This is a little tool I just hacked together. It uses the google api to search for a certain phrase and then present the results. I think this could be quite useful inside a weblog, because you can dynamically add the query...

Lee Semel from Innofinity explains here a little bit the background story behind his excellent 5k Award entry "Wolfenstein 5K". On the same page he links to an interesting tutorial by F. Permadi about ray-casting, a 3D technology which probably could also...

Here we we go with version 4 of the world map locator. I finally fixed the zoom function and included the quality switch during panning. Plus I added a little javascript which give the focus to the flash file, so it...

Somehow methods that go down to the core of Flash programming have always a strange fascination to me. When it comes to inheritance, abstract classes and prototype chains first of all I have difficulties in following at all. So I am lucky...

Another update to the "Where do you come from?" worldmap. And this time you can already see where this could be going: I added the locations of the last 20 visitors to the map. Roll over the dots and you get some...

Here is a little update to yesterdays file. I tried to implement day and night zones, but this is probably not correct for Oslo in winter. I did not find a good formula to calculate this shape yet. I also impoved the...

Here is a new toy I'm playing with. If it works correctly it should show approximately where you are located geographically. I only tested this with my home coordinates and a few others, but perhaps you can give me some feedback if...

What a cool idea - Making invisible wireless networks visible by chalk markings. The guys at Warchalking explain it like this: "What is all this about? Well - it was born out of a good lunch, like lots of ideas; where we...

Dive Into Mark gives a lot of useful tips on how to improve one's weblog, with a special focus on accessibility: 30 days to a more accessible weblog. Looks like I should improve some stuff here myself......

"Yes and No" - A pretty evil flash film that shows you the right ways to drive a car. By Bruno Bozzetto the creator of Signor Rossi. [Via brain/map]...

Finally we can have a look at the 366(!) entries of this year's 5k award and vote for the best. Wading through all of them looks like a lot of work, but I'm sure it's well worth it....

It looks like including the polygon matrix (see step 2) really adds more speed to the whole execution. But the test-scene is more of a joke regargding complexity. As soon as I add more obstacles and vehicles the thing slows down again...

I think there is a very interesting voice speaking up against OOP - on "Object Oriented Programming Oversold!" you get something to read which is probably pretty unpopular in certain circles. In short they state that OOP is not the solution for...

Here is part 2 of my current exploration into the world of flocking, evading and colliding. After getting rid of all the "getters" and "setters" I already felt a little improvement in speed. But rewriting the whole render engine and improving the...

As I wrote before I'm currently trying to implement so called "Steering Behaviors" in Flash. Well, I made some progress, but.... hmmm..... I'm not really there yet. I took the open source Java code from Thomas Feilkas and Christian Schnellhammer and tried...

I will not do this more often than necessary, but I want to show you some of the stuff I do when I'm not working on this site (which is currently 90% of my time): I'm a co-owner of coma2 - collective...

If you are running an Apache server you should immediately download the latest patches from www.apache.org. A big security exploit was discovered a few days afo: Versions of the Apache web server up to and including 1.3.24 and 2.0 up to and...

I think these are the most beautiful photos of goldfish I've ever seen: imagedive from Japan have an amazing portfolio. The whole site has an incredibly clean design. Another great link I found on valiyard|ru - this guy digs up such impressive...

Among the finalists of the Webby Award I discovered this very interesting Mathematics site: mathworld.wolfram.com. It looks like you find almost every mathematical topic in there, for example the explanation of Complex Numbers which I encountered during my circle experiment. And if...

Robert Hall has an amazing text-to-speech Flash demonstration on his site. Actually all his entries are now speech-enabled....

Whoa - this is some pretty nifty work. No wonder that they are among the FlashForward 2002 Finalists: The guys from extrajetzt have built a sequencer tool "Composer" with Flash MX, which looks good and sounds good at the same time....

What a funny idea: take a simple program and write it in 304 different programming languages. On 99 Bottles of Beer you find solutions from "A+" until "ZZT". But you won't believe it - there is no Actionscript version yet....

[./ logicaland v0.1] is a multiuser global simulation which happens to have a pretty cool design. It looks like flash, but it is actually done in Java. This project was featured during this years Biennial in Torino, Italy which did not really...

Here is my personal hit for this summer: Signor Rossi vs De-Phazz "Viva La Felicita". This is a great remix of one of my favorite tv-series tunes. De-Phazz have a nice site except for going to fullscreen immediately and having to wait...

Only a few hours are left to add your entries to this years 5K Award. The deal is, you have 5 kilobytes to make the best web page or site you can. Unfortunately this year I simply didn't have the time to...

Perhaps someone can help me on this: is it something like bad etiquette to post a link to a different blog entry if you have found that link already in another blog? I just started with this site, so I must admit...

Isn't this horrible? I just came back from the fleemarket where I discovered this collection of "crying kid" prints. I think the last time I saw something like this was in the late seventies when I was with my parents on...

var fo = new FlashObject("komplex_menu.swf", "komplex", "300", "300", "8", "#eeeeee"); fo.write("komplex"); Here is a project I did a while ago which is one of those that came to a certain point, then something else popped in and dust started settling on...

There are some very interesting IK and physics simulation techniques demonstrated on flashvoodoo.com. And it looks really fast and smooth. Definately worth a closer look....

This is about envy, I hope it will not sound too bitter. A few weeks ago I attended the FlashForward conference in San Francisco. As I didn't go to any other Flashconferences yet I think that FlashForward is pretty cool. You get...

I just rediscovered this game from my youth and must say - pretty cool cover design. Fits perfectly my current retro feelings. So I made this my current desktop background. If you also like it, you can download it here....

As the EPS Parser is not really more than a study and not fit for real life I thought about how to improve it. Flash is definately not fast enough to do the parsing, so I hand this job over to the...

Inspired by a question on Flashcoders if it is possible to get the color values of bitmaps into flash I gave this piece a try. It is able to load bitmaps into flash, render them and retrieve the pixel color information. The...

A while ago someone posted a message on Flashcoders about the works of Craig Reynolds regarding the "Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters". There is a site where the basic ideas are explained and the concept sounds very interesting. Basically it is about...

Allow me to guide your attention to one of my works which is a little older now: Stream of Consciousness. Watch out this site pops up to fullscreen. There is a close button in the upper right corner. The idea to this...

It looks like I've been working with Flash for too long. Fiddling around with all these CSS settings makes me feel like I'm a complete fool. I'm sitting here for hours trying to find a good solution for the layout of this....

Hello? Is this working? I hate to be last on something like this, but I think this time I have to jump over my shadow and simply take the beaten path. I have no idea what this will be about - probably...