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Tuesday, 30 May 2006

Cool Accessibility Color Wheel

Color wheel demo of differing foreground and background colors and how they affect accessibilty.

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Sunday, 21 May 2006

Man Proposes via Apple Store Fifth Avenue Time Lapse

Apple has opened a new store on Fifth Avenue, New York. There is time lapse movs of the stores first 24 hours of opening. Click on the 05:00 movie, near the end as it is starting to get light a guy holds up a sign proposing marriage.

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Wednesday, 17 May 2006

Another Spore Video from E3

Here’s a link to another Spore video from E3. In this demo Will Wright brings on Robin Williams towards the end to build a creature. Funny.

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Thursday, 11 May 2006

How John Lennon Invented the iPod



From YouTube

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Thursday, 11 May 2006

Django technical_500_response error

I recently switched from the Django magic-removal branch to the trunk post-magic-removal. I was getting this bizarre error:

Mod_python error: "PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython"

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/apache.py", line 299, in HandlerDispatch
result = object(req)

File "/Users/simonb/src/dj/trunk/django/core/handlers/modpython.py", line 157, in handler
return ModPythonHandler()(req)

File "/Users/simonb/src/dj/trunk/django/core/handlers/modpython.py", line 129, in __call__
response = self.get_response(req.uri, request)

File "/Users/simonb/src/dj/magic-removal/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 100, in get_response

File "/Users/simonb/src/dj/magic-removal/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 133, in get_technical_error_response

File "/Users/simonb/src/dj/trunk/django/views/debug.py", line 115, in technical_500_response
c = Context({
IndexError: list index out of range

Well, it took me a while to figure out. Notice that the directory name used for the Django distribution…

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Thursday, 11 May 2006

Google Trends China

google trends
Google has a new function that lets you compare search and news results for keywords. Above is an image for the trends for Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong. It is interesting to note the following:

  • Search Volume: Beijing has the lowest search volume, Shanghai is double Beijing’s and Hong Kong is more than double Shanghai’s
  • News volume: Shanghai has the lowest news volume, Beijing and Hong Kong are approximately equal at double Shanghai’s volume

It’s interesting the Beijing and Hong Kong generate about the same amount of news. One would expect Beijing, as the capital, to…

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Thursday, 11 May 2006

Spore Demo Video E3 2006

Will Wright gave a demo of Spore at E3 2006. Here’s a direct link to the video (200M mov). Also YouTube has a short demo piece here.

I last blogged about Spore a year ago.

It is inspiring.

Official Spore Page

Another Spore site

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Wednesday, 10 May 2006

Remix My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Along with a re-mastered CD and a cool web site Eno and Byrne (Warners) have released the multi-tracks from 2 tracks off the album for your mash-up pleasure.

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Tuesday, 9 May 2006

IE Gag No. 2

Q: What’s the only web browser that my Internet banking supports?
A: IE 6

Q: What’s the most insecure browser you can use?
A: IE 6

Oh, dear…

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Tuesday, 9 May 2006

IE Gag No. 1

Bill Gates told the IE team “We have to build something for the WWW” The IE team built the Worlds Worst Webrowser…

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