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Vimeo Midgets

You may have noticed the thumbnail, but still very playable, videos in the upper right corner. They are Vimeo midgets and are just incredibly clever – I’d suggest you check them out if you’re into Internet video. I’m running a little PHP with a MySQL database to hold my clip ID numbers. Two random videos are grabbed from the database, and they are aligned dynamically onto the page.

At the moment, I’m entering my clip IDs manually into the database. This is not ideal since I will inevitably forget to do it/make some sort of mistake that breaks the system. So the GOOD news is that I’m now very motivated to try out the Vimeo API which, presumably, would let all this happen without my input. The BETTER news is that I’m about to start a project at work that involves an API, so I’ll have a chance to consolidate my time.

I’ve also replaced Travis’ “About” section with a Vimeo midget.

Mr. Brightside

In other Travis news:

Mr. Brightside Lip Dub from Matthew and Vimeo.

Via dalas and counterclockwise.

On my way to work…

…I saw one of the local can collector’s mouthing something to me. I took off my headphones:

Him: “Oh, I’m sorry…”

Me: “No no, don’t worry about it.”

“What a nice day this is, isn’t it?”

“Sure is. Really making up for the past week, eh?”

“Yeah, you have to force yourself to be unhappy on days like this.”

“Well, I’m certainly not unhappy!”

“I can tell!” *laughs*

“Alright, well you have a great day. Take care!”

“Thanks! You too!”

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Something I started making last year at work. Unfortunately, “work” got in the way of its completion.

- Via Gizmodo.

Bart produced a new USB installer for his tool, making use of the files that came in SP1 for Server 2003. The installer is actually a highly-automated series of scripts that can build a self-contained USB-bootable version of the BartPE XP repair and recovery environment. This gives you what’s arguably the most powerful recovery and repair tool ever — and a self-contained version of XP — that can fit on, boot from, and run on a modest 256MB USB thumb drive!

- Via informationweek.com.

What is your attitude toward the seedier side of Craigslist – the often explicit personal ads seeking casual sex? Do you see this as an integral part of the business, or as an embarrassment? –Andrew Clark, New York City

Craigslist users are pretty sophisticated and don’t tend to view sexual relations between consenting adults as seedy, at least compared to what goes on in the White House and Congress or the boardrooms of many large corporations. –Jim Buckmaster, the programmer-turned-CEO of online classified-ad site Craigslist

- Via cnnmoney.com.

Of the 30% of people unwilling to switch brands to iPhone the most common reason given was a lack of music storage, 43% and the dislike of all things Apple, 22%.

- via Apple Tech News.

So I guess 6.6% of those surveyed are idiots? Or maybe just incapable of making objective decisions?

If you like music at all, this will keep you occupied for a good 20 minutes.

The FontFeed posted a great list of extra bold/black fonts to use when Impact seems overused (i.e. right now).