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Two trailers for Zaitochi Zatôichi, the new Takeshi Kitano film. The top trailer features (very briefly) what I think is a statue being cut in two by a sword, the first time I've seen that in non-animated form (prime example being the Animatrix' Program). [via t-melt]

1. posted by huphtur at 18:04 on August 31, 2003

for some reason it reminds me of this:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0096945/
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Bloody hell, I just realized why my Mozilla Firebird 'Add to bookmarks' prompt has been taking so long to appear lately: the Imported IE Favorites folder contains 2000+ subfolders!

Now, I haven't used my IE favorites since last December or so; it's mostly empty except for some shortcuts to local folders for use in Explorer. Apparently, during the last install, Firebird 0.6.1 thought it would be a good idea to add those folders and all their subfolders to its bookmarks file. Wow.

1. posted by Arthur! at 14:41 on August 29, 2003

It didn't happen to my installation, so it's not something it does by default.. I think.

2. posted by jeroen at 01:35 on August 30, 2003

I'm surprised to see Mozilla Firebird is just as good as IE....small, fast, supports DOM stuff, wow.

3. posted by milov at 12:06 on August 30, 2003

Definitely... You have to remember, IE6 is an 'outdated' browser, being over two years old already.

4. posted by Ruben at 00:26 on August 31, 2003

I'd rather say Yuk instead of Wow.

5. posted by ben at 00:51 on August 31, 2003

"Mozilla Firebird is just as good as IE"? You must be kidding! Firebird beats IE three times over!

6. posted by Jeroen at 22:32 on August 31, 2003

Ruben, why "yuk"?

7. posted by milov at 12:47 on September 01, 2003

Here we have an interesting situation: two different Jeroen's have posted a comment. Do I show that as one name in the 'x comments by...' link, or two?

8. posted by mados at 19:44 on September 02, 2003

It doesn't matter, I think. The posters URLs are needed to differ between them. We can't see the URLs in the "x comments ..." link. So show it as one.

9. posted by jeroen at 23:54 on September 11, 2003

I guess that's the drawback of not registering....however, I would keep it like this, and consider banning "jeroen" names, since it's too common anyway :D
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I'm, like, really anxious for people to post more comments so I can see more of the new "x comments by name1, name2 and name3" commentlink-syntax in action... That "and" makes the link look so much more interesting, as if name1 and name2 are really having a discussion with name3 and each other.

1. posted by Nate at 19:07 on August 27, 2003

I'll bite.

2. posted by Nate at 19:11 on August 27, 2003

What's really great that your system can tell the difference between 2 posts by Nate, and 2 posts by different people.

3. posted by nowak at 19:34 on August 27, 2003

Swanky.

4. posted by Arnout at 21:54 on August 27, 2003

I think it should also do stuff like "Initially, Nate was just talking to himself. Then, nowak joined in. And then, Arnout couldn't resist..." :-)

5. posted by Ruben at 22:52 on August 27, 2003

Let's try.

6. posted by Nate at 22:56 on August 27, 2003

I like Arnout's idea.

7. posted by halodex.com,fidel,Fidel at 00:25 on August 28, 2003

I'm not sure I get the gist of this quite. Does it show x # of comments by an individual or x # of comments by a group of people?

8. posted by halodex.com,fidel,Fidel at 00:26 on August 28, 2003

Nevermind.. I see. Just now I was turned into the "and". That is cool.

9. posted by huphtur at 00:53 on August 28, 2003

what about (1) ?

10. posted by milov at 00:59 on August 28, 2003

You mean in the Latest comments listing? It's implied.

11. posted by pup at 15:31 on August 28, 2003

i'm a sucker.

12. posted by foo, but not bar and baz at 16:31 on August 28, 2003

I like it.

13. posted by milov at 16:33 on August 28, 2003

Thanks Arnout, that was to be expected :)

14. posted by Arnout (indeed) at 22:23 on August 28, 2003

No, no, it must have been one of my cow-orkers. We all show up as the same IP in your logs. Honest :-)

15. posted by Calm_Pear, Calm_Banana at 00:30 on August 29, 2003

lalala

16. posted by ...? at 07:51 on August 29, 2003

Je kunt er nog meer grappige dingen mee doen?

