There’s this French initiative that has caught on well beyond the country’s borders: turning off our lights for five minutes in the evening on Thursday, February 1st. (That’s 10:55 am to 11:00 am our time here in B.C.)It’s meant to draw attention for the need for action on climate change:
Why February 1st? Because the next day, in… Read more...
Robert Safuto of Awakened Voice has a great 22-minute introduction to Drupal.
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Lots of em, all free for the snagging, reading and enjoying.
You know that song? The one that goes “la la la, ba dum, la la”? Dammit, what’s it called?A new service says it can tell you. Midomi uses a Flash interface that has you sing or hum a fragment of that mystery song into your computer’s microphone. Then, hey presto, it shows you a series of possible matches.I gave it the acid test: a song fragment that has haunted me… Read more...
…and it’s full of little improvements. Probably the biggest one is in the posting interface, which is now tabbed, and lets you switch seamlessly from a WYSIWYG editor (which, mercifully, finally seems to work) to a modified HTML pane.
The news is here on the WordPress blog, along with a list of enhancements and bug fixes.
One problem I’ve encountered: only a few buttons on that WYSIWYG… Read more...
Darren Barefoot’s done it again: a hilarious one-page send-up. The target this time is Second Life.
And yet something about it strikes me as poignant. Maybe it’s the number of people out there who aren’t exploring their first lives with any sense of play, discovery or fun. Perhaps Darren should open his site up to user accounts… and then put them in touch with each other… Read more...
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