Archives for December 2005
19 December
Can you say, "First Amendment Violation"?
Agents' visit chills UMass Dartmouth senior
Apparently, requesting a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's "The Little Red Book" from inter-library loan warrants a visit from Department of Homeland Security officials.
Freedom? What's that?
16 December
Pixel art
I saw Ben's blog entry earlier today about favicons for blog.case.edu and planet.case.edu and I was inspired. I'm not a graphic designer by any stretch of the imagination, but I enjoy a graphical challenge every now and then, so I decided to see how many Case IT services I could represent with 16x16-pixel icons while maintaining a common theme. Now I want to know if I was successful. How many can you identify?
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These icons aren't ready for prime time, and I'm not suggesting they actually be used... (as I said, I am not a graphic designer.)
9 December
Magnetic poetry
I found a cool open source AJAX magnetic poetry application and set up a version with some Case-specific words. You can rearrange the pieces yourself, or watch as others play. Have fun! Let me know if you notice any problems or if you have a favorite word you want me to add.
8 December
schedule.case.edu
I noticed that schedule.case.edu isn't blank anymore. It doesn't look like it's quite finished yet, but it looks promising. Nice work, Alex and Matt!
7 December
Pretty Colors!
Dear LazyWeb,
What's the big iridescent thing on top of Crawford Hall? Why is it iridescent like that?
3 December
LED Christmas lights
Stop reading now if you find reading pointless drivel on blogs to be annoying.
The other day I was in a store that had Christmas lights up for decoration. Instead of the usual mini incandescent bulbs, this string had (slightly bluish) white LEDs. It also apparently had a really cheap unfiltered power supply, since the lights were blinking at 60 Hz. My eyes hurt after looking at them for 10 seconds or so. I will not be buying any lights like that, ever. Unless I really want to screw up the neighbors' vision.