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Help Haiti
Dear Bebepool Community,
Bebepool.com has been humming along since 2005. It feels amazing to build a place/technology on the web that has found its way into the lives of so many parents, families and friends. I don’t know most of you personally of course, but we have a common link now thanks to the internet.
By [...]
Not That Safe
Recovered Journal. December 12, 2006.
Tonight my middle-born son asked something to which I said it was at our home.
“Why?”, he inquired.
“Because home is where you will always be loved, and where it’s safe.”
To that he replied, “Well, not _that_ safe.”
“Oh, you have brothers—that’s right.”
“Yeah.”
New Habits
I was stopped by the cops while walking/jogging my neighbourhood at night just this evening.
QUICK! — what’s the first thing that went through your mind? (that you imagined went through mine).
Whether I want to admit it or not, I’ve been influenced by the popularity of police behaving badly news stories (I’m looking at you, youtube, [...]
Microwave Oven UI Standard Project
Microwave Ovens: Failure is not an option.
In our household if the microwave breaks down, I have less than 24 hours to relieve the crisis. And by 24 hours I mean 24 minutes. Kiefer Sutherland has (or had—I have no idea) a whole television season to work things out. I have no such luxury (nor budget). [...]
friendfeedCommentMiniAvatar
friendfeedCommentMiniAvatar
A greasemonkey script that adds a mini avatar to each FriendFeed comment (only tested on beta.friendfeed.com).
Screenshot – “friendfeedCommentMiniAvatar“
Downloads
Source Code: http://wittman.org/projects/friendfeedcommentminiavatar/
Installer: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/47292
friendfeedClip
friendfeedClip ( aka ffclip )
A greasemonkey script that inserts a clipboard widget into a FriendFeed page to locally save (cookie-based) FriendFeed entry links.
Links on clipboard can be cleared all at once or individually. The clipboard is scoped to the URI directory path (so, a separate record of links is maintained). There are at least two [...]
FriendFeedCommentImg
friendfeedCommentImg
A greasemonkey script that replaces link text with an image (inserts an img element in DOM) within friendfeed comments where the URI has an image extension.
Example by code:
Cygnus Loop Super <a href=”http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/SMALL/GPN-2000-000992.jpg”>http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGE…<a>
becomes
Cygnus Loop Super <a href=”http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/SMALL/GPN-2000-000992.jpg”>… <img src=”http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/SMALL/GPN-2000-000992.jpg” height=”100px” style=”vertical-align:middle” /><a>
Example by rendering:
Cygnus Loop Super http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGE…
becomes
Cygnus Loop Super …
Downloads
Source Code: http://wittman.org/projects/friendfeedcommentimg/
Installer: [...]
24,075 Things You Don’t Know About Me
1 through 24,075 remain unknown. Here is the balance:
24,076. I grew up celebrating Hanukkah and Christmas (some years in the reverse order). Continue to with my wife and three boys.
24,077. In 1995 I spent 3 months in a children’s summer camp in Ukraine. There were still wall murals and other trappings of the Soviet Union [...]
Bebepool Safety
Website spam (see spamdexing) was starting to show up on some bebepool.com sites, so I coded some simple counter-measures which prevents what appears to be garden variety automated spamming.
Actually there were no externally visible changes made. At this point I haven’t burdened pool entry participants with any new hoops to jump through (such as CAPTCHAS). [...]