Read this and freak out (rightfully so); http://blog.wekeroad.com/blog/the-perfect-storm-botnet/

Interesting read -- a keeper for those remaining 20% who havn't upgraded:

PNG transparency in IE6 (without JavaScript)

With the economy going the way its going, this might come in handy any time about now: http://www.chipin.com/overview

Their fees? Shown here: Fees 

ChipIn does not charge any fees to organizers and contributors of events that send payments directly to the Organizer’s PayPal account. However, PayPal Premier or Business accounts may be subject to fees from PayPal. Learn more by viewing PayPal’s fee information.

I haven't created an account yet, so I not yet clear on how they generate revenue for themselves.  If you know, let me know, you know?

Ancient (2004!) but the original doc is still of interest: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&topic_id=1&topic=

Thanks Eric for the heads up to it back when it wasn't even a spark itself...(certainly hadn't lit anything yet).

(although...truthfully...I've still haven't ever created any...ouch).

Links:

The man behind them: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

Interesting read on protocol distinctions...
ie: store for some future date: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/methods.html

Parking this link for the future (Could be an interesting tool...)

Link:

• Link Popularity Check

Found some code to do it here...

although as I think about it ...it should probably be refactored in order for all the code to be in the container document, and listening to the document Loaded event...hum...some other free evening in the future...

I just bumped into the official protocol description at http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html

It's funny how one can use a protocol for over what...maybe 10 years or so? without actually looking at the specs (shame on me).
In my defense...it's just that I started using the web before I understood the importance of looking at specs, and then, got the gist of it from some MSDN document or other such location, and had understood enough to get things done. But one should always look at specs. There are always some gems in them worth following up on.

For example, this time, one thing led to another, and I was soon looking at the following extension:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324

Which is the "Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol". Worth a quick gander...

Links:

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html (unabridged...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes (slightly more succinct and useful than the official docs)

You probably should run there to see how it works, but I couldn't resist giving it a very quick check out right here in the middle of a page (since its just html/css, it should work, right?):

I was looking for a good graphic for the previous post (Benchmarks of Programming Languages) when I came across this...

Benchmark.

Obviously not what I was looking for...so I was going to back out of the website and continue my merry little quest on the web, when first saw this:

One of very cool features of kuler.adobe.com is that you can upload an image and have it automatically analyzed ...and propose a swatch. Wow! Wow! Wow!

In other words...you have a client, who gives you his favorite self portrait, and asks you to "design a web site and color theme that best expresses his true inner self..."

What do you do?

 
Color Swatches Galore!

The official blather:

Discover Adobe® Kuler™ — the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. Whether you're creating websites, interior designs, scrapbooks, graphic identities, or any other visual, experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community. Kuler uses Adobe Flash® technology and works both as a standalone tool and wi

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Ok. So I've just mentioned FEEDJIT and ClustrMap...but there are many more.

Here's a list of some fun ones to get started.

A beautiful video...

An interesting alternative/addition to ClustrMaps is the FeedJIT widgets.

Check them out.

I mentioned Eric a couple of posts back, mentioning how he got me to sign up for calligraphy classes when we were both roommates in that big ol’ house in Hell’s Kitchen, and one thought led to another, and then I was remembering with glee some of the projects he has done, and disappointment with the removal from the net of some fun prototype stuff… and…Heck. Just explore for yourself…

I might have come across a good summary of Encoding, Fonts, Glyphs, and just about everytihing else – all on one page.

Its a bit dense, so I haven’t gone through it all  -- but in case it helps someone else:

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html

1,2,3...this is just a test...1,2,3...

Results:
Well..for one…it doesn’t work…Because RSS feed doesn’t work with JScript….as you can see from the big blank below (in an RSS feeder).

Secondly -- the post itself -- you have to watch out for width (the site might be 1000px wide, but the blog column will be about 400 or so…so it blows out the sites columns…)

Since it does not work, it brings up a good question...

Why has RSS taken off when it diverts from a website, where the adds (and only revenue) come from?

Wel.

It’s been a while since I’ve looked this…

But Google Graphs’  simplicity makes me a

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?
  cht=p3&chd=t:40,40&chs=400x100&chl=Programmer|Happy

(If you must know, all I did above was add the following to the page:

<img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?
cht=p3&chd=t:40,40&chs=400x100&chl=Programmer|Happy"/>

)

Now that I’ve installed Google Analytics…things to know:

<<<
Bounce Rate (sometimes confused with Exit Rate)^[1] is a term used in web site traffic analysis. It essentially represents the average percentage of initial visitors to a site who "bounce" away to a different site, rather than continue on to other pages within the same site.

…

A visitor can bounce by:

• Closing an open window or tab
• Typing a new URL
• Clicking the "Back" button to leave the site
• Session timeout

…

Google.com analytics specialist Avinash Kaushik has stated:
"It is really hard to get a bounce rate under 20%, anything over 35% is cause for concern, 50% (above) is worrying."^[3]
>>>

Src: Wikipedia

My neighbour, Oliver Erlewein, has just written a post describing the pros and cons of trying out Google Analytics…

Guess it was a convincing post, as I ended up opening an account last night, and -- assuming I did everything correctly -- I should be getting my first batch of metrics in about 6 hours…

This will be … interesting…

I just installed a ClustrMaps module…we’ll see if its fun…(or depressing…)

Holy Cow! The number of times I could have used this in the past is...damn! A real smart idea...

If you don't know what CushyCMS is...run! And watch the intro video...

Again...wow!

(Are there any other services like this already?)

First of all, here's one of the many places one can look to find out why you should/must be ditching tables for anything else but tabular data (and, no, that doesn't include forms...nice try).

But ...this presentation was new to me. And it happens to be jolly well done. Its worth a peak if you don't know about it:

http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/

You can't get a better, interactive, demo than this page...Bravo for the demo.

Take a look at this link if you forget how to use the position css attribute:
http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/positioning/