May 5th, 2008 § 0 comments § permalink
One stop for all your late-70s-early-80s technology magazine ad needs. I remember seeing a lot of these ads when they were originally printed and dreaming of the days when I might have, for example, The World’s First Pocket TV. Did any of us dare to dream of the iPod Touch back then? Portable radios were as big as the Lasonic boomboxes are now, but not in the ironic Lasonic bigger-is-better way — they had to be that big to contain all the transistors. Amirite?
April 15th, 2008 § 0 comments § permalink
Michigan Stadium is under reno, so commencement takes place on the Diag at the end of next week. They’re installing bleachers, video screens, and sound systems, and they’re covering the grass over with these tiles.
A fellow M-Library staffer, John Weise, has been documenting
the action, including the moving of a hill to north campus.
Good luck, Class of 2008 — I bet you’re gonna wish you’d just had it at Rynearson, a perfectly modern stadium with miles of convenient parking.
Or your parents are.
April 9th, 2008 § 0 comments § permalink
BPDW.COM has moved again, to Umbra, who have been very helpful and gave me a pretty good deal through webhostingtalk.com.
January 10th, 2008 § 0 comments § permalink
My favorite thing about this piece is the way the flash ads are just kind of tucked in there amidst the “creepy” ads. And actually, when I saw it, a couple of the flash ads were almost as creepy. Not the Amanda Bynes one so much as the Diesel guy. Still, if I never see that grinning pig slicing himself up again…
January 4th, 2008 § 0 comments § permalink
From the Mini display at the Taipei International Auto Show.
December 31st, 2007 § 2 comments § permalink
!!! WARNING !!!
January 6, 2008 — This takes any 10 or 13 digit number and URLs it. It broke my flickr links for a few days there. So if you’re using this with QuickPost, maybe don’t use this. I will work on a better solution in the coming days and weeks.
We now return you to the original pitch. -B.
Ever wanted to blog about books, but not interested in giving any money to The Website That Sells Everything?
I work in a library and I want to encourage the borrowing of books through my library and others like it. I am not the only one. It will take a little time to develop or cobble together something that will serve as a versatile and media-rich alternative to the plugins that stick splashy ads for The World’s Biggest Bookstore all over your blog. I hope to explore that in 2008.
Today, though, I got all inspired by Banas’ adaptation of his favorite WP theme to include 2.0 widgets:
If you entertain fantasies of there lurking somewhere, somewhere, a theme, widget, or addon that will spontaneously uncork the fountain of wisdom you’ve been waiting to pour out onto the internet – well, please don’t stop fantasizing on my account – but the only thing that’s going to uncork that fountain is you.
And Banas was right. So I started small, by bastardizing Daniel Coe’s ISBN to Amazon Link WP plugin. Daniel’s well-formatted code made it rather simple to change the Amazon URL his script creates to a simple WorldCat link, like the one you see here to my favorite book, Nick Hornby’s “About a Boy”: 0575061596.
It will do this with any 10 or 13-digit number. That means if you put a ten digit [i.e. US or Canadian] phone number in a blog post, it will turn it into a WorldCat link unless you put the area code in (parentheses) or something. It also means that if leading zeroes cause the number to be other than 10 or 13 digits it will probably be hosed, so count the digits.
Unfortunately, right now, this only makes links to WorldCat, a database of OCLC member libraries. WorldCat, by its membership nature, doesn’t index all the world’s libraries, but it’s a start. You could print the resulting page and take it to your local library, where a staff member will glean the knowledge they need to get the book to you.
Thanks, Daniel, for making your plugin available under the GPL.
Download it here: WorldCat WordPress Plugin [16K ZIP file, should work OK with OneClick Install]
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The Less Bad: "If my bra is a threat to national security, we’re in big trouble."
The More Bad: Photographers advised to pack a gun to avoid losing their gear bag.
The Awesome: Penn vs. the TSA. "…freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I’ll spend to find out how to get people more of it."
November 14th, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
Happened upon this while looking for airports near Miami. Supposedly named for a lake nearby shaped like same.
