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Belated congratulations to Rebecca on the launch of her book! Last weekend I was poking around and noticed that SiteMeter had added a new “By World Map” view. I was entranced. It is even animated so if you just leave it up it will update as you get new visits. Here are the last 20 visits to this site as of right now: I added a page to my site that will show it all the time here. Also linked on my left nav of course. It is all SiteMeter functionality though. I’m just reshowing it here. There are of course limits to the accuracy of the geolocation, and your milage may vary… for instance all AOL dialup users show up as bieng from the same place in the midwest somewhere and when I hit the site myself from home in Palm Bay, FL it lists the visit as being from Sanford, FL which is a 90 minute drive away. And of course, it is only showing visits to actual pages where the user loads images and I have added the sitemeter badge (some old pages still don’t have it). But hey, close enough, and it is still fun. Enjoy! I can just watch it for hours myself. :-) Edit: (PS, It is Flash based, so if you don’t already have it you need to get Flash. Ivan also notes that it may take a little bit to load. Be patient.) I actually did this last weekend, but didn’t have the chance to post. I took the random trip tool that I’ve had up for several years, and modified it to use Google Maps rather than MapQuest. Since depending on what exactly you are doing, one or the other may still be better, I have kept both available: If you are looking to just see the cool satellite pictures and such, the Google Maps one is the way to go. Or in general if you are just looking at US locations. If you are looking internationally and actually want to identify what cities and towns your spot is near, the MapQuest version is the way to go, because their actual maps have more information than Google in most countries. MapQuest seems to be a bit faster too. But their latest redesign doesn’t fit in the window size I’d defined when I first set up the tool. That size was predicated on having both the tool window and the MapQuest window fit side by side on my laptop screen, and it is as big as I can make it. Maybe I’ll make it larger when I get a new laptop. :-) Have fun!
I am really so not sure what I think about this. It could end up being really good, but somehow I am filled with a sense of dread. I really was not a fan of Captain Jack. He was funny if the first episode he showed up in, but at least for me he wore thin pretty quickly. Oh well, of course I will watch it. BBC to screen ‘Dr Who for adults’ as new spin-off show
(via GallifreyOne) This is for you Al! Thing a Week 5 – Baby Got Back
(via BoingBoing) I don’t remember seeing this episode when I was a kid… Smurfs used as shock treatment in UNICEF’s fundraising drive
(via Fark) Of course, one day when the ice maker wasn’t working properly, we found out it was because there was a smurf caught in the crushing blades. So that is sort of similar I guess. For years now, I’ve slowly but surely been watching the AFI 100 Years 100 Movies list. I started at #100 and have been working my way up toward #1. The last one of these I watched was #59 Rebel Without a Cause. It was good. But now comes my problem. The next movie on the list, #58 Fantasia is not available currently from Netflix, or directly from Amazon for normal purchase. It was still there on Netflix a few months ago, but it is not any longer. This is because of Disney’s infinantely annoying policy of only releasing their major animated works every X number of years and then only for a limited time. So the Fantasia DVDs were out, but now are not any more. Now, they can still be bought. Amazon even has it via a bunch of their partner sellers. Problem is, the price for a NEW copy starts at $52. Even they used ones are mostly in the $30+ range. (The ones less than that seem to have missing bits or be non-US verisons.) I want to see the movie, but I’m not quite ready to pop $30 or $50 dollars on it. And I don’t want to go VHS knowing there is a DVD version out there. And I also don’t want to go looking for an, um, “online” version of it. I do want the real Disney release version. Even though the DVD release *is* edited in several places from the original theatrical release to remove some sections with negative racial overtones which is annoying. (There are a couple other related examples, but that is the reference I could find quickly.) It is what it was, and those kinds of changes just try to rewrite history… But, regardless, I want the real Disney DVD release if at all possible. Anyway… anybody out there reading this have a copy of Fantasia on DVD that I can BORROW for a week or two to watch? I’ll then get it back to you intact and promptly. Promise. Anybody? Please? Because she asked: “Then there was a hit from verton.capfed1.sinectis.com.ar.” 1. Go into your archive. I have no idea why. I check every couple of weeks, and my goodness, now, for the first time since I’ve been checking, someone else, in this case, some guy Bill D, has used my word. (Do a find on the page for it.) That means there are now 13 google results for this word. 12 of them are me. Before I posted about it last October, there were none. Thank you Bill D. Now I know I did not just imagine the word! |
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