPack, and for Ogg Vorbis and specially-tagged MP3 files, Play supports gapless playback allowing sample-accurate audio reproduction.
Need to make changes to your audio files' metadata? No problem! Play has a powerful integrated metadata editor that allows multiple files to be edited at once, even if the files are in different formats. And if your files are missing metadata, Play can use MusicBrainz to help fill in the blanks.
htmlwrapper - Google Code
by camel
& 1 other
(via)
Wrapper is a cross-browser compliant HTML/CSS rendering engine written in ActionScript that sits on top of your standards compliant HTML page. Wrapper eliminates cross-browser issues and makes integrating ActionScript and HTML/CSS projects possible without needing to compile.
Wrappers strives to answer the most common problems web designers face without forcing them to learn too many new things. Most web sites can be created in HTML or CSS, then when you need to extend Wrapper's capabilities you can either use JSON to call functions within ActionScript or you can load compiled plug-ins. Wrapper also has built in methods within CSS to load custom fonts, display elements as any shape, and fill them with linear or radial gradient background colors. ActionScript's event model is also implemented within Wrapper's HTML. Wrapper's best features are the ones that you get for free because of how it is set up. It's like getting all the great features of the Flash Player without needing to deal with compiling and being able to create your content the same way any HTML page would be created. Wrapper is fully accessible to the search engines and integrates well with any back-end technology.
Wrapper is currently released as a fully functional open source beta for Flash Player 9. Wrapper is set up as a pre-compiled plug-in but can easily be integrated into any Flex or AIR applications or even as an ActionScript framework for creation of compiled projects.
September 2008
August 2008
our company : teehan+lax
by sbrothier
When we started our business we had a few ideas about where the industry was going and what kind of role we wanted to fill in the marketplace. Using these insights we formed the basis of how we do business and what we do.
We witnessed more clients taking a lot of their work in-house, especially on the technology and maintenance side of the business. We believe that there will be very few end-to-end builds like there was two or three years ago. Instead companies are looking to get the most out of the technology and infrastructure they have purchased.
Top 25 Linux Games
by roulian
Below are addictive 3d games for linux users to fill their time with. These games are really good and some have won awards or have been featured on magazines. Most of it is cross platform and free. You don’t have to use ‘Wine’ to be able to play as they come with Linux installers.
