Some of the recent activity at our internal 37signals Campfire chat room:

Nice modals
Jeremy K.
Jeremy K.
pretty nice modals built with prototype + scriptaculous
Ryan S.
that modal demo is cool
Ryan S.
i like how it slides down from the top, OS X-style
Jeremy K.
yeah, feels more like an interstitial
Jeremy K.
but maybe that’s just the mac culture burned into me :)


Web apps game changer?
Jason F.
Sam S.
JF: that basically amounts to cookies that can store more data
Sam S.
I really don’t think it’ll be a “game changer”
Sam S.
but we’ll see ;)
Ryan S.
BUT THE WEB IS THE NEW PLATFORM
Ryan S.
confetti
Mark I.
If you want to give up Rails and write all your apps in Javascript maybe.
Mark I.
I don’t like Javascript that much. :)
Jamis B.
just need a new framework
Jamis B.
“Javascript on Jails” :)
Sam S.
jails is right
Sam S.
that’s what writing a web app in js would feel like
Ryan S.
aren’t google apps written in JS?
Ryan S.
do they generate the JS with magic or something?
Sam S.
from what I understand, the client-side stuff is written in a Java framework that generates JS code
Jamis B.
guh, that’s even worse
Sam S.
at least for gmail


Popular Science
Mark I. pop sci
Mark I.
I was flipping through the February 2007 Popular Science when I saw the Backpack Calendar in the corner of the page.
Ryan S.
oh how cool
Jason F.
Woah on the BP Cal!
Ryan S. PS2
Mark I.
I enjoy Popular Science and Popular Mechanics.
Jason F.
MI agree—great pubs


Squid Gates
Ryan S.
wow really bizarre marketing from microsoft in asia
Ryan S.
Ryan S.
also gates is looking more and more like a squid monster
Ryan S.
BG
BG
Jason F.
LOLOL