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5 tips for taking a gerbil hostage

[ 10:48 AM on May 19, 2013 ]

  1. Let the gerbil know who's boss
  2. Don't answer questions. If the gerbil asks you questions, just look at away. This is merely a diversion tactic.
  3. Bring snacks. You'll get hungry.
  4. Use name brand duct tape and standard knots; second-best won't cut it.
  5. Use an empty Equal packet to put over the gerbil's head. They don't make potato sacks that small.

5 tips for taking a gerbil hostage

[ 10:48 AM on May 19, 2013 ]

  1. Let the gerbil know who's boss
  2. Don't answer questions. If the gerbil asks you questions, just look at away. This is merely a diversion tactic.
  3. Bring snacks. You'll get hungry.
  4. Use name brand duct tape and standard knots; second-best won't cut it.
  5. Use an empty Equal packet to put over the gerbil's head. They don't make potato sacks that small.

[ 08:22 PM on April 06, 2013 ]

A new floto layout.

[ 08:52 PM on March 31, 2013 ]

The craigslist inline userscript now allows you to keep the original image. I moved the script github, too. The default is the same as before:

craigslist-11a.png

When, "keep original image" is checked, the original image size is preserved:

craigslist-11b.png

[ 12:40 AM on March 25, 2013 ]

Fugazi released a bunch of live shows a while back, but you can't search by song...so this is a grid showing shows to songs. There are some obvious holes in this. The source is here and not very interesting. Here is a histogram:

[ 08:05 PM on February 18, 2013 ]

display more now works on amazon.com. In keeping with the previous posts, when you click this link while viewing products on amazon.com, it will expand all the paginated results and show this message:

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When done, you'll get this one:

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Its permanent github home is here.

[ 08:47 PM on February 17, 2013 ]

display more is an improvement over this post, which expanded the search results from nakedapartment searches by also expanding the searches from craigslist gridview -- e.g.. Similar to the latter, when you are viewing a craigslist grid view results page and click this link, it will show you the progress of expanding all the search results:

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When it's done it will show a message:

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and all the search results in one page -- as opposed to 25 different pages. Here is the gist.

[ 04:10 PM on February 16, 2013 ]

nakedapartments is a bookmarklet to show all the listings from nakedapartments.com on a single page. Here is the gist. To use it, click on the bookmarklet when you're viewing search results that are paginated across various pages, then you'll see a little window in the upper left as the listings update, like so:

na1.png
When it's done you'll see a message like the following in the upper left:

na2.png
and the page will show all the results, instead of paginating them over various pages.

[ 03:46 PM on December 30, 2012 ]

I type two spaces to start new sentences and was told earlier this year this is wrong. According to Ilene Strizver
"Forget about tolerating differences of opinion: typographically speaking, typing two spaces before the start of a new sentence is absolutely, unequivocally wrong."
So, in order to curb myself from this filthy habit dotSpaceSpace.user.js is a userscript to pop up an alert when I try to type two spaces after a period. Like, so.
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I guess you could penalize yourself worse by reloading the page, arbitrarily posting whatever you're typing publically, but we'll start with an alert.

[ 02:06 AM on December 27, 2012 ]

Christmas card...

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[ 02:04 PM on December 16, 2012 ]

multicraig is a page to search craigslist over multiple cities. Apparently it was broken, and to avoid to doing anything useful it's now fixed. I also added a userscript -- multicraig.user.js -- so images show up inline with your results, (very) similar my craigslist image preview userscript. This is what it looks like:

multicraig-images.png

For consistency with everything else here, it works just enough.

[ 12:03 AM on December 04, 2012 ]

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Created from Jpeg2Lxfml.java and jeff-mohawk100.jpg

[ 04:51 PM on December 01, 2012 ]

rdio-lastfm is a script to backfill-scrobble all your rd.io artists to last.fm. The idea was this: I wanted a way to view concert listings from my artists on rd.io and I wanted to use songkick. Now, songkick doesn't seem to have a way to do this, but it does have a last.fm plugin, and rd.io has a last.fm plugin. So, the songs I now listen to on rd.io would show up on lastfm, and these would push to songkick, but I needed a way to backfill all the existing artists. So, scrobble_all_rdio_artists will search all your rd.io artists and scrobble every track of their's on lastfm. Hopefully, this accomplishes what I was after in the first place.

So, apparently it does work, and after running this I went over to songkick, imported my lastfm artists and got a calendar.

rdio-lastfm.png

[ 11:34 PM on November 29, 2012 ]

Create your own mr. men conversation. these from overheardinnewyork.com.

You can also enter a conversation directly here: click "Generate"



Clicking generate above would generate this:

mrmencreate.png

Here is another example.

[ 03:02 AM on November 24, 2012 ]

Recurring Arrested Development characters.

arrestedDevelopmentChars.png

Strikingly similar to this.

[ 11:49 AM on November 23, 2012 ]

I find myself selecting all of a message text in gmail in order to create a calendar entry, but there doesn't seem to be a straight-forward way to do this without using your mouse. Since I'm anti-mouse GMail select all is a bookmarklet to select all the last open gmail message. The gist is here and it's gross.

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Click GMail select all

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[ 09:02 AM on November 13, 2012 ]

Mr. Men say potentially inappropriate things from overheardinnewyork.com.

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[ 08:27 PM on November 06, 2012 ]

A google docs breakdown of the election.

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[ 02:03 AM on November 06, 2012 ]

Here's a simple collaborative crossword puzzle created from the NY Times version. The code is here. The idea is that you can take a crossword in PUZ format and generate a spread sheet (say, in google docs) from it, so it then becomes collaborative.

cw2ss.png

[ 12:57 AM on October 24, 2012 ]

A 'comprehensive' list of the onion's American Voices. Gist to make it.

[ 06:44 PM on October 20, 2012 ]

A consolidated list of potatoes.

[ 02:35 PM on October 19, 2012 ]

I use vim now. And I like it.

[ 11:17 PM on September 16, 2012 ]

This is an ical feed of the YogaWorks schedules. The purpose is to import the schedule on your phone or something else because I wanted access to this today, but was on the train without network access. Here are feeds for the individual locations: You can build feeds with a custom selection of locations here. E.g. Union Square + Soho.

If you've subscribed to one of these feeds and synced with your phone, you could view it whatever you'd like, e.g. phone

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mac calendar

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google calendar

yogaical-gcal.png

The code is here.

Ironically, I didn't make it to yoga today.

[ 12:57 AM on September 11, 2012 ]

ImageToXls.java fixes the color problem here to convert images to excel files, e.g.

darth-xls.jpg

[ 10:08 AM on September 10, 2012 ]

Amazon released the new Kindle last Thursday. I spent much of last year thinking about and working on this:



I think it's pretty cool.

[ 11:20 AM on September 07, 2012 ]

A les paul made from a bunch of les pauls

les-400.png

Full version

Gist to create it

[ 05:40 PM on August 07, 2012 ]

Seamless Web tips should reflect the weather conditions. For example, if it's raining or snowing or is really hot (or cold) or is windy, you should tip more.

seamlesstip.user.js [source] is a userscript that increases the seamless-recommended tip based on how bad the current weather conditions are. When you are on a tippable page it will find your coordinates, from those grab the current weather conditions, and then calculate a tip increase based on these conditions. So, if seamless would normally recommend a tip of $3.00:

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but, it's hot and windy outside, so you would see a message:

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and the tip would increase to something higher (here $4.50):

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