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Earlier today I thought that it would be cool to try to figure out how to use the timeline widget with wordpress as a way to show blog post history.
Well, I didn't have to work too hard, just a bit of googling to discover that someone else already figured out how to — have a look at this post about creating an Archive View For Wordpress. Notice that that blog has an implementation of the widget running at the top of the page so you can get a feel for how the finished widget looks and handles.
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I predict that this well timed incident by BP will have gas prices at or near $3.25USD by the end of today in the Cincinnati area (currently gas is around $2.98USD). I further predict that big oil's goal is to have the price at the pump flirting with $4USD just in time for the Labor Day/end of summer driving push — just as they manipulated prices up to the current $3USD range last year in this same period.
Clearly an industry that is in need of regulation (and also clearly not something that will happen with the current administration).
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I am sure you've had this same thought while looking for the ever-misplaced remote control — “I wish I had a homing device for the #$@! thing”. Well now you can. Using Loc8tor you can tag and locate items up to 600 feet (183 meters) away.
You might remember the old optical illusion that could be seen as either the profile of a face or the silhouette of a vase or urn. Now there is a company called Turn Your Head that is offering you the real word equivalent of this illusion:
At Turn Your Head, we fill the space between two opposing profiles of your face. By spinning that space into a three dimensional “visage” that follows the outlined silhouettes of your two profiles, we create the “Pirolette”.
Place the “Pirolette” to your face and it will match your profile. Locate it near a wall and the shadow of the “Pirolette” will be your silhouette.
All you need to do is provide an appropriately composed photo of the subject and fork over some cash and your own personal pirolette can be yours.
The images from the Spam Architecture series are generated by a computer program that accepts as input, junk email. Various patterns, keywords and rhythms found in the text are translated into three-dimensional modeling gestures.
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Thankfully, AirPower has nothing to do with militancy. Rather it is a community effort that is worthy of support. The intent is to provide a wiki to hold the locations of power outlets in airports around the world. It is off to a modest start now, but seems to have more entries every time I check into it.
So Overplot is a hilarious mashup between the 'Overheard in New York City' site and Google Maps that lets you place the quotes on a map. Some are stupid, some are dark, some are profane, but they are reflect the weirdness that is reality in a big city.
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I am not sure what to make of the new Diigo service that just launched this week. Seems to be yet-another digg meets google notebook idea. The ability to attach sticky notes to sites that others can view reminds me of a similar (IE-only) function that a startup floated back in the mid-90s that crashed and burned due to legal actions by sites that had unfavorable comments attached to them.
Overall, Im struggling to find a reason to use this tool versus what I already have.
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I came across this handy posting that explains what RAW files are and why you might want to use them on your digital camera.
I make no claim of being a great photographer (evidence here), but if I just had a dime for every time I hear someone knowingly say 'Yeah, I shoot everything in RAW and post-process it in Photoshop' but their in camera composition is absolute crap. Please, learn some basic camera and composition skills before you go blowing wind about your 'post-processing workflow'. And having a $2000USD camera that you shoot everything in auto-mode isn't terribly impressive. Oh, don't get me started...
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Considering my previous rants posts regarding the Newton, this article on cnet UK is all the more vindicating. The gist of the article is that a new 'innovative' MS-based Samsung portable computer can't compare to the capabilities of a ten year old Newton. In fact, the article goes on to point out numerous times how the Samsung appears to be a very close copy of the Newton on several features.
I can only imagine the hotness that was the Newton tuned up with a high res color screen, built in Wi-Fi, and all the other modern conveniences in my hand today.
