Wikipedia Fail
Friday, July 31st, 2009Let the error blogging continue. Wikipedia currently comes up blank and gives this error when going to an article.
Archive for July, 2009
Let the error blogging continue. Wikipedia currently comes up blank and gives this error when going to an article.
Building Rome in a Day: Animated 3D model city built from Flickr
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009The University of Washington's Department of Computer Science and Engineering has reconstructed Rome in a day. By harvesting thousands of images from the web and then matching common points in the photos, they were able to compute 3-D visualizations. All in the span of 24 hours. I am vastly oversimplifying, so ...
Online outfitter Trunk Club picks out clothes for you
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009I hate shopping. Especially for clothes, even online. Enter Trunk Club, an internet clothing service. Whenever you need new duds you contact Trunk Club. They pair you with a "personal Trunk Club expert" who will then send hand picked clothes. Try them on, fire up a web cam and get ...
Easily design Wordpress templates with Artisteer
Monday, July 27th, 2009A while back I was chatting with some folks about how somebody needs to come up with a program that easily allows you to churn out WordPress templates with little to no programing skills. It seems Artisteer now does just this. Only I can't use it now because it is ...
New Twitter search widget
Friday, July 24th, 2009new TWTR.Widget({ search: 'Twitter Widget', id: 'twtr-search-widget', loop: true, title: 'What\'s being said about...', subject: 'The New Twitter Widget', width: 250, height: 300, theme: { shell: { background: '#3082af', ...
Back to the ‘Back to the Future’
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Back To The Back To The Future from Eclectic Method on Vimeo. This one may have come to my attention via The Twitter. Not sure. Anyway, I can see how either this could annoy Back to the Future purists or totally delight. It basically takes bits of the flick and mixes ...
PingWire: Twitter photo feed
Thursday, July 16th, 2009If you'd like to see a near real time photo feed of Twitpic, yfrog and Twitgoo -- all image sharing sites associated with Twitter -- click over to PIngWire. . . . Many of the images seem to break -- or not load -- after it's been up and running ...
‘We Choose the Moon’ to recreate Apollo 11 mission
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009In approximately 19 hours, We Choose The Moon will enter "stage 2" and the Apollo 11 moon mission will be recreated in real time. I'm not exactly sure of the recreation details, but from what appears on the site currently, it looks like there could be a audio stream between ...
County Fair photos from Notley Hawkins
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Check out this massive photostream of various County Fairs from Notley Hawkins, a native of my home state, Missouri. (via BoingBoing)
Google Voice, finally
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009It's about damn time I got invited to Google Voice. I'm pretty sure that if you click the above widget, it will ring a phone of your choosing for you to then leave me a voice mail. (I could set it to ring my mobile, so you could talk to me ...