17. posted by P01 at 10:50 on October 22, 2003

In fact the comas & and can be added in CSS. If you follows the idea described in ALA - taming lists ( http://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/ )

It should give something like:

.commentatorList ul
{
display:inline;
}
.commentatorList li
{
list-style:none;
float:left;
}
.commentatorList li:before
{
content: ", ";
}
.commentatorList li:first-child:before
{
content: "";
}
.commentatorList li:last-child:before
{
content: "\00a0 and ";
}


<div class="commentatorList">
<ul>
<li>donald</li>
<li>riri</li>
<li>fifi</li>
<li>loulou</li>
</ul>
</div>

Ok, it's useless but I had some time to waste :p

18. posted by milov at 11:04 on October 22, 2003

Very cool, P01!
I'd use it in an instant if it wasn't for all those Internet Explorer users whom I'd like to show a neat commentatorlist too.
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apple
fun with laser pointer and nightshot-mode...

1. posted by palla at 17:16 on August 27, 2003

interesting...beautiful!

2. posted by Eduardo Marquetti at 22:46 on August 27, 2003

Wow!
Ahhh... I wold ask how did u make it! Slow shot eh?.. Nice!

3. posted by milov at 01:05 on August 28, 2003

Yes, this is an 8-second shot, during which I just moved the laser dot randomly around and over the apple.

4. posted by Eduardo Marquetti at 13:12 on August 28, 2003

Ahhhh.. itá a aple?! :)

5. posted by and at 13:57 on August 28, 2003

Nice :)

6. posted by 990000 at 20:54 on August 28, 2003

cool

7. posted by Swanz at 23:09 on September 01, 2003

lijkt op een pixies cd hoesje

8. posted by milov at 23:17 on September 01, 2003

9. posted by bobby at 04:29 on July 14, 2004

sux stupid y would u do that its retarted

10. posted by ? at 11:38 on November 06, 2004

hay fag its not retarted

11. posted by guest at 05:24 on November 24, 2005

Arguing on the internet is retarted... Cool picture, I just bought a green DPSS laser pointer, and was looking for fun stuff to do. Your pic brought photo/video to my mind, thanks... (I image-googled "fun 'laser pointer'").
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Quadrone.org has a nice alternative application and document icon for Mozilla Firebird. Definitely less distracting to the eye than that flame-thing. [via Gary Turner]
Cruft-free URLs in Movable Type [diveintomark]
Article URLs week: Recommendations | ashbykuhlman.net
How to recognize a Weblog tool by its permalinks

Been reading these articles about reducing cruft, or unnecessary info, in urls. Now, my permanent urls of the form milov.nl/entry/123 already were quite short, but then I got to thinking: do I really need that obvious /entry bit in there? So I wrote an .htaccess rule to enable permalinks of the amazingly compact form milov.nl/123, which is now the default (the old syntax still works as well, of course).

1. posted by jeroen at 23:52 on September 11, 2003

some more tweaking and even milov.nl will do ;-)
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milov.nl/feeds/
This is a custom view script I wrote for my feed on feeds [2252] install, removing a bunch of details/options I don't need. Most importantly: I have no desire to read people's weblog entries in anything other than the original design, so descriptions are out.

It's still basically a flat listing of recent items sorted by date, except I made it so adjacent items are grouped together in one block if they happen to be from the same feed; resulting in something that would look quite nice in a narrow side frame or searchpane (IE-users can click here to open it in theirs--can't wait for Firebird to support this).

Source (script, template and stylesheet):
view-mv.php
view-mv.inc.html
view-mv.css

(Update: I have since totally changed the look of my /feeds/ page so don't be surprised if these templates make it look rather different)

1. posted by halodex.com,fidel,Fidel at 01:17 on August 24, 2003

Thanks for including the source files for this Milo. Also again for posting to the script in the first place. I'm slowly (When I get the inclination) customizing my copy. fof is a kick ass script. The proof of this is in the meta pudding. I saw this post from fof. =)

2. posted by folkert at 19:19 on August 24, 2003

I installed feedonfeeds last week, and haven't touched FeedDemon -which is an outstanding RSSS reader- ever since!

My OPML is on-line, so I can watch my feeds anywhere I want. The only thing I really miss is a notification feature, telling you that there was a new post. To compensate I use a meta refresh-referral to the updatefile and back to the feedview again. But that isn't really the same.

3. posted by Fidel at 23:24 on August 25, 2003

The code to fof seems pretty straight forward so it should be too hard to add an update by email or somesuch.

4. posted by mados at 16:17 on September 03, 2003

This works in Opera, too. Step 1: Use <a rel="sidebar" href="feeds/"> Step 2: Add target="_main" to any link in the feed (your ?target=_main causes an JS error in Opera 6).

