Vision without action is a daydream.
Action without vision is a nightmare.
— Japanese proverb
Soundscapes in Williamsburg Last Summer
Summer 2008, we caught the Soundscapes playing on the sidewalk outside of Spike Hill across the street from the L train Bedford station. Unfortunately I only got to see the last song in their set. Got some video and they obviously rocked the shit. Check it out…
Twitter Post Updates to your Facebook-ness
So after you login to your Facebook profile, if you click on the “Applications” tab in the bottom left corner of the screen on the bottom control bar, you see this page full of applications. Although none of them are flesh-eating reptiles, you can find a way to add your Titter updates to your Facebook shizzle. If you are still reading this, you may understand…
- Facebook -> Applications -> Browse Applications
- At the “Search Applications” field at the top right, enter “Twitter”
- Add the top result application entitled “Twitter”
- Add it, give your Twitter login, allow to access your profile, add the box, etc. money, to the from world is full of champagne and bacon.
- Congrats, you survived.
Retreiving a WordPress Page’s $post Using the ID
$sql = "
SELECT $wpdb->posts.*
FROM $wpdb->posts
WHERE $wpdb->posts.ID = ‘$page_id’
";
WHERE $wpdb->posts.ID = ‘$page_id’
";
$posts = $wpdb->get_results ( $sql, OBJECT );
if ( $posts ) {
foreach ( $posts as $post ) {
setup_postdata ( $post );
if ( $post->ID == $page_id ) break;
if ( $post->ID == $page_id ) break;
}
}
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WordPress “Gallery” Theme
Smashing Magazine announced today the release of an image-driven WordPress theme:
smashingmagazine.com/download-gallery-a-free-wordpress-theme
Display Comments in a WordPress Post
Trying to figure out how to put comments in a post in “the Loop”, found this article on flisterz.com. Unfortunately there isn’t a built in template tag in the WordPress API that will easily work so it takes some PHP trickery. Check it out:
http://www.flisterz.com/2008/08/09/wordpress-show-latest-comments-for-each-post-on-main-page/
Code Monkey — the Song
This is pretty old (2006) but I just found it this morning. It’s actually pretty cute, the first verse is the funniest… it reminds me of my days in the cubicle farms. The 2nd and 3rd verses are about his crush on the receptionist…
www.jonathancoulton.com/music/thingaweek/CodeMonkey.mp3
Synecdoche, New York
Guess we must be living in a cave because the first I heard that Charlie Kaufman wrote and directed a new film was when I saw the trailer for it at the beginning of another DVD a few nights ago. How did that happen? Did it go straight to DVD? Our favorite oscar winning writer (2005 original screenplay, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) does a movie that flies under our radar? Turns out it had only limited theatrical release and apparently limited marketing as well. Guess that’s how it goes when you don’t live in NYC anymore. :(
The movie was another of Kaufman’s amazing works of genius in our opinion. Being a fan of surrealism, we loved that the movie takes place in a dream-reality. Here is the trailer…
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Image Gallery Revamped
The image gallery has been revamped to fit into the new iframe structure of our version 3 site. To check it out, click on the “Archives” link, then “image” link in the sidebar nav.
The animations utilize the Javascript Motion Tween classes written by Philippe Maegerman from Brussels, Belgium. Thanks, Pim!
