iSawToday – The Coolest Thing I Saw Today on the Web

Over the past couple years I’ve created hundreds of website comps using my trusty Macromedia Fireworks 8 software.  I always take my comps and manually create layouts for the various platforms I’m designing on: Wordpress, Joomla, Expression Engine in Dreamweaver and away we go.  I’ve tried using Rentacoder’s before and typically get what I pay for, but I’m curious about a new service I found called http://xhtml.pixelcrayons.com/ for a flat fee they promise validated, CSS layouts in straight html or in Joomla or Wordpress format.  Has anyone out there used this or another similar service?  Comments?

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My friend Bill sent this this me yesterday afternoon and enjoyed wasting a few minutes playing the demo.  Really, Really, Fun!

http://www.crayonphysics.com/

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I’m pleased to announce the official launch of the world’s largest recipe search engine; www.recipebridge.com

Recipebridge helps anyone who uses the Internet as a source of cooking knowledge to more efficiently find quality recipes.  Today, cooks using the Internet use general search engines or specific cooking websites to find recipes.  RecipeBridge eliminates the inefficiency of visiting multiple websites by providing one search engine that allows a user to search all recipes on the Internet in a simple and easy manner.

Please feel free to send me any feedback on the site that you may have or partnership inquires for that matter.  In all I hope that this site helps other people quickly and easily use the Internet to find great recipes!

Sincerely, 

Andy Theimer

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http://kuler.adobe.com/

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I was killing some time this afternoon and found out that one of my favorite musical artists Ben Lee has a new album coming out shortly.  Head on over to his site to check out some of the new tunes and a great video.

Ben Lee’s Newest Album

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Every morning I wake up to the local AM morning show. During this morning’s conversation they played a sound-clip I haven’t heard in a very long time. A quick Google query served up just the clip I needed to calm a mysterious fix from years gone by….

Halloween 2009….

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Last night while having an entrepreneurial drink with a good friend I met a very attractive woman who works as a color chemist. After several minutes of rousing discussion on topics such as:

• “If I get Blue #2 in my blond hair will my hair turn green”?
• “Which Peruvian beetle makes the best natural red coloring for M&M’s? (for the British only)

I decided to investigate what other exciting contributions color chemists are responsible for and the answer: bubbles. Or more accurately Zubbles; colored bubbles. It looks like this small company out of MN has been trying to bring this product to market for almost 3 years now and can’t seem to make it. Is there a conspiracy among the bubble industry to keep this mum? Surely the arrival of a mainstream colored bubble would spell an end for your average bubble toys.

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I just bought a Kurt Kinetic Fluid Trainer for my road bike this week and have been riding intervals inside now that it’s cold in Wisconsin.  I know there are lots of great DVD’s out for spinning workouts but I prefer to just work on 1 minute intervals.

A quick search revealed this handy online tool that let’s you configure your interval and total workout length.  A whistle, bell, or buzzer sounds signaling you on each interval.  Very handy.

Online interval timer

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As the title implies I was doing some database cleansing this morning and was trying to craft a cleaver regular expression to remove junk works and characters from my mysql database.  I ended up writing a quick PHP script to do the cleanup for me.  The actual regex I use removes line feeds, line breaks, and tabs from the database field.

The point is that I found this really handy online regular expression(regex) tool which let’s you test the expression quickly and easily.

here’s that database php code if anyones interested.

for ($i=0; $i<$row_count; $i++)
{
$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);
$row[0] = trim(StripSlashes($row[0]));
$res = preg_replace(”/[[\r\n\t]]/”, “”, $row[0]);
$query2 = “UPDATE `search` SET `text`=\”".AddSlashes($res).”\” WHERE `text`=\”".AddSlashes($row[0]).”\”;”;
$result2 = mysql_query($query2);
}

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I remember coming across this site earlier in the year but had so much fun putting phrases from a contract I am currently writing into it this morning I thought I would post it.

Aye, if ye accept dem terms, sign and return a copy o’ this agreement t’ me at the address at the bottom o’ this agreement. Aye.

Try It Here

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