5. posted by Ruben at 21:41 on February 25, 2004

Finally I'm into feeds too...
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1. posted by bas at 23:59 on August 21, 2003

Why don't you follow standards all the time? Is this Kunstwerken?

This page looks great. It has many issues on following webstandards. It helps me fixing bugs. So why don't you be kinda perfect?

2. posted by tija at 12:16 on December 17, 2005

wat een coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooluh site
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Yay, my Cowboy Bebop: Complete Sessions Collection arrived! With one purchase I now have all 26 episodes, spread over 6 DVDs. Danelope pointed out this Amazon.com offer a while ago, and reading a nice Cowboy Bebop post on Smirlogg made me finally decide to buy it. This is (very close to being) my favourite tv series ever, animated or otherwise.

I've seen all eps in Divx format before, but it's definitely worth watching them all again in high quality, for the amazing background art if anything. The discs are Region 1 but luckily I region-free-hacked both my dvd-player and dvd-drive.

Related entry: 1134
And screenshots: 2305

1. posted by Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at 20:27 on August 20, 2003

Later Space Cowboy.. make sure to get the Movie too.

2. posted by milov at 21:23 on August 20, 2003

Indeed, I have to buy it before I get to episode 22 and 23 (if I want to watch the whole story in order :)

3. posted by yahoo.com,jade_vamp24,lady jade at 00:57 on December 03, 2003

are you sure the complete sessions has the series number 5? the cover of it has Ed holding Ein, and i cant find it ANYWHERE!!!! i have all the others!!! email me personally , anybody to let me know if it has series #5! it is extremely important!
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feed on feeds is a server side RSS aggregator with an interface that actually looks close to what my imaginary perfect feed reader looked like: single-page listing of all new items, sorted by date -- none of that three-pane crap. I've been using it for three days now, which is already longer than any other feed reader I've tried. :)
Plus, it's all PHP/MySQL so I shouldn't have much trouble making it look exactly like I want it to...

1. posted by huphtur at 04:05 on August 19, 2003

i was looking for one like that earlier today. this is good, cuz now i can set up a feed, which i can check wherever i am.

2. posted by gallico at 20:47 on August 20, 2003

great, i believe this is the thing that will make me start careing about feeds.

3. posted by halodex.com,fidel,Fidel at 07:42 on August 22, 2003

I definatly like this a lot. Does it's job well, and is very easy to customize. perfect. Now I don't even need amphetadesk!
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1. posted by Eduardo Marquetti at 13:32 on August 19, 2003

Gold window.

2. posted by palla at 14:02 on August 21, 2003

Wow! love it!

3. posted by farzad at 20:17 on February 19, 2004

hello
i interest submit
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DHTML Lemmings - Whaaa... Amazing entry for the GoT DHTML Contest. [via 2lmc spool]

1. posted by P01 at 01:24 on August 16, 2003

Really cool!
I've always wanted to port Lemmings but never found the time and energy.

It even features some keyboard shortcuts.
I'm curious to see how he managed the collision detection.

2. posted by crisp at 02:50 on August 16, 2003

Basically there is no need for collosion detection; the game plays in a grid, and the lemmings just follow it. Blockers have their own code in the grid itself (this is still buggy).
It's nice to see that people like it!

3. posted by P01 at 05:12 on August 16, 2003

crisp: That's some quick feedback. You must be quite attentive to your logs these days ;)

My curiosity had already guided me to the data structure of the levels :p clever encoding BTW.

I wonder if a particular reason urged you to pre-zoom the images by 2. Coz there's ~540 Kb of pictures which could be shrinked to ~270 Kb.

4. posted by crisp at 14:30 on August 16, 2003

It's been a bomb since the link got out, and I didn't do it. My homepage generated 3GB datatraffic just yesterday (against a normal 30/40MB daily) so I started looking.

As for the images: I am using the levels as a background image and CSS doesn't let me resize backgrounds.
I might be able to put those in a layer as an image, that would indeed save a bunch. Thanks for the tip!

5. posted by P01 at 02:41 on August 17, 2003

3 Gb O__O

Why not simply double the size of the images by changing there width and height attributes ? If you don't want to store the value of those attributes for each image, you can retrieve them once an image is loaded and then double them. It works from NN4,IE+ to any recent browser.

