Sam’s random musings

Flickr Gallery 0.4:

Flickr Gallery 0.4: Plugin for WordPress. This one should be really cool. From what I can tell from the plugin, you post to Flickr and the plugin will get the photographs from Flickr, cache them locally and then post them on your blog. REST is used to make the API calls to Flickr to get the information. The coolest part of this plugin is that it incorporates the “Notes” of Flickr. This code can be used outside of WordPress as well since it really does not use any of the WordPress code.
Thanks Ray!

Ok been looking for this coolness

(Via Weblog Tools Collection.)

Fishpong. Because coffee houses aren’t boring enough.:

Leave it to MIT students to take pong and turn it into Fishpong, some new project designed to encourage “human-to-human interaction in informal social environments”. Because, you know, informal social environments need tabletop rehashes of 70s videogames in order to get us meatbags to interact. Oh, wait - there’s more.

You control it with the coffee mugs, kinda cool…

(Via Engadget.)

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p>Ask Dave Taylor:

A new (to me) and useful resource: Ask Dave Taylor! He’s written books about everything from HTML to Unix on OS X, so he’s got plenty of info in his head, and he’s willing to share. You can read any of the many questions he’s already answered, or just ask him one yourself.

Coolness nice set of tips to point nimrods too

(Via Backup Brain.)

The Content Management Comparison Tool:

Content Management Comparison Tool

(Via Blogging Pro - Blog News, Tools and Hacks.)

Margaret Mead:

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

This has always been a favorite quote of mine, probably many teachers would agree

(Via Motivational Quotes of the Day.)

Colin Powell to quit Bush cabinet:

US Secretary of State Colin Powell announces his resignation, saying he intends to return to a private life.

It is sad to see this guy leave, a voice of reason.

(Via BBC News.)

Joyce Carol Oates:

“If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I’ve found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they’ll divulge it.”

(Via Motivational Quotes of the Day.)

Optimized Firefox builds:

Neil Lee has posted a G5 optimized build of Firefox 1.0 as well as one optimized for a PowerBook or iBook G4. Detailed build instructions and a build configuration file are also available.

Some improvements noted on my old powerbook

(Via MacMegasite.)