Author: engel

Wrestling with image and text positioning is no fun. Let Image Caption, the third tool from the Arc90 lab, make all of the hard work turn into cutting and pasting. All it takes is a script and some style to make your images nice and labeled.

Make your tabular data nice and readable with tool number five from the arc90 lab, Alternating Rows. Just add some colors to our JavaScript and — voila! — no hassle alternate row coloring.

We’ve been using an alternative approach to AJAX that we dubbed “scattering” (named after the process where particles deviate from their straight trajectory) and we’ve made it open source a few years back. It saves you a great deal of time when quickly mashing up your ideas in HTML so it’s a perfect match for Quplo. If prototyping HTML is your thing, be sure to give Scatter a try.

This document is for people who either want to learn Perl or are already programming in Perl and just don't have the patience to scrounge for information to learn and use Perl. This document should also find use as a handy desk reference for some of the more common perl related questions.

xc.js is a framework for HTML Canvas games in Javascript. It's simple and fun to use and you can even try it out right here in your browser.

Sliderman.js is a standalone javascript library for sliding images. The main feature of Sliderman.js is multiple unique effects which can be combined together.

Penn's encounter with TSA assult

It’s a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures.
Snap a photo with your iPhone, choose a filter to transform the look and feel, send to Facebook, Twitter or Flickr – it’s all as easy as pie. It’s photo sharing, reinvented.
Oh yeah, did we mention it’s free?

Twitter lets you reveal a little bit of the running commentary in your brain to the people who may care enough to follow it. At its best, it’s a reminder that we’re all connected, and no matter how you feel, someone out there feels like that, too. In this way it’s the biggest social experiment in human history. It’s a sci-fi plot worthy of Philip K. Dick: “What if a technology made us all slightly telepathic?” Twitter is connecting our brains in ways we don’t fully understand yet.

"When the test was over and the mice were allowed to relax in their home cage, they showed an overwhelming preference for whichever reward they’d worked harder to obtain."

"Political TV advertising is designed to do only one thing: suppress the turnout of the opponent's supporters. If the TV ads can turn you off enough not to vote ("they're all bums") then their strategy has succeeded."

paper.li organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag.
A great way to stay on top of all that is shared by the people you follow – even if you are not connected 24/7!

OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe