I think this is Beryl.
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more innovative UI
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Flickr Yahoo Login Backlash
I recently merged my old skool account with an old Yahoo account of mine in order to be able to use the ‘mobile site’. I eventually had to get a Flickr staff member to UN-MERGE the accounts because it was so incredibly annoying to use the merged account. Not only was it yet another login/password to remember but it was flat out cumbersome to use.
One of the main issues was that I had to constantly re-login over and over on my home computer to get to my photos on Flickr.
Also, I was being logged into a Rogers (Canadian ISP) cobranded version of the Yahoo.com site because I had a Rogers account like 2 years ago. The problem with that was the Rogers Yahoo cobranded site never worked properly! So merging the accounts actually made for a worse experience on Yahoo! as well as Flickr. I don’t even use that ISP anymore and yet I have to look at a Rogers logo every time I go to Yahoo!
I wanted to delete my Yahoo! account but then I couldn’t because I would no longer be able to use Flickr! So I had to get my accounts un-merged. What if I want to delete my Yahoo account in the future?
I’ve been nothing but supportive of Flickr from the early days when they we’re a tiny little company here in Vancouver but this is just a bad idea! So what if it’s a ‘pain’ or tedious to keep two login systems running? The friction this causes all of the original Flickr members should outweigh the ‘pain’ it causes the developers at Yahoo.
If someone asked me what photo sharing site they should use I’d no longer be inclined to just say Flickr.
If by some chance Stewart, Caterina, Heather or any of the Flickr peeps are reading this PLEASE DON’T DO THIS!
More reaction to this Flickr screw up:
BBC.
1700 Diggs.
Thomas Hawk.
Zooomr: happy to accommodate people.
SmugMug: Offering 50% off.
Dave Winer: Flickr people are smart.If you’re planning to bail here are some ways to get out:
FlickrDown: Download all your pics from Flickr on PC.
Englaze: Get a burn of your images.
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PDF Magazines – Visual Crack
bolster 3.0 by Michael MatthiasIf you’re a sucker for eye-candy do NOT click this link!
You’ll be sucked into a black hole of visual awesomeness and you may never be able to get out! My all time favorite PDF magazine is Castle Magazine.
Mirror: Castle Magazine Issue 8 – Robots [15 MB PDF]
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Finders Keepers
Originally uploaded by TabascoKid.“As Police realise they can no longer patrol the whole area, opportunists salvage BMW motorbikes from the shipping containers washed up on the beach at Branscombe, Devon following the beaching of the cargo ship MSC Napoli after it was holed during storms earlier in the week, 21st January 2007. The ship is carrying almost 2,400 containers, about 150 of which are said to hold hazardous chemical substances. The drifting vessel was being towed to Portland Harbour in Dorset for a salvage operation, but the Maritime and Coastguard Agency decided to beach it in Lyme Bay, near Sidmouth, instead, following the structural failure.”
“Ignoring health warnings and threats of prosecution, hundreds of people foraged among containers washed from a stricken cargo vessel on the southern English coast on Monday, hauling off booty that included BMW motorcycles, shoes, diapers, beauty cream and carpets.”
NYT
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RareSpecies.org
I ad the good fortune of being taken on a private tour of the Rare Species Conservatory Foundation when I was in Florida.
Here are a couple shots my dad got:
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Get a first life
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another multi touch UI video ( wall screen version )
computers, computing, demo, input, multi touch, multitouch, research, the future, touch screen, user interface, wall screen, wow
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Get your Solar on
One of the problems with running a photo voltaic solar array on your house is the prohibitive initial cost to get the system running. It seems there may now be a solution to this problem! A new company called CitizenrÄ“ is going to be ‘renting’ solar systems soon! The most awesome folks at World Changing have all the details. This is like signing up for a new cell phone plan and getting the phone free…
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Picking Up the Pieces – New York Times op/ed
photo by tj scenesI love reading the New York Times on a lazy sunday. I thought the following op/ed was so bang on that I had to re-blog it.
It was surreal how disconnected President Bush was the other night, both from Iraq’s horrifying reality and America’s anguish over this unnecessary, mismanaged and now unwinnable war. Indeed, most Americans seem far ahead of the president. They understand that what the country urgently needs is for Mr. Bush to chart a way out of Iraq that also limits the chaos that will be left behind.
The president’s disconnect goes far to explain the harshly critical reaction of Congress and the public to his plan to further bleed America’s overstretched forces by sending some 20,000 additional troops in an attempt to impose peace on Baghdad’s vengeful streets. He proposes to do that without any enforceable commitments from the Iraqi government that it will take the necessary political steps that are the only hope for tamping down a spiraling civil war.
There are no really satisfying answers in Iraq, since all of the remaining options are bad. Still, some are notably worse than others, and Mr. Bush has come up with possibly the worst. He would mortgage thousands more American lives and what remains of Washington’s credibility in the region to a destructively sectarian Shiite government that he seems unwilling or unable to influence or restrain.
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Factory Farming, Genetic Modification, and Zombies!
photo by jurvestonFactory farming techniques, most commonly used with pigs and chicken, often involve keeping animals confined in cramped conditions.
For pigs, who are highly intelligent, these conditions can lead to stress and aggression.
However, GM scientists are actively investigating ways to remove the stress and aggression gene from animals, effectively turning them into complacent zombies.
