links for 2008-03-01

• Photonic: A Flickr desktop client for Mac OS X
  A very nice interface for working with and adding to your Flickr images...
  (tags: photo flickr photography macosx software mac photos)
• TED | Talks | Roy Gould: WorldWide Telescope (video)
  Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft's Curtis Wong share Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope -- a technology that combines feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the world and the heavens, and weaves them together.
  (tags: worldwidetelescope astronomy web2.0 microsoft telescope ted)
• WWTelescope
  The link to the project discussed in the TED talk.
  (tags: telescope worldwidetelescope microsoft)
• Fontifier - Your own handwriting on your computer!
  Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer. It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a handwriting font that you can use in your word processor or graphics program, just like regular fonts such as Helve
  (tags: fonts graphics design cool font typography diy)

Beets

Our Nutrition Services department is working to offer more locally produced food in our school cafeterias. They have a program called Harvest of the Month and on Tuesday they invited local media to our school to talk to students about the latest choice.... beets...

I hate beets

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Lewis Elementary 5th Grade Food Drive Posters

links for 2008-02-27

• iPodia
  "iPodia is a Wikipedia viewer for your iPod touch or iPhone. With this application, you can view articles in an optimized layout, find certain text in the article, and save the article as a data URL for offline reading."
  (tags: wikipedia touch ipod iphone wiki ipodtouch mobile)

links for 2008-02-26

• Children and Youth - Play - Development - Science - New York Times
  What can science tell us about why kids run and jump?
  (tags: children psychology health education play nytimes)
• PEDIAPHON EN
  MP3 files, playlists and podcasts automatically generated from Wikipedia!
  (tags: audio speech wikipedia podcast tools mp3)

links for 2008-02-25

• Social Media in the 1990’s | Copy Brighter
  Compare and contrast the rise of social media tools with life before them...
  (tags: web2.0 socialmedia courosa socialnetworking social technology)
• surveillancesaver
  SurveillanceSaver is a screensaver for OS X and Windows that shows live images of over 400 network surveillance cameras worldwide
  (tags: surveillance camera screensaver)
• Photojojo's Photo Time Capsule
  Once a week, enjoy an email with your Flickr photos from a year ago.
  (tags: flickr photo photography web2.0)
• Back in the Swing, 1962 - The New York Times > Opinion > Slide Show
  In February 1962, Sports Illustrated sent the illustrator Robert Weaver to cover spring training in Florida. He then created a series of paintings that appeared in the March 5, 1962, issue of the magazine.
  (tags: nytimes weaver sportsillustrated robertweaver drawing sketch baseball)
• Attytood: A landmark day for bloggers -- and the future of journalism
  talkingpointsmemo.com wins a Polk Award...
  (tags: journalism blogging joshmarshall polk award)

links for 2008-02-24

• DeliciousSafari
  DeliciousSafari is a Safari plug-in for del.icio.us that lets you access and share your bookmarks.
  (tags: del.icio.us safari mac delicious plugin macosx)
• “The Connection Has Been Reset”
  James Fallows writes about "The Great Firewall of China."
  (tags: china censorship theatlantic firewall politics)
• James Fallows Blogs
  This is the blog of James Fallows...
  (tags: fallows atlantic news media)
• NPR: Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills
  I heard this on NPR the other morning and wanted to be sure to note it to share with my staff ...
  (tags: education psychology play npr research development)
• Hoefler & Frere-Jones
  Fonts from Hoefler & Frere-Jones... typography.com
  (tags: typography fonts font foundry inspiration)

Photo Dropper

Photo Dropper is a Wordpress plugin that allows you to easily search for and place Creative Commons licensed photos from Flickr in your weblog posts. The Plugin provides a search field within the post interface that allows you to search via key words. It provides the option of placing a small, medium or large images in your post and automatically includes the attribution.

The setup options allow you to automatically exclude images that are not commercially usable and also allows you to sort your search returns based on "interestingness."

This is something I plan to add to our school weblogs that are powered by Wordpress.

Note: Please see Paul Left's comment below regarding validation...
photo credit: christopherdale

Via Read Write Web

Tweet Map: Follow you Twitter Friends via a Map

Craig Nansen has developed a nice little Google Maps mashup called Tweet Map. Kind of like Twittermap, except it only notes those that you follow. I tried it yesterday at work and ended up keeping the window open on my second monitor. Kind of a nice way to keep up with folks throughout the day.

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