PottyMouth, my tool for transforming completely unstructured and untrusted text to valid, nice-looking, completely safe xHTML, is finally ready for its 1.0 release. I’ve added implicit list support, which was the last feature I wanted to hold up 1.0 for. Read about what PottyMouth is and what it does here. And if you know someone who’s building a website that might need it, tell them about it.
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20/20 on graphic design
Vacuous Survey
This was the second-to-last page in the Speakeasy customer satisfaction survey:
It was, hands-down, the easiest to answer question on the survey. Gotta love Speakeasy; even giving them feedback is a breeze.
Pot, meet kettle
“In terms of whether or not it’s possible to reprogram the kind of basic Russian DNA, which is a centralized authority, that’s hard to do. We’ve worked hard to make it appear in their interests – we made it clear to them that it is in their interests to have good relations with the West. And the best way to have good long-term relations with the West is to recognize that checks and balances in government are important, or recognize there are certain freedoms that are inviolate.”
This from the President who, along with White House Counsel David Addington, is trying to circumvent the checks & balances in our own constitution by asserting that the executive branch has intrinsically more power and autonomy than the judicial or legislative branches?
WebKit adds embeddable font support
Embeddable fonts in webpages; we only had to wait nine years for a browser to implement this. Yet another reason to hold my breath for a WebKit browser on Xorg.
Content-aware image resizing
I wonder how long it will be before we see things like seam carving for content-aware image resizing in places like advertising, live video feeds, and various display technologies. And wouldn’t this be great for showing thumbnails in photo management tools?
The George Orwell School of User Interface Design
This screenshot of psprint.com pretty much speaks for itself:
I tried to explain the problem to their customer service person, when I was on the phone with them for a more serious issue. She told me to try uploading a TIFF, or maybe she said TIF. I couldn’t tell.
My birthday is coming up in about six months…
And I would like a mint condition German ENIGMA machine for my birthday, please.
Hide-a-Pod
I would like one of these to hide my unPod in.
Your next bath toy will be a big ass ducky
I need to get one of these.