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Dubai: “Sure, we can build that.”. More crazy architecture in Dubai. This time they’re trying for the world’s tallest building.

# 1st April 2005, 4:17 pm

Boring Boring (via) A directory of dull things—outstanding parody.

# 1st April 2005, 2:39 pm

Custom checkbox (via) The right way to do custom checkbox graphics.

# 1st April 2005, 2:26 pm

Greasemonkey for Internet Explorer. Requires the .NET framework—still has some way to go.

# 1st April 2005, 2:23 pm / greasemonkey, internet-explorer

Stricter Whitespace Enforcement. Finally! Guido tightens the rules on whitespace.

# 1st April 2005, 2:23 pm / guido-van-rossum, python

Google Gulp. Quench your thirst for knowledge.

# 1st April 2005, 2:22 pm

Google Ride Finder (via) Shows live positions of taxis using Google Maps.

# 1st April 2005, 2:22 pm

Web Technology Put To Good Use (via) Ben Brown explains how tags will get you laid on his new dating site, Consumating.

# 31st March 2005, 7:15 pm

Where the eye falls. Cool graphic showing an eye tracker study of a Google search results page.

# 31st March 2005, 6:20 am

Ajax forest, Remote Scripting trees. Brent Ashley, father of the JSRS library, kicks in on Ajax.

# 30th March 2005, 7:19 pm / ajax, javascript, brent-ashley

[delicious-discuss] big news. Joshua has funding, and is now working on del.icio.us full time.

# 30th March 2005, 8:55 am / delicious

Google Acquires Urchin (via) I’ve used Urchin, and it’s a very decent piece of software.

# 29th March 2005, 9:06 pm

Drag-and-drop Sortable Lists with JavaScript and CSS. I built something very similar to this last year at the Journal-World.

# 29th March 2005, 6:06 am

thunk.py. Fun Python hack for use with map() and filter().

# 28th March 2005, 8:04 pm

tpp—text presentation program. s5 is old hat: this ncurses-based presentation program runs in a terminal.

# 25th March 2005, 6:46 pm

scrape.py. A clever Python screen-scraping module, with similarities to WWW::Mechanize.

# 25th March 2005, 5:09 am / python, scraping

JavaScript Breakpoints. Another brilliant piece of JavaScript hackery from Steve Yen.

# 25th March 2005, 12:07 am

Greaseblog (via) The weblog about greasemonkey

# 23rd March 2005, 9:52 pm / greasemonkey

PyCon 2005 photos. I’ve started uploading to Flickr.

# 23rd March 2005, 6:06 pm / flickr

The Path of Least Resistance. This was one of the most interesting issues raised at SxSW.

# 23rd March 2005, 4:48 am

Beautiful photo on Flickr. Spotted via the iraq tag feed.

# 22nd March 2005, 3:09 pm / flickr

One hundred words for snow. More on the Ajax naming debate. A name is a powerful thing.

# 22nd March 2005, 3:08 pm

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