Sam’s random musings

Emptybottle.org - Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator:

The web is getting hot and sweaty again, and the dollars are flying almost as fast as the bullshit. Time for an update of the great and glorious dack.com Web Economy Bullshit Generator for Web 2.0.

Very funny, and so true….

Cool RC Airplane:

This is a very cool micro RC airplane.

Very small very cool

(Via John Robb’s Weblog.)

Safretti fireplaces hang on a wall:

Filed under: Household

If you’re looking for something that can warm up that media room and match the plasma screen you just installed, check out these fireplaces from Netherlands-based Safretti. These aren’t just simulated fireplaces; they give you real flames, powered by liquid fuel. No, you probably won’t get a whole lot of heat out of one of these, and you can forget about burning wood (or even a Duraflame log) in there, but if you want to add a fireplace to a room with the ease of hanging a picture, this looks like it’ll do the trick. Just don’t hang it under that plasma display.

(Via Engadget.)

Dynamizer hits the slopes:

Filed under: Robots

Hey, it’s no perfect five diamond run or anything, but you just can’t deny Dynamizer — the Robo-One battle-bot — hitting the slopes for a day in the snow.

[Download] WMV, 1.8MB

(Via Engadget.)

FireBug: “It’s not your Grandma’s Javascript Console.”:

FireBug is a new tool for Firefox that aids with debugging Javascript, DHTML, and Ajax. It is like a combination of the Javascript Console, DOM Inspector, and a command line Javascript interpreter.

Cool plan to test today

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)

The function keys are your friends (Mac OS X only):

• F2 plus Control = Navigate the menu bar, starting from the left hand side.
• F3 plus Control = Navigate the dock, using the left and right arrow keys to move between icons and the up and down arrow keys to view the navigate thought the contextual menu.
• F4 plus Control = cycle through all of the open windows.
• F8 plus Control = navigate through the right side of the menu bar. Note that this only works with some menu bar icons. In fact, I was only able to select the Remote Desktop icon this way

Pretty nice. If you knew this already consider it a refresher, if not I hope you find these shortcuts useful.

clever and useful…

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)

Onion Skinned Drop Shadows with JavaScript:

Brian Williams wrote an article back in time on onion skinned drop shadows.

<p>Bob Aman decided that although he liked the drop shadows, he thought it was more complicated than it needs to be to implement it (lots of html and css).</p>

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)

Thermite:

Thermite vs. french car (video).

Ok this is crazy

(Via John Robb’s Weblog.)