Playing with wordle

Just a quick post to a tag soup generator: wordle

It seems I have a lot of ruby and rails tag in my del.icio.us account :D

This blog tag soup (I don't know where it picked those tags btw)



My del.icio.us account: no comment ;)

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

I'm currently reading "Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability" excellent book btw.

This little comic strip about "Religious debates" is so funny and so true that I couldn't wait to share it with you :D

You can replace "pulldowns" by whatever term: emacs, vim, java, .net, ruby, python, css, pdf etc...

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Msn Live Search / Virtual earth better than Google Maps ?

Microsoft are testing a new "3D" and "higher resolution" version of there maps tool "Virtual Earth".

Apparently Toulouse is the "test" city, you can check the result by looking at the Capitole.

You need to click on this icon to use the "3D" feature:


The resolution is really impressive and this new "3D" feature with real buildings is great. Well Done!

Update: Here's the same place using the desktop version: Live Earth


Also: Chicago's demo video.

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Quote of the day

Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
-- David Wheeler

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Impressive Image reduction technique

Impressive new technique to resize an image without altering the overall impression, you just need to pass though the first few minutes to see a live example ;)

The real "Simpsons" mini market

Ever wanted to go to Apu's minimarket, well there it is ;)

Burried car

In 1957, a Plymouth Belvedere was burried in Tulsa for a constest.

The car was seen as a way to show 21st century citizens a suitable representation of 1957.

50 years later the contest is over... but things didn't go as planned [fr] :p

Luckily the Egyptians where more skilled at burring things ;) Otherwise we would not even know what a mummy is!

More info about the whole story.

5 rules to avoid Feed/RSS spam

Since I moved my feeds from sage (a plugin for firefox) to google reader that's the first time I have no unread item! Hurra!

My rules of thumb to avoid being spam by feed:

1. Think twice before subscribing in the first place (the hardest rule in my case)
2. Unsubscribe when you don't even read the articles by only the titles
3. Unsubscribe when article is more than 20 lines (I make exceptions)
4. Unsubscribe when feed is never updated
5. Unsubscribe when too much posts (more than 10 per month)
   

Examples: I removed Seth Godin because of rule #2&5, Joel on Software because of #2.

I'm considering removing TheServerSide because 90% is just:

"xxx framework has release 0.2.0.4.8RC1 codename: stupid-animal"

Too bad this post is too long (rule #3) ;)

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MSN sound remixed & Darth Vader Art & Whatever for dummies

Some fun/strange links I found while browsing the feeds I most of the time don't read:

• MSN messenger sounds remixed by a famous french DJ
• Some Darth Vader art
• Make your own "xxx for dummies" cover
  

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Google religion

Since Google is slowly taking over our lives with all those web2.0 applications the next logical step is the Church of Google :p

We have compiled a list of nine proofs which we believe definitively prove Google's title as God

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Photosynth demo (Microsoft real Wow!)

From Microsft vista's advert:
“Every so often you experience something so new, so delightfully unexpected, that there’s only one word for it: Wow,”

But not because of Vista ;)
This Photosynth demo is really amazing! Look at what this guy do with "Notre Dame" (Paris) made with flickr images!

More info about Photosynth.

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Strange Audio Cubes

I don't know the purpose of those audio cubes but anyway it fun ;)

Source[fr]: christophelebot

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WTF ?

Shame on me!
I have to admit it took me really long before figuring out what those pictures meant ;)

You will need this site to find the answer.

source: Ugo

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Geek "All of Fame"

Scott has a really funny post about "How to explain to his wife that he met important geek people" during RailsConf2007.

I wonder how many people know "Bruce Campbell" (I do) and BTW if they realize that this funny french restaurant guy in Spiderman 3 is him (the most funny part of the film in my opinion).

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