Amazing shadow puppetry video.

GREAT Shadow Puppetry – Watch today’s top amazing videos here
Found on Ursi’s blog – who is doing a fine job of gathering cool bits and pieces from all over the place.

Full text RSS feeds automagically created from partial ones, courtesy of EchoDitto labs.
Had a quick try – it worked for the BBC’s and e-consultancy’s partial feeds. Slightly erratic results sometimes, though, such as with the Guardian’s feeds.

You’re probably already very familiar with the Ad-Block extension for Firefox.
Now there’s a new kid on the block, Tubestop. Tubestop prevents YouTube’s brand new overlay ads from spoiling your videos. It works by substituting the player on Youtube’s pages (which inserts ads) with the one that appears embedded in web pages (which doesn’t).

I mentioned it earlier today in a comment elsewhere and it reminded me to give this stuff due praise:

Andrews Liver Salts is the cure for all known ills. Without any doubt, this product has rescued more days for me that any combination of painkillers, antibiotics, stomach settlers or hairs-of-the-dog. If, some day, I am shot, gassed or garrotted, I reckon …read the rest of this article

Pure coincidence, perhaps, but there were two articles in my feed reader today arguing that there’s a need to avoid too much Search Engine Optimisation.
From Dharmesh Shah:
The Perils of Pandering to Google.
And from Ken Yarmosh:
Search Engine Deoptimisation
The trouble with ranking highly on Google is that any old riff-raff might turn up at your site. You could end up ranking on …read the rest of this article

Joshua Porter has published slides from a presentation reminding us that there is over a hundred years of research into behavioural psychology waiting to inform the way in which social web applications are designed. Through the links, I found Peter Kollock’s 1996 essay, Design Principles for Online Communities, which collects together some key points from work done over the previous …read the rest of this article

Hard To Tell If Wikipedia Entry On Dada Has Been Vandalized Or Not
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND—The Wikipedia entry on Dada—the World War I–era “anti-art” movement characterized by random nonsense words,…

Updating a plug-in made the blog crash again, so I decided it was time for a clearout and a return to Web 1.5:

Theme changed to Barthelme. It’s pretty plain, so I’ll try to upload lots of frivolous videos and pics to make up for it.
No blogroll. You can see my semi-current reading list on the Grazr page. My previous blogroll was …read the rest of this article