nicess

I loved that grin too.

niceguydesign Carl Desmond submitted his design page at css zen garden.


Just try both. Just to see what you can do with exactly the same text and different style sheets (CSS).

home wiki

At last!
You can't imagine how glad I'm. Glory Alleluia, I found my home wiki.

• A wiki is a collaborative site where simple markup allows quick html generation.


• Remarkable samples of wikis may be found at wikipedia (this is the English link, referred in this blog's tags as just The wikipedia or wikideepia ; but the French, Russian, Chinese ... also exist ; wikipedia is the free encyclopedia).


• A wiki manages the pages' history. It tells all - who updated the page.


• It allows categorizing - and tagging, when needed.

What did I do ?
--I went there to

Download Ruby
--I tried the Ruby 1.8.5 One-Click Installer which is the stable version : the downloaded file bears a name like (for Win) : ruby185-21.exe

Then I went at Instiki for my new wiki :

Look at the Key Features :
- Revisions - Follow or rollback any change to any page.
- Exporting - Take the entire wiki home with you as HTML or markup rolled up in a zip.
- Internationalization - Camel Case Wiki Words are supported- in Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Armenian characters. Bracket Style wiki words work in all languages.
- RSS feeds - Know when content is added.
- Markup choices - Write wiki pages in Textile, Markdown or RDoc.

Instiki (What Is Instiki) is a wiki clone so pretty and easy to set up, you’ll wonder if it’s really a wiki.
In fact it’s not only a wiki. It supports ... too much to tell. Just

Try Instiki

Three step installation:

• Download


• Run “instiki” with Ruby 1.8.4 or greater. (on windows, that’s instiki.cmd)


• Chuckle… There Is No Step Three™! :)

Now Instiki is running on port 2500. Visit http://localhost:2500 for quick configuration followed by a text area for the home page….

-- I downloaded the latest version (gz or zip compressed), ran the .cmd and clicked the above address to get to :
http://localhost:2500/create_system

Instiki Setup

Congratulations on succesfully installing and starting Instiki. Since this is the first time Instiki has been run on this port, you'll need to do a brief one-time setup.
Name and address for your first web
Name: Address:
Password for creating and changing webs
Password: Verify:

--That was the quick config ... I then obtained my home page (delights). What shall I do with it ? Next.

JR

Ruskin coined quite a few distinctive terms, including : Pathetic Fallacy. See for yourself :



Worlds largest shrimp - Bait store - Ruskin florida, by billykiddphotography







Inverse golden hour at New King's - Beautiful sunrise this morning - an inverse Golden Hour. This is the light on New King's, which has a lovely Ruskinian vibe, by finnb







15th January 2007 - Water - Nature-Water sculpture in the Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield, by Evil Yoda

musical skills test

Jake Mandell's musical skills test :

Test your musical skills in 6 minutes!

While working at the music and neuroimaging lab at Beth Israel/Harvard Medical School in Boston, I developed a quick online way to screen for the tonedeafness. It actually turned out to be a pretty good test to check for overall pitch perception ability. The test is purposefully made very hard, so excellent musicians rarely score above 80% correct. Give it a try!

As of December 12th, 2006, over 120,000 people have had their scores submitted!



So did I. This is an experience I enjoyed : the kind of attention that you have to exert is really different from any other test you find on the net. See also the preliminary results.

more orbs

IMG_4281 by barry_432

PS2

PostSecret : still wondering why this century's prayers are there and not in some Bible. More to come, those ones saved on Flickr :


flipped by iceblink240


no tv by iceblink240


postsecret. by Amy Pham

What happens is people save PS images on Flr and when you view that PS tag as a slideshow you see the same ones twice or more ...

And finally ...

you can...send me dead flowers every morning by candysays

near the scafffold

Nice Brittany bays

give peace

A nice image from The Peace Museum

The same idea here :

bipartecrot

Kevin, md's article, The torcetrapib disaster: Blogosphere response, has comments as :

"This is a complete clinical disaster: the world's largest drug company just ditched their potential biggest drug."



Maybe one counted anagrams like - attic prober - pact orbiter - paretic bort - rabic potter - topic barter - tribe captor - tropic taber - as hopeless for addicts.



OOps :

"Of course, in the drug industry, bad stuff happens. But in this particular case, the whole scientific world had been worried about the fact that torcetrapib raises blood pressure. Not a good thing for a cardiovascular drug. But that didn't stop the Pfizer executives from hyping torcetrapib. Until it turned out that "one of the most important developments in our generation" was really a killer drug—quite literally."

Why Dan Brown missed WP

Wikipedia says :

"Roslin (sometimes spelt Rosslyn) is a village in Midlothian, Scotland, to the south of the Scottish capital city Edinburgh. It is situated approximately 12 miles (20 km) from Edinburgh Airport.

• Rosslyn Chapel [adding - where sister Sophie meets brother curator]


• Roslin Castle


• Battle of Roslin, 1303 [1]


• Roslin Institute, where Dolly the Sheep was cloned.

