JTK – Notes and Ramblings Things we have found …

PDF Explorer Site
Do you have many PDF’s ?
Do you remember to have read anything on a certain subject but don’t make idea in what disk this pdf is and much less its name?
Do you have a pdf with some images that you want to use in another document but don’t have Adobe Acrobat?
Then this is your program, with the advantage of be Freeware.
Using the potential of databases and the fast search and select tools classify all your pdf’s collection, contained in multiple disks, and stop searching of that file that doesn’t want to appear.

Planearium

Science Toys
Make toys at home with common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles.

Ad*Access
The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment “Library 2000” Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University.

404 Research Lab
The nice collection of resource for creating your own custom 404 – page not found page.

Works in Progress – How to Create a Pop-Up eMail This Entry Window in MovableType
Several people have asked me how I did it, so I wrote a tutorial on how to create a pop-up ‘eMail This Entry’ window in MovableType. Here it is.
This is a bit old but is still a nice addition.

Nebulus Designs, Graphic Design and Web Development

Lisp in JavaScript
I wanted to get a feel for just how powerful JavaScript is as a programming language (as opposed to just a scripting language), so I sat down one evening and wrote this. It turns out that it was quite good for this application, since it is so flexible – dynamically sized arrays are used throughout, and associative arrays make the symbol table quite easy.

LinuxISO.org – A place to learn about, download, and discuss Linux.
Find ISO cd images of many popular Linux distributions.

optimal web design
Evidence suggests that the most commonly used fonts tend to be equally legible at the 10-, 12-, and 14-point size.

Counterpane: Crypto-Gram: May 15, 2002
Tsutomu Matsumoto, a Japanese cryptographer, recently decided to look at biometric fingerprint devices. These are security systems that attempt to identify people based on their fingerprint. For years the companies selling these devices have claimed that they are very secure, and that it is almost impossible to fool them into accepting a fake finger as genuine. Matsumoto, along with his students at the Yokohama National University, showed that they can be reliably fooled with a little ingenuity and $10 worth of household supplies.

SelectORacle
Ever wondered what a particularly complex CSS selector really means? Here’s your chance to find out! Simply enter one or more semi-colon separated selectors or rulesets into the following “Direct Input” area, or provide the URL of a stylesheet in the “URL Input” area. Best of all, the SelectORacle will flag potential errors and other problems, and it won’t choke on any actual rules. You’ve always wanted to know what makes those line-noise posers tick– now you can.