Simon Willison’s Weblog

Xooglers (via) Could become the folklore.org of Google.com.

# 25th November 2005, 11:25 pm

Flickr: Photos tagged with beedog. More bee dogs.

# 25th November 2005, 1:31 pm / flickr

Bee dogs! (via) “the premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes.”

# 25th November 2005, 1:31 pm

Web_2.0.jpg. That’s that one sorted then. I like the inclusion of “beta”.

# 24th November 2005, 11:17 am

Simple iterator-based parsing (via) Beautifully elegant Python parsing trick

# 23rd November 2005, 11:44 am

del.icio.us/help/navigation. So that’s what the input boxes in the nav are for.

# 22nd November 2005, 8:04 pm / delicious

Zero-Day Exploit Targets IE (via) Remote code execution. No patch yet; disable Active Scripting instead.

# 22nd November 2005, 6:24 am / exploits, internet-explorer, security, zeroday

The blooming of information architecture at Google. A discussion of the IA concepts embedded in Google Base.

# 22nd November 2005, 5:56 am / google, information-architecture

eBay’s “fewer words” search. This is a neat discoverablity enhancement to search.

# 22nd November 2005, 5:52 am

Spy cameras to spot drivers’ every move (via) Say goodbye to civil liberties in the UK.

# 19th November 2005, 7:40 pm

Unicodification (via) How to handle unicode in Python web applications.

# 18th November 2005, 4:10 pm

W3C Web APIs Working Group (via) A welcome addition.

# 18th November 2005, 3:36 pm / w3c, webapis

Stop card sharp practice. Which? found that 21 per cent of people would give their account number to a caller claiming to be their bank or credit card company.

# 18th November 2005, 2:03 pm

Snakes and Rubies event. Rails and Django event in Chicago on December 3rd.

# 18th November 2005, 7:36 am

OSCON 2005 Keynote—Identity 2.0 (via) Great presentation, great presentation style.

# 16th November 2005, 11:22 pm

urllib2: The Missing Manual (via) Stuff that really should be in the official documentation.

# 16th November 2005, 10:32 pm

Live Sea Otter Cam (via) Devastatingly cute. Streaming Windows Media (works on my Mac).

# 16th November 2005, 7:27 pm

Official Google Blog: First Base. With some cheesey testimonials.

# 16th November 2005, 11:44 am

Google Base has launched. It’s fascinating.

# 16th November 2005, 11:41 am

The world’s least usable restroom. It really is.

# 15th November 2005, 4:34 pm

Penny Arcade is now running on Rails. Their archive navigation still sucks, sadly.

# 14th November 2005, 8:34 pm

London Web Frameworks Night—Location Change! It’s now at Westminster Uni, New Cavendish Street. 200 signups already!

# 13th November 2005, 11:54 am

Musings on Mouse Hover. Astute observations from Bill Scott.

# 11th November 2005, 4:51 am

Hexten: More Phishing. Wow. Lloyds Bank cold call asking for your password as well!

# 11th November 2005, 1:12 am

Opera Browser Wiki: Patching start.com (via) Technical hacks for getting start.com to work in Opera.

# 10th November 2005, 10:17 am

Tom Hume’s report on MoMo London. Nice to know that my enthusiasm is appreciated.

# 10th November 2005, 9:06 am

We need a Django Developer. Another great Django job at the Naples Daily News.

# 8th November 2005, 10:51 pm

Maps that are Consistent with YOUR design. This is why Flash Mapping apsis are cool. Especially the pirate one.

# 8th November 2005, 5:57 pm

Rich Text Editing With Dojo. Utterly fantastic. Beautiful API, and it even works in Safari.

# 8th November 2005, 12:52 am / dojo, javascript, richtext

Ajaxy Exception Catching. Watch the screencast. This is awesome.

# 7th November 2005, 4:13 pm