The name Roslin derives from the Celtic words "ross", a rocky promontory, and "lynn", a waterfall. Legend has it the village was founded in 203 A.D. by Asterius, a Pict. Roslin became important as the seat of the St. Clair family.

[1] A Scottish army led by Simon Fraser and John Comyn defeated the English.
This Midlothian location article is a stub."


Did not Brown see that the St Clair family is related to Plantard, last priory's master, that the rose line (Greenwich's line) is just a bad and false etymology and that Asterixt and Dolly could genuinely have helped the plot (jokin':-) ?
Also, 203 = 2+3 = 5 = pentagram, yessss!

PS .

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(The PostSecret website is the largest advertisement-free Blog on the Web.)



Fine art/toon mashup photoshopping contest from boing bis.



(PostSecret from iceblink240 )

Free as a piaf

They say at Wikideepia : "Help translate the current French translation of the month

fr:Liberté to Freedom



Cast your VOTE to select next month's translation! | Participate in French translation"



and the comments go : "Shouldn't it be translated at Liberty rather than Freedom? In French, there is only one word (liberté) for those two English terms. However, it is my understanding that Liberty designs, in English, more the philosophical concept, while freedom is more a concrete understanding of liberty."

Accessibility

Dive Into Accessibility says : 30 days to a more accessible web site.



This book answers two questions. The first question is "Why should I make my web site more accessible?" If you do not have a web site, this book is not for you. The second question is "How can I make my web site more accessible?" If you are not convinced by the first answer, you will not be interested in the second.



Let's dive in.



I'm glad to meet quality places like this. There oughta be some pantheon, not just "best site of the year", but "bestests ever" and you'd find (give me ideas too!) ...

My point is - blogs are made for just you and me, but true artists who just don't post or pick texts, media, may express themselves better by html and flash and flashtml (just invented it and it scores 381 yet on google and 9 on images.goo)

dachung

Dachung studies thangka painting a the Vocational Training Center at the Tibetan Homes Foundation in Mussoorie, India. © 2002 FOTWA. All rights reserved.

love carts don't you ?

Shopping Cart Misshap by

Wiedmaier

names

Jul 29 2003 - Orlona - It reminds me of that one vodoo priestess' grave in New Orleans were people come and right there names on it to ensure that their wish will come true
From The Artist: o.O coool...that's neat! Hm...I'll have to do some research..htanks!

Found in Elfwood : comments and answer about a charcoal by Jennifer Crystal Watkins.
© All rights reserved!

good vibrations with ...

Ice Arrow - a frozen sundial byTwo Three Nine



For good vibes, see Fimoculous.
This one, found with grandma BoingBoing, offers a 2006 best of breed blogs choice like
Information Aesthetics,

Make Magazine
or
Pruned.

We'll see if they're still there from time2time.

luces / clusters

Iluminacion Fallera, una foto de la Iluminación de la Falla C/Sueca-Literato Azorín, del año 2004 by Rayos-X









Light in movement, paseo Maritimo de Chipiona, Cadiz, España by Virués de Segovia




"Luces" on Flickr. Thanks to all!

Providing you're still alive

Jen, seven devils, snakehead, wildlife ... by nebarnix



I love tags, final dot.





twosentences' popular tags :



leaving tomorrow killer photograph death eyes sack beans sword war childhood glass smash finger harmless Jesus bite knuckles lick ring boorbell leaves listen wind night giggled giggle grass store brother curse back hand startled stars ... missed opportunity wanting inevitability smoke Daughter contradiction hide seek dessert discipline homophobic February14 valentine Wikipedia weeds questions folksonomy patchouli password ER

by Marcus Geduld



February14 : folksonomy and you. I love tags, I love tag clouds. Long life tag clouds. More on that subject soon.

Don't forget else you'll

post it ad by tomhjn









The InPhonic Post-It Note Jaguar by Scott Ableman







my office at work by mathmandan











Happy Post-it Day! 5,000 Post-It Notes. 6 hours. by Marketing_Drive





That was all I saw and I'll stick to it.

Commons:Picture of the Year/2006/gallery

at Crusty old Joe's Kodiak Alaska Military History







Newton's Grave - Westminster Abbey by

ccr_358







Animated sequence of a race horse galloping. Photos taken by Eadweard Muybridge (died 1904), first published in 1887 at Philadelphia (Animal Locomotion). Animation by User Waugsberg







Steam locomotive wheels, valve engine animation by Author: Panther







Source: English Wikipedia, original upload 7 September 2005 by Tomruen







Animation of "Newton's cradle", resting on a copy of Newton's famous book "Principia Mathematica" by DemonDeLuxe (Dominique Toussaint)





Those animated ones compete for the Picture of the Year in

Wikipedia's database (commons).

back to work

Lifeguard post on the beach in the evening sun by sonicwalker







GareDeLyon-Parvis2330 by milliped





L'escalator ne juge pas tes torts il te ...

by evymoon





Vièle gusle by dalbera





My inspiration was "12th " - searched Flickr for 12eme.