heheh, balthaser is like skipintro turned into a whole site. i think the equation is:

(gabocorp + 2 year of special effects) * lots of time – common sense

sure it looks impressive (for the most part), but, the whole thing strikes me as wrong. (ie, way overdone, can not be serious). besides, even marketoids know that you can’t make a flash ebusiness site if you break the back button and bookmarks. see, jakob neilsen is good for something.

more than you ever wanted to know about mpeg 4

using png2html, i was able to convert a picture of myself (vertical compressed to compensate for character height) i had to colored ascii. weeee.

this ascii tux is pretty frickin cool. not quite as cool as tty quake however. [ascii tux and lots other related tidbits via mefi

hmm, do i have $2500 burning a hole in my pockets? … canon eos d30 coming in september with a 2nd positive report.

i should be able to easily link / match earlier references, searching by keyword, category, etc. also, this entry should be an element in a scratchpad attached to a project.

cool, arsdigita has adopted the openacs sdm (software development manager) for the acs. on a semi-related note, it’s amazing how much more attractive editing in emacs becomes after you’ve been editing code in a piss-poor custom java text editor application all week.

a lot of funky url rewriting and related stuff can be done with apache’s mod_rewrite.

th u2log has a way better design than u2.com. also, they steal the one worthwhile feature from u2.com, the webcam pics.

grr, gnutella hoses the cable connection i’m on. i knew it was bad, but i finally did some tests today. it’s especially weird because it’s supposedly only transferring 5-10kbps.

before: round-trip min/avg/max = 66.9/197.5/419.5 ms

during: round-trip min/avg/max = 198.0/1427.3/2913.5 ms

after: round-trip min/avg/max = 62.3/260.5/1123.7 ms

the lowdown on msdn’s redesigned table of contents.