Yip. The lads done good!
Posted at 07:37 pm
GIS now lets you filter searches by colour. I’m sure this is new, there’s not web UI for it yet, but it is available if you tweak the URL. Here’s what I used to get that screenshot:
http://images.google.com/images?imgcolor=red,yellow&q=site%3Alast.fm+inurl%3A174
Wondering what the query parameters do?
- imgcolor - Takes a comma-separated list of colours. I’m not sure the full list, but try the obvious ones, named/html colours is a good place to start.
- site/inurl is intended to limit the results to album covers from Last.fm. The specific 174 value is the dimension of our album images, this filters out most artist/user images.
So with a pretty simple search query you can find red and yellow album covers. Oh, and for programatic use the result links to the album page.
That’s damn powerful. I can’t wait to see other cunning use of this.
Edit: As @kaichanvong notes, programatic access would be nice. Unfortunately the Google Image Search API doesn’t support the imgcolor param yet. I’m sure it will, but it’s annoying for now.
Posted at 08:02 am
‘ Engineers sometimes mystify what they do, as a form of job security. I prefer to make light of it, so more people will be tempted to give it a try. It was easy for me, why shouldn’t it be easy for everyone? :-)’
“The goal is to make cloud computing less mysterious by helping people through the process of setting up a server on Amazon EC2. The title derives from a class that was offered at the University of Wisconsin, when I was a grad student there, called Computer Science for Poets.”
Posted at 07:47 am
Nate Koechley: “Professional Frontend Engineering” on Yahoo! Video
Bit long. But also a bit good.
Posted at 10:04 pm
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Scenes from 30,000 meters above - The Big Picture - Boston.com
After reaching a height of 30,677 meters (over 19 miles), the balloon burst, and the probe begins its descent.
Posted at 08:28 am
‘ And the out there thought for the day? We’re doing this to ourselves. We don’t encourage people to act aggressively all day to everyone they meet. We reward certain behaviours more than other behaviours. My unprovable conjecture? Humanity is selecting itself for certain behaviours, and the traits we think of as fundamentally human (loss of hair, retention of juvenile characteristics relative to primates) are a side effect of this self-selection.’
Clever as a Fox
Posted at 08:19 am
Clever as a Fox
Sometimes we see things so often that we simply forget to ask “why are they like that?” For instance, let’s take a closer look at domestic animals. Dogs, cats, horses, cows, pigs - animals that we live with, and who couldn’t live without us.Posted at 08:14 am
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Undo Send
Hopefully in the future we’ll be doing this at Justgiving… sharing ideas and releases before releasing them.
Posted at 06:21 am
‘ Someone that is hands on. Someone that’s not scared of getting their hands dirty… because they are about to be covered in filth. Serious amounts of it. I need someone at the peak of their career. Like George Michael when he released Faith. Not a ponsy vocal exponent of Usability that wants to conduct his Usability orchestra from the safety of his stand. Stick wavers need not apply.’
UX Des (Ecom Recruitment) in London, England from Chinwag Jobs
Got passed this job link because of this brilliant section of the job description (slightly OTT). Love it.
Posted at 06:02 am
Learning cat body language. I’ve done the whole human body language and picking up on their psychology and now I’m moving on to far more interesting creatures.
Posted at 05:13 am
‘ Eagle ($250/month) – Users get 500 character limit, 1000 extra random followers, 3 celebrity followers of their choice, 5 hours on recommended list each month, Twitter Concierge for Tweeting while user is asleep or busy (and more), auto-spell check, “Fail Whale” tuxedo, custom “Fail Whale” page when service is down.’
BBspot - Twitter Unveils New Premium Accounts
Posted at 09:32 pm
Thousands of unemployed Chinese graduates flock to a job fair in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province on March 7, 2009. China vowed to help train one million graduates in the next three years to boost their qualifications, and promised loans to business that hire graduates, as unemployment continues to grow. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) # (via Scenes from the recession - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
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