February 28, 2005
tartan script
Randomly generated plaid pattern:
The live script is here, and the source code is here.
February 26, 2005
The Fourth Dimension by Rudy Rucker
I just finished reading Rudy Rucker’s The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality, and can honestly say it’s one of the most enjoyable, thought-provoking books I’ve read in awhile.
The book is concerned with the concept of higher dimensions, i.e. those dimensions beyond length, width, and height. Most folk think of the fourth […]
February 19, 2005
photomosaic machine vers. 1.0
Today I built a photomosaic machine which turns photographs into mosaic images like these:
Erik
Alissa and a slab o’ vinyl
portrait of Dadeymon
And (of course) Mr. David Koresh
Input a URL, noodle with the controls, and out spits out a mosaic. Try it here: photomosiac machine.
using CSS3 selectors to stylize internal and external links
Visitors to this site who are using Mozilla may notice that hovering over an external link is one color, but internal links are another. (update: this site layout changes so frequently, this may no longer be in effect. But the following might still be relevant). It’s done using CSS3 selectors, which only a few browsers […]
When you’re big in Japan
This is strange. While checking the levels of my google juice, I noticed a Japanese translation of this site ranks higher that this site itself, based on a search for “trainque”.
Even more bizarre, through Google Translation you can view this site translated back to English from Japanese.
February 16, 2005
Dunkin Donuts munchkin consumption
This dandy script describes the consumption patterns of Dunkin Donuts muchkins. (i.e., no one likes the butternut or the coconut ones).
< ?php
//count items
$totalmunkins = 30; // input total munchkin count
$chocolate = $totalmunkins/5;
$glazed = $totalmunkins/5;
[…]
February 14, 2005
PHP newbie requests coding help
I’m a total newbie at PHP, and need some help. If you know PHP or scripting in general, read on. Otherwise, you might want to go elsewhere.
I think what I want to do is pretty simple, and it should work, but clearly I’m doing something wrong.
Using PHP, I want to read from an existing […]
February 13, 2005
The Talking Severed Floating Styrofoam Head
Yes, the past really can come back to haunt you. Case in point: this evening I received an email from someone identifying himself as “the yeti” with the link to http://www.styrofoamhead.com/ .
Rewind about 8 or 9 years. When I was about 17 years old I used to work at the John Fitch Market Basket with […]
