image generator

I had fun playing around with the image generators. Back in early '01, there was a little net phenom know as "AYB" that featured a flash animation with the phrase "All your base are belong to us" featured on everything from Bush campaign posters, signs in Times Square, to OJ's mugshot photo. Many people mistook these forged photographs to be real instead of recognizing them as photoshop projects, but with today's image generators anyone can make their favorite slogan appear on any photo they want, which is fun but makes the internet an even more unreliable place.
Since I work in a library, I decided to play with the Catalog Card Generator:

lookie lookie

Awhile back I received an email from a style reporter from the Washington Post Express thanks to my submission in Apartment Therapy's Fall Color Contest, that wanted to feature my home in WPE's section called "My Rad Pad" (yeah, I'm not crazy over the name either) and it finally came out yesterday!
Unfortunately, due to restrictions on the size of the article, only two pictures are featured out of the tons of cool shots they took (not including the adorable ones of Miss Molly!).


edited to add:
Turns out WPE decided to put the article online afterall! Here's the direct link and there's even more pictures.

more rss

So I went exploring for more rss and added a few more feeds to my bloglines account. Out of the search tools recommended to start our search I found Feedster and Technorati came back with the most hits, some success with Topix, but I really didn't really like using Syndic8.com since my few searches came up completely empty, but maybe I was doing something wrong - I found it to not be as user friendly.

rss

I was part of the majority that had never heard of RSS, but after learning how to use it I think that it is a really handy tool. Instead of clicking on several different sites or searching you can have all the information you are looking for in one place. Some of the sites that I read regularly aren't set up for rss feeds yet so I guess they will have to wait, but the only other complaint I could think of is that there are no pictures. Sometimes a snappy graphic will catch my attention more than a headline and I'll read that story because of that. I suppose I really am a more visual person.
I only signed up for a few, but my rss stuff is here.

why do I love technology...

I suppose because I've grown up in a society so integrated with technology I don't often stop and think about it. I've come to expect and rely on technology to always be there so it can be a shock when you go somewhere and your cell phone won't get a signal or your precious wifi won't work. When I moved into my first apartment they offered dial-up internet connections and I remember being irritated with the cable company for not offering service in our area. Dial up?! I suppose I could just hook that up to my Timex Sinclair 1000...

However, in comparision to other countries we are still behind in the technology rage. My uncle just got back from Japan not long ago and was telling us about the cell phones that everyone had that had keypads for texting, could take pictures, and you could flip out the screen and watch tv. And everyone has them - from business class to school kids. Everyone made a big fuss about the new iPhone being released yesterday but it's funny to think even this hot new device is old news in different parts of the world.

even more fun with flickr

Since I previously created a trading card featuring my dog, I decided to play around more with Mappr this time. I had some old photos I had taken while I was at school at JMU and I loaded them into mappr and tagged them appropriately so that they'll show up for a search for Harrisonburg. They haven't been added to Mappr yet, but they can be found here and here.

more flickr

Ok, so I guess I was jumping the gun before because I decided to skip ahead on the exercises from here but I guess we are not doing the same things (I created the Molly trading card on flickr last time). Sooo this time I decided to browse around and decided to look for any photos that had been tagged with "Rust Library" just to see if anything came up, but the photos were of items associated with libraries or libraries themselves that were rusty. Here's a rusty card catalog.