TTMMHTM: Piano hacks, PHP and Ruby secured, Leisure Suit Larry in Canvas
Things that made me happy this morning.
- Changing a “staircase into a massive piano”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw makes 60% more people use it instead of the escalators – fun is the best way to make people use things.
- You can do “vocoding with a Piano”:http://bit.ly/UucAM
- “YQL meets SPARQL“:http://triplr.org/sparyql/
- “Kayak releases trends data”:http://www.kayak.com/trends/TravelIndex – sadly enough not as a data API but as graphs
- “Twig”:http://www.twig-project.org/ is a PHP5 templating engine with security baked in.
- “Rails 3.0 now has XSS protection built in”:http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/10/08/XSS-Protection-by-Default-in-Rails-3-0 – congrats, guys.
- “Michael Moore’s new web site is based on Django”:http://blog.concentricsky.com/2009/10/michaelmoore/ and here’s some info how they made it scale.
- “This site is under construction”:http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/ is probably the best “under construction” animation collection ever.
- “Google Moderator”:http://moderator.appspot.com/ is a great app to collect questions for a final panel of a conference.
- “Lego Mindstorm robots solving Rubik’s cubes”:http://bit.ly/r3hzy – SkyNet has nothing on them
- “Old point and click adventures in Canvas”:http://sarien.net/ – play Leisure Suit Larry as a multiplayer game.
- The “YQLEX builder”:http://bit.ly/PM6Wp is a nice mashup of the YUI grids builder and YQL
Tags: fun, hacking, inspiring, kayak, piano, travel, yql, YUI
