2007 Apr 12, 2:34Blog on visual design and data visualization. Lots of neat things here.
art visualization analysis photo video social statistics interactive information graph data monthly chart blog 2007 Apr 11, 9:12Show Flickr photos on Google Earth. Its pretty neat. Light on features though like no user selection.
googel map flickr photos geo 2007 Apr 8, 3:05Shortcut Tag?
I just saw this on
another user's delicious links:
a link to ESV search that's
tagged with, among other things, "shortcut:esv". When viewed on del.icio.us there's a text box that lets you search using that link. I hadn't seen this before, but it seems pretty cool and I'm
surprised I hadn't seen it previously. A delicious post with such a tag ends up looking like the following:
I tried searching for information on this and I've found
other delicious users doing the same thing,
but nothing about the tag itself. If you know any information especially official information from del.icio.us itself please post links in reply to this post. So without further preface here's what
I've learned about the del.icio.us shortcut tag.
How-to
To get a search box in your del.icio.us links make a post that satisfies the following requirements:
- One of the tags must begin with the text 'shortcut:'. You can have more text following that in the tag if you like but it must at least start with 'shortcut:'.
- The 'url' you post must be a shortcut url rather than an actual URL. It must contain a '%s' with a lowercase 's'. When you enter text into the textbox on the del.icio.us page the text will
replace the '%s' after being percent-encoded. For example 'http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s' is the shortcut url for Google and if you type 'foo bar' into the textbox the URI you will
navigate to would be 'http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=foo%20bar'.
Complaints
This is neat but I do have a few complaints:
- The text from the textbox is percent-encoded before replacing the '%s'. Most sites use application/x-www-form-urlencoded
which encodes spaces as '+' rather than '%20'.
- The shortcut url format seems to be taken from Mozilla's Firefox Custom Keywords. Its a shame it wasn't based on something more
adaptable like the OpenSearch URL template syntax.
- A '%s' in the url means technically what you're submitting to del.icio.us isn't a URI as defined by the standard.
- Allowing text after 'shortcut:' means you can't look at all of a user's shortcut using this tag.
The next step is to create a tool to sync my
IE7 search providers with my shortcuts saved to delicious...
technical howto tagging tool tag delicious 2007 Mar 15, 11:27Article describing the One Laptop Per Child interface. I hadn't seen the collaborative browsing before. Looks neat.
olpc interface gui design article visualization 2007 Mar 9, 1:54An invention that creates and recycles dishes for you.
fabrication food design art neat-fp tool video 2007 Mar 6, 12:38Online cookbook of medieval recipes.
food history reference recipes medieval cooking neat-fp 2007 Mar 5, 9:18Addictive game where you set up towers to try and stop invading bugs.
flash game free neat-fp 2007 Mar 5, 7:30Flash video depicting Mario in stylized communism form.
flash video humor game nintendo mario animation communism neat-fp 2007 Feb 26, 12:13Search for pictures by drawing you own or entering the URL of an image. The tool will find images that look similar.
retrievr flickr search images tool neat-fp 2007 Feb 25, 11:58Shirt with a picture of Gaius Baltar (from Battlestar Galactica) reading "Not My President"
humor shirt merch baltar bsg battlestar politics neat-fp 2007 Feb 23, 12:25Humorous article mocking Dane Cook
humor comedy satire onion dane-cook article neat-fp 2007 Feb 22, 7:07What a keyboard would have looked like a century ago.
art computer hack hardware keyboard cool steampunk neat-fp 2007 Feb 20, 3:02An article on syncing music and video to and from your iPod on any computer using a non-iTunes application.
ipod itunes software music howto mp3 lifehacker blog article neat-fp 2007 Feb 20, 2:08Game where you're shown photos from flickr and guess what other people tagged the photo.
mashup photography flickr games game tag tagging words folksonomy neat-fp 2007 Feb 20, 12:32My IE blog post on IPv6 URI support in IE7.
ie ie7 blog ipv6 ip uri browser reference me neat-fp 2007 Jan 17, 2:08Learn the format of URIs that amazon uses for product images. Lots of neat things available via the URI such as drop shadow, rotation, and "XX% Off!" bullets.
amazon images hack howto article blog development reference uri 2006 Dec 18, 2:51A free window management system for Windows from Microsoft Research. Its kind of neato.
windows research microsoft free tool tools 2006 Nov 29, 5:34List of Lists. Vote things up and down and create arbitrary lists. Neat!
amazon reference unspun social lists web2.0 2006 Nov 24, 1:09Guide to scoring well by excellent players of the Xbox Live Arcade game Hexic HD. I've just started playing this a few days ago. This is a neat strategy.
hexic tutorial xbox xbox-live-arcade forum high-score 2006 Nov 3, 3:02I'm updating my
homepage to include a sorted list of
my livejournal blog entries and
my del.icio.us bookmarks. I'm using
BadgerFish to convert the XML of the RSS feeds of the two into JavaScript objects. At
that point I can do fun stuff like sorting them into lists on my page. Neat. This is how I spend my free time... OK.
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