Visitor Distribution for Willshouse.com

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It looks like the willshouse.com is a bit more popular, especially internationally, than I had anticipated. Here’s a map of the last 500 visitors as of today.

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Google gets crazy with Newton’s Apples

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Google is celebrating Newton’s Birthday today with a poppy javasript falling apple. Google recently added javascript to their homepage with the fade in /  fade out of the text around the edges. Google usually adds cool graphics for holiday’s like Issac Newton’s Birthday but they have decided “what the heck,” we are already using javascript on the homepage, let’s add something else. I think it’s kind of delightfully tacky.

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Awesome RSS Icon Source

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I just learned about Feed Icons – “The Home of the Standard Web Feed Icon”

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Vatican City / 3D Tours

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Just found this great site which offers 360 views of St Peter’s and Vatican City.

http://www.panoramicearth.com/65/Rome/St_Peter’s_Basilica

Nice integration of google maps, too.

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Wikipedia Icons

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Here are a few icons from Wikipedia’s collection. I wan to document them all and talk about the visual meaning. I will try to continue to add more. Feel free to send more along or post links to the other icons!

Scales Book Exclamation Check Mark Nutshell

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Rainier Wolfcastle in “Mein Bratwurst” – Video

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According to various Simpsons episodes, Wolfcastle began his acting career as a child in Austria, appearing on painfully long television commercials advertising bratwurst.
F-R-I-T-Z S-C-H-N-A-C-K-E-N-P-F-E-F-F-E-R-H-A-U-S-E-N

Rainier Wolfcastle in “Mein Bratwurst..”

I’m posting the video from Youtube but at times it gets removed so let me know if that happens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgCyjBCec94

Lyrics to The Fritz Schnackenpfefferhausen Bratwurst Song :
Rainier Wolfcastle: Mein bratwurst has a first name,
It’s F-R-I-T-Z,
Mein bratwurst has a second name,
It’s S-C-H-N-A-C-K-E-N-P-F-E-F-F-E-R-H-A-U-S-E-N.

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Nicholas Felton’s Graphic Design and Typography Work

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I’m a fan. Check out his annual reports and blog. He does a nice job with typography as well as visual representations of data.

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The Very Hungry PDF Reader

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There is something familiar about Adobe Acrobat 9’s logo . . . Oh yeah! That’s it!

Comparison of Adobe Acrobat 9 artwork and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

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My Modem is Broken

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Below are two posts recently spotted on the Winston-Salem craigslist. I used to hear people calling their computers “modems” back in the early 00’s, but now it’s 2010 and this is too funny.

Re: Dell Computer Parts (Anywhere)

Back to computer terms class for you!! The computer is NOT a modem. That’s a part located inside of the box!!! What is it with the uneducated calling a computer a cpu, a modem, or a hard drive? These are all parts located inside of the box. They are not interchangeable terms. The correct name for the tower is system unit. Most people just call the box a tower or computer. Correct your post!!

via http://winstonsalem.craigslist.org/sys/1534005448.html

Dell Computer Parts (Winston Salem)

Dell Desktop

I got the modem repaired and the business put a dvd reader card in it, and I am tired of fooling with it.

Parts that are with it…
-Working Monitor
-Mouse
-Keyboard
-Modem (Needs New Driver, and could sell parts inside of it)
-Has windows XP on it now

Make offer
*Cash Offer

via http://winstonsalem.craigslist.org/sys/1533947923.html

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Subnet Mask Calculator Tool

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I love this subnet mask calculator

The IP Subnet Mask Calculator enables subnet network calculations using network class, IP address, subnet mask, subnet bits, mask bits, maximum required IP subnets and maximum required hosts per subnet.

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