johnoxton.co.uk: Scalable logos

Since widespread SVG adoption is a ways off, John Oxton's come up with a Flash-based mechanism for creating a scalable website logo, which scales with the user's font size without loss of quality. Very nice looking.

(tags: design web flash hack logo svg)

Rewriting history under the dome

"The staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan wiped out references to his broken term-limits pledge [on Wikipedia]. The alterations on Wikipedia represent just two of more than 1,000 changes made by staffers at the House of Representatives in the last 6 months."

(tags: congress wikipedia politics npov)

Using Microformats to Plot My Favorite Places

Easily plot places onto a Yahoo Map using the hReview and geo microformats. Very cool.

(tags: microformats geolocation maps yahoo hReview)

kritX review aggregator

kritX spiders for hReview-containing websites, and aggregates the reviews together onto its front page.

(tags: microformats hReview kritX hack web)

What's the longest you’ve ever stayed awake?

For me, it was a stretch from Tuesday afternoon until Friday night.

(tags: sleep college)

Livepipe : Pipeline Project

Claims to be a Rails-like framework for PHP.

(tags: php web hack rails)

Stumbling Tourist Smashes Rare China Vases

I love the double meaning of the museum director's statement: "It was a most unfortunate and regrettable accident, but we are glad that the visitor involved was able to leave the museum unharmed."

(tags: news england museum)

Race conditions in security dialogs

This is why Firefox waits several seconds before allowing you to install extensions.

(tags: security firefox)