PicLens is seriously one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. It’s a fullscreen 3D image browsing plugin for Firefox (and its derivative, Flock), Internet Explorer, and Safari that finds pictures on certain websites and displays them in a Windows Media Center looking interface, where you can select pictures, start a slideshow, and generally bask in the 3D goodness of scrolling through hundreds of pictures at top speed. All the pictures are displayed in a huge wall, and you can control the zoom level with the mouse wheel. Hold down one of the arrow keys and watch the wall fly by, unless there’s only a few pictures, in which case it doesn’t do much of anything.
A good place to try it out is Flickr or Google Image Search. With those, it’s not even limited to the pictures on a given page. It’ll automagically grab pictures from the next pages (in other words, I was able to view my entire Flickr archive simply by going to the first page in it). Serious awesomeness, but I suppose it’s really only good if you have a decent Internet connection. With dial-up, you’ll probably be waiting forever for the pictures to load.
Anyways, here are a few screenshots for you to chew on, all using pictures from my Flickr account.
As usual, my WordPress upgrade (to the much-hyped 2.5) gave me grief. Unfortunately, much of it was my fault. For some odd reason, my FTP client moved files on the server instead of copying them, so my backup was essentially useless (I copied the original blog directory to another directory). Thus, when I deleted the new directory when it got messed up, I deleted everything. Themes, plugins, even images. Can anyone say “stupid mistake”?
Luckily, any pictures I used on the site are on my computer, but that just means I’ll have to re-upload them and fix any posts using images (such as the most recent post before this). And on the bright side, I can start anew without the clutter of useless themes and plugins. On the downside, I don’t remember what all the useful plugins were…
And yes, Bagel, I know I could have avoided this by just having a blog on WordPress.com, but I’m too stubborn for that. I just wish I had made better backups…
UPDATE: All right, I’ve got a new theme going, but I’m still missing a lot of stuff. And I still feel stupid. Argh. At least WP 2.5 is nice. It’s a good thing, too, considering the trouble I went through.
This has got to be the single strangest thing I have ever seen posted on the Internet, not counting images.
I came across this on Reddit (that’s right, Digg is lame, and not just because of this kind of thing) and here is the original link.
And for further evidence of the awesomeness of Reddit, refer to the following comments on an article called Proposal to erect XXX domain faces stiff opposition (even the name…):
Priceless.
Now this is a pretty sweet little experiment. Super-cooled water (below the freezing point but still liquid). It’s not quite stable, so once it leaves the bottle…instant slushie.
If there’s a group of people worse than uber-conservative bloggers like Michelle Malkin, it’s the people who comment on her articles. Take sammy316 on this article regarding forced marriages.
This kind of crap may fly in India or any land of perpetual outrage where goats and cattle mean something, but in the civilized world we like our marriages short and painful. Well not all of course, some people do beat the odds. (Emphasis added.)
I’m sure India would love to hear that they aren’t considered civilized.
OMGWTF, TMI, LOL
This has got to be the single strangest thing I have ever seen posted on the Internet, not counting images.
I came across this on Reddit (that’s right, Digg is lame, and not just because of this kind of thing) and here is the original link.
And for further evidence of the awesomeness of Reddit, refer to the following comments on an article called Proposal to erect XXX domain faces stiff opposition (even the name…):
Priceless.