Buried Bones (Archive) for September, 2007

What a Deal for my DeadPod

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 30th, 2007 10:12 am

What a Deal for my DeadPod posted 30 Sep ‘07, 11.06am MDT PST on flickr
I liked the concept of BuyMyBrokeniPod:
We offer a fast, simple, and eco-friendly way for you to get money for used, new or broken iPods and iPhones. We accept Classic, Touch, Video, Photo, Nano, Mini, iPhones & Generation 4 to 1 [...]

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New Form of Link Farm Spam - Lonely Girl Blogs

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 30th, 2007 9:12 am

Link spammers never sleep. They are hard at work breaking around the edges of our futile efforts to keep ‘em at bay. And now they are getting harder to sniff out at first glance in the moderation queue, as they clothe their efforts in false fronts, which, if like an old wester ghost town, when [...]

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Three Amigos Kerpoofing It

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 29th, 2007 5:15 pm

Three Amigos Kerpoofing It posted 29 Sep ‘07, 12.51pm MDT PST on flickr
Working on our "teaser" for the K12 Online conference…
Played a little with this fun tool for creating cartoon graphics, www.kerpoof.com - harder to figure out how to embed or create linked stories.

Last Flickr blog post (for now). Must run out to Home [...]

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Picnik Let’s Us Really Play With Photos

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 29th, 2007 5:13 pm

Picnik Let’s Us Really Play With Photos posted 25 Sep ‘07, 9.18pm MDT PST on flickr
Fresa and Kasha are rather excited about the new features in picnik, the free online photo editor that lets you modify images from flickr, facebook, photobucket, your desktop, and then save back to these sites.
The new tools allow [...]

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ICanHazAirlineTickets

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 29th, 2007 5:11 pm

ICanHasAirlineTickets posted 29 Sep ‘07, 2.38pm MDT PST on flickr
If you have not caught the I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER craze, you are about 1 meme behind. It is a subset of the broader genre of LOL CATS.
I created my oen with the ICanHazCheezBurger Factory, a site where you can browse a vast set [...]

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I CN HZ TWEETS

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 29th, 2007 1:10 pm

I CN HZ TWEETS posted 29 Sep ‘07, 2.06pm MDT PST on flickr
Twitter is cheezing my tweets again.
Am ready to coin the term "Cheez Tweetos" - sort of eCheese Its lacking the orange crud on your fingers (though blue bird feathers works fine for debris)

Copy your tweets to your clipboard before “updating” - [...]

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One Nice Feature Among Many in WP 2.3…

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 26th, 2007 9:56 pm

I’ve barely had time to breathe much less update all of my WordPress powered sites, but noticed today one small feature I’ve been waiting for… I was actually, for no logical reason, setting up one more new WP powered web site for NMC, not quite ready for prime time. But what is cool is the [...]

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Phone Roaches

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 25th, 2007 2:52 pm

01 roach flick treatment posted 29 Sep ‘05, 4.19am MDT PST on flickr
A nightmare. Reoccuring.

I was cleaning off my Edirol of old files and forget I had recorded this phone spam. I get recurring automated message calls on my do not call listed work number- they leave no number, so its hard to [...]

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Tagging Your World to Wikipedia - Semapedia

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 21st, 2007 9:47 am

I’m still scratching my head to find out exactly why I think this is interesting… I just have that tingly feeling. But as we see ever increasing of interest in virtual worlds, continued explosion of web things, mashups, and mobile technologies, its the connections of them that seem to intrigue me the most.
Although I lack [...]

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Twitter Quote: Email Sig Sighting

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 19th, 2007 7:04 pm

Even after all these years, and all the spam and phlaff that arrives in my inbox, when i am reading mail form colleagues, I do take note of what is hanging in their sig (signature).
In some sense, you might argue it is a very low tech ‘avatar’, it is some array of text we [...]

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