I know that in this thread I'm playing the part of the outspoken Facebook fanboy, but: They entered a market competing against a site that was at a time the fourth-most used site on the planet, and in three years usurped its position, introduced an entirely new paradigm to how web sites worked, swiftly and mercilessly eliminated the trend towards theme personalization, redefined their design three times, added a slew of features that were ripped off by every site around them, and did it all without compromising its theme of "We know what we're doing, fuck you" and generally being right.

Another blog post by the same author introduces a 3 pixel font taking advantage of the subpixels: http://typophile.com/node/61920

I might get that for xemacs and annoy coworkers with 500-character long lines. "But they don't wrap on my screen!"

Yes, it has been a few months since the last person tried this.

I'm really glad that everyone is enjoying the tutorial! As mentioned below this is from a workshop that I gave at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC.

You can find more information about it here: http://ejohn.org/blog/adv-javascript-and-processingjs/

Most of this tutorial is taken from my upcoming book 'Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja' which can be found here: http://jsninja.com/

I don't think this was explicitly stated on the slides but you can double click the code slides and you'll be able to edit and re-run them. I tossed this tutorial up after the talk and haven't really had a chance to improve upon it.

Sort of related: Remy Sharp built http://jsbin.com/ which is based off of the construction of this tutorial (using the run-and-show style together with double-click-to-edit).

"how's it going. in your profile, you mention zombie metal bands. they're pretty awesome."

That was supposed to be App Engine.