Archive for the 'nerding' Category
i just made this website to put together the projects i’ve worked on over the last few years. check it out! thanks eyebeam, for the awesome theme.
arghhhhhhhhhhh, originally uploaded by antlered.
ayghhh why oh why does my internet get slow every time i really need it not to?
About five years ago I wrote to the owners of ayen.com, Karl Ayen Maschinenfabrik GmbH, to ask them if i could please have an email address at their domain. obviously since my name is a’yen we have a real synergy here. they said no, but were very kind about it.
how amazon will teach you to like good music, originally uploaded by antlered.
this article’s illustration is awesome. will you really learn to love the selecter from britney? article from 2004. i was browsing a syllabus for an nyu grad class called ‘topics in digital media’ when i found this article. i want to go to grad school. it later became a book called the long tail.
here we go again, originally uploaded by antlered.
another unsigned app. oh well. mike says it’s fine. who knows? maybe it’s really hard to get these things to be less sketchy looking. i know it’s annoying as hell to make your xhtml standards valid.
would you install this on your computer?, originally uploaded by antlered.
i’m trying out some ways to update my twitter status. but i got this message and i just don’t know if i should trust it. the color scheme is so menacing.
So I’ve made a bunch of sites powered by wordpress. I just upgraded several of them to the slammin new wordpress 2.7 using fantastico. Yay.
Roll call:
this site
Yeah, that’s right… guess who’s got a plant that’s connected to the internets?! (This Guy!), originally uploaded by dpstylesâ„¢.
Who is this guy?!
This really cool guy Dennis I know routinely astonishes the average nerd with shit like this.
What? You’ve never heard of Botanicalls? Magic technology that connects plants to the Twitter!
Buy the kit, solder it all together, connect it to the internets (!), stick it in your plant… and then your plant sends you Twitter messages telling you how it’s doing (and when it needs light / water / love). Awesome!
Follow it!
(ps: thanks again Kati… and Rob and Kate H!)
Uploaded by dpstylesâ„¢ on 5 Dec 08, 12.32AM EST.
So I’ve been driving the nice people at the Burton store & Blades nuts by trying on every boot they have for upwards of an hour and being indecisive. Really at the end of the day I am way too broke to buy snowboard boots. Anyway, Porter and I are going on a trip to Jackson Hole–where he formerly lived and worked–and I’m going to need boots.
So I found out that I like these two the best:
This one is called the Supreme and it’s ridiculously nice and $350. Too much for me.
I also love this one:
It was incredibly comfortable, but still $300. Meh!
GOOGLEMAPS/GMAP PEDOMETER/HOPSTOP FOR BIKES!!! This is so long-awaited. Finally an easy way to plan your bike routes!
Not to nerd out, but this is the future. BART (SF subway) opened all their data to developers… which means anyone can build apps that help people Miss Trains Less Often. Here’s an XML feed of what trains are arriving when: (feed updates every 60 sec), originally uploaded by dpstylesâ„¢.
Dens is a genius. Check out his latest find. Someone please make something cool out of this!
Hey! I just installed this neat little calendar thing, which you can see in the sidebar on the right. if you click on the event it will take you to the relevant post. neat. it’s a wordpress plugin. you can read more about here.
if anyone is interested in sprucing up the css on the events page you just let me know. i’m aware of its aesthetic failures.
Here’s an image from an old post that wouldn’t show up until I moved it to flickr.
Does anyone know how to reliably import blogger hosted images to self-hosted wordpress sites? For the first two years of antleredlife, before I knew better, I was a .blogspot.com. I know! Awful. I hosted my images there too. WP has a rad importing tool built right in for your posts, but it will not suck out your blogger/google hosted images and google very strictly doesn’t allow hotlinking. Sometimes it seems to forget but that’s no safe bet. I found this BLOGGER IMAGE IMPORT TOOL but I don’t know if I should trust it. I’ve gotten burned by plugins that get all up into your database before with invasive spammy SEO imbeds and hacks and worry about trusting this. Any thoughts? My DREAM would be to find a tool to transfer my pics to flickr, but, i’d be just psyched to get the pics visible.
A brilliant campaign bolstered by the grassroots won!
When I was in Ohio with Downtown for Democracy in 2004 with a group called VoteMob (for voter mobilization). The group used new tactics that focused on mobilizing young voters who would not be reached by traditional voter outreach which heretofore reached only settled middle-aged or elderly folks living in the same house for over four years. Evan Hutchinson wrote a recap of the strategy and experience here.
To my surprise, when I was leading trainings for an Obama phonebank in Brooklyn, I learned that the lists we were working with were up-to-date because the campaign had invested heavily in canvassing. I only wish we could have had people bring their laptops to the phonebank to enter the data they were collecting real time and not rely on people to do data entry.
A lot of the lessons we learned from our Ohio strategy had been addressed in this campaign, coupled with the myriad brilliant online organizing and fundraising strategies that enabled peer-to-peer contact. I only wish I had been on the ground much sooner. For now I will know that Obama will not get me health insurance but that it may not be as long until I can afford it. I’m hopeful nonetheless, and here’s something from change.gov “Barack Obama and Joe Biden are committed to ensuring that all Americans have health care coverage by the end of their first term in office.”
I gather that he will be interested in what the online nation has to say. Check out CHANGE.GOV which has been set up for the transition.
Here’s a flickr set from Obama’s personal photog (Thanks to Gideon Yago for the tip)
Here’s a funny Onion article (thanks to Nick Pappas for the tip)
Hi. So my dear friend Jason lent me a dell laptop which I have just installed Windows XP SP2 Professional on. This is significant because I have no laptop right now. The only thing is, I am a total dunce when it comes to networking and I can’t figure out how to get it to connect to my home wireless network. This is, as you can imagine, totally ruining everything in the world. Is anyone out there a super genius who can help me connect? The little icon that normally appears that lets you look for wireless networks isn’t apearing, which is totally cramping my style.
(from maryland bridge, john k samson)
anyway!
so i’m in the process of moving my organization’s website from (proprietary hell) convio crm and cms tools to drupal & democracy in action. i’m working with these incredible designers and developers called floatleft and vernal creative. i’ve been really really skeptical of drupal in the past, but i feel like the issues with nonprofits and drupal primarily stem from orgs having very small web budgets and not being able to afford support & customization. so, i enter this drupal build with caution, but since we’re putting a solid chunk of cash into it, and working with trusted developers & designers i feel like we’re in great shape.
we’re also using democracy in action as a CRM. right now convio charges about 50K per year simply to maintain their service as a cms and crm. DIA however, charges $2000 to install and then $400 or $500 for maintenance. pretty cool.
i’m psyched to be bringing an open source platform into my work and i’m psyched to build with the folks i’m working with. i would use wordpress if i was building a blog, but given the kind of organization i’m building for, i think drupal is a good fit.
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