I just posted this over at Tipmonkies – lots more good free music!

geek, music, freemusic, MP3, MP3s, mashups

This has got to be the coolest online shopping cart ever. try it out and make sure you change sizes of the shirts and drag them to the cart and also try dragging a shirt out of the cart and watch what happens. Genius.

Online shopping cart [via Preshrunk]

geek, AJAX, programming, websites, cool, shopping

I read about this illusion a few weeks back but finally got around to making one for myself today. The way the dragon appears to move is incredible. Download the PDF available at the site and print one out for yourself. If you don’t feel like cutting it out and folding it, at least watch the video of it. It is truly amazing – if you have kids at least 8 years old or so, do it with them – it is really cool and you can teach them some things. This one is going on my monitor at work.

Dragon Illusion [via BoingBoing]

geek, illusions, cool, dragon, dragons

I really like the Steadman album Revive that I mentioned previously. According to last.fm, I listened to tracks from Steadman 118 times last week. If you like The Connells, Toad The Wet Sprocket, and/or Death Cab For Cutie, you’ll probably like it. What are you waiting for – go download the album legally and for free now!

geek, music, freemusic, MP3, MP3s, Steadman

Maybe everyone already knew about these, but I just stumbled on them a few weeks ago and found some more yesterday. You can have animated favicons in Firefox – tabs are animated and when you bookmark them, the bookmark icon is animated too. A quick peek at the HTML of a page with animated favicons shows they simply have a 16×16 animated gif and point the page to that as their favicon with this:

( NOTE: <> changed to [] so this would show up)
[link href="images/favico.gif" TYPE="image/gif" REL="icon"]

I have also read that you can just rename your 16×16 animated gif as favicion.ico but that just seems wrong. I just tried that and it does indeed work though. I just took this animated gif and renamed it to favicon.ico and it works. Visit this page to see it in action. The nice thing about doing it this way is that you don’t have to go change all of your pages. It didn’t show up for me in IE though.

A quick and easy way to see how an image would look as a favicon is to simply view the image in Firefox. When you view an image in Firefox, it shows it as a favicon in the tab and in the address bar. This makes it easy to scour the web for a good animated gif as a favicon. Simply find an image and “view image” in Firefox to see how it would look.

On this page, I changed the HTML so that it points to this animated gif as its favicon and that too worked.

Here is a good page to grab some animated gifs to play around with. Choose your style and put a letter in the edit field and hit submit then right click on the animated letter and save the image. That’s where I got both of the example images for my own tests.

Here are a bunch of example websites that have animated favicons. View them in Firefox to see them.

• http://pipa.ws
• http://www.pod1.com/
• http://www.cleverwasteoftime.com/
• http://www.stonewall.co.za (animates periodically)
• http://graphiste.crea.free.fr/
• http://www.couleur3.ch/
• http://schestowitz.com/
• http://bugmenot.com (animates periodically)