links for 2008-08-30
August 31st, 2008
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This is the easiest way to make a tallbike.
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The Electric Umbrella will glow with many pinpoints of light – and it's dimmer adjustable so you can set how bright you want to be – anywhere from dim ambient light for strolling in the dark to carrying your own portable supernova beacon of light!
links for 2008-08-29
August 30th, 2008
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a little heavy handed but quite interesting
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The Cthulhu bot sleeps until he soaks up enough light… at which point, he begins to madly thrash around his many sucking, tentacled limbs.
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highlighting the problems faced by folks who believe everything they read on the internet
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YouTomb where YouTube videos go to die – a collection of copyright-related takedowns along with info on who issued the complaint and how long the video was up.
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The Draganflyer X6 Helicopter is a GPS guided, hi-definition, aerial video and digital photography platform. There is an X6 package for photographers, video production, police, military and education use
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a carboard cutout cctv surveilance camera ready for assembly and deployment just about anywhere you'd care to put it.
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a port of the Noise Toy programs for the Arduino platform. Add a couple of momentary switches to pins 8 and 9 and connect stereo audio to 3 and 4 and you're away.
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a simple drag and drop way of making your own flash games. Everything is customizable. Pick a template, upload a background, arrange the pieces, you get the idea. When you’re done you can embed it anywhere you like. It’s free and easy.
links for 2008-08-27
August 28th, 2008
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a Simpsons character creator that uses a photo that you upload to create a Simpsonesque avatar.
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This php class not only provides means to let any PHP site benefit from the content that is made available in Wikipedia, but also to remotely edit the content of any Wikipedia page.
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a perl script for converting HTML to wiki markup. Produces a variety of output formats including mediawiki markup
week2, thing #3 – keeping up with the joneses
I figure that since I’m making all my mentees write a blog for our 23 things project I should practice a little of what I preach, so I’ll put the odd post here on this old edublogs blog
I even made an avatar on the simpson’s movie site…
links for 2008-08-20
August 21st, 2008
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a version of Celtx that utilizes Portable Firefox as codebase. Celtx is a free, open source software tool for writing and formatting a screenplay to meet the exacting screenplay submission standards set by the theater and film industries.
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my secondlife avatar is hoplessly trapped on the introductory island – not responding to any key press or combo that I can come up with – but if I ever get enthusiastic enough to create another avatar, jokaydia is one place I plan to visit.
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add functionality to your open office install with some free extensions
links for 2008-08-08 [delicious.com]
August 8th, 2008
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The PHP-UWA library allows a facilitated use of UWA-Widgets with PHP. It gives you access to the preferences and some convenience-functions. In theory, it should work with every UWA-compliant widget
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Netvibes Universal Widget API (UWA) is a free widget framework. UWA supports all major widget platforms, including Netvibes, iGoogle, Windows Vista, Mac OS X, iPhone
links for 2008-08-07 [delicious.com]
August 7th, 2008
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a discovery learning program designed to encourage staff to explore new technologies and reward them for doing 23 Things.
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an assortment of podcasts for all of those long commutes and extended days at the office.
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the libvisual port of the well-known G-Force visualization plugin from the Windows/Apple world.
links for 2008-08-04 [delicious.com]
August 4th, 2008
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the number of google resuls for "I should have kissed him/her" compared with "I shouldn't have kissed him/her" – bourne out through independent research (and qualitative assessment), although my numbers were 9550 vs. 1063
links for 2008-08-03 [delicious.com]
August 3rd, 2008
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FBML Essentials — Learn how to build apps quickly using the Facebook Markup Language (FBML) and other easy-to-use tools in the FB site's framework.
links for 2008-08-01 [delicious.com]
August 1st, 2008
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looking for user information (eg interests and activities) via the facebook api
