Webmonkey shows how to make your thumbnail images grow to full-size using JavaScript. See it in action here.
On a side note, wasn’t Webmonkey supposed to have folded a couple of years ago? This is like when stores have going-out-of-business sales and you find out a couple of months later they’re still there.
John Kricfalusi starts his own blog according to boingboing. I became familiar with his work through the Spike and Mike’s animation festivals that I used to attend every chance I got in the early ’90s. His Ren and Stimpy cartoons were featured shorts at the festivals, before Nickelodeon picked them up.
This is me ice skating in Dublin, CA last Friday night at my niece’s birthday party. I somehow managed to propel along with those stiff, graceless strokes of mine. Hey, at least, I didn’t slip and fall.
(Sorry for the nausea-inducing camera movements)
MetroFreeFi, an online database of free wi-fi hotspots in the U.S. and the creators of wiPod, will expand world-wide in the next few weeks. When it started a year and a half ago, it covered only the Bay Area. Its name back then was BayAreaFreeFi.com. It then included the entire state of California, then it went nationwide, hence the name change.
I personally added to their list most of the free hotspots in the Tri-City area (Fremont, Union City and Newark), and a couple in the South Bay. Yeah, that was the time no one could stand in the way of my warchalking path! Hehe.
The latest hotspot I contributed is the Fremont Main Library. This is a long-time coming. Although they’ve had internet stations for a while now, wireless internet only came into effect at the beginning of the year. One only needs a library card to get on the network.
The Fremont library is the near-perfect place to do work and study. It’s huge. It’s quiet. It’s got plenty of tables and study rooms. Oh yeah, and tons of, um, reading material. The downside: no food and drink allowed. Oh well, at least I won’t be racked with guilt anymore and spend at cafes in order to use their free internet.
The gall of the Gaul! Frenchman Ivan Brun attempts to capture Philippine urban life in comics form. And by golly, he’s got it right. Check out a sample of his work at Gerry’s site.