Mike DelGaudio

This is a 17 minute video documentary, which you need only listen to, detailing how 10 or so seconds of audio recorded in the sixties is is the source of a very compelling discussion on copyright, fair-use, and remixing. The Amen Break. Via Nate Harrison

If you are interested in photographing the night sky, you may benefit from knowing when the sky will be clear. ClearDarkSky has a “clock” that is a prediction of the quality of the night sky. For exmaple, here is the Clock for Balitmore

Ok this is weird. I came across this post for constructing an Equatorial Mount for photographing the night sky.

It feels oddly familiar, as though I had read it before. When I first got turned on to the Barn Door mount, I read an article — I really thought it was in a PDF written by a teacher for a class assignment — about making one with a curved rod, rather than a straight rod. When I went back to look for the plans again my Google mojo was failing me. I found lots of stuff for Single Arm and Double Arm trackers. But this particular curved rod design continued to elude me until very recently. The curved rod design claims to be more accurate for tracking, if you get the curve just right. I tried building a double arm drive, but my carpentry skills left a lot to be desired and it just didn’t work.

This particular post smacks of the PDF I had read previously, but I’m not positive it was the same article. It did give me serious deja vu, however. At any rate, I am so glad to have found it again, and hopefully I’ll get the chance to make this one weekend to take some shots when the sky gets clear this winter.

Man, I gotta learn more about jQuery. Here are 5 cool tricks that you can do with this little library.

I needed this the other day for a layout I was creating. This is a dead simple layout that allows you to nest a div within another div. This essentially allows the main text to nicely wrap around the nested text. Great if you have a two column layout, but one of the columns does NOT need to extend all the way to the footer.

Nested Float CSS Layout — glish.com

It’s well known that spammers troll the web looking for email addresses. I located this page, oddly on a BMW Club site.

Essentially this page converts a text string to it’s representation in character entities.

Turns out writing this code in ColdFusion was pretty easy:

	
             
        
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I reckon that there is probably a more succinct way to do this, and it REALLY should be in a CFC for reuse, but hopefully you will find it helpful.

Well, at the “Where to start page” of course. THis page gives a lot of information if you are interested in obtaining your own trademark.