links for 2008-02-01
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Muppet Wiki is a collaborative encyclopedia for everything related to Jim Henson and the Muppets.
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Easy to build and customize flash “widgets” that can contain dynamic content, media, etc. WOW!
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SproutBuilder
Oh my…this is going to be some fun to play with. They call it “living content”. I see multimedia, fresh content, etc that is drag and drop easy. My first Sprout? A kitten slideshow of course. But, now I have to roll up my sleeves and see what else we can with this.
links for 2008-01-29
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for rearranging rooms, planning a new office (!) and more..plus you can share them.
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creating glowing paper star lights. Cool.
Google celebrates the 50th anniversary of Legos
Who knew that Legos played such an important part in the history of Google?
Google’s Doodle team embraced the idea of a Lego Doodle because of the
special role Lego building has played in Google’s 10-year history. Google
co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, used the bricks as the
external low-cost and expandable casing for 10 4-GigaByte hard disks
when they were busy developing the Google search engine. The original
server casing still exists and is on display as part of an exhibition
chronicling 80 years of computing machines at Stanford University in
California’s Silicon Valley.
links for 2008-01-28
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for the upgrade to Office 2008 – could be interesting
links for 2008-01-26
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when you just need to send a meteor, dinosaaur or cream pie into a site!!
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Beautiful photographs of vintage computers and parts and knob and buttons. Love it!
Dis-Enchanted: A Story of User Control
My three readers know that I enjoy my photos. And I enjoy playing with them.
Museumr based on my Flickr photos
Simpsonize Yourself
I’ve done a lot of playing around with the pix. So, after seeing and loving the movie Enchanted this past weekend, I was playing around with – of all things – its MySpace page to hear the soundtrack again. Right below that, I saw a link for a Enchanted 3D head…something about “make yourself a Disney character”..Cool! Off I went.
The site seemed like the others I have mentioned with one major difference…. you have to upload a photo and then wait for them to email you when it is done. There were very specific parameters for the photo…very. specific. parameters. No smiling, face forward, hair behind ears. Ugh..I didn’t want to make a new photo, I wanted to use one I had. I wanted to be able to crop or move the photo around a bit. Just like I was able to do with Elf Yourself and Simpsonize (to some extent).
I chose the best fit I could find and uploaded. Then, a few hours later, my Inbox had this note:
Sorry, the photo you sent didn’t work properly. To try again,just click on the link below…<http://www.enchanted3dhead.com/>Please remember…Remove your glasses.Put your hair behind you ears.Look directly at the camera.Keep your eyes open.And NO SMILING!!!
What? A message from Disney telling me NO SMILING!!
Forget it. I want to have fun with my photo projects but without the slick controls like Elf Yourself has, I won’t even bother trying again. The secret to these online sites from companies, IMHO, is that they still give you enough control over the process to think it really is all about you. I mean, look at my Elf Yourself..I know the cats are missing their ears. I don’t care, I still had fun doing it and it was my decision to use that image.
Office Depot 1
Disney 0
links for 2008-01-22
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upload a photo and become an animated Disney character
