Chronicles of the American Civil War and the The Blog of Henry David Thoreau-Both take excerpts from real life journals and news stories from one day in history and put it on a blog. Very cool.
Firefox 1.5.0.2
Firefox 1.5.0.2: Finally an Intel Mac version and a fix for that annoying Gmail crash, among other fixes.
Metroblogging Azeroth
Metroblogging Azeroth: The town world (thanks Tony) of Azeroth in the game World of Warcraft has more than 5 million people in it, which would make it the 28th most populous city in the world and . There’s also a lot interesting stuff going on there, so why not have a blog about it. (via Boing Boing)
TypePad – Widgets
TypePad – Widgets: Not to be outdone by WordPress, Typepad’s now got their own set of widgets for use on your blog. Hope they release a plugin soon for Movable Type installations. (via Download Squad)
WordPress Widgets for Self-hosted WordPress Blogs
Automattic » WordPress Widgets– Making it a lot easier to edit the sidebar (and possibly more) of your WordPress blog. Supports RSS, so you can already do a lot. It’s already a function of WordPress.com. (via Andy Skelton)
Free AP Classes over the Internet
Monterey Institute for Technology & Education AP Courses: Students can take interactive lessons to prepare students for AP classes. They’ve got Physics, Environmental Science, and US History, among other topics. Sure wish I had this in high school.
Great Mac Freeware Programs
So as some of you know, I work as tech support for the College Writing Program at Berkeley. Our department is all Macintosh, so finding good software can sometimes be expense. Fortunately, there are a number of sites that list freeware Mac programs. One of the ones I like is FreeMacWare, a blog spotlighting free Mac Programs. They’re also having a contest where you write about five apps you’ve found on their site. I was able to find some good programs including:
- Firefox– It’s not as good as it is on the PC, but it has the best web compatiblity with web sites and the extensions can’t be beat.
- VLC– Quicktime can’t open every video file, so it’s up to VLC to do the job. And a heck of a job it does.
- Witch– Command + tab and Expose are great, but I think Witch is better. I like being able to cycle through all of my windows, even the minimized ones, which is what Witch allows me to do (among other things).
- Mactracker– I can look up the technical specs for any Mac model possible. Very useful.
- Nvu– Why pay so much for Dreamweaver when I can get WYSIWIG and CSS editing for free? And it’s pretty good code too.
I like a variety of other programs too, but these have been the most useful for me so far.
The Lyceum Project
The Lyceum Project– Another way to install multiple WordPress blogs, besides of course WordPress MU and all the other ways (via Boing Boing)
The Brothers of 1913
The Unofficial AEPi blog takes some design queues from my Calstuff design. It is also written by one of my Calstuff partners, Andy.
Feed Icons
Feed Icons-The new standard feed icon is the one on Mozilla Firefox and its live bookmarks. I finally implemented these on the site; now we need a standard way of putting them into an RSS reader.