I love flickr, which is why I was annoyed when I discovered that they’ve implemented some crude–and easily defeatable–image blocking to some images. If you right click an image and it offers to save “spaceball.gif,” you’ll know that you’ve encountered this lameness first hand. spaceball.gif is just a blank image. I remember attempts in the [...]

The programming language, Ruby, which I keep meaning to learn, has a swank new home page. A particularly nice feature of it is this web-based, interactive tutorial, which gives you a nice little command prompt where you can try out examples as you go. Sweet! Every language needs a site like that.