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Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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Things > 1992 BRICKS pencil holder by Mr. Imagination
Con Pencil Originally uploaded by juggernautco. In December 1992 I was getting ready to publish my first book of poetry, BRICKS. My friend Mr. Imagination, an amazing artist based (at the time) here in Chicago, made a pencil holder for me so that I could have somewhere to put my pencil during my…
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History of Citizen ICAM
Lots of people know & love the Chicago Crime website, the innovative early Google Maps mashup by Adrian Holovaty. Less well-known is the Citizen ICAM database run by the Chicago Police, which is the goofy-interface, balky, and hard-to-use lookup engine upon which the Chicago Crime website is based. As Adrian notes on his site, without…
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Sample Feedburner BuzzBoost CSS
Feedburner is an excellent (Chicago-based) service that is providing a huge bump for how RSS feeds are shared, tracked, consumed, and monetized. One of the best features is BuzzBoost, which allows you to render RSS feeds in HTML– headlines, full posts, whatever you want. The instructions for how to get past the default styling (indented…
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PBWIki
While weblogs have enjoyed a meteoric rise in use and pop culture attention, another powerful and easy-to-use class of software hasn’t gotten the same mojo. I speak here of wikis. The wikipedia pops into consciousness every once in a while, but when it comes to broad acceptance and use, wikis aren’t there yet. I think…
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Yahoo! Open Sources a Bunch of Developer Tools
Yahoo! has released a set of powerful User Interface Library and Design Pattern Library controls. These things allow developers to insert auto-complete functions, pagination (next/ previous buttons), navigation tabs, and other useful widgets into their web projects. Experienced developers may not need these, but by sharing their work under Creative Commons and BSD licenses, Yahoo!…