information aesthetics.
an ambient weather widget that applies the current wind conditions to any user-chosen website. it uses a United States ZIP Code to grab local conditions from the Yahoo Weather RSS feed, & animates individual pieces of the website, such as text blocks & images, according to the strength of the wind.
see also informative google themes & unseen weather video & voloce weather visualization & weather datacloud.
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I thought I might tweak this to use something besides the weather feed, so I looked at the .js file. Turns out it doesn't use any feed. It uses random numbers and characters in a string (that includes the supposed zip code) to move the content elements around. Disappointing.
actually it does use a feed. the JS file contains PHP that grabs and parses the RSS then spits out the JS variables. you don't see it because PHP is executed server-side. notrton, you jumped to conclusions without really checking the data . . . disappointing.
this is fake... no live data involved... no PHP
..and... the code was pinched from one of those codes to put snowflakes all over the page...
This is just humorous now. I've never been accused of making a "fake" project. ;) If you really need proof I can hold your hand and wade through the code, the GET data, the .htaccess that allows the JavaScript file to be parsed as PHP, the CURL injection, etc. I assure you I authored all the code myself in a simple text editor. No pinching necessary. The hack involved seems pretty straight-forward to me. What part are you guys tripping up on?