Visual Poetry with phrasr by cogdogblog posted 4 Mar ’09, 7.58pm MST PST on flickr Oh this flickr based site was way too much fun. Read my deep philosophical poem here www.pimpampum.net/phrasr/?id=15932 With phrasr, you enter a phrase to illustrate, and for each word, it provides a photo from flickr. You can choose to swap the photo for another, and when all is said and done, you can publish. What a great way to play with words and images. Run, don’t walk, to www.pimpampum.net/phrasr/ Indeed, Dogs Rule. Totally. Twitterbution to twitter.com/NancyWhite I can see this as a another great activity for telling stories with pictures. Speaking of which, there was a lot of nice buzz about 5 card stories, check out the latest stuff in the gallery. Whats in your phrasr?
CogBlogged from ‘March, 2009’
Arizona Government Stupidity in Action
2009/365/62: Short Sighted Government Stupidity in Action by cogdogblog posted 3 Mar ’09, 10.54pm MST PST on flickr Hmmm, I’ve been waiting for a local cause and here it is. The far seeing Arizona state legislature has slashed $35 million from state parks, which are closing like falling dominoes across the state. Tonto Natural Bridge State Park is just south of Pine, AZ, about 6 miles from where I live. It features what is called the largest travertine natural bridge (a natural bridge being like an arch, but over flowing water). The "hole" is more than 180 feet high. According to an article in the Payson Roundup, this little park drew 100,00 visitors last year, and with a raise on fees from $3 to $4 the park is self supporting. Why close it? The estimated local economic impact of visitors coming to the park is $3.5 million. Oh, it makes [...]
Three Ways to Knead RSS
cc licensed flickr image by yarnivore As someone who cannot make bread, I have no right to toss this metaphor in the air, but who’s gonna stop me? Yet I feel that using RSS, is simple in terms of ingredients (flour, water, yeast, and something to give it taste), and if you do know what you are doing, you can roll it, fold it, blend it into whatever shape you may need. In this post, I’ll try and bake three ways to make the feeds rise, all wrapped in one web page. The big piece of bread is a page I have kept going for some time that tries to track my presentations done each year, or as the dog barks, Best of Show, where the data for each year comes from RSS. It has a simple menu that allows you to flip through by years, but as of today, [...]
Paperwork/Network
2009/365/60: Downed by Paperwork by cogdogblog posted 1 Mar ’09, 9.48pm MST PST on flickr In valiant attempts to get campus wireless access for me at Baylor, Gardner went to the extremes to work the channels. I had to provide my home address, phone number, forms were faxed, we went to the IT office, phone calls were made to various corners of the IT org chart, I showed by driver’s license and signed more forms…. and the system would still not authenticate the credentials they provided. I offered a pint of blood and my grandmother’s maiden name, to no avail. It may sound like it, but am not b***ing. A woman in the IT office was very gracious, apologetic and tried everything she could (as a relayer of paperwork). But come on, network access should never be such a hurdle, should it? Almost every commercial access point can figure out [...]
