Slugger mainly relies on leeching, at least initially, content from other sources to provide the starting point for blogs. Rarely we provide original content that the MSM then takes and follows up, sometimes with a credit more often not. It usually doesn't bother me when this happens and I've only ever chased a media outlet once when they took video footage and passed it off as coming from a ‘bystander'...
The first of this year's Christmas Bird Counts are less than a month away. The counts will run from Monday, December 14th, to Tuesday, January 5th. Most will occur on the weekends of December 19-20th and 26-27th, with a few clustered around New Year's Day. Christmas Bird Counts give birders the opportunity to participate in a long-running citizen science project. By late December, most migratory birds...
Nose: Creamy Cherry and blueberry Palate: Soft tannins and acids make this quite accessible and easy going down. Not as much body as the others tasted. Finish: blueberry. Overall: A wonderfully fruity and easy drinking celebration wine. This wine sells for about 10-11 dollars but I got it for 6! Raise a Glass! --A Review from The Wine Cask Blog. Creative Commons: Attribution - ShareAlike 2.5 applies...
Martin Wainwright in the Guardian (UK) : The twin rivers that bring thousands of tourists to Cockermouth turned on the town after the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, driving 250 people out of their homes. Torrents flung cars across the picturesque centre, sweeping through Wordsworth's birthplace and ransacking one of the largest concentrations of small, independent shops in the north. "See...
laszlo-photo's Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Access to safe and clean water is a right that should be afforded to everyone, but unfortunately pollution, climate change and privatization, among other obstacles, prevent one billion people obtaining this vital necessity. This upcoming Thanksgiving week, SYRV , a non-profit that connects travelers with volunteer opportunities in developing countries,...
I've got a hot date tonight. GOP Big Wig and I are double dating with Edward and Jacob. I confessed to GOP this morning that I've already seen New Moon ( Double Platinum scored preview tickets, and he was kind enough to invite me to join him), but I'm looking forward to seeing the flick again. I cannot express to you how spectacularly stunning Edward and Jacob are in the movie. Hot-with-a-w-hawt. The...
(This guest post originally appeared at the oil drum , and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License ) One of the features of many models that are used to predict future events is that they focus on target years. Decadal years are the most common target years, so that whether talking of climate or the amount of oil or natural gas available, models focus on,...
The Digital Image Collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library encourages users to install Luna Insights in order to take advantage of the features it provides. (They are using the Luna Imaging Insight Software Suite.) According to the Folger, Insights allows users to: Create a permalink to selected images. Save search strategies. Export an html page containing thumbnails that link back to zoomable...
Intel says that in 10 years you're going to be surfing the web with no hands , which I guess is an improvement from one hand, but I wonder if controlling your web browser with brainwaves is really going to be an improvement. For one thing, do you want your brain inextricably linked to Internet Explorer? Sure, you say you're better than IE, but someone out there will be using it, which means their...
I get asked occasionally about plug-ins people are using with the digitization program online and, of course, that's when my mind goes blank. Today I was reminded about MrSID from LizardTech which allows users to zoom in and look at materials in more detail. MrSID is not a free product and it looks like you have to contact LizardTech for pricing. You can see MrSID in action on this web site . This...
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We work hard to make sure that the videos on the GoogleDevelopers channel on Youtube are captioned, but when I/O added over a hundred hours of video content , we got a little behind. I'm happy to announce that we're finally caught up! Every English and Spanish video from I/O now has captions that you can turn on in YouTube. Didn't know we had captions? Just click to select captions from the menu in...
Filed under: iPhone , App Review At the risk of invoking a round of reader rage , I'll admit that I've never really been that hyped on the idea of MMS on the iPhone (and, by the way, get off my lawn). If I want to send someone a picture, I've got their email address; I'll just send them a picture. No big whoop. I do have some friends and colleagues who 'came up' on mainline camera phones and they...
Filed under: iPhone , App Review At the risk of invoking a round of reader rage , I'll admit that I've never really been that hyped on the idea of MMS on the iPhone (and, by the way, get off my lawn). If I want to send someone a picture, I've got their email address; I'll just send them a picture. No big whoop. I do have some friends and colleagues who 'came up' on mainline camera phones and they...
Google Images Search Adds New Filtering Options Already available in the main search Google just made it a lot easier, though, by adding the option to search for Creative Commons-licensed images. The terms of Creative Common licenses vary, but if you go to "advanced image search," you can choose to filter images by the reuse and modification privileges their licenses allow. Read More From Orginal Site
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