Archive for May, 2008
Speed Dial for Firefox
I recently tried the Opera web browser for the first time primarily because I read about the touted Dragonfly tool for web developers. Well in general I was underwhelmed. Despite the fact that Firefox has been unstable on my machine recently, I think it does a better job at rendering web pages than the Opera [...]
Tag Galaxy – Explore Photostreams
Tag Galaxy provide a rich interface to Flickr photostreams. Type a photo attribute such as “beach” and Tag Galaxy returns all photos from Flickr tagged with the word “beach” along with frequently related tags such as “island”, “water”, and “sunset”. The results are represented as planets orbiting in a microcosm of outer space. Planet sizes [...]
Mr Fish on Reverend Wright
This recent Mr. Fish cartoon is from Harper’s Magazine. I assume that they granted me implicit permission to publish it on MugMud because Harper’s is a great publication and Mr. Fish is a nice guy.
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A Walk in the Woods
The city of Prague ends abruptly on a wooden hillside about a mile north of here. Strangely, in this city without suburban sprawl, it is the same distance to the edge of town as it is to the center. The storied center of Prague is where the tourist herd snakes its way though the narrow [...]
Illustration Friday: Worry
He may look worried. Though these days it’s hard to tell by phone. I know that I am worried.
artist: Jeremy Taylor
media: digital
Hang Drum Redux: Hank Drum
This is an update to my earlier post about the amazing hang drum. Apparently the widespread interest in the innovative musical instrument coupled with the lack of availability has driven a resourceful instrument maker to fashion an alternate version of the hang drum from a common propane tank.
DIY instrument pioneer Dennis Havlena has published [...]
Recreate
His name is Yeondoo Jung, and among many other works, he creates vibrant photo recreations of children’s drawings. His online gallery has several whimsical examples worth exploring. My second favorite photo in the series depicts a wizard flying on a broomstick next to a display case of cupcakes and a over-sized flower in the [...]
Mustache Champions
The World Beard and Mustache Championships will be held May 23, 2009 in Anchorage, Alaska. The 2007 competition saw “…upstart Beard Team USA [mounting] a serious challenge to the always dominant Germans, taking first in five categories.”
I do not consider myself a zealous patriot, but I think I’m going to be rooting for Beard [...]
Prague: City of Bridges
In my ongoing series of Prague photos, I offer this view of the Vltava River with the many bridges that cross from the old city center (Staro Mestska) to Minor Town (Mala Strana). The most famous is Charles Bridge (Karlov Most) pictured center which is a carnival of tourists, souvenir merchants, portrait artists, and musicians. [...]
Mac OSX: Why You Need ImageWell
I frequently edit images for the web and presentations. Often I am using a screen grab or modifying a photo from a website and I need to make some quick adjustments. Using Photoshop to make simple changes such as cropping, resizing, saving for web, or adding shadows and rounded edges is very time consuming and [...]
