All I can really say about this is “Wow.” And also, maybe someone has too much time on their hands.

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XKCD: Exploits of a Mom

Awesome plugin for Quicklook which allows you to view markdown documents in a formatted style. This is really nice. I’ve taken to storing a lot of my documents in markdown, since I like using plain text files, but find the formatting in markdown a lot easier to use.

Parallax is a very interesting plugin for jQuery that allows you to create a Parallax effect:

Parallax turns a selected element into a ‘window’, or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation), they move by different amounts, in a parallaxy kind of way.

This is pretty neat stuff. I’m racking my brain trying to think of gratuitous ways to use this in my next design project. So far I’m only thinking of running dogs…

Corey Carson was written a fantastic quickstart guide for Leopard Server.

This updated quickstart guide is very similar to the Tiger Server Quickstart Guide posted in 2005. It’s primary purpose is to get you up and running quickly, overcoming common hurdles such as DNS and binding confusions. With the move to launchd over cron, those steps are now included as well.

You can grab the pdf at AFP548.com.

The article includes some particularly good instructions on using and setting up rsync, launchd, and Network Home Redirector.

Via Infinity’s End.