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11th April 2008

Not A Blogger: Pen & Pixel: A Retrospective

Classic awful albums covers for 90s bling bling gansta hip hop.

Tags: hiphop

11th April 2008

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"

Tags: lost

10th April 2008

37 More Shocking jQuery Plugins

Rubbish title, but a good colelction of jQuery plugins to do snazzy things

Tags: jquery

10th April 2008

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.

Tags: iphone

10th April 2008

Django Pluggables.

Great repository of resuable, extendable Django apps.

Tags: django

9th April 2008

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.

Tags: googlemaps

9th April 2008

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.

Tags: jquery

8th April 2008

The Long Way There

Briliant tilt-shift photography of various American commutes.

Tags: photography

8th April 2008

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.

Tags: google, python

4th April 2008

FreeWLAN Fonera Addons.

Adds lots of new features to a La Fonera router, including QoS, Wifi repeating, MAC blocking etc.

Tags: fon

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.

Posts from Google Sightseeing

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&#8230;
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