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Not A Blogger: Pen & Pixel: A Retrospective
Classic awful albums covers for 90s bling bling gansta hip hop.
I wish I'd done this:
"if you've never seen LOST, you can start from the pilot now, view one episode a week (with five doubleheaders), finish right before the start of season 6, and see the remaining installments in real time, thereby watching the entire series without hiatus"
37 More Shocking jQuery Plugins
Rubbish title, but a good colelction of jQuery plugins to do snazzy things
Walrss
"Get a handy little iPhone or iPod Touch version of any website." Well, any RSS feed. Useful for reading the sort of sites I don't subscribe to in newsgator, like slashdot and digg.
Google's Street View raises privacy concerns.
Nothing very new in the reporting, but a Google spokesperson hints that they're trying to get street view for London.
FancyBox jQuery image zooming plugin.
Yet another Jquery lightbox, but this time images zoom to full size with a nice dropshadow over the page. Very similar to FancyZoom.
Google App Engine
lets you run your web applications on Google's infrastructure, which provides hosting, bandwidth and API hooks into Google Accounts and Google Checkout. Runs in Python with explict hooks fro Django and other Python frameworks.
FreeWLAN Fonera Addons.
Adds lots of new features to a La Fonera router, including QoS, Wifi repeating, MAC blocking etc.
James Turnbull elsewhere: LinkedIn, Facebook, Django People
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 New Media Director at digital healthcare agency Incuna and developed the popular Google Earth "things-to-see" website, Google Sightseeing. You can buy the spin-off book Not in the Guide Book at all good bookshops.
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EXTERMINATE!
<a href="http://googlesightseeing.com/streetviews/exterminate/"><img src="http://cbk0.google.com/cbk?output=tile&panoid=FW68KeZEKFbXXql7OaMJGA&zoom=3&x=5&y=1" /></a>
Posted on 24th May 2013
Portmeirion & The Prisoner
Portmeirion is a small resort village in North Wales famous for its Italianate architecture, and for being the setting for a sinister late-1960s TV show called The Prisoner, which starred Patrick McGoohan as “Number Six”. Portmeirion…
Posted on 22nd May 2013
Great panoramic views over Turin from the “Turin Eye”: a massive, tethered hot air balloon
Great panoramic views over Turin from the “Turin Eye”: a massive, tethered hot air balloon http://POSTURLHERE #streetview
Posted on 8th May 2013
brb, just taking my pet alpaca out for lunch.
<img src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=482x323&location=-41.382093,146.324777&fov=40&heading=327.71088790233074&pitch=-9.0897780244173&sensor=false" />
Posted on 8th May 2013