Famous Songs as Alert Boxes
Apr/090
Imagine your favorite song as a Windows pop-up alert, or some other sort of context box. Are you imagining it? Good. Now feel like a nerd.
Seriously though, I’ve seen a few of these in the past and thought they were great, but a bunch of them collected together are just freaking awesome. Particularly the one for Subterranean Homesick Blues at the top of the post.
You want to see them. You know you do. If only to find out if someone already did your song.
Its the End of GeoCities, and I Feel Old
Apr/090
In the changing universe of the internet, I am now, beyond a shadow of doubt, old. I am old in the “back in the day” sort of way, and I am nostalgic.
GeoCities is being shut down this year.
I remember when GeoCities was the biggest thing online. A person couldn’t go two clicks in a search engine, or even a Webring (does anyone but me even remember those), before coming across a site hosted by GeoCities. It was practically what the internet was made of, in those halcyon days before web 2.0, broadband access, corporate sites, and everything being all shiny.
Now I just sound pathetic.
I suspect that everyone who remembers the internet in the ’90’s remembers the love-hate relationship we had with GeoCities. The ad banners that weren’t so bad. The ad banners that were at least that bad. The java watermark that looked horrible and made our crash-y Windows ‘9x computers even more crash-y. The advent of pop-up ads. I’m not entirely sure GeoCities was the first site to roll out pop-up ads, but it was sure the first place I ever saw them.
I had a site there. I used them for file-storage when a few megabytes seemed like a lot of space. I hated them violently and saw the sites that made their home there consistently as I surfed the ’90’s web. The internet sure has changed a lot since then, but I was there.
Farewell, GeoCities, I’ll watch you go like I watch the next big thing of the future go, once web 3.0 rolls around (or whatever the next trend happens to be).
And now I’ll stop waxing nostalgic, ya bunch of young whippersnappers.
For Those of Us Who Need Math Help
Feb/091
And I certainly count myself among you, every person who finds themselves seriously in need of mathematical assistance.
Fortunately, the bounties of the internet have brought us a feature-filled scientific calculator, no downloads required. Which is good for me, I need to take math again…
Web 2.0 Calc via
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