BurningbirdI’ve been experimenting around with software tools and utilities, and for this batch I used ImageMagick’s command line tools to create the thumbnails and add a signature. The shell script to add the signature is: #!/bin/sh for name in *jpg do echo $name convert $name -font AvantGuarde-Demi -pointsize 24 \ -gravity SouthEast \ -fill maroon […]
Cephalopodcast has found a couple of terrific old films on the ‘fish from hell’ from the Prelinger Archives. As the Cephalopodcast mentions, it’s not the footage so much as it is the accompanying voiceover. It’s also an interesting study in our earlier ‘science’ investigations, and the fact that in these old ‘science’ films, the scientists tend to […]
It was late Friday night and I had just gone down to feed the cat before getting ready for bed when I noticed the light that shines through the front window had gone out. Moments later, there was a smart tap tap tap at the door. Somewhat nervously, I looked out through the peephole to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Some ad networks and other script-based entities, such as Google Ads, I believe, use JavaScript document.write to write out the content to our web pages. The organizations use this because they want the content embedded in the page at the point where the item is placed, and there isn’t a […]
I love lists of good stuff: Danny Ayers, Week of Semantic Web. I hope, I hope, I hope, Danny continues this. Agile Ajax links several GWT tutorials, all in one post — handy if you’re into the Google Web Toolkit, or want to give it a try.