Digital Wallpaper

I have been messing around with Daz 3 and Bryce 5.5 making some new widescreen 8:5 desktop wallpapers for my other site. Here is one of them:

for the fullsize version 1250px x 780px click here

Apture – A Great Free Blog Tool

Apture is a great tool for embedding stuff on your blog. It can be used for images, video, files, web pages and lots more. I use it to embed just about everything on this site. It is extremely easy to use – absolutely no coding required and even better it is free.

Other advantages include no advertising and complete control over what does and doesn’t get embedded.

Below is a gallery made up of photographs uploaded from my computer using Apture. Click on the small images under the big one then click on the double arrow – it will make sense, promise!

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34 Reasons Why People Unsubscribe from RSS feeds:

This is a must read for anyone that keeps a blog.

While it cannot be treated as gospel as the sample isn’t random it does provide some great insight as to why readers cancel their subscriptions to feeds. I suspect a lot of this is also applicable to the blog itself and not just the RSS feed.
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Resetting the Doomsday Clock

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced today that it would push their Doomsday Clock back one minute — to six minutes to midnight — in recognition of President Obama’s efforts to combat nuclear proliferation and climate change.

Original Article

The Doomsday clock was first established, by scientists, in 1947 and has only been adjusted 18 times since. An average of just over once every presidential term.

An argument could be made that the rising influence of the extreme right in the USA is potentially bringing global catastrophe closer but that is a discussion for another place.

Free Images and Fonts

Some freebies on my other blog. Enjoy.

Free high resolution images for commercial or personal use. Photographs and Illustrations

Free Desktop Wallpaper – Digital Art

A few free handwritten fonts

A few free handwritten fonts

Free Nasa 3D Computer Models

This may be of interest if you are into 3D computer modelling. Models are usually either expensive to purchase or very time consuming to make. There are some freebies dotted around the interwebs but they are usually either very basic or very poor quality i.e. fail to open in modelling software.

Nasa free 3D Models

I know for a fact that this high res version of the International Space Station would cost a lot of money to purchase from any other source but here it is free.

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Haiti Earthquake

Click on anything, it isn’t advertising but small windows will appear. The Twitter feeds will show the latest input.

Stunning Mars Photo

This is without a doubt the most amazing photograph of the planet Mars I’ve seen to date. Despite the fact that there is no life in this landscape it has an extremely organic look to it. I don’t know if anyone reading this has had any experience with the 3D modelling software Truespace but this image looks very similar to one of the textures that came with the package.

Here is the process that produces this landscape:

In the Martian winter, carbon dioxide freezes out of the air (and you thought it was cold where you are). In the summer, that CO2 sublimates; that is, turns directly from a solid to a gas. When that happens the sand gets disturbed, and falls down the slopes in little channels, which spreads out when it hits the bottom. But this disturbs the red dust, too, which flows with the sand. When it’s all done, you get those feathery tendrils. Note that at the tendril tips, you see blotches of red; that’s probably from the lighter dust billowing a bit before settling down.

From this article which is a must read.

H/T NellaSelim Daily Kos where I first came across this

OMG!! WTF A TRANSLATOR LOL

Here is a great potential timewaster , a site that translates anything into a sort of 12 year old kid’s computer lolspeak chat type dialect

An example:

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilisations; to boldly go where no man has gone before

morphs into:

SPAEC TEH FINAL FRONTEIR!1!111111 OMG WTF LOL THAS3 R TEH VOYAEGS OF TEH STARSHIP ENTARPRIES!!1!1!! LOL ITS FIEV-YAAR MISION 2 AXPLOR3 STRANGA NU WORLDS 2 SEK OUT NU LIEF AND NU CIVILISATIONS 2 BOLDLEY GO WH3RA NO MAN HAS GONE BFOR3

Checkboxes Not Showing in Google Chrome

Often the checkboxes on web pages are unavailable in the Google Chrome browser. Strange thing is, that everything was fine up until yesterday so I have no idea as to what triggered the issue. There are a some, mostly pretty inconvenient, workarounds here

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