Safari screenshots for any Url

Since I've had some problems with Safari compatibility recently, this gets stored in the stash. It wouldn't have helped me, but it's nice to have anyway.

And whatever you do, don't create <img> elements using the DOM constructor:

var blah = new Image();

or you'll hit some cryptic Safari errors (DOM-something 8-something error-something, gee); just use:

var blah = document.createElement("img");

instead.

mac vOld on a USB stick

Seems geeky enough to try, just for fun if not for profit: Creating a Mac-on-Stick using Mini vMac.

L#? should I patent M#?

"A powerful lisp-based scripting language for .NET" - now that is what I call a combination.

Found via an early bird. Hope the worm was juicy.

53 CSS techniques

A nice overview of a common CSS magic tricks.

Wishful thinking out loud: when the browser incompatibilities are long gone and duly forgotten, perhaps we will move on from the hacks and unto some real magic...

free online education resources

A.k.a. "Massive Resource List for All Autodidacts", worth checking out.

Ralph Koster's motivational posters

Geeky pictorial goodness. One of my favourites is the "Eldritch Knight = Paladin for Atheists" one, will post the link and some others when I go through them again... Picked up from his blog.

indie games of the year

Nice to know that "Eppur si muove".

99 lisp problems on the wall

Almost as good as beer bottles. Somewhat better than rum kegs.

The programming language that gave me the worst (positive) headache so far. If I ever get nostalgic for that experience, this ought to help somewhat, methinks.

And yes, the hangover fits the metaphor.

frickin' mp3 volume levels

Since the only thing missing from Winamp is real-time normalization, this could come handy.

Now, I only need to keep the computer running for a week to analyze all my music, and shuffled long playlists would get a (long overdue) level up...

programming contests galore

Interesting.

• has some interesting problems +
  
• accepts solutions in many different languages +
  
• a bit too high-school-y and computer-scienc-y for my general preferences -
  
• don't look at the high scores (a.k.a. "some people definitely don't have a life") -
  

Ruby data structures and algorithms

I've read the C++ and C# versions before, this looks like a nice "port". Could definitely help submerging my hacker personality in shiny Ruby goodness...

a public code snippets repository

Seems cute: Code Snippets. Stumbled upon while looking for some Ruby sample code.

happy morning sunshine reaper

Maybe this could be a worthwhile read: Happy Hour is 9 to 5. TODO: start reading and see.

a kewl Ruby book

Seems like a good read, if I ever finally find the time to properly pick up Ruby: Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book.

Hmm. I would have sworn there was a nice Html version of that available, but now it seems only the Pdf one remains. Nah, will do.