Bookmarks for 20130524

Not dead, merely dreaming.

Some useful stuff from today, which allowed me to make a monitor page showing me all the job processors across 12 different platforms. CSS to scale an iframe:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4660659/javascript-css-set-firefox-zoom-level-of-iframe

(bearing in mind that the width and height on the iframe will be scaled as well so it must be multiplied accordingly)


A really bloody simple and non-fussy lightbox for Javascript/JQuery - EasyBox:

https://code.google.com/p/easybox/


A great article from Fleet Street Fox on the Woolwich murder and the EDL. Yes, I know it's on The Mirror's site, but it's truly a good article:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/edl-dont-defend-england-says-1908599

Bookmarks for 20130412

Interesting metrics UI stuff
http://ducksboard.com/tour/

At least partly atmosphere-based sci-fi space-fighter game. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.
http://www.strikevector.net/

Bookmarks for 20130401 ish

This gives the phrase "thousand yard stare" a whole new spin. Ridiculous, Linux-assisted-aim rifles.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/bullseye-from-1000-yards-shooting-the-17000-linux-powered-rifle

If This Then That, a web "channel" automation service. This looks awesome and I'll be totally annoying you all with it soon.

http://ifttt.com

I see you are wounded, my Lord

#GameOfThrones

Bookmarks for 20130328

Hogeweyk, a "hyperrealistic" care-village in the Netherlands, offering an environment for dementia patients that closely resembles normal life, but is a carefully maintained illusion - front-stage / back-stage. This is a page about the architecture of the place.

http://www.detail-online.com/architecture/news/dementia-village-de-hogeweyk-in-weesp-019624.html

Short film version of Tim Maughan's excellent "Paintwork" story (augmented reality, graffiti)

http://boingboing.net/2013/03/27/short-sf-film-about-future-aug.html

Bookmarks for 20130323

3D printed robotic GlaDOS lamp. Beyond cool.

http://www.instructables.com/id/A-fully-3D-printable-GlaDOS-Robotic-ceiling-arm-la/

The Activity - Comic shedding light on a secret US Army unit.

http://gma.yahoo.com/comic-sheds-light-secret-army-spy-unit-184206062--abc-news-topstories.html

Absolutely, definitely a Chinese-owned golf course in Iceland and absolutely, definitely nothing suspicious.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/world/europe/iceland-baffled-by-chinese-plan-for-golf-resort.html?hp&_r=0

Bookmarks for 20130321

Instant Healing Gel.  This is so awesome I can't even.

http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/11409/the-gel-that-stops-bleeding-instantly/

Behold, the travesty that is the F-35; feast your eyes on this AlterNet article:

http://www.alternet.org/fail-400-billion-military-jet-cant-fly-cloudy-weather

Also, I had no idea AlterNet were still going. Yay!

Epic snow crystals under electron microscope:

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/03/microscopic-images-of-snow-crystals/