Archive for November, 2007

From Amazon’s Askville:

This crap drives me nuts.

Amazon, here’s some Javascript code, for free:

var strAddress2use = strAddressFromForm.replace("http:////", "");

It's a little more work in Ruby and PHP, but .. you get the picture.

The small transit operator Fredericton Transit Division had their routes added to Google Transit tonight for the Fredericton (85k) area, adding yet another Canadian location for the terrific trip planning service. The University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University students in the area will surely benefit from this trip-planning service.

The City of Fredericton Transit Division operates 28 buses on eight routes, Monday to Saturday, 6:30 am until 11:00 pm, providing safe, affordable mobility to those in the community who do not have access to or choose not to use a private vehicle. In addition we operate chartered busing to various school, tour, and conference groups in and around Fredericton, and a parallel service , Dial-A-Bus, for persons with a disability.

I wrote a simple bot to micro-syndicate Fark stories.

http://twitter.com/farktweet

Just follow “farktweet” to get them in Twitter.

Improvements later if there’s interest:

• Improved condensing of content.
• Totally SFW version.
• Category-by-category tweets.

Farktweet links may link to adult content depending on the story you click on.  This is a part of Fark, not the tweetbot.

It appears that the Microsoft Content Ads are now generally available to everyone.

For Advertisers
Unlike search ads that are triggered by keywords a potential customer enters, content ads are triggered by certain words in articles or Web content. If you are bidding on those words, your ad might be displayed somewhere on the page.

And for Publishers
If you are interested in learning more about Microsoft’s publisher program, just complete their form to keep informed about new developments, invitations to participate in focus groups or feedback sessions.

First introduced in August to beta testers, the content network gives people more reach on the MSN family of networks.

To learn more, check out:

• Content Ads product info
• Content Ads FAQ
• Content Ads webinar

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In 1860 in California (and elsewhere) there was a huge locust storm and someone created this to remember it. Quite effective I think. If they’d made a chart out of the locusts, even Mr. Tufte would like it.

This kind of thing sticks in your mind more than a book about locusts, or about their destructive force, especially for kids.

I have no idea how long this will last, but I’m getting one. I use Adobe Captivate now, and have not been thrilled.

http://www.labnol.org/software/download/free-download-snagit-with-serial-number/1841

I have no promotional ties with them.  Not an affiliate link.