Grant Watson’s links for 2008-09-24

by grant on September 24, 2008

Generate Slugs from Strings with PHP — Timblog

If your PHP script is fed a string that you want a similar slug from, you can use this handy one-liner, with $string being the string that you want to slug.

(tags: php utils)
http://mashable.com/2008/09/19/top-wordpress-themes/

This is a collection of our top 12 in no particular order. Check them out. While most are free, there are few that are not, though they are too good to miss.

(tags: wordpress themes templates blogging design web)

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Bookmarks
- Tiny apartment shows the value of a good fit
  "I tend to like things in their place."
- Radical Opacity
  Christopher Poole created 4chan, an online community where people are free to be wrong. Now big investors want a piece of his ideas.
- Arithmetic and Butter
  Perhaps all scientists hope for accidental discoveries. I seem to be the first to use a research strategy that relies on accidental discoveries.
- SWFTOOLS
  SWFTools is a collection of utilities for working with Adobe Flash files (SWF files). The tool collection includes programs for reading SWF files, combining them, and creating them from other content (like images, sound files, videos or sourcecode). SWFTools is released under the GPL.
- Getting in (and Out of) Line - NYTimes.com
  As with lines over scrums, markets have much to offer over lines. They are more efficient. They work well for those fortunate enough to have more disposable money than free time. They mop up much of the daily agony of waiting.