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  euicho 1:22 pm on 3/27/2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Art ( 6 ), diy ( 2 ), fun ( 2 ), interesting ( 12 )   

  DIY Psudo-Album Project 

  Noise Addicts have posted a fun and bizzarely syzygistic (thats right, I just made a new usage out of syzygy. Your day was wasted in comparison.) tutorial for making your own fake (or perhaps real!) band, album title, and album art in a “what’s your pornstar name” fashion.

  I came across this via Make:, but the source, and a great gallery of examples, is over at Noise Addicts.

  It’s strange how well it works out, especially some they have posted. Here are three I did this morning (I could seriously make these all day):

  

  

  

  
  
  

  Go try it out!

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    B 8:09 am on 5/2/2009 Permalink

    Ruritanian Romance
    To Ruin It
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/miedo/3479238283/

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    B 8:36 am on 5/2/2009 Permalink

    I dig this google maps (and django powered) site, and yet so simple

    http://www.malaysiacrime.com/

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  euicho 7:29 pm on 3/5/2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: maine, maps ( 3 ), programming ( 3 ), projects, utility   

  Maine Power Outages Map 

  Working in a NOC, I often consult the two Maine power companies that have online outage information (there is a third that does not have such a feature). If I see many circuits go down at the same time I’ll check to see if there is an outage in the area by checking both those websites, then going to Google maps to see how far away the sites are from the current outages. This is a tedious process and I finally decided to do something about it by creating my own Google map with their wonderful API. I’d never used it before so this proved a great way to learn how to use it as well. After setting up the screen scraping to pull info off the power companys’ websites, getting the app to do just what I wanted, and working around some minor speed bumps, it’s done!

  

  Google’s API is quite easy to work with, and I’m very pleased with the results. For most people this map isn’t very useful, and at any one time there are only a few markers plotted on it, but for myself it will be quite useful, and it was a great learning process. You can view the Maine Power Outages map at http://euicho.com/power

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    B 12:04 am on 3/10/2009 Permalink

    Well I love anything with Google Maps, though ironically I’m not using it as my major map view on my application at the moment, that may change if I get tired of OpenLayers issues with loading after being hidden (I’m already using GoogleMaps base layers on it anyway). Overall I love OpenLayers abilities to handle lots of projections seamlessly but I love the responsiveness of GoogleMaps (to use GoogleMaps i have to use a script to fit data on their projection). Anyhoo.

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    Big Hans 1:10 pm on 6/12/2011 Permalink

    I work in a NOC, too, and I love this map. It looks like BHE changed the format…any chance of an update?

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    euicho 9:35 pm on 6/12/2011 Permalink

    Thanks for the comment! I just noticed this as well last week. Should be a quick fix, I’ll update it early this week.

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    euicho 11:24 am on 8/2/2011 Permalink

    Sorry I’ve been crazy busy, but I finally fixed it today!