These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 04/16/08 … please enjoy:
11 - the beautiful game | 11 the Game
Many new football stadiums have a strong architectural and sculptural beauty, becoming city landmarks in their own right and enhancing the landscape of the environment. We wanted the design of our football table to be equally spectacular and memorable.
Turn Your iPod Touch into an iPhone | Lifehacker
Let's say you would like to use it make a phone call every now and then with your iPod Touch. You can, and he is how you can make VoIP phone calls from your iPod touch using a freeware application called SIP-VoIP.
Coral flourishing at Bikini Atoll atomic test site | Yahoo! News
Coral is again flourishing in the crater left by the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated by the United States, 54 years after the blast on Bikini Atoll, marine scientists said on Tuesday.
Programmer pops question on girlfriend's video game | chicagotribune.com
Hiding a ring in a bouquet just wasn't enough when a computer programmer decided to pop the question. Bernie Peng reprogrammed Tammy Li's favorite video game, "Bejeweled," so a ring and a marriage proposal would show up when she reached a certain score.
David Weiner: McCain "Family Recipes" Lifted from the Food Network | The Huffington Post
On a section of McCain's site called "Cindy's Recipes," you can find recipes attributed to Cindy McCain, each with the title "McCain Family Recipe." It was realized that some of these "Family Recipes," were in fact, exact copies of Food Network recipies.
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These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 04/11/08 … please enjoy:
World's most disgusting ice cream | Metro.co.uk
A new 'mash Cone' consisting of sausage, mash potato, gravy and peas in an ice cream cone has been invented. Food company Aunt Bessie's claims it is breathing new life into the fortunes of the ice cream van by replacing the 99 Flake with an all-weather a
'I didn't want a cabinet. I wanted a cab, innit?' | Metro.co.uk
A teenager was greeted by a display cabinet instead of a taxi because her 'Ali G-style' slang confused a series of phone operators.
Computerised 'averaged' facial photographs regarding Sexual Choices | Yahoo! News Photos
According to the research, the face on the right is of someone who is more likely to be interested in a short-term sexual relationship whilst the one on the left is more likely to be interested in a long-term relationship.
LEDUBE LED Lego-like building blocks | CScout Japan
If you had as many Legos as I did when you were a kid, and you love LED lighting as much as I do, the LEDUBE from Sankoflex should satisfy you to no end. We came across these at the Japan Shop Expo last month and got a peek at how they work as well.
Blockbuster announcing streaming set-top box this month? | Engadget
The Hollywood Reporter is stating in no uncertain terms that Blockbuster is developing a set-top box to stream video into the home. Now the real bombshell: it should be announced "sometime this month."
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Finally, after weeks of working, the new design is finished. Well, I’d say it’s about 99% finished. I’ll be spending the rest of the week tweaking things here and there and making sure it works in all my favorite browsers (I think there are some minor issues with IE6, but when isn’t there, amirite?). If you notice any major issues, please drop a comment in here and I’ll take a look! 
P.S. The Wordpress Theme Test Drive Plugin is really awesome and really came in handy during this upgrade process. To sum it up, this plugin allows the Admin user to view a different theme than the public. Give it a try if you need to redesign!
As I’ve been re-designing the site, I’ve had to make some changes to the actual data/setting of the live blog so that it flows over nicer. If you see anything odd, it’s probably just me changing settings. Among other things, I’ve now imported my old Archive site over to the current database so I can stop maintaining two blogs. I’ve also cleaned up my blogroll/webroll/etc and will continue to make changes over the next couple weeks.
The design itself is probably about 85% completed… check out this side-by-side:
I don’t know about you, but I’d spend a lot more time browsing the site on the right versus the site on the left (I sized them the same, but the design on the left has an 800px width while the one on the right has a 1024px width). The new design also validates XHTML 1.1 (so far, so good), but to keep it that way I will have to go back and edit my old posts to change how I had been posting pictures. Not too major, but kind of bothersome.
Well, that’s all I have about this today… just figured people might get confused as I’m swapping things around and I wanted to make sure everyone was aware that the site is still changin’!
Welp, I’ve just found my next T-Shirt purchase:
Check out the other designs here at Wear Science. Now I’m off to count pennies to use for the shirt buying!
