Simon Willison’s Weblog

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

# 2:22 pm

Google Gulp. Quench your thirst for knowledge.

# 2:22 pm

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

# 2:23 pm / guido-van-rossum, python

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

# 2:23 pm / ie, greasemonkey

Mark Pilgrim goes both ways. Fighting greasemonkey scripts.

# 2:24 pm / mark-pilgrim, greasemonkey

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

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

# 2:39 pm

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

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2005 Britannica takeover of Wikimedia. Hostile takeover!

# 4:19 pm

43 Folders: April Power Hacks! I like number 8.

# 6:02 pm

Google April’s Fool Search: simon.incutio.com. That’s pretty cool :)

# 6:25 pm

Google Job Opportunities (via) Work... on the moon!

# 6:26 pm

stopdesign.com. Hit refresh a few times.

# 6:38 pm

del.icio.us/tag/aprilfools. No need for me to keep linking to them now.

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April 1, 2005—Wikipedia. The definitive list.

# 8:28 pm

Announcing Head First Scheme. If only...

# 10:48 pm

amazon2melvyl. Greasemonkey script that embeds icons in data: URIs—kudos to Phil Ringnalda for that idea.

# 8:43 am / greasemonkey, phil-ringnalda

How to Use UTF-8 with Python. When to use that tricky .encode() method.

# 8:49 am

SxSW 2005 photos. I finally got around to posting my SxSW photos to Flickr.

# 5:52 am

Boing Boing, Ka-Ching Ka-Ching. In light of the whole WordPress kerfluffle, I’m surprised this story didn’t get much attention.

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Patterns of Intermediation. Design patterns for bookmarklets, greasemonkey and similar.

# 7:16 pm / bookmarklets, design-patterns, greasemonkey

Yahoo Favelets. Bookmarklets for enhancing Yahoo! member profile search.

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CSS tips and tricks, Part 1. The cascade, descendant selectors and more.

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CSS tips and tricks, Part 2. Floats, centering, CSS hacks.

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Adding a ’bak’ comment to your .bash_profile. Quickly create a timestamped backup of a file.

# 11:44 pm

My Washington D.C. photos. Touristy photos. Includes squirrels... and ENIAC!

# 1:43 am / eniac, photos, squirrels, flickr

Content, services, and the yin-yang of intermediation (via) Jon Udell combines LibraryLookup and Greasemonkey in his latest screencast.

# 6:19 am / jon-udell, greasemonkey

Episode III Line FAQ (via) Yup, the line for Star Wars Episode III has its own FAQ.

# 10:33 pm

Toothing was a hoax! How disappointing. Shows how easy it is to create a fake story though.

# 5:09 am

Google Maps + Keyhole = Satellite photos. Even more like map.search.ch ;)

# 6:12 am