I’ve finally gotten around to revamping the art/design section of Blank Slate:
It’s running off a zenphoto installation, rethemed to fit …
The Archives: Web
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I recently stumbled across a rather cool website called Peoples Archive. It has tons of short videos with “the world’s greatest thinkers, creators, and achievers.” While some …
Whoa, Facebook’s had chat since April 6 and I somehow didn’t find out until tonight? :) Actually, I don’t think they rolled it out to me until sometime …
I’m on Skype now, as “benjamin.crowder”. I tried it a couple years ago but didn’t know a single person using it (I admittedly didn’t look very hard :)), …
After three months of delay, I’ve finally finished restructuring Blank Slate so I can push the redesign live:
Finally. :) …
I’m in love.
No, not a girl. It’s Beanstalk: hosted Subversion. This is so cool.
For the non-geeky among you, Subversion is one of the more popular version control …
Chris Harrison’s Visualizing the Bible site has some fascinating graphs — Bible cross-references (it’s amazing how interconnected the books of the Bible are), a Biblical social network (ever wondered …
While Facebook statuses (stati? :P) are admittedly useful in keeping up with the goings on in my friends’ lives, they (along with Twitter) seem just a bit…well…too much. A …
9. Netboox
From Nicole Engard via Gerrit, here’s a question someone posted on a forum:
was just thinking. my sister does -alot- of reading, and spends like $1000 a year …
1. Tonight I tried out speed dating for the first time. (It was a ward activity.) Holy smokes, I loved it! I love getting to know people …
Today I saw a blog post on writing a book in Google Docs. Interesting. One of the things that stuck out to me was the <div> hack …
The Library of Congress is now on Flickr. (Thanks to NorthTemple.com for the heads-up.)
I came across A.viary not too long ago, and I just have to say that if it ends up done well, dang, it’s going to be sweet. Image …
So, I’m not entirely sure how it happened (a renegade Facebook application?), but tonight I got a wall post from a friend which said this:
lol i cant believe these pics …
Google Maps now lets you fix your house on the map. Brilliant idea, really — crowdsource for better accuracy. Besides, people care about where they live, more …
From M’s blog, this is something every Gmail user ought to be aware of:
After logging into Gmail, the victim visits a site that injects a malicious filter into your …
I know, I know, four posts in one day is a bit OCD, but this is too cool to let sit around. In Google Talk (and Gmail chat as …
18. Buzzword
I heard about Adobe Buzzword a few weeks ago but the registration wasn’t working. Came across it again tonight and wow, this is pretty dang sweet:…
This morning I installed the second beta of Firefox 3 on my Mac Mini (per John Resig’s instructions, including the multiple Firefoxes part) and dang, it’s fast! Much …
20. Using new media
From ldsWebguy, earlier today I found a talk Elder Ballard gave today at BYU-Hawaii, Using New Media to Support the Work of the Church:
While you studied here at …
From Richard’s blog, I came across Larry Lessig’s H2M proposal (H2M = harmful to minors). Being at a lab without audio, I haven’t watched the video yet, …
Dang, Gmail is on a roll. This afternoon they just announced AIM integration:
Today we are happy to tell you about a new feature we’ve started to roll out …
23. Just in case
This morning on my walk up to campus, I passed a girl with purple eye shadow and light red lipstick, and my first thought, inexplicably, was that she reminded me …
This morning I noticed that my labels in Gmail had a slightly off-color background. Checking the Gmail blog, I found this rather nice little bit of goodness on …
25. Gmail group chat
They did it! Finally! Yes, folks, that’s right, Gmail now has group chat. And it’s not even an April fool’s joke. :P…
26. NaBoMeReMo
Having just finished NaNoWriMo yesterday, and with a few days of NaBloPoMo still left, my reaction to seeing the NaBoMoReMo website (National Book of Mormon Reading Month, and …
27. Cause and effect
Last week one of the Internet jacks in our bedroom died (there are two). It was the one I was connected to, so I decided to start using wireless, …
Hurrah, our Internet is back up again! During the day on Saturday it was fine, but by evening it had slowed to a frightful crawl, barely dribbling out a …
I’ve gotten a little design-giddy in the last couple of days, and this morning I redid Riverglen Press:
Better, I think. :) …
Lost track of time this morning while redesigning the blankslate.net dashboard:
So now I’m going to be late for work unless …
32. Bubble to bubble
In my library science readings, we recently had some articles on reference via chat. They mentioned two things about real-time chatting (IM, Gmail, that sort of thing) that I …
This is the coolest thing I’ve heard of in months, bar none. It’s called reCAPTCHA, which I read about on Language Scraps (a rather good blog, by …
I’ve had a beastly head cold (like a jackhammer on the brain) since Monday afternoon, and little time to sleep, so I took today off to just sleep. But …
Everyone’s heard of Facebook by now, but I still run into scads of people who are staunchly anti. Or at least apathetic. And so, without further ado, I …
37. Face to face
Do cell phones and iPods and Facebook virtualize our lives, stripping away the face-to-face contact we need and replacing it with prosthetic relationships?
That’s the vibe I’ve been getting lately from …
For my other internship (the one I didn’t blog about yesterday), I’m putting together some training material on various new technologies. There’s a lot of cool stuff here, so …
I’m addicted to e-mail. I wish I were kidding, but no, I think I really am hooked. It’s what I look forward to every morning, and the longer …
40. Gmail Paper
I’m an idiot. ~sigh~ When I logged on to Gmail this morning, I saw this announcement for Gmail Paper:
Practically drooling, I clicked …
The hosts of Mordor are on the march, flooding every city and town and hamlet where man can be found. Like a massive wall of evil, an avalanche of …
Came across an interesting post on if:book about A Million Penguins, which is Penguin’s attempt to write a novel collaboratively through a wiki.
So is the novel immune from …
We’re in the middle of a revolution. You may have noticed it going on, but do you realize how important it is? I’m talking about the democratization of …
On the LibraryThing Thingology blog I found this gem, put together by Michael Wesch of Kansas State University:
As …
45. Tag, you’re it
Whenever anyone says the word “translate” in my Aeneid class, for some bizarre reason the line “and I’ll translate it into Yorkshire for you, till you get the way of …
It’s funny how the stuff you write years ago can become so embarrassing. I’ve been going through Blank Slate, sweeping the dust under the (lush oriental) rug, tidying …
The four-year-old next door already knows how to get on the Internet and find his favorite games. Grandma, on the other hand, still doesn’t know how to double-click.
Why?
When adult …
I discovered Snap Preview Anywhere five minutes ago while reading TechCrunch. Go ahead, move your mouse over either of these links. See? Very cool. …
49. A thousand words
A couple of weeks ago I came across Meredith Farkas’s post on screencasting, and it’s been on the back burner of my mind ever since, particularly this line: “There …
I love Google even more. :) You’d think I would’ve discovered the Google homepage customization thing a while ago. And you’d be right. But I (incorrectly) assumed …
