http://redjar.org/jared/blog Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:55:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The famous photo of George Costanza (taken by Cosmo Kramer) on the Seinfeld show was clearly inspired by this glamor shot of Corin (circa 1980) http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2008/01/08/seinfeld-show-inspired-by-corins-glamor-shot/ Sometime today, the number of photos posted to Flickr under a Creative Commons license hit 50 million. Here's an updated graph of Creative Commons photo growth on Flickr. Download tab delimited data Previous related blog posts: one, two, three http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2007/10/11/creative-commons-photo-on-flickr-hits-50-million/ It is pretty easy to guess what one dog home alone does all day... sleep. But what if there are two dogs? Turns out, they seem to just sleep too. Jack, who lives up the road, came over to keep Ketzel company yesterday. Click for ... http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2007/09/07/what-dogs-do-at-home-all-day/ I tried out the Snapter demo recently. Snapter is an intriguing piece of software that aims to ease the digitization of books, magazines, whiteboard photos, etc. You photograph your page with a digital camera, feed it into Snapter, and boom, you are presented with a beautiful PDF... or ... http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2007/08/26/trying-to-digitize-a-magazine-with-snapter/ My father still uses dial-up. I signed him up for an AllVantage dial-up account because it was only $5 a month. Recently AllVantage got bought by PeoplePC. There were two problems. PeoplePC charges $11 a month, and they require you to use their Windows only software ... http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2007/08/20/ppp-with-peoplepc-for-linux-mac-os-x-or-windows/ Testing out iMovie '08 using my entertaining visit to Gray's Auction in Fairlee, VT. YouTube video. Photo Gallery. http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2007/08/18/imovie-08-and-the-grays-field-auction/ In previous blog posts, I've documented the number of photos on Flickr which were released under a Creative Commons license (post one, post two). For the past year, I've grabbed the Flickr Creative Commons page nightly, which lists how many photos are available under each license. The total number today ... http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2007/04/01/creative-commons-photo-growth-on-flickr/ Three quick radio tidbits... Fresh Air with Terry Gross is now podcasting full episodes. Actually happened in late January. One less show to record manually. Fair Game is a new show that has found its way onto my podcast subscription list. Distributed by PRI and aiming at the ... http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2007/02/21/radio-tidbits/ Most people know that Fiber Optic is has much higher capacity than copper lines, but I was really amazed from the comparison made in the "Light Speed" episode of the PBS show "Innovation". That red line on the right of this photo is a single strand of fiber optic cable... It ... http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2007/01/19/visual-of-fiber-optic-bandwidth/ Just noticed that Public Radio International will start distributing WireTap on January 5th.  No info on how many US public radio stations will pick it up. PRI announcement page.  http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2006/12/27/jonathan-goldsteins-wiretap-picked-up-by-pri/ Yesterday I found out that The Be Good Tanyas newest album, "Hello Love", was going to be reviewed on NPR's, "All Things Considered" (link to review).  A few minutes before the review aired (4:47 pm to be precise), I headed over to Amazon.com to see the Amazon Sales Rank for ... http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2006/11/10/the-power-of-all-things-considered/ Just about every USGS DRG topographic map that was liberated is now available on the Internet Archive. This weekend I updated the Libre Map Project web site to point to the Internet Archive hosted DRG's. I also splurged and bought libremap.org which is where the site now resides. You ... http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2006/10/29/libre-map-project-update/ DRG Maps that over 100 contributors recently helped me liberate, are starting to become available on the Internet Archive.  They are still working out some technical kinks, and I'm not sure every map has been moved over to the server yet, but for everyone that has been eager to see ... http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2006/10/23/drg-maps-starting-to-appear-on-the-internet-archive/ Big name Public Radio podcasts are starting to come out at a steady pace.  American Public Media announced in a press release today that they will be offering additional Podcasts of their programming including: Marketplace Marketplace Money Word for Word American RadioWorks documentaries The Splendid Table (available in Podcast form in November) You can get the ... http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2006/10/18/more-public-radio-podcasts/ Chicago Public radio just released a Press Release announcing they are going to offer This American Life via a regular old RSS Podcast feed for free. Starting Monday, October 16, each show will be available to podcast subscribers on the Monday following its national broadcast. After seven days, the shows migrate ... http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2006/10/12/this-american-life-to-offer-free-podcast/