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Life, Another One of Those Episodes 2008-04-04 19:07:34 So after nine weeks, my web design course is over. It started with two dozen enthusiastic students from all classes, and ended up with five. Perhaps the most proudest end result is the Nolarize! website, created by Greg Albright ‘10. It’s pretty amazing what a nine-week, three hour a week program can do. There were [...]
Sometimes 2008-04-16 07:53:58 Written for none other than K.B.
Sometimes
I like to dig my feet into the heels of my loafers, eating something cheap from the nearby convenience store, and walk to nowhere in particular. The transformation from loafer to sandal ensures that I can only walk at a slower pace than usual so that they don’t fall [...]
Tutorial: How to create favicons 2008-04-17 20:40:02 Favicons are those small icons you see in your browser right next to the URL in the address bar or whenever you bookmark a page, as shown below. It’s a great way to brand your site and it adds a subtle touch to your users’ online experience. They’re easy to make, but it doesn’t quite [...] Read more:Tutorial
, create
Dear advertisers of the world 2008-04-19 08:37:07 Dear advertisers
of the world
I hope you realize that you waste pretty much every penny trying to get my attention.
You can argue all you want about subliminal messages, you can tell me that I chose Colgate over Aquafresh because of an ad I saw four years ago, or that I am more likely to [...]
Japan, Newspaper Country 2008-04-20 09:50:49 Consider these figures of the top newspapers of the world:
Newspaper
Readership, Feb. 2008
Yomiuri, morning edition
10,015,054
Asahi Shimbun, morning edition
8,016,119
Mainichi, morning edition
3,879,114
Yomiuri, evening edition
3,826,298
Asahi Shimbun, evening edition
3,511,086
The Sun
3,077,060
The Daily Mail
2,294,880
USA Today
2,293,137
Wall Street Journal
2,011,882
Mainichi, evening edition
1,349,652
New York Times
1,037,828
(Figures from Japan
Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), as released in [...] Read more:Country
IHT Delivers Same Story in Different Flavors 2008-04-24 20:26:29 It seems that the International Herald Tribune can be accused of writing up different forms of the same article with choice words replaced. It lends itself to a surprisingly conflicting interpretation. The reason they differ? The regions in which they are expected to be read, specifically Africa versus the Middle East (check out their links) [...] Read more:Flavors
Endangered-Languages.com 2008-05-05 23:17:13 I hereby present to you a collaborative final project for my Endangered Languages
course here at Swarthmore: endangered-languages.com
How to download mp3 from esnips 2008-05-08 21:48:53 So, you’ve found a good song on esnips and you’d like to make it your own. As of this writing, only one method exists. Say you’d like to download Ballade Pour Adeline by Rimini Club DJs Unlimited, an obscure but fantastic song. The URL on esnips is at
-99d8-4a4a-a5f2-b8f46c9e0860/03.-Ballade-Pour-Adeline—Rimini-Club-Djs-United
Here’s the method:
Replace the /doc/ part with /nsdoc/
Remove [...]
Python code for extracting email addresses 2008-05-13 15:52:22 There have been times where I’ve wanted to mass email a bunch of people sharing the same domain name: for example, I’d like to send a notice to everyone I know who attends my school and thus has a @swarthmore.edu email address. Exporting my contacts from Gmail into CSV, I coded the following in Python
[...] Read more:addresses
Giving Away 2008-05-18 08:41:17 So, I have this Erector “Design Excavator” set that I found on campus on the “I’m giving this away for free” table and I figured I’d like to give this to a child who might have some fun with it. Can you find me that child? Convince me why he or she would love to [...] Read more:Giving
Where the Chinatown Fails — to Succeed 2008-05-18 17:18:04 As a frequent commuter from New York to Philadelphia and back, I have had the privilege of traveling cheap thanks to the Chinatown
buses, which run between most of the major cities along the East Coast, including Boston, New York, Philadelphia and DC, all the way down to Atlanta. The two main companies available are [...]
The Google Takeover 2008-05-19 23:50:55 I don’t particularly welcome to advent of Google
Health, mainly because Google controls so much of my life already as it is. Google has become so integral in our daily lives that if Google’s servers were to suffer from some form of failure even for an hour, its impact will be so devastating it just [...] Read more:Takeover
The Commuter’s Lament 2008-05-19 17:16:19 On the subway pathway from the 42nd street A, C, E stop leading to the 7, 1, 2 and 3 train platform, I spotted these placards upon the beams - everyone else seemed to be in too much of a hurry to appreciate them. It turns out that this is a piece of work from [...] Read more:Lament
Google University 2008-05-22 22:42:40 I spotted something interesting while watching the video that Google
put up on their blog announcing the availability of Google Sites to the general public.
The URL
The email
The domain
Google University
is apparently an opportunity for Google employees to enhance their knowledge with specific courses. googleuniversity.org is registered by Domains By Proxy, while googleuniversity.com clearly ha
Putting that $15 surcharge into perspective 2008-05-22 21:06:13 Back in the old days, check-in baggage was free (and they actually gave you something to eat, too, even on domestic flights).
