brain lego: "this year on october 2, 2001, the date in mmddyyyy format will be a palindrome (same forwards as backwar): 10/02/2001. when was the last date that this occurred on?" – solution is available at answers to technical interview questions (found via langreiter.com).
i do not dig the american date format at all.
sensomatic's sensorama is really a cute place to rest for a while from the plight of modern internet times. my favorite is "the bee" (although netscape is necessary). outch!
the fabuolous hannes (who finally will blog at henso.com, soon) prepared la grand dame d'enregistrer la pain perdue dans le cyber-espace aka helma.at for a special view onto the many, many entries between october 14, 1998 and december 8, 1999.
on the week-end i visited the university of applied sciences (or whatever you call a fachhochschule in english) in dornbirn. to be precise: i took a look at the exhibition handmacht (which means both "hand makes" as well as "hand power"). it's strange that i did not get the whole picture when stefan pointed to the website. this seems to be a proof that physical presence is superior to telepresence. haptics rock!
what we always wanted to know about the differences between flash and gif animations – explained by xplane.
yesterday, stylepolice was linked at fm4 as "today's webtip".
strange, in the last time i got more and more confused about <a href="#"> tags... they are mainly used when there are other javascript handlers involved as tag parameters (e.g. <a href="#" onclick="alert('duh!');">). not every, but many browsers certainly will execute the javascript, however often scroll up to the top of a page which is sometimes really annoying. this can be avoided by 3 alternative approaches:
- putting the javascript command inside the href parameter: <a href="javascript:alert('duh!');">
- using the void() function instead of the hash: <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="alert('duh!');">
- creating a function called nothing() (or the like) with an empty function body and using this instead of the hash: <a href="javascript:nothing();" onclick="alert('duh!');"> (recommended for older browsers).
the first recorded impressions of mediensalat are available as quicktime movies. and torsten grünwald made the beautiful pictures he took at the event available online.
today is via-day: john maeda's designing by graphics (via partykeller). the examples [1, 2, 3, 4] bring some light into structure and syntax of a dbn program.
i agree, the human genome browser gateway could affect graphic design for the next decade... (via webdev).