A Star from Mosul, a 16 year-old blogger from Iraq, has posted a slideshow of her niece on my site. At first, I only saw the slideshow on my own site, and thought, “Awww, what a cute baby…” But then I looked at my referrer logs and saw her blog. I was taken aback to see she is from Iraq. Not only that she is blogging from a warzone, but to see the normalcy of the images in the slideshow – to see birth where there is so much death – struck me.
I’ve been futzing around trying to get Drew McLellan’s Flash Satay object code to work with my site. The thing is, when I give users code to post slideshows on their own site, they need to have the BASE parameter set so that they can embed the flash movie that resides on my site onto their own.
Since Drew’s code does not use the EMBED tag, there was no way for me to get Netscape/Mozilla to recognize that the player.swf was on a different server. Also, for some reason, Ie wasn’t reading the BASE param either. I found a simple solution. Just add a base attribute to your OBJECT tag, like so:
One of my favorite Sci-Fi movies when I was a kid was The Last Starfighter. In preparing my list for Santa, I stumbled upon this gunstar made out of legos. Ooh. That beats Star Wars legos by a mile. What other sci-fi movies should they make into legos? This and Battle Beyond the Stars get my vote.
I used to be very into Legos, but back then they didn’t have the genius of marketing cross-pollenation like they do now. I would have killed for Star Wars Legos. My major beef with legos these days is that the little plastic pieces are getting too specialized, and less inter-connectable. My question, when are they going to release a lego Robert Preston?
I just put the finishing touches on a new feature of my site, Slideroll. I’ve added a choice of 10 transitions to the slideshow creator. Now, instead of only fades, you can add neato special effects. Give it a try. Look for the yin yang button.
The Museum of Media History 2014, aka Robin Sloan has come back from the future to show us a time-shifted Flash documentary. It is a commentary on the future of the Mediascape. I’m not sure if I agree with his conclusions, but he makes an excellent point about what could happen if humans are removed from the editorial process.
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