Category Archives: Science
Geocoder
geocoder.us: a free US address geocoder. Convert those addresses into the ever-so-useful latitude/longitude. Maybe an Iraqi version would be useful to the military.
New Harry Potter Film Pirated Online
New Harry Potter Film Pirated Online. Good to know that tons of night vision goggles really caught the people who brought the video camera to the theater.
United States Patent: 6,727,830
United States Patent: 6,727,830 grants Microsoft a patent for double clicking.
I heart you
( Justwatchthesky ) I heart you – by far the prettiest webpage I have ever seen. Gorgeous.
WhatTheFont?
WhatTheFont and Identifont, two sources for identifying mysterious typefaces. I’m still not sure how this is really useful.
The Yale Typeface
The Yale Typeface, you know you’ve wasted your money at an elite college when they have their own set of fonts. Via Andy.
Good Math Teachers?
NPR : The Key to a Good Math Teacher? Insight on Error. The article says that “not all mathematicians are successful math teachers.”
Blogware Choice
Owen, who previously had laid out a large chart of different blogging software packages, just chose WordPress for his blog. His reasons echo my own.
So here were my deciding factors:
Answer #1: Pretty GUI. Ok, this sounds superficial. But if you’re going to be looking at software nearly every day for as long as you blog, you’re going to want something that doesn’t make you cringe with its color choices. You want all of the buttons to do what they say and be easily found. You want it so clear that when you ask your mom to guest-author while you’re on vacation, you don’t have to sit with her and explain everything.
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Answer #2: Free. If, for some reason, I get upset that the developers of WordPress are not interested in providing new features that I want, I can grab the code, add my own changes, and release it under a different name.
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Answer #3: Support.
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Anyway, there you have it. The twisted reasoning behind my choices. I’m not saying that WordPress is the best blogware out there, just that it meets my needs better than anything else does.
??From Asymptomatic: Blogware Choice, via Photo Matt??
Press It
Press It is a bookmarklet that comes with WordPress that allows for two-click postings of stories. It is especially useful for the ‘Asides’ category that I’m now running.
Using Press It is easy:
- Visit website you are interested in blogging about.
- Click the “Press It” button on your toolbar.
- Double check details like Title and Post Body.
- Choose what categories to include the post in and enter TrackBack URL’s if desired.
- Click “Publish” and you’re done.
Don’t you wish you were using WordPress?
Brad Froehle 