I used Google Maps to get directions from my house to a meeting I have next week. Here’s what the map looks like:

The actual turn/by/turn directions don’t have me traversing all of the LA basin. But I wish it did. I’d love to see how long it would take to traverse this course.

I’m officially impressed. If you like pixel art then this is the motherload:

http://www.lovepixel.idv.tw/

This is a 20×20 grid of 500×500 pixel PNGs. I saved one PNG which was 30kb. That makes this a 12meg pixel art. The guy/gal who made this does not have a tan.

In his presentation at TED, Kevin Kelly (editor of Wired Magazine) posits the question, “What does technology want?” and then goes on to offer his thoughts. While he has many ideas on the subject he offers an incomplete picture, and that’s a good thing. His insights lead to other questions such as, “how does/should technology fit in our lives?” That isn’t anything new but by combining his ideas that technology can be thought of as the 7th kingdom of life then you might come to some further understanding on your own.

His presentation is like one of those movies that has no definitive ending and leaves the “what happens next” up to the audience to decide. He simply offers a new context in which to think about these old questions.

From the TED website:
Kevin Kelly traces the remarkable similarities between the evolution of biology and technology, ultimately declaring technology the “7th kingdom of life.” He poses an intriguing question: “What does technology want?” As we hurdle forward, evolving increasingly complex, biological and independent machines, how will it affect our humanity? Kelly, widely regarded as an expert on digital culture, has played leading roles at the Whole Earth Review (editor), Wired Magazine (founding executive editor), the WELL (co-founder), and the All-Species Foundation (co-founder). He’s author of several books, including Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World. (Recorded February 2005 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 20:39)

I can never remember this but the syntax for using FlashVars with the Kimili Wordpress plugin is:

fvars="name1=value1; name2=value2; nameN=valueN"

This design firm has some great commercials. I think their Honda commercials are the best, particularly the coffee one.

This is like the encyclopedia of sarcasm.

Here a few must reads on the site:

• Photoshop
• Oscar Wilde
• William Shatner
• Microsoft Windows
• Apple

I could go on and on but I think you’re probably capable of clicking on your own hyperlinks.

ShinyBinary: This guy has some wow, amazing, are you fraking kidding me great 3D-looking creations.

I learned a few things while using the websiteGrader service.

1. Chances are 92 out-of 100 that Ryan Stewart’s DigitalBackcountry blog has a better grade than your blog. Trust me on this.

2. Search engines see your website at www.yourwebsite.com as a different website than yourwebsite.com. And that’s not a good thing.

To fix issue number one you’ll just have to write about 25 posts per day, every day, for the rest of your life.

To fix issue number two you’ll just need to add two lines of code to your htaccess file.

Here’s what you do: In your htaccess file - located in the root of your server - add the following two lines of code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^youwebsite.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yourwebsite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

What that does is take any attempts to visit www.yoursite.com and send them to yoursite.com.

Here’s my htaccess file that fixes the problem as an example.

I’m not sure what this might do to sub domains if you have them. I did test and make sure that links such as: www.polygeek.com/videomaru/ still sent browsers to polygeek.com/videomaru/ and that seemed to work fine.

Note to Ryan: you beat me by one percentage point this time. But you just wait. You, just, wait!

So the British government is thinking about granting rights to artificial consciousnesses if and when there ever is any. Boy, they really can’t wait to open that can of transistors can they.

I love the photo they included with the post.

M2Websites just launched. The 2 person team is headed up by an old friend of mine Sara Mejak. She was one smart cookie back in college studying English Literature. Now she’s a web developer/designer extraordinar.

What sets M2 apart is that they are great at communication. You’re not talking to a bunch of egg-heads who want to do a cookie cutter job on your site and then move on. Leaving you, the customer, wondering what to do with their site. M2 will be there and help guide you.

I think they take the adage,  “you’re only as good as your last customer’s testimonial” by heart.