I know a couple of you have made your own commercials on the chevy website. Here is another one for the movie A Scanner Darkly. Might be a little more fun. http://scanner.res.com/ .

Like these dudes:
Techie Fight Club

For wine lovers, I give you Cork’d. What Flickr does for pictures, Cork’d does for wines. Members (free) can manage a catalog of favorite wines, tag them by flavor qualities (smoky, peppery, etc) and be able to find new wines by these tags. Even searching for “Drinking Buddies” with similar tastes is possible.

The user experience of this site is among the best I’ve ever seen. Even simple things like examples entries for each field in forms has been thought out. “Fun to use” does describe Cork’d. There is a lot of “we should steal that idea” here.

As the creators of the site say, “This is something [we] built quite simply because we wanted to use it.” This is a very nice piece of work.

Dan Cederholm of Simplebits, one of the industry proponents of standards-based web design, was the creative drivers behind Cork’d and has written up a very nice blog entry on his experience with the effort.

Dan Benjamin of Hivelogic was the application developer behind Cork’d and has his own blog entry on the experience. Yes, Cork’d is a Ruby on Rails site.

For those interested in hearing the selections of the “selection”, I will be doing a “Best of WTED” show on WMSE on June EIGHTH (whoops, got the wrong date), at 6pm. This slot at WMSE is usually filled by my good friend Jules. You should listen to her anyway! You can listen at 91.7FM or online

On the first Thursday of each month Tom does a show. Didn’t know that. I’m now informed. lol. That is all.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=H6xT9-jD7z4

Wait! This one is better!!! jobs > zTransfer > loseyou.wmv

This is nice. Firebug is a plug-ing for Firefox that allows navigation of source code elements, DOM, Javascript events (hidden AJAX/XHR call logging!), logging of messages to Firebug instead of endless “alert(’foo’);”-boxes and much more. Recommended!

• http://www.joehewitt.com/software/firebug

In migrating a website we noticed that Flash Video files would not work in the players any longer. This was on a Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6. Doing the standard troubleshooting, I was perplexed that the file didn’t even appear to be uploaded to the server, yet this was verified with and ftp client. Permissions didn’t seem to affect anything either.

In the end, we found this article: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19439

It turns out you must register the mime type: flv-application/octet-stream or video/x-flv on the webserver under, you guessed it! Mimetypes.

Thank you to everyone who came out last night, the group is growing, and it was quite fun. Hope y’all feel the same. Next outing will be Wednesday, May 31. Seems like we should push the official start to 8PM, but I’ll be there by 7PM if anyone wants to practice. Sound like a good idea?

Averages:
Alyssa: 88 (after 5 games, down 9)
Beth: 66 (after 3 games)
Jason: 90 (after 4 games, up 16)
Jen: 101 (after 7 games, up 2)
Mark: 131 (after 4 games)
Scott: 152 (after 3 games)
Sid: 77 (after 3 games)
Travis: 91 (after 7 games, up 7)

Here is a good link to find the cheapest gas prices around.

http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx