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Prettying up light text on a dark background in Safari with a simple “text-shadow” in CSS.
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A great little 20 minute documentary on Kozyndan featuring sixspace’s Caryn Coleman, and Giant Robot’s Eric Nakamura.
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Slot 1! No flashing required! Dead sexy! Everything you need to get homebrew apps on your DS for $100. (Use “SCDEV06” to knock 5% off for a limited time.)
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The Tiger style admin interface for WordPress just went 3.0 – and it looks lovely.
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I have a huge soft spot for one-inch buttons, so I think this is an awesome idea.
Blog
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links for 2006-12-20
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Best. SNL Digital Short. Ever.
It feels weird to post a SNL Digital Short that’s actually been uploaded to YouTube by NBC, but here it is in all its uncensored glory. Oh yeah, a big ol’ NSFW on this one BTW…
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Losing My Edge
“I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.”
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Attack Of The Comment Spam
Something that’s been really grinding my gears lately is the amount of comment spam that I’ve been seeing in my moderation queue. Despite the fact that I use the very wonderful Akismet for WordPress, sometimes it can’t keep up with the flood coming down the proverbial tubes.
Something’s that’s really helped is a little bit of .htaccess magic that one of my coworkers sent me. What it does is keep people from hitting your wp-comments-post.php unless they’re submitting the request from your server. Of course headers can be forged, but it’s really proven to be quite useful to me. Because of this, I thought I’d be a nice guy share it with y’all. Peep this…
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*yourdomain.com.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) ^http://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/$ [R=301,L]Naturally, you’re going to want to replace “yourdomain.com” with your actual domain — but other than that, it’s ready to go. Since I spend a lot of my day helping folks troubleshoot their WordPress installs and .htaccess rules, I’d really dig it if you’d refrain from asking questions. That’s right, this spot of code is supplied “as is”, kids.
Enjoy!
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Hanging With The Locals
Leave it to YouTube to have two of the most awesome local television ads I’ve seen in a while. Seriously, both of these are fucking awesome…
White Porcelain
Norton Furniture
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Links for 2006-12-15
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Made with real Fruit Loops and a spoon touch switch.
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The public beta of CS3 drops tomorrow! And it’s a universal binary! w00t!
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Justin Mason let me reprint his awesome coverage of the Threadless “Tagged” fiasco. You should read it.
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Threadless’s side of the story.
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Google partners with GoDaddy and eNom to offer domain registration for $10/year for their Google Apps. *sigh* I guess they’re whaling their way into web hosting now…
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A Burgeoning Movement
Would anybody care that much if I migrated this site to the much easier to spell — but nowhere near as creatively named — jasoncosper.com? Right now it’s mirroring this site, but I was actually thinking of doing a move in the near future.
I’d be sure to update the feed URLs with all of the proper redirects and keep Ono Sendai live for at least the next year if I did manage to migrate it over. Still, I thought I’d ask the half a dozen readers that I have before doing it… ;)
Update: *shrug* Fuck it, I’ve officially moved. All of your old feed URLs should work for the time being.
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The Maintenance of Magic
This is an amazing find! Stuff from the Park has posted a complete scan of a Disneyland Maintenance Department handbook from 1969. Since all of the images are on a single page, it’s not really suggested for the masochistic folks still on dial-up — but if you’ve got broadband and you’re as much of a Disney fan as I am, it’s totally worth a look.
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Best Ringtone Ever
Screw getting a Sonic Youth ringtone — I’ve totally got one that’s way more awesome than any two dollar song clip could ever hope to be…
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Links for 2006-12-14
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Buttons to advertise your willingness for a DS pickup match is really a clever idea! Sort of like warchalking for your DS…
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“Two cars are slowly crashed into one another of the course of a month. The movement is so slow as to be invisible. These are models for a full sized piece yet to be constructed.”
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I guess I need to start planning for a trip to Matmata, Tunisia so I can go stay at Luke Skywalker’s place. I mean, $10/night isn’t that expensive for a stay, is it?
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Mythbusters own Adam Savage weighs in on how to cool a Coke in two minutes using standard household items on AskMeFi.
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If Threadless doesn’t print it, Josh at Go Ape should totally pounce on this.
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A neat little app that allows you to send photos from PhotoBooth directly to Flickr. Now all I need is one of them new fangled Macs with a built-in camera…
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I will never be too old for toys if they’re as awesome as this.
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