I added a handy Google Slide Show widget to my site, which pulls images from an RSS feed from my photo site. Radical like Zinka, but there was no photo randomization. With a little 1337 h4x0ring I was able to do it. You, too, can get the chicks.
I have an unnatural affinity for “Liking” stuff on Facebook — especially my own stuff (why? because I can).
With Facebook’s new Open Graph initiative, they’ve made it easy for me to stick Like buttons all over my personal Web site, too. When you click one, a little man will carry your display of approval through some tubes to the Facebook, whereupon a trained monkey transcriptionist will bang away at a typewriter until something makes sense, finally sneaking into my house late at night to glue your message to the inside of my monitor.
Amazing stuff. Get your Like on.
Information design expert Edward Tufte has long railed against PowerPoint and its mind-numbing cognitive style, and the chartjunk – bright, happy graphics with little informational content – that almost always accompany a presentation.
Chartjunk is a clear sign of statistical stupidity. Poking a finger into the eye of thought, these data graphics would turn into a nasty travesty if used for a serious purpose, such as helping cancer patients assess their survival chances.
So would waging war be considered a “serious purpose”?
New York Times: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint
Apparently the Pentagon didn’t get the memo on chart junk. Good times!
Further reading: PowerPoint Does Rocket Science—and Better Techniques for Technical Reports
In case you’re looking for the latest & greatest Velocity TextMate bundle, Thomas Aylott was nice enough to quickly update the old one (hosted on the Macromates svn repository) for me after I emailed him with a bug.
It’s available here: http://github.com/subtleGradient/Java-Velocity.tmbundle
So a while back, I used these Prostores dudes for some e-commerce stuff for a client.
“An eBay company”, it says. They have to be pretty legit, right? Well, I thought so.
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