This is Radiohead

Something tells me that I'm glad I didn't start listening to Radiohead until Amnesiac came out. I probably never would have liked them if my initial exposure to them was one of their early videos rather than the video for the "Pyramid Song" late one night. In fact, I still to this day prefer Amnesiac, arguably ...

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Website naming stuff

If you're anything like me, you're probably not the most imaginative when it comes to naming conventions for elements of your web pages. At some point in time, it pays to pay attention to those details, as it will spare you a lot of grief in the long run.For example, I recently created an application ...

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Publish to Wordpress via Google Docs

Did you know you can publish to Wordpress via Google Docs? Yeah, I know, crazy right? But it's the truth. This post right here is proof :) To do it, you just have to hit the "Share" button, then select the "Publish as web page" option. You'll see that there is an additional button that pops up: ...

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Monumental video projection

This video is awesome. They project highly stylized and customized video and project them onto actual buildings, creating some amazing effects. I especially like the one where the 20 foot tall "person" is looking out of a "window" on the side of the building. Very, very, cool.

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One reason to NOT use @import to import CSS

Recently, a page that I really wanted to look at was down. As in, no longer existed and the domain was bought by a spammer. Where did I turn to? Archive.org, naturally. Thankfully, the site was listed so that I could check it out. Even greater, I could still download the .zip file that I ...

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Google Maps

If ever there were something that needed simplifying, it's the Google Maps API. To quote Mike Williams: Using the Google Map API is not easy if you don't have much Javascript experience. If you find the Google documentation too difficult to understand, it's not because it's badly written it's just that the subject is not easy. Well, that ...

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Can you make a “good” YouTube Video?

The Onion is hilarious. This little bit of farce is so funny because it is so dead on. I love it. YouTube even responded by actually creating the tab that they illustrate in the video, but only when you're viewing that video. I'd talk trash about a ton of the videos on Youtube, but since I've ...

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The Matrix, Windows style

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

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How Many HTML Elements Can You Name in 5 Minutes?

I named 46 HTML 4.0 elements. A, ABBR, ACRONYM, B, BIG, BLOCKQUOTE, BODY, CITE, CODE, DD, DIV, DL, DT, EM, FIELDSET, FORM, H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, HTML, I, IFRAME, IMG, INPUT, LI, LINK, META, OBJECT, OL, P, PRE, Q, S, SMALL, SPAN, STRONG, STYLE, TABLE, TD, TEXTAREA, TR, U, UL I forgot 45 HTML 4.0 ...

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PHP Code: Cite your photo sources!

After working on a site that uses images from a variety of different sources, I felt that it was appropriate to cite the sources. (I do come from a newspaper background, so...) So, what was the best way to do it? Since the image is being hotlinked from another source, I could do a string search of ...

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