Jason E. Shao

Here are some of the websites and other work that I’ve done. More sites will be added shortly. Most sites are hand coded XHTML with CSS styling.

Pixar’s released a new short film clip preview entitled Boundin’ (Play Boundin’).

I love Pixar animation. Part of it is the quality of the rendering and CGI, but I think most of it has to do with the quality of the characters and stories that they build. “(extlink)Finding Nemo”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266543/ wasn’t a great computer animated [...]

Camera Phones Help Buyers Beware - with a camera phone that is also a bar-code scanner, you can go into a store like Barnes & Noble, take a photo of the ISBN number on a book and instantly receive a coupon offering the book for 30 percent less at Amazon.com,” said Attia. [ "(extlink)Wired News":http://www.wired.com [...]

Maxis has posted a version of Simcity online to play for free: Classic Live - SimCity.com.

p(update). Unfortunately, the site says that you must be running MSIE or Netscape on Windows. Spoofing the user agent with Safari just resulted in a blank page. Does anyone know a support number/email we can use to complain? [...]

Simpsons scoop script nominations - The Simpsons, now in its 15th series, was nominated for three prestigious Writers Guild of America awards - more than any other comedy show.

Bomb ‘joke’ student jailed - According to the arrest report, Ms Marson placed her bag on the belt at a security check, telling a Transportation Security Administration screener: “Hey be careful, I have three bombs in here” - before allegedly repeating the joke twice more when confronted by officials. [ "(extlink)BBC":http://www.bbc.com ]

It’s hard to believe [...]

Fontifier - Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer. It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a computer font that you can use in your word processor or graphics program, just like regular fonts such as Helvetica [ "(extlink)Fontifier.com":http://www.fontifier.com ]

The best part of this is since you [...]

TOP STORY: NASA Is Not Altering Mars Colors. - We can already see for ourselves that the color of the ground and sky shown in the released panoramas is correct. There is no suggestion whatsoever that any modification has been made of the data coming in from Mars. [ "(extlink)ATSNN":http://www.atsnn.com ]

An interesting explanation of the [...]

Waypath Weblog: New Version of our MT Plugin

p. I’ve started using the Waypath plugin to provide a “similar entries on other sites” section in the sidebar. I had tried using the Google search feature built into MT, but wasn’t happy with the results. So far I’ve been somewhat happier with the Waypath items, [...]

“(extlink)The Nature of Hell”:http://www.prometheus6.org/2004/01/thenatureof_hell.php - The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so “profound” that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well. [ Prometheus 6 [...]