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Simple Slideshow for Wordpress

Admittedly I don't know Wordpress very well, so you are welcome to take this with a grain of salt. I wanted a slideshow plugin that could use all existing media plus media that a user uploaded to their blog post landing pages. I did not want to create tags for slide shows etc. I did not want the user to have to deal with gallery vs. upload vs. library vs. stashing images in some other random place.The idea was to be as dead simple but to change the user process as little as possible.

Enter the jQuery. There are lots of great jQuery plugins to do slide shows. I used the jQuery Cycle Plugin. Markup is straight forward- just put a bunch of images into a div and use .cycle(). My approach was to grab all the images in a post, hide them, and add them into the jQuery Cycle div. Not much to it. I used a custom field to enable the slide show if the user wanted it and then they could just add as many images to their post as they liked.

Ahhhhh Vermont

Election coverage, Vermont style

Trusted computing?

Hummingbird not so humming

This is a really amazing video of a humming bird being so unhumming bird-esque it's somewhat alarming.

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Video: Hummingbird preens like he means it.

Fink for Intel

It's been a bit of time, but Fink for Intel has finally been released. Check it out at fink.sourceforge.net.

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A new Fink release for OS X 10.4 (Tiger) is available today: version 0.8.1, which can be installed on either Intel or PowerPC hardware. The release includes source files, binary packages, and Fink installers for both kinds of hardware.

G4 1.5ghz 12" vs Mac Book

Here's a direct comparison between the 12" 1.5ghz g4 powerbook and the new Mac Book. As can be pretty clearly seen, the Mac Book is really a significant step up- given that the g4 is more than two years old at this point and has a single processor, one ought to expect this, but the difference between the two machines is pretty impressive. In many cases the difference is more than double.

I ran these tests just after login. Quicksilver and Dragthing were running on both. Hopefully neither tried to sync during the tests. Oh mysql and apache were also probably running at the same time.

pinky the cat

This is absolutely amazing. Beware pinky.

If only we knew where pinky was now.

See: pinkythecat.net

Halliburton solves global warming

Ah, the Yes Men.

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May 9, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: mailto:EPDU@halliburtoncontracts.com
Photos:  http://www.halliburtoncontracts.com/EPDU/

HALLIBURTON SOLVES GLOBAL WARMING
SurvivaBalls save managers from abrupt climate change

An advanced new technology will keep corporate managers safe even
when climate change makes life as we know it impossible.

"The SurvivaBall is designed to protect the corporate manager no
matter what Mother Nature throws his or her way," said Fred Wolf, a
Halliburton representative who spoke today at the Catastrophic Loss

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Social Design Notes: archives | 5 March 2006

John's got a point here. I wish that our wine drinking had resulted in stenciling. Time to get some spray paint and cardboard.

More Craig's List Scamming

Ugh. Selling something else, and, yet another scam. Here's the details on this one:

My post: http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/sys/135483890.html

The first email:

Hello i have intrest in buying your Mac which am pok with your fixed price get back to me with more dettails and how and where we can meet for pick up. Thankz

I responded by suggesting a place to meet. Of course, now comes the revelation that they aren't near by:

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