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Posted at 10:40am on 31 Jul 2008
Disarmed but not Defeeted
Impressive display of dexterity from a Chinese woman with no arms:
http://www.elegantbay.com/main/amazingwoman.htm
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Posted at 3:09am on 30 Jul 2008
Unnecessary Knowledge
Fun little site: Unnecessary Knowledge
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Just keep clicking refresh until you get bored.
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Posted at 12:50pm on 29 Jul 2008
StupidFilter
Similar to an automatic spam or profanity filter, StupidFilter attempts to provide automated filtering of comments that fall below a statistically determined intelligence level based on deviation from standard English.
It might be more politically correct if they called it StupidOrForeignFilter, but then again it might not.
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Posted at 5:49pm on 11 Jul 2008
RBGL Sprites v1.0 Released
We've just released RBGL Sprites 1.0, a replacement for the now-deprecated REALbasic SpriteSurface control, used for making 2D games in REALbasic.
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Posted at 4:25pm on 08 Jul 2008
Chainsaw Maid
Gruesome (but awesome) claymation remake of Night Of The Living Dead:
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Posted at 4:32pm on 07 Jul 2008
Algorithm Ink & ContextFree.js
Context Free is a Logo-like drawing API implemented in JavaScript using the now-standard Canvas tag originally introduced by Apple in Safari.
You can read more about the language on Aza Raskin's blog.
It's a shame that Safari support is a bit sketchy, aledgedly due to missing features in Safari's Canvas implementation. It seems kind of odd that Apple's implementation of the standard is less complete than Firefox 3's, given that they invented it.
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