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Resizing images via php … hawt

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Just stumbled across this while updating my copy of Greased Lightbox, a fantastic GreaseMonkey script (for all you Firefox users out there.) It’s called Smart Image Resizer, and it’s a great piece of PHP that can resize images on the fly without modifying the original. Very very cool.

Reblogged: Totally geeky pants

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(Via Vous Pensez

Had to blog this before work

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Saw this link to Webleedesign, courtesy of @deanjrobinson, and had to mention myself that it is WAY too cool. Scroll down, and follow the site, then click that top link when you get to the bottom. Transparent PNGs and scripting and CSS oh my!

Ten Typographic Mistakes

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Great article on various typographical nuances that have slowly been left by the wayside, but should definitely be encouraged again! My favorite is the elipsis… you know?

Nobody cares…

Quite probably. But what you see above is just three periods, not a true ellipsis. Want a proper ellipsis? OK then… (In this font, three periods looks like this, […]

50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time

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Seriously, the first page is classic, and that’s the BOTTOM of the heap. Check it at Nerve

Never shopping at Wal-Mart again

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Link provided courtesy of my girlfriend Amber:

Wal-Mart and the Shank family

Polyphonic note manipulation has arrived

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In case you’re not a musician or musically inclined, that title means that someone has figured out how to change the pitch of individual notes in a chord in some audio, which until now was impossible. Pitch-shifting single note lines has never been a problem, and technology was developed to keep the time accurate, but […]

My new favorite blog.

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Seriously, subscribe to this. Random IM conversations, occasionally taken out-of-context. Just plain awesome.

Prolific Squalor

xkcd is truly hilarious [nsfw]

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Like the title says, hilarious but possibly NSFW.

(Via XKCD - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language)

Nifty little tool for Mac laptop users

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Lifehacker is such a great website. For example, we’ve got this great app

Pause iTunes Whenever You Unplug Your Headphones with Breakaway: Freeware application Breakaway automatically pauses and resumes your iTunes music when you unplug or plug in your headphones, perfect for using your laptop in public places. Not only will the auto-pause prevent you from […]

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I'm Jeff Byrnes, a bassist, web coder, avid reader, and Mac user. I'm currently employed by Apple as an iPod Genius at one of its retail stores, but I also code websites freelance part-time, and gig constantly for a rotating cast of bands.

This blog is primarily just a collection of my thoughts, although you can find links to my XHTML / CSS coding CV as well as my musical CV.

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