Coming in 2007, Homey the Clown, the movie. I feel like taking a sack full of nickels, smacking the jackass who thought this was a good idea, and saying “Homey Don’t Play Dat.”
Month: May 2006
Flash Game Fix For The Day
This isn’t one game, but several small games, each that take four seconds to finish.
sh.orty: Now With Shorter URLs
Based on the feedback I’ve received from yesterday’s post about my URL shortening service, I implemented a few things:
- Actually shows you that you need “http://” as part of the URL.
- Shortened the link by one character, using a bit of mod_rewrite magic. So now instead of http://sh.orty.com/?RTEJGFXY it’s now http://sh.orty.com/RTEJGFXY (no question mark).
- I also got rid of characters that would look similar to each other if copied/pasted into a printed document. So I, 1, O, and 0 will not be used when constructing URLs.
I need to fix a couple minor bugs I’ve come across, and Aaron has sent me a couple of great ideas for use of this service that he’s going to help me implement, so look forward to simple but cool changes.
Is Your MySpace Ugly?
This man describes everything I hate about 99.9% of the MySpace pages out there.
Best Buy Invasion
Considering how helpful I’ve been in the past to Best Buy shoppers (don’t get me started about the guy who was recommending McAfee over Grisoft, just because “you get what you pay for”), I really should just try this.
Thanks djbahls for the link.
Yet Another Link Shortening Service
Why is this one different? Because I’m hosting it. Why? Because I use shorter URLs in e-mails quite a bit and didn’t want to always have to rely on tinyurl.com or the multitude of other services out there (not that there’s anything wrong with any of them, I just don’t want to always have to rely on them). I just decided to make my own using a short domain I already use.
So I present sh.orty. Get it, “Shorty”? Kind of like the other types of services that use periods in their name (the most popular, as far as I know, being del.icio.us
I took the script from here, the CSS hacks from here, and color scheme from just a random color I picked here.
The script is simple, slick, and fast, uses MySQL for the data, and also will reuse URLs if a URL you’ve submitted has already been submitted before. But my goal was to make it simple and fast, and I think it’s doing that just fine.
I was just going to use this for my own purposes, but I figured I’d make it public. If there is any abuse of the thing, I will take it down and ban the IP of the person who abused it — simple as that.
But go ahead, try it out, and let me know if you encounter anything weird.
Nice Desktop Icons
I’m just mostly booking marking this for my own reference, but I’m sure somebody else might find it handy.
The Endless Forest
This looks fascinating, and while I never use screensavers (I prefer to just have my monitor turn off), I might start using this one.
Why I Will Never Be A Drinker
Because you never know what’s in those rum barrels.
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police magazine website reported.
Thanks Cheryl for the link.