Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Thanks to Chrys, the BarcampCHS website is now live and ready to take your ideas for sessions, workshops and demos!
There are still a few small things to be added, but the important bits are ready to go.
What are you waiting for? Go sign up and add your sessions!
There are a ton of apps on Facebook, but I have to say one of my favourites is Friendwheel. I just think it’s neat to see how my Facebook friends are connected and how many different groups they coalesce into.
The NASA Images site is so full of awesome that I think I’m going to bust.
Really, it is. Positively overflowing with awesome!
NASA Images is a service of Internet Archive ( www.archive.org ), a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA’s images, videos and audio collections. NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers.
The timeline on the home page is pretty slick, taking you from 1968 all the way up to 2008 with little thumbnails of significant items that pop up as you go from year to year. You can select a keyword to browse through (Gemini, Skylab, Apollo, etc) or choose from one of the four main categories above (Universe, Solar System, Earth, Astronauts) to start your journey. You can also search keywords on your own.
Browsing the images is pretty easy. On the left side are lists of keywords that you can click to narrow the selection of images displayed. Click another keyword and it’s added to the search criteria list. Click an image and you’re taken to a page that shows the image along with a bunch of meta-information about the image. Scrolling the mouse wheel while the cursor is on the image zooms in and out (or use the zoom selector placed over the image).
Panning around a zoomed image is as simple as clicking and moving the cursor around. The box with the image meta-data can be expanded or collapsed when you’re finished reading.
A potentially very cool feature is the ability to create your own media groups and presentations, allowing you to collect, share and show off your favourite images. You can also explore media groups and presentations that other people have created too.
Yeah, this is going to be a fun site to explore.
Check it out! OneDoggieGoodie.com is just like Woot!, but they sell dog stuff instead. I have to admit I didn’t really see too much in their previous offerings that I would actually buy for my dogs, but there were a couple of toys that I might have considered.
This Woot! thing must be catching on.
Found via Doggienews.com.
