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Integrate Tornado in Django
How to use the friendfeed-developed WSGI webserver from Django and buildout
django-voice
Django app offers similar features to Get Satisfaction, UserVoice, etc.
Farm-Fresh Web Icons
1000 icons at 32 and 16 pixels. Mostly based on the classic famfam icons.
Video, Freedom And Mozilla
Firefox developer defends their resistance to using H.264 video
How-to register an International Domain Name
John just bought a totally useless domain: his own name upside-down: http://uɥoɾ.com/
Value for Money on Blu-ray players
Rebranding a cheapy Blu-ray player with "THX" apparently means you can mark it up by $3000!
Support Details
Simple website with easy-to-remember name that lists your current web browser, screen size, javascript status, etc. Perfect for when a client phones up but has no idea what web browser they use.
Selling in the name of
Great piece about the whole X-factor vs RATM Christmas No. 1 nonsense
Le Da Soul
20th Anniversary De La Soul mixtape features covers of the classics by Talib Kweli, Tanya Morgan etc.
Spotibot
Generates Spotify playlists based on similar artists. Odd copy-paste interface to get the list into Spotify, but works well.
James Turnbull is a web developer from Edinburgh and living in Oxford. This website is a link-dump of things he found online.
James is developer and co-author of the popular Google Earth "things-to-see" website, Google Sightseeing and the spin-off book Not in the Guide Book. He also sometimes posts blogs to Rotacoo.
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Posts from Google Sightseeing
Mount Everest no longer world’s highest mountain
Which is closer to the surface of the moon, the summit of Mount Everest or Ecuador?
Contrary to popular belief, the answer is Ecuador, as the Earth isn’t a perfect sphere. As the Earth is constantly spinning, centrifugal force causes it to bulge out at the equator much like a water balloon would if you placed [...]
Posted on 8th February 2010
Leaning Buildings
We can’t always be perfect right? Even some of history’s best architects made mistakes when they designed some of the world’s most beautiful structures. Maybe the ground was too unstable, or adding another 20 meters to the top wasn’t such a great idea, in any case here is a list of five sites that ended [...]
Posted on 4th February 2010
The Day the Music Died
Today, February 3rd, is the 51st anniversary of the death of Buddy Holly.
The day before his death, Buddy Holly and associated acts Dion & The Belmonts, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, had played the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. After issues with their tour bus, and due to appear in [...]
Posted on 3rd February 2010
Groundhog Day
Today is Groundhog Day, a North American festival which reckons that:
if a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day and fails to see its shadow because the weather is cloudy, winter will soon end. If the groundhog sees its shadow because the weather is bright and clear, it will be frightened and [...]
Posted on 2nd February 2010
Alert, Nunavut
Welcome to Alert, Nunavut, the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world. Only 817 km (508 miles) from the North Pole, Alert1 has a chilly average high temperature of -14.7 C (6 F), and winter lows of around -46 C (-51 F)!
For 10 months out of the year, Alert is either in complete sunlight or [...]
Posted on 28th January 2010