Some days, it feels so good to be a web geek. Earlier this week, I [two years late] discovered jQuery, a JavaScript library. It takes most of the pain out of making your fancified whiz-bang Web 2.0 pages go, go, go. Even better than that, their logo is based on the DEVO energy dome (their former tagline being “new wave JavaScript”.) I get the feeling they won’t end up getting sued over it, unlike some megacorporations.

Today, I find this:

Ajaxorized has released a GPL licensed image manipulation script called Phototype. Phototype is a client/server-side library, based on prototype, which provides image manipulation functionality. On the server, it uses the PHP/GD framework to render the image. While the client is an interface that makes these features easily accessible in JavaScript, including the ability to chain effects.

Phototype supports: image rotatation, resizing, flipping, drop shadows, effects, grey scale, captions, as well as an addChuckNorris() method [for all you Walker, Texas Ranger fans]

DEVO last night, and now this on The Cellar this morning. This giant ball balances the Taipei 101 skyscraper as it sways due to winds and earthquakes.  Similar counterweights have been used in other skyscrapers, including Citigroup Center.

Click through for video proof that it’s sweet deep inside.

(Photo credit: winkshot)

Just got home from the DEVO show in Williamsburg. They can still put on a great show, even in their 90s and in a different time zone. What a treat to hear Secret Agent Man live — if only they’d played Wiggly World…

Completely overshadowing the thrill of seeing my first favorite band, though, was meeting up with Paulyboy and then Bunche, and then seeing the looks on their faces as they recognized each other, former friends-of-best-friends. It warms the cockles, dunnit?

It’s a small and tiny world. And wiggly, too.