Ever wonder how Jack Black would be like in a low budget, awful (yet hilarious) home-made(ish) video? It even has its own theme song which incidentally, if you listen closely – he hums in one part of the movie School of Rock
Beefing up the comment form
I added two things on the comment form:
- Live comment preview – shows immediate feedback on how your comment would look like after posting (which is why I took out the “preview” button)
- Security captcha – anti-spambot mechanism. I know it’s not foolproof, but it does the job most of the time
Is beauty really subjective?
I was reading an article which proposes the implementation of “subjective” captchas (pictured on the right) to determine if the user planning input data was a machine or not. It would show a series of pictures where the user would choose a person considered to be “hot” or “not.” While this can be pretty judgemental, it still works as the machines should have a more difficult time analyzing image data like that than simply analyzing strings of text.
Among the people chanting that beauty was ultimately subjective, there was a comment which I found very interesting.
Saying that beauty is “subjective” is kind of a cop-out. It’s usually said by those of us who wish it was true. Just because one out of ten thousand people might find an ugly person remotely attractive doesn’t make that same person “attractive” anymore than a guy with a fat chick fetish makes an obese 800lb woman “skinny.”
Streaming audio samples in music section
I finally implemented a flash-based solution to enable visitors to just listen to my songs right from the music section. I kinda renovated the code of the page while I was at it. Here’s a screenshot of how the “user interface” works.
useful AJAX-y goodness
Lightboxing and Flickr
NOTICE
CONTENTS NO LONGER APPLICABLE
The content discussed in this post is no longer valid; as I’m now using a different “lightbox” implementation.
More here
JC made me check out his installation of a cool WordPress plugin that does lightboxing. I decided to apply the same stuff in my blog – and modify it a bit to be able to link to the image’s Flickr page somewhat dynamically.
Results
If you’re not interested in the details, then just spot the difference between these two lightbox-enabled links (I just hope it does work as I intended it to).
Here’s an image which I linked to Flickr
Here’s an image which I linked to the Gallery within my domian
LINK REMOVED (as the old gallery doesn’t exist anymore)
If you noticed the difference, and are interested in how I did that – read on… Read More