http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDC50v6UujE
Author: scruss
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wwdbd?
Q: What would David Byrne do?
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this document has layers
Never noticed this tiny icon in Adobe Acrobat Reader:
Looks kinda weird when enlarged:
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in which Joe re-enacts his mother’s response to his father and sister’s canoe capsizing on the Des Moines River in 1982
Joe
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Low-tech Magazine: Urban windmills harm the environment
Not sure I entirely agree, but Low-tech Magazine: Urban windmills harm the environment.
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to scan film, or not
I’ve recently taken up film photography again. But processing is expensive.
To have 24 exposures processed and scanned at 6MP at Downtown Camera costs $12 + tax. That’s a pretty good price for black and white.
I can process at home (yay stinky toxic chemicals!) for a bit less. I’d need to buy a scanner, and the cheapest film scanners come in at around $300.
What to do, what to do?
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Unstable airline passenger ignites self; none hurt
I try very hard not to write about the news; it affects me so little, yet frequently annoys me.
All that media noise about that guy on that plane. So much passenger delay will ensue.
Of course he was unstable. Killing yourself and others for a cause is not rational.
Of course he’d claim connections to Al Qaeda. He’s unstable, wants to sound badass.
Of course Al Qaeda would claim him as one of their own. What, would you turn down the free publicity?
So, the subject of this entry is how I think it should have been reported. Move on, people; there’s real news to be reported.
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missöüri bird cälls
oh, itunes …
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eggs are not the only nog
Why is eggnog the only nog? Why isn’t there meatnog, since it’s just as revolting a concept. Now I’ve written this, is it a nogblog?
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tammy’s scary hair
circa 1969, on Hee Haw:
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just think
just think if i were famous i could draw stuff like this and sell it for thousands of dollars but when i do it it’s just a doodle worth nothing -
i want my svg
Look, SVG has been the cool graphics format since 2001. And while WordPress now supports a bunch more embed formats, you’d think it’d work. Nope.
Even to upload an SVG file, I have to bypass WordPress’s built in whitelist using PJW Mime Config, and manually add support for image/svg+xml. Otherwise, it’s refused as an insecure file. (All my files are quite well adjusted, I’ll have you know.)
Say if I want to embed this SVG image. I’d probably want to do something like:
<embed type="image/svg+xml" width="100" title="ford_script_fnord-plain" src="http://scruss.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ford_script_fnord-plain.svg" />
But this doesn’t end up being what the final code says:
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="100" height="100" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://scruss.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ford_script_fnord-plain.svg" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100" height="100" src="http://scruss.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ford_script_fnord-plain.svg"></embed></object>
If I’d wanted Flash, I’d have asked for it. Do What I Mean, Little Computer!
Update (after the comment below): Okay, last try:
<object type="image/svg+xml" width="220" height="72" title="ford_script_fnord-plain" data="http://scruss.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ford_script_fnord-plain.svg" />
Yay, that sorta works – but it doesn’t scale the image. You know what the S in SVG stands for? That’s right – Scalable. Doesn’t seem to allow scaling. Kinda defeats the purpose, doesn’t it?
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i wonder if these are as bad as i remember?
Ladies and germs, I give you … pickled onion Monster Munch. Let me get back to you on how they taste.
… deep fried barf is the best I can come up with. Crispy, yet vile. By the end of the bag, my tastebuds gave in, leaving me to lever the compressed corn pulp from my molars. It feels like I’ve ScotchGarded the inside of my mouth. Just as I remember them, then. -
just in case it gets deleted again …
sorry, reeling from an edit fight:
Billy Faier
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Billy Faier is an American banjo player. Born in Brooklyn, New York on December 21 1930[1], his family moved to Woodstock, NY in 1945[2], and now resides in Marathon, Texas. He, along with Pete Seeger, was one of the early proponents of the banjo during the mid-20th century American folk music revival.
Active in the Washington Square Park folk scene in Greenwich Village from the late 1940s, he recorded two albums for Riverside Records, The Art of the Five-String Banjo (1957) and Travelin’ Man (1958)[3]. In 1973, he recorded Banjo for John Fahey‘s Takoma label.
[edit] Selected Discography
In 2009, Faier decided to make much of his out of print and unreleased material available on his website.
- The Art of the Five-String Banjo (1957 – with Frank Hamilton)
- Travelin’ Man (1958)
- The Beast of Billy Faier (1964 – with John Sebastian)
- Banjo (1973)
- Banjos, Birdsong And Mother Earth (1987 – with John Sebastian and Gilles Malkine)
[edit] References
- ^ “Billy Faier – The Five String Banjo“. 2006-08-07. http://web.archive.org/web/20071111171835/http://www.billyfaier.com/. Retrieved 2009-12-19.
- ^ “Billy Faier – The Five String Banjo“. 2009-12-10. http://billyfaier.com/. Retrieved 2009-12-19.
- ^ “Billy Faier Discography“. 2004-01-31. http://www.wirz.de/music/faierfrm.htm. Retrieved 2009-12-19.
[edit] External links
- Billy Faier’s website
- Billy Faier discography (with some errors and omissions).
- Billy Faier at the Internet Broadway Database.
- Billy Faier Collection at The Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina libraries.
- Articles by Billy Faier in No Depression (magazine).
- Feature on Billy Faier on The Banjo Man
source:
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the subtle image editor in WordPress 2.9
While I still like 1&1, they have a fairly modest hard-coded PHP memory limit. This means that some WordPress plugins will exhaust memory, and fail.
I’d been wanting to set up Scissors for Catherine‘s blog so she could more easily edit images without having to learn GIMP. But it wouldn’t work, running out of memory at every turn, and trying to set PHP’s memory limit locally cause WordPress to fail completely.
So I was pleased to see that WordPress 2.9 had an editor built in. The upgrade went smoothly (I don’t miss the days ofrm -i *.phpand making sure you didn’t vape your config file), but I couldn’t seem to find the editor. (It’s early, I’m old.)It’s called up by that quiet little button under the image details:
Works just fine. It probably zaps all the image metadata (Scissors did), but we’ll see how it goes.
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it worries me sometimes …
Glenn has a tidy mind.
It seems I’m 