BTW, if your server is not yet crawled, I think your games would find a place of choice on http://www.javascript-games.org/

6. posted by crisp at 03:20 on August 17, 2003

I already updated the current version reducing the image sizes by more than 50% and added some music and sound effects as I went along :)

My server as a matter of fact was crawled - 7GB in just 2 days which is over my limit, but my friends at tweakers.net where happy to host it for me: http://crew.tweakers.net/crisp/lemmings/

I'll have a look at that link of yours! :)

7. posted by milov at 16:40 on August 17, 2003

I changed the link to point to the new location. Look at all the people linking/talking about your lemmings:
http://www.google.com/search?q=dhtml+lemmings

8. posted by crisp at 03:57 on August 18, 2003

It's truly amazing what is happening here; I've got a couple of hundred sites linking to it now and I get a lot of mail these days; the old games still rule... ;)

9. posted by andy at 18:17 on August 18, 2003

Where can I get a copy of the code?

10. posted by crisp at 00:25 on August 19, 2003

11. posted by P01 at 15:51 on August 19, 2003

The main request expressed by the audience is that it needs more levels, and a wider browser support ( i.e. Mozilla, Konqueror )

12. posted by milov at 15:56 on August 19, 2003

Mozilla support is already there, though? In fact, I haven't viewed it in anything *but* Mozilla.

13. posted by crisp at 17:12 on August 19, 2003

I'm currently working on 6 new levels which are also a lot harder than the current ones. It takes time though to rework the graphics and setup the levelcode; around 3 hours per level.
I've tested this thing in Mozilla1.3+, Opera7, IE5.5 and IE6 so browsersupport should be ok. All other browsers that don't work for this probably lack some support or are just buggy.
Music support is another thing; IE for windows is no problem, but getting it to work in any other browser is a real pain (plug-in sniffing and such).
And then offcourse there's still some bugs to fix; especially in the more complex levels imperfections start to show.

Remember that this is just a work in progress; the entire publicity it got was totally unintentional and way too early.

14. posted by P01 at 21:24 on August 19, 2003

Apparently it doesn't work on Mozilla/Linux nor on Konqueror. But I haven't test those platform myself.

For the music support I suggest you to in touch with Scott SCHILLER ( http://www.schillmania.com ) would did a really good conversion with his DHTML ARKANOID. AFAIK he uses FLASH 5.0 to handle the sound.

Regarding the creation of the levels, I'm sure you could make an API ( even in PHP with GD ) that reads an in image of the level with a color by type of material ( void, blocker, soft, lava, water ... ) and generates the strings you use in Javascript. Don't bother to contact me if I can be of any help and save you some hours on that topic.

Don't worry, I know this is a work in progress. A good one indeed.

15. posted by crisp at 21:46 on August 19, 2003

I have reports from people running it without problems in linux with a recent mozilla version.
Konqueror as well as Apple's Safari which is based upon Konqueror's rendering engine (KHTML) is apparently lacking some CSS2 support and maybe some javascript-HTML bindings I'm using. I neither have a linux nor a Macintosh platform available to test what exactely it is though, so I don't know if I can work around it.

I'm still looking for better ways to support sound in alternative browsers, but flash is out of the question because it is not in the spirit of this project ;)

I already do have a script that generates the level code for me (actually it is PHP with GD ;) ) but the screenshots still need a lot of work, and I have to fit in the animations pixel-precise, creating smaller images to block off parts of the animation that should not be visible and putting these images on top of it.

Thanks for thinking with me, I appreciate it! :)

16. posted by crisp at 10:45 on August 29, 2003

Down thanks to the BREIN foundation... :(

17. posted by P01 at 13:27 on August 29, 2003

°__°

I would understand if they complain about the sprites or the sound track but the code ... ? I guess those companies have a whole department dedicated to the protection of their rights and registered trademarks but they didn't managed to prove hey actually owns the Lemmings(TM)

You've had a really pragmmatic attitude. Bravo.

Now, I can't wait to play Brainless!
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pigeon

1. posted by Eduardo Marquetti at 13:22 on August 13, 2003

With this hot summer in Europe, they (Birds) can fly and cooler their heads. What are you doing to refresh your?

2. posted by Isabel at 15:19 on August 13, 2003

nice birds!

3. posted by huphtur at 00:05 on August 14, 2003

darn birds crapped on my car.
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Going My Way: The Japanese map which is seen with just the text (Babelfish translation) - from what I can gather this is an ASCII/Kanji map of Japan where each element is actually the name of the area it represents; pretty cool.

1. posted by JC Liou at 08:20 on July 18, 2004

Very good.
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reiger silhouet 


click for full view

1. posted by Ivan at 08:17 on August 12, 2003

Congratulations !! You're quarter of a century old now!

