Archive for the 'Geeky' Category

Beware of the BUS MONSTER!

Friday, June 10th, 2005

My absolutely brilliant coworker Chris came up with a site that combines king county bus information with google maps. It’s call bus monster. The site allows you enter in an address and see realtime bus info for the area. You can even register to get an email or text message when your […]

Hacking Amazon

Saturday, May 28th, 2005

Since Amazon has to display the same image in many different sizes with subtle modifications for different promotions, they don’t actually store all the variations of the images. They have a standard picture and dynamically generate the image based on parameters passed in the url. Someone spent some time figuring out the different […]

Tamil wiki

Saturday, May 28th, 2005

I just stumbled upon the Tamil version of wikipedia. Now my grandmothers can read about Albert Einstein, Tony Blair and Christopher Columbus on the internet. Wikipedia now supports over 100 languages and many of them use different scripts.

The font strays a little from traditional Tamil. The […]