Whomwah.com

This is a great page from Kwok-Leung Lee that just shows a bunch of graphical images that trick the eye. Infact I actually found some of them uncomfortable to stare at.

Even though I live in the UK, I have been playing with Google Maps since it’s new beta release. What a really clever bit of coding. It uses javscript and much use of the XMLHttpRequest object to access all the XML information in the background.

If the UK gets added to this mapping system, Muiltimap and Streetmap watch out!

I got send a link to a online face transformer the other day. As you can see the images it produces are interesting ?! This is suppose to me as a child. I think my mother would have drowned me in a lake if that had been the case.

It’s build in Java by the University of St Andrews and is certainly worth a laugh mind you. If you think I look bad as a child you should have seen me as a woman.

If you have’nt seen the new VW Gene Kelly ad then you are missing a work of genius. The ad is an extremely well rendered rework of ’singing in the rain’. I can’t come up with a description of it that gives it justice, just click and watch.

Update: Here’s a link to the guy who dance’s in the ad’s website.

After reading about Bill Gates latest swipe at open source it drives me nuts. This is a clever guy, so why does he come up with such stupid statements.

It was to do with an email he apparently sent out to all his corporate customers telling them that MS is working to make software more interoperable and that customers not confuse open source with interoperable software.

Correct if I’m wrong but, have you ever tried to save some MS offices files to older versions or even simply into a format that some other software could understand with out the use of some extra MS software that you need to download from them? Also Windows 98 (very bad I know but some people still use it) and XP don’t like each other at all, and finally my own bugbear, If you can find a W3C compliant Microsoft web page please let me know, in fact if you can find any page that IE renders the same as a web compliant browser that would be nice too, and the list goes on.

Open source software is surely by definition going to be interoperable because of it’s very definition. You can view the source code should you want to and add to the process of development in order to make it interact with whatever you like.

This has probably been around for ever, but I’ve never seen it before. What a great idea. I have seen a similar type of live clock over at Yugop a while ago but it never used peoples own photos.

I just deciding which photo to send in …

A work collegue of mine Matt Biddulph has written another great ‘toy’. This uses the Porter Stemming Algorithm to search through your del.icio.us tags and find words with the same English word stem. This proved highly useful for me and I’m sure will be to others that are terribel typers and spellers. Thanks.

I know this extension to firefox has been around for ever, but I feel it deserves it’s own little big-up as I find it so useful. Developed by Chris Pederick, it is a toolbar extension for Firefox that allows you to use many great tools that the toolbar has built in. For example a useful one is the ablity to highlight all block level elements, also to view the CSS ID’s and Class information on the page and then edit that information live.

There really is too many features to list. Let’s just say if you are a web developer, you need it!

I see that Microsoft has unveiled the finished version of its home-grown search engine.

I’m sure when I last looked at it in beta the results were a little iffy to say the least (if you typed in office guess what came up first). It appears though that this is fixed even to the point were if you typed in word in google you get MS Word as the first result where is in the new msn search engine, word magazine comes up.

To generate its mass of data, Microsoft has indexed 5 billion webpages and claims to update its document index every two days - more often than rivals. I guess we’ll wait and see if it takes off. I would imagine every new PC with windon’t on it will have this as it’s homepage by default.

Sorry Bill, I don’t care how good it is there is always an alternative thats not MS.