Looks like I'm going to have to go get me an Ordning Timer soon, to go with the intervalometer.

Thoughtbot discover their RFID door-lock system has an API. A short bash at some code later, and they now have theme songs when they enter the office.

"We couldn't believe it either, but as it turns out, from the launcher screen of your Pre, simply type in the phrase "upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart" and up comes a hidden app called "Developer Mode Enabler."" Let's face it, every device has to have a cheat code.

"So, is it possible to mix segments and querystring?" Sort of, maybe, seems to be the answer.

Long thread of patched and hacked 8-bit and 16-bit ROMs, some bringing a vast amount of customisation.

Blimey, John.

"I got this idea to stuff Javascript in a PNG image and then read it out using the getImageData() method on the canvas element." Blimey.

"I thought, why not build a relational database in HTML? So I did. I even got inner joins working." This is insane. Great, but insane.

"This little hack adds find-as-you-type to Safari, Apple’s OS X web browser"

the_decapitator: he finds ordinary bus-shelter adverts, and then graphically - and entertainigly - decapitates someone in them. entertaining! subversive! hurrah for culture hacking.

There's an achievement in HL2:Episode 2 which involves carrying a little gnome through the entire game and doing a thing with him. A lovely writeup here.

35mm pinhole camera, made out of lego. Delightful.

"The words defined in this dictionary are the property of the Tech Model Railroad Club of M.I.T. and all rights to use and define these words are strictly reserved." From 1959.

Awesome little greasemonkey script that overrides default send-to-group behaviour, and replaces it with send-to-multiple-groups-at-once.

Remotely-run service to generate smart, daily-updated sets based on metadata. Nifty.

Something else to file away

Background images for elements in lists disappear. The solution: make the list relatively positioned. Moronic, but true.

Ahehe. It's Track and Field all over again! (But seriously: when you're given an interface, the instinct is to subvert it, hack it, and what better way than by modifiying the hardware? It's the low-tech version of an autofire button)

Creating the ten-hour-takeover

Earlier draft of subsequent book