Oh I’m glad I ran across this link. bubbl.us has a really great site up that gives you some nice bubble map output of brainstorming. Some people call these bubble maps, idea maps, mind mapping. You can also use this to create a simple flow chart. It’s still a great site (and the results look pretty nice.)

I’ve just discovered hackaday.com. For those of you interested in electronics, computers, engineering/etc….. you’ll probably find something interesting to read over there. Each day they will publish a hack from around the web, once a week though they present a video how to. Their most recent video how to at the time of this writing was a webserver the size of a business card.

Just skimming through the site, the range of hacks they cover is really interesting. It’s worth bookmarking.

I just ran across this good how-to on replacing ads using a proxy server (in this case safesquid). A proxy server is a piece of software that requests web pages for other machines and then passes the pages along to the other computers. When the server requests a page it’s possible to make alterations and this is exactly what the how to details. In this case they construct a rule to identify ad blocks in the page (by the text that they use to call the ad from the adserver). After the block is identified it’s replaced with a custom bit of html.

Good how-to and I wanted to make note of it for future reference.