No, no, it's not some weird fantasy I have, you filthy people! It's just that Peter's written a review on Andy's book, CSS Mastery - Advanced Web Standards Solutions.

Peter is a Flash friend and Andy is an HTML friend. Now this doesn't mean that Peter's more animated than Andy or that Andy is any more accessible than Peter. I love them both the same and so should you. Peter and Andy, to the best of my knowledge, haven't met. And yet, Peter's read Andy's book. I don't think Andy's read Peter's book though. It's currently somewhat of a one-sided relationship. [Note to self, do not blog at 1am]. Oh it gets better...

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How cool: I can hear a ringtone that you're not supposed to be able to if you're over the age of 20!

Like most people I'm sure, I've got a couple of ringtone profiles on my phone. My usual profile has the classic phone ring that everyone who has a 6680 seems to be use at a low volume. It's not too jarring for most places. I also have an outdoor setting that has a ridiculously loud crazy frog remix that I bluetoothed off of Beau Ambur a while ago. That beast can drown out any traffic noise I've encountered! The one thing profile I haven't been happy with yet has been my silent one. It's been just that: Silent + vibration. But the vibration still makes a heck of a racket and, depending on where the phone is at the time, I've been known to make yet more noise while jumping up in fright. Enter the Teen Buzz ringtone (which you can download it from here or listen to it online here).

The Teen Buzz ringtone has a cool story: Some kids decided to reappropriate a tone that was initially designed to ward them off and use it to their advantage. What started out as the Mosquito teenager repellent, eminating a 17Khz tone that only teenagers are supposed to be able to hear, is now a ringtone that kids can use in class without alerting their teachers to the fact. (Personally, I have grave issues with any society that thinks its OK to use a sonic repellent on their youth but that's another story.)

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Did you know that it's possible to open a graphic file directly from the web using Illustrator and Photoshop?

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The Arp and OSFlash mailing lists have been getting a couple of success stories recently and I thought I'd share the latest two with you.

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... to Brighton for the inaugural FlashCodersBrighton meeting on June 6th? That's what Seb and I try to do in this video we filmed today on Brighton Beach using the tiny camera on my laptop. Here it is in all its unedited glory. Unfortunately, I just realized that I won't be able to make it to the meeting as I'm going to be flying out to Spain sooner than anticipated but I will be there to present at the second meeting.