A notch above a monkey

Marela widget III

Summer is closing to the end, so is my offer and I won’t be posting new widgets for a while. This last one, stemming from obviously borrowed idea, looks like this:

It’s still very small (less than 7K) and still works in all major browsers. It even works (without a problem) in Safari and image selection collision code works too. If you like it, you can add it to your own page with:


<script type="text/javascript" src="http://markos.gaivo.net/marela/random16.js?username=markos&tag=moja-izbira&time=3"></script>

You should, as previously, replace:

  • my username (markos) with yours
  • select a tag of your chosing
  • set time lag in seconds between image replacements

As always you’re free to copy the script or link to my page to use the latest version.

Code misery

Error: No such file found! Please make sure http://markos.gaivo.net/blog/code/vecerjscrap.txt exists.

Knowledge

I need help. I’m looking to expand my horizons, learn something new and generally make positive and decisive steps to being less ignorant. I’d be most grateful, if you could help me, dear reader, by pointing out interesting and useful resources out there.

The topics are not really important. I may be biased to deepening my knowledge of history and design, but every topic and more importantly, every resource is a good one as long as you personally find it interesting and it’s accessible to neophytes.

There is an exception to this. Resources about software and software development should be avoided unless they cover the field from a completely original point of view or were created by an author, who is raving mad. I’d prefer both, but later requirement probably already includes former.

I don’t care about the form either as long as it’s fairly accessible. Books, blogs, podcasts, movies etc. are all fair game, but conferences with couple of thousand dollars entrance fees (or organized in USA) aren’t.