2. posted by milov at 11:02 on August 12, 2003

Indeed I am :)
And this reiger gave me a birthday present by sitting still just long enough for me to take this photo.

3. posted by Erik at 11:24 on August 12, 2003

Congratulations Milo!

And a great picture as well... Hope you'll keep them up for the next quarter century :)

4. posted by Eduardo Marquetti at 14:45 on August 12, 2003

Hey! Your birthday?! Great!
Congratulations, healt, love and success to your live!

5. posted by gallico at 20:00 on August 12, 2003

yeah, congratulations!

(time flies, it's great to be able to capture some of the beautiful moments)

6. posted by low at 22:55 on August 12, 2003

Feli! ^_^
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Digital Web Magazine - Keep Javascript Simple - Peter-Paul Koch argues against external Javascript libraries, which often needlessly replace already quite compact-and-compatible DOM statements.

I could've probably moved a lot of iambald-code into a single DHTML library, but never really felt the need--more so after I gave up trying to support Netscape 4. Plus, I like the fact that visitors can simply View Source a page and see the whole code without having to go searching through separate .js files. [via paranoidfish.org]

1. posted by Swanz at 21:37 on August 08, 2003

geweldig mooi!

2. posted by Ruben at 23:34 on August 08, 2003

Hoe lang zou het duren voordat...

3. posted by marov at 00:14 on August 09, 2003

mooi geschoten!

4. posted by jimmy at 10:00 on August 09, 2003

Geweldige kracht en controle gaat er uit van deze foto.

5. posted by cerb at 12:17 on August 10, 2003

geen groter formaat?

6. posted by milov at 17:39 on August 10, 2003

7. posted by walter at 23:25 on August 10, 2003

Voordat wat, Ruben? :-)
Heel erg mooi, Milo. En dat zeg ik niet omdat.

8. posted by Eduardo Marquetti at 13:22 on August 11, 2003

Wow! National Geographic Style!
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thought objects
reminds me of 2004
Reality Hacking - interesting urban/outdoor art projects. [via teradome]

1. posted by Marijn at 22:33 on August 06, 2003

Esspecially liked the clown-nose idea on there. It would make a great flash-mob idea as well :) The top-image ... you cut of their heads, man that's kinda cruel ;)

2. posted by milov at 12:22 on August 07, 2003

>The top-image ... you cut of their heads

Meh. I got a bit tired of the giant image constantly in view... It detracts from the posted photos. Anyway, you can still see them here:
http://milov.nl/g/lamps_bg3d.jpg
http://milov.nl/entry/2211

3. posted by Marijn at 14:27 on August 07, 2003

Interesting, I ran into that very same problem a couple of days ago, I solved it by deleting *everything* from the design that wasn't directly related to the foto. Less is more and all that ;) Just out of curiosity, when did you buy your camera?

4. posted by milov at 17:10 on August 07, 2003

I bought my Olympus C-50Z in february, right when my old camera broke down.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympusc50z/
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1. posted by Eduardo Marquetti at 13:14 on August 06, 2003

The gold lake!

2. posted by Isabel at 20:36 on August 06, 2003

Het mooiste moment van de dag; als het zonnetje in het water schitterd.
Dat heb je mooi vast gelegd.
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Kinds of photomontage - part of Writing with Images. Found via some Google search a while ago...

1. posted by mados at 21:27 on August 03, 2003

Green, bright, nice.

2. posted by Eduardo Marquetti at 20:02 on August 04, 2003

Nice place!

3. posted by Eduardo Marquetti at 20:05 on August 04, 2003

Ah!! Like Mars!
have a face on the trees (woods2 and woods5). That´s in a witch and gosts forest? :)

4. posted by milov at 13:34 on August 06, 2003

Wow, I didn't even notice the faces till you mentioned it! :)

Another good material that seemingly contains faces when photographed is tinfoil: http://milov.nl/entry/1975

5. posted by Ruben at 16:44 on August 07, 2003

Eduardo is such a genius :-)

6. posted by hotmail.com,robyn_cfc_1,robyn at 11:40 on October 20, 2005

wat da hell is dis bout? it was ment d show gosts!!!!!!!!!!get it sorted

7. posted by hotmail.co.uk,www.sian_mad,sian at 11:45 on October 20, 2005

snapp out of it i thought they were supposed to show ghosts i've seen ghosts and they dnt look like a tree

8. posted by Milo at 13:02 on October 20, 2005

Hey if you don't see the ghosts, it's your own fault.
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