It looks like Flickr has finally managed to make it out of Beta!
So does this mean they’ve gone 1.0? Nope. They moved on up to Gamma.
*sigh* Those cheeky bastards…
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Links for 2006-05-10
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You know, I never really put much that much thought into the movie. But after reading Todd’s interpretation I have to go and rewatch it.
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While this is totally admirable, I don’t think I could ever manage to do this to my mail client.
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I’m thinking about implementing this on Preshrunk once they allow publishers to use something other than that dock.
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Why Is WordPress So Sexy?
Psst… I fidgeted with the layout on Preshrunk.
Actually, all I really did was find a really sexy WordPress template and tweaked it to my liking — but I’m pretty sure I’ll keep this design up for a while. At least until everyone and their brother starts using it on their own sites.
When I showed the new layout to Matt, he remarked:
Matt: WP templates out there are so good
Matt: it seems stupid to custom design anythingAnd you know what? I’m inclined to agree. I only spent half an hour switching up some colors in CSS and fixing a few grammatical errors in the post data at the bottom of the page before I considered it ready. To compare, when I launched the site using Blogger, I spent a few hours tweaking someone’s port of Kubrick to get it exactly the way I wanted it.
Now I’m not trying to say that WordPress is easier to use — or even really any better — than Blogger is. Both of them have their shortcomings. But please don’t think that I’m knocking Blogger. I was a paid Blogger Pro user back in the day. And up until a several months ago, I thought I’d be using it forever. So needless to say, I have plenty of love and respect for them.
What I think I’m getting at here tho is that the WordPress community has quite a few more passionate designers than the general Blogger community does under its belt. Sure, Google can afford to hire Zeldman, Cederholm and Shea — but they don’t even use Blogger to run their own sites. Can you even name one resource for Blogger templates other than the default ones that are provided for you? I know I can’t.
The people who are releasing all of these beautiful WordPress templates on the other hand, actually manage to use the software on a pretty regular basis. They know how to hack their way around the extensive template available to get some pretty amazing results. Sure, the code may occasionally be a tad bit hellish to read thru when you need to do a quick tweak, but the designers are passionate about WordPress and really manages to show in their designs.
Think about it… When was the last time you saw a Blogger design get ported over to WordPress? Yeah, I don’t seem to remember that happening either.
Damn. I’m getting off on a rant here… Sorry about that. I could go on for a bit longer, but I’ll spare you all. Just go give the new Preshrunk a peek, okay? Cheers!
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Links for 2006-05-02
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Complete streaming episodes of Lost and Alias with ads intact using Mac friendly Flash video. w00t!
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As always, the internet is lightning fast with current event t-shirts.
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An interactive fiction authoring application for OS X and Windows. Looks pretty sweet.
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PB’s useful Greasemonkey script for parsing EXIF data to add camera images on Flickr photo info pages. It’s enough to make me wish I didn’t love Safari so damn much.
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What Just Happened?
Hrm. That was weird.
Some eight year old kid just walked by the window of the place that I’m at and threw me the goat while nodding at my Powerbook.
Maybe he’s a fan of Preshrunk… ;) Although I’m sure if he was, he’d probably would have flipped me off for not posting more than two updates over as many weeks.
I guess he must like Apple gear, then. *shrug* Fair enough.
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Links for 2006-04-27
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I’ve been falling back in love with film cameras lately. Once I’ve got some cheddar, this seems like a fun project to go do.
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What do you get when you cross a flash mob with a guerilla drive in?
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Mash Ups Go Mainstream
Maybe it’s just me, but did anyone else find it a bit weird to hear Go Home Productions “Rapture Riders” on Alias tonight?
I know it’s on Blondie’s “Sound and Vision” and everything, but I remember when I downloaded that track off his website well over a year ago. It’s just sort of a trip for me to hear a mash up that I’ve listened to a whole bunch on a TV show I used to watch obsessively.
What’s next, Party Ben‘s “Boulevard of Broken Songs” making an appearance on Gilmore Girls?
P.S. Unlike Sean, I was happy that the bomb in Will’s brain didn’t go off.
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Delete Yourself! You Got No Chance To Win!
Don’t you hate it when you go and do something stupid?
I was planning on taking a few of the business card templates that I designed last week and releasing them. But as I poked around my hard drive, I realized that they’d gone awol. Turns out I’d deleted them when I went thru a fit of desktop cleanup on Monday.
Guess it’s time to dust off that copy of FileSalvage…
Update: Well, FileSalvage was no help. *shrug* C’est la vie.
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Links for 2006-04-26
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A single column WordPress layout from the dude who did plaintxtBlog.
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The NY Times Magazine’s profile on AA with a large focus on hyper sexual ringleader Dov.
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Justin’s made a neat bash script that automagically fires up a screen session on a new remote login. I’ll have to fold this in on the systems I have remote access to.
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I’m going to be implementing WordPress as a CMS for a friend soon – so this will come in handy.
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While I thought “Thank You For Smoking” was wonderful, this might have been the highlight of that particular trip to the theatre.
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Under The Covers
While it was already one of my favorite Velvet Underground songs, I’ve recently become addicted to Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs blissfully wonderful take on “Sunday Morning”.
I’d offer it up for download, but it looks like they’ve posted it up on the MySpace page for Sid n’ Susie. I suggest you go give it a spin while you can. Well, maybe not a spin exactly — but you get the drift, right?