Listening to: BBC Radio 1

Rock on! People are selling the items that they have made using Ponoko… there is an undeniable pleasure watching people tell their stories through your system. Well done guys! Big props to the Ponoko team for making it happen!

Listening to: Pete Tong - BBC Radio 1

After making it look really easy the Scaled Composites team have had their first and very lethal accident. Three people died. Poor Burt looks completely shell shocked in the video footage. I really feel for all involved. A N₂0 explosion must’ve come out of left field for these guys…

Listening to: Can’t Tell Me Nothing - Kanye West

The Zach Galifianakis version of Can’t Tell Me Nothing … awesome.

Listening to: BBC Radio 1

An answer to one of the biggest ‘noes’ … who’da thunk:

src: Wired, Boingboing

Listening to: BBC Radio 1

I’ve been watching snippets of the CNN Youtube debate. Well done CNN and Youtube … thanks for delivering something that feels like a real Q&A session. It seems like it is a game changing event.

Listening to: Workin’ Day And Night - Michael Jackson

We’ve got a few photos from the beta user evening we held last night:

Wow!

The photos were taken by Jason O’Hara.

Listening to: Off The Wall - Michael Jackson

All Cocoa text fields come with auto-complete built in … start typing a word and then hit Shift + F5.

Listening to: Kenji - Fort Minor

People are starting to make things, and it’s even better than I dreamed …

Assembled

Originally uploaded by saniac.

It works!

Originally uploaded by Steve Baker.

Also:

• Jewelry by ellipse
• Table 1 and table 2 by Jeff Wegesin
• Flickr photos tagged with Ponoko

Listening to: Spirit Walker - The Cult

One of the very nasty habits that was prevalent in my early ASP code was this sort of thing:

	...
	<% Response.Write("<div id=""" + div_id + """>) %>
		hello world
	</div>

This is very bad because it makes reading the code really difficult. You need to hunt for the opening div tag … you know it’s got to be there somewhere because there is the daggy close taggy. Wading through someone else’s rhtml I found exactly the same behavior. For a moment I smiled, it was like seeing an old and badly behaved friend - and then he threw up on the carpet and I sighed one of those (very rare) *scripting* sighs. Bad habits never die … they just move programmers. For the record the way to do it is:

	...
	<div id="<%= div_id %>">
		hello world
	</div>

Listening to: The Dope (Wonderful You) - The Dandy Warhols

This great little video outlines the importance of people loving your product and, importantly, how fostering that love is a route to product longevity.