2009 Mar 12, 12:04Google's chart API can generate QR codes. Just specify in the URL the chart type as 'qr', and the data you want encoded and the returned resource is a QR code image for that data. Just installed a QR
code reader on my phone.
qr barcode google api chart mobile web cellphone qrcode 2009 Mar 11, 1:24Penn & Teller's unreleased videogame included a minigame 'Desert Bus': 'The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a maximum speed of
45mph, a feat that would take the player 8 hours of continuous play to complete, as the game cannot be paused.'
desert-bus penn-and-teller videogame humor wikipedia 2009 Mar 10, 5:15"We built this ... (many people wished we hadn't) ... the Rainbow Vomiting Panda of Awesomeness as an experiment (which used Ling Ling fwiw)." WTF? "It's a stream of, on average, more interesting
photos then you'd generally get from polling Everyone's photos. The quality is pretty good, the best thing to do is watch The Panda for a while and figure out if a) you want to build something with a
live stream of photos b) you can build something more better than a vomiting panda (which lets face it, it pretty hard to top!)."
humor panda flickr reference api photos 2009 Mar 10, 11:26I've seen Yahoo's media player javascript widget around but until I read the dev. instructions I didn't appreciate it. You just include their js file and it finds all your links to mp3s (finer
grained and more explicit control available too), adds them to its playlist, and sticks a simple play/pause button on each link.
mp3 music ajax design yahoo javascript 2009 Mar 10, 9:42Music professor tests students and finds 'they seemed to prefer "sizzle sounds" that MP3s bring to music. It is a sound they are familiar with.' Then told the students to get off his lawn and to turn
down their sizzling music.
mp3 music via:swannman audio article 2009 Mar 7, 4:56Its my favorite song done Mario Paint style.
paranoid-android mario-paint mario radiohead music video youtube videogame 2009 Mar 6, 1:21"BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Washington State Senate honor Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik for their hard work and dedication to improving the lives of hospitalized children worldwide through
their creation and continued work with Child's Play Charity"
comic charity videogames penny-arcade goverment washington senate 2009 Mar 6, 11:47"Anyway, I decided to take the letter a and put as many different diacritics on it as I could." Micahel Kaplan sticks like 80 diacritics on the letter 'a'. Awesome.
encoding unicode diacritic language letter michael-kaplan 2009 Mar 6, 5:16
I've found while debugging networking in IE its often useful to quickly tell if a string is encoded in UTF-8. You can check for the Byte Order Mark (EF BB BF in UTF-8) but, I rarely see the BOM on
UTF-8 strings. Instead I apply a quick and dirty UTF-8 test that takes advantage of the well-formed UTF-8 restrictions.
Unlike other multibyte character encoding forms (see Windows supported character sets or IANA's list of character sets), for example Big5, where sticking together any two bytes is more likely than not to give a valid byte sequence, UTF-8 is more restrictive. And unlike
other multibyte character encodings, UTF-8 bytes may be taken out of context and one can still know that its a single byte character, the starting byte of a three byte sequence, etc.
The full rules for well-formed UTF-8 are a little too complicated for me to commit to memory. Instead I've got my own simpler (this is the quick part) set of rules that will be mostly correct (this
is the dirty part). For as many bytes in the string as you care to examine, check the most significant digit of the byte:
-
F:
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This is byte 1 of a 4 byte encoded codepoint and must be followed by 3 trail bytes.
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E:
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This is byte 1 of a 3 byte encoded codepoint and must be followed by 2 trail bytes.
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C..D:
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This is byte 1 of a 2 byte encoded codepoint and must be followed by 1 trail byte.
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8..B:
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This is a trail byte.
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0..7:
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This is a single byte encoded codepoint.
The simpler rules can produce false positives in some cases: that is, they'll say a string is UTF-8 when in fact it might not be. But it won't produce false negatives. The following is table
from the
Unicode spec. that actually describes well-formed UTF-8.
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Code Points
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1st Byte
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2nd Byte
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3rd Byte
|
4th Byte
|
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U+0000..U+007F
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00..7F
|
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U+0080..U+07FF
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C2..DF
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80..BF
|
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U+0800..U+0FFF
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E0
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A0..BF
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80..BF
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U+1000..U+CFFF
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E1..EC
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80..BF
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80..BF
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U+D000..U+D7FF
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ED
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80..9F
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80..BF
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U+E000..U+FFFF
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EE..EF
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80..BF
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80..BF
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U+10000..U+3FFFF
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F0
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90..BF
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80..BF
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80..BF
|
|
U+40000..U+FFFFF
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F1..F3
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80..BF
|
80..BF
|
80..BF
|
|
U+100000..U+10FFFF
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F4
|
80..8F
|
80..BF
|
80..BF
|
test technical unicode boring charset utf8 encoding 2009 Feb 28, 2:21
Sarah and I met up with Jon, Scott, Jesse, and Grib in Las Vegas last weekend and we had a fun time.
- I got to play the Monorail Song via YouTube on my phone while on the Las Vegas Monorail rather than just chanting monorail like last
year.
- I didn't lose more gambling than I spent on food for the trip.
- Contrary to what some suggested, Sarah and I did not get married in Vegas.
- I finally saw a live Penn & Teller show and it was great!
personal2 monorail vegas penn-and-teller 2009 Feb 28, 1:55
sequelguy posted a photo:
Why do security guards love Segway's so much?
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sequelguy posted a photo:
Penn and Teller's stage before their Las Vegas show
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sequelguy posted a photo:
On the bridge in front of Treasure Island just before the first show of 'Sirens of TI' that day.
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sequelguy posted a photo:
street vegas nevada crowd 2009 Feb 28, 11:34"It's completely nuts... It's a book about what if the Rapture actually happened, and that's all I'm gonna tell you." -Junot Diaz, 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction
creativecommons comic literature religion magic download pdf 2009 Feb 27, 1:08The Space Game is like advanced Desktop Tower Defense (and from the same people) and set in space.
game online flash space strategy videogame 2009 Feb 27, 11:31"World's Shortest Escalator - certified by the Guinness Book of Records"
humor video escalator 2009 Feb 27, 11:00Raymond Chen has a years worth of blog content written and scheduled! "To give you an idea of how far in advance I write my blog entries, I wrote this particular entry on February 13, 2008. ... this
particular entry ended up on February 27, 2009 because that was the next available open day. ... Now, with a buffer of over a year, I do have quite a bit of leeway in choosing when any particular
article is published." Humorous commentor John writes in response: "If you were to disappear off the face of the Earth, how long would it be before we knew?"
blog raymond-chen writing humor 2009 Feb 26, 11:52This is what I'd like in a newspaper: "1: Focus on original content, do not rewrite wire stories or press releases." and "2: Focus on hyper-local coverage, newspapers should "own" their regional beat
because they have the best contacts and the best understanding of local companies and issues."
via:sambrook newspaper advertising business journalism internet 2009 Feb 24, 9:32Of course Netflix is already available on the 360, but PlayOn lets you watch Hulu on the 360. So far so good with the trial software. "Windows only: Previously mentioned Windows utility PlayOn-which
streams popular online video to your PS3, Xbox 360, and HP MediaSmart TV-has officially left its beta phase in the dust"
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