American Airlines decided to charge passengers $15 for their first check-in bag, a path which other airliners will undoubtedly follow given high fuel prices. But where exactly does $15 bring you? While it seems [...] Read more:Putting
Two women in New York 2008-05-24 13:01:08 Crash collision, mid-pavement
Between a Jabba and a Cruella
More like a brush and a bump
“I’m sor-”, “You!” and the pointing begins
With expletives bouncing off
The gray cement like marbles
Ugly, monotonic, gray, marbles,
Loud and all over the place
One focuses on size (and girth),
The other on the intellect (or lack thereof)
And the marbles bounce around
Unnoticed.
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Google Updates Favicon 2008-05-31 08:13:47 It appears as though Google
has updated its favicon to a newer, softer version, choosing the lowercase ‘g’ in the Google title over the uppercase:
This is an update on the previous version, shown below:
This change has slowly propagated in the past few days across all of Google’s services. I wonder what they might be up [...]
Movie Review: The Fall (2006) 2008-06-05 23:07:11 I had the fortune of going to see Tarsem Singh’s newest movie, “The Fall”, which emerged in theaters on the 30th of June. The part-fantasy, part-reality movie takes place in Los Angeles in the 1920s and revolves around bedridden movie stuntman Roy Walker (Lee Pace), who, after being injured on a set, considers suicide but [...] Read more:Movie Review
The Fourth Factor Authorization 2008-06-09 09:38:30 Whenever you authenticate access to an online account, whether it be email, your bank, eBay or your weblog, there are certain, commonly used methods to add a layer of security, known as two-factor authentication:
1) checking by what you have, i.e. a PayPal security RSA key, a bank card with a CVV number, etc.
2) verifying with [...]
Where Race Still Divided 2008-06-11 12:33:56 Charleston High School in Mississippi held its first interracial prom this spring, celebrating what amounts to a new chapter in a school system that integrated back in the 1970s. Previously, the proms, which were not sanctioned by the school but instead organized by the parents of the students, were held separately by race. Though we [...] Read more:Divided
Happy InWeDay! 2008-06-14 20:30:15 Tell me, what does change mean to you?
Can we bring change to the world we live in through the words we write? What change do we ourselves want to see in this world?
Change is bringing a new perspective to an old problem, whether it be political, social or economic. It need not be seen immediately [...] Read more:Happy
Summer Saving and Free $25 2008-06-15 10:52:17 For those of you who are interested in saving a bit of money this summer, here’s a solution I’m currently testing out, and trust me when I say I’m not being paid to write this. You’ll also get $25 for free if you finish reading this.
What is it?
The ING Orange is a savings account [...] Read more:Summer
, Saving
Getting FancyUpload to Work 2008-06-17 10:19:30 The task: to have an easy to use, AJAX-based image upload script that allows people to upload files from the desktop to an online space, making it easy to upload multiple images at once.
The tool: Harald Kirschner’s FancyUpload script.
Right now the script is sans documentation and the methods to implementing it are rather all over [...]
What’s Happening? 2008-06-22 13:12:15 “The Happening
” lends itself to a series of unfortunate puns (like “what’s happening? There’s something terrible happening!) and the acting falls truly flat on its face: I’m not a big fan of closeups and repeated sequences of Mark Wahlberg telling everyone to shut up, not to mention the fact that Zooey Deschanel, after a pitiful [...]
Ambler Ramble 2008-06-21 20:03:11 To celebrate the return of my bike from the bike shop for minor wheel truing, I decided I’d take part in a C+ training ride sponsored by the Bicycle Club of Philadelphia (where C+ designates a ride of duration between 15 to 75 miles and a 12 to 15 mph average on flat terrain). My [...] Read more:Ramble
232 E22nd Street Working Building Fire 2008-07-04 17:12:21 At 7pm on Tuesday, July 1, 2008, the Swarthmore Fire and Protective Association was dispatched on the second alarm to a working building fire at 232 Potter Street
, right at 22nd Street in Chester Township, Chester, PA.
I had just sat down to eat a slice of pizza with the Assistant Chief and Fire Marshall [...] Read more:Building
AJAX Lyrics Retriever 2008-06-26 22:45:41 I am happy to announce the release of Lyrics Retriever
1.1 (beta, still), a free AJAX
script that allows you to retrieve lyrics based on a particular artist, title, or both.
See it in action here.
It is now offered as a commercial release.
How it works: Getting the results
The current implementation is just one [...]
KISS, Audio Engineering 2008-06-25 15:46:33 Since I am in a research lab dealing primarily with audio files, and since I recently read an op-ed about the uselessness of the multiplicity of proprietary and open source codecs, I’ve decided to do my own investigation.
Basically, there are three types of audio codecs, a codec (short for compression/decompression) any sort of program [...] Read more:Audio
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