creative conceptual art…
(“the Artwork”) which consists of a black box that places itself for sale on the auction website “eBay” (the “Auction Venue”) every seven (7) days. The Artwork consists of the combination of the black box or cube, the electronics contained therein, and the concept that such a physical object “sells itself” every week.
I avoid Flash unless it’s really needed—and I wonder if these stats take into account the rise of iPhones that can’t view any flash and other devices that might have limited capabilities.
Adobe® Flash® Player is the world’s most pervasive software platform, used by over 2 million professionals and reaching 99.0% of Internet-enabled desktops in mature markets as well as a wide range of devices.
GRAPH: ubiquity of Adobe Flash Player by version
Twitter gives you a fragmented experience of opinions, events, news, ideas and feedback largely because its structured to accommodate non-contextual usability: You can easily follow thousands of users and listen in and enter into conversations conducted among multiple users at any point. And this is usually the case.
via Doshdosh: 17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners and Businesses (page is offline)
Interesting fact I came across while making our homemade new years card. The maximum thickness for the special, cheaper postcard rate is 0.016 inch (maximum size is 4.25in x 6in).
But the nice thick Enhanced Matte posterboard (24”x30” sheet) is 0.047 inches (1.2 millimeters) according to: http://pe.usps.com/text/qsg300/Q201.htm
I also see there are limits on stiffness so probably this material will not qualify for the postcard rate.
Examples of a nonmachinable letter include:
- It has an aspect ratio (length divided by height) of less than 1.3 or more than 2.5 (a square envelope has an aspect ratio of 1, making it nonmachinable).
- It is more than 4-1/4 inches high or more than 6 inches long and is less than 0.009 inch thick.
- It has clasps, strings, buttons, or similar closure devices.
- It is too rigid.
- It has a delivery address parallel to the shorter side of the mailpiece.
- It contains items such as pens, pencils, or keys that create an uneven thickness.
- Letters with nonpaper surfaces, other than envelope windows or attachments that are allowed under eligibility standards by class of mail.
via QSG 201 Commercial Letters and Postcards – Physical Standards for Commercial Letters and Postcards.
In honor of the Copenhagen conference, here’s a tidbit of green-tech news…
Maybe a energy storage breakthrough is around the corner:
Ordinary paper could one day be used as a lightweight battery to power the devices that are now enabling the printed word to be eclipsed by e-mail, e-books and online news.
The same feature that helps ink adhere to paper allows it to hold on to … single-walled carbon nanotubes and silver nanowire films. Earlier research found that silicon nanowires could be used to make batteries 10 times as powerful as lithium-ion batteries now used to power devices such as laplop computers.
via Scientists say paper battery could be in the works – Yahoo! News.
This is very similar to what GigaPan uses. GigaPan let’s you embed their player for free but this player give you more control and, of course, no external branding. And krpano offers a neat way to switch rendering options.
It allows you to publish extremely large panoramas where the user only downloads data as they need it.
krpano – is a small, versatile and high-performance viewer for interactive 3D panoramas on the web.
via krpano.com.
Bigger isn’t always better but in this case…
120 feet (37 meters) long, 3 feet (1 meter) tall at its sides and 6 feet (2 meters) tall in the middle…
The large image was made from stitching together 800,000 individual pictures taken by Spitzer, for a total of 2.5 billion infrared pixels.
via SPACE.com — World’s Largest Milky Way Image Unveiled.
2013 update: i am removing the link to
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091202-largest-milky-way-image.html
because that site got hacked and is on google’s malware warning list I want to thank Wordfence for finding this issue.
Recently I have begun rebuilding a number of old sites that were built by hand using WordPress. Here’s another client who is thrilled to be empowered by the robust tools provided in WordPress. SEO tools, blogging and advanced image management are the key interests for this client.
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