Growing up is optional

The New Zealand Meteorological Service have relaunched with a new personalised weather service. You can sign-up (free), log in and customise your forecast to your preferences.

The javascript that drives the customisation even works in Firefox

The only gripe I have is that login is not automatic. UPDATE: I contacted them and autologin is on their development list.

Tell me something interesting that I don’t know, or link to a cool website I haven’t seen (I always want to learn new stuff) and you can have one (of 4).

The first 4 comments with something original win.

UPDATE: Gmail seems to be giving out invites willy-nilly. There will be more than 4 going.

The Rasterbator is one of the coolest online tools I have seen. You upload an image which it then pixelates and lets you turn into massive posters. Very cool. [via]

Richard has posted a cool way put your blog on the map

Now you can find me here.

By changing the parameters of the URL to your location and title you can put you blog on the map too.

This has to be one of the best Flash animations I have seen: Radiohead’s Creep at Low Morale

It looks kind of like Dilbert, but with a better sense of humor.

It begins here: We all know that the letter E is the most used letter in the english language. We all know the word The is the most used word in the english language. I used ‘The’ seven times in those last two sentences. But ever wondered what the 10,000th most used word is? According to Wordcount, it’s the word ‘Sewing’. Also, my name (Joseph) is the 3191st most used word in the English language.

So here I continue a meme. Take your birthday (mine is 12 June 1973) and put it in American non-y2k-compliant date format -> 06/12/73. If you’re not comfortable using your birthdate, use your cat’s birthday or wedding anniversary or some other less significant date. Drop the slashes and you get 061273. If it’s more than 6 digits, drop the first digit (either 1 or 0) and you’ll get a 5 digit number (61273). If it’s greater than 86800 (number of words on Wordcount), take another digit off (91010 -> 1010) . Enter your number into the ‘by rank’ field on Wordcount. I got anzac. Then look it up on Dictionary.com and provide a link.

Encourage your friends to do likewise Post your word in the comments

webfroot has been redesigned and is now one of the coolest looking WordPress sites I ever seen.

My Maori Land Court case study has bee published on SitePoint