Recently I’ve been coming across some interesting websites either on stumble or just through general browsing, for example I found this link (NSFW!) through the b3ta newsletter earlier.

I personally find the content to be fascinating, in both good and bad ways, but I’m not here to debate the ethics of photographing naked women who are high on heroin!

In regards to stumble I ‘like’ something if its funny or it makes me laugh but there are those times where you find an article that is interesting to you and you do ‘like’ it, but not in the way that you would click ‘I like this’. After all, if I did click it then I could very well end up with other similar websites cropping up in my stumbles in the future and its not like that particular website is full of documentry, journalism or topical issues!

What sort of things do you like when you stumble?

I can claim absolutely no credit for this bit of code, its all courtesy wubbahed.com. All I’m doing here is displaying the code for you to copy and paste.

This bit of code will display your geotagged flickr photos on a google map. I use this in the sidebar of one of my blogs.

You will need your own API key. Get yours here.

The geoFeed can be found at the bottom of your flickr page .

Once you have this information replace the sections in bold.

<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=ABQIAAAA-W9uqIa2PP530F8zDw7ifhTU7ZIBfnHw4wAfJHH0RagnnLKqYRRMSJ_Im0zVLMtCE6XFGDom2iMmrA" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
var map;
var geoXml = new GGeoXml("http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/geo/?id=38083777@N08&lang=en-us&format=rss_200");
function loadMap() {
if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) {
var map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map"));
map.setCenter(new GLatLng(51.26835954379726, 1.1254119873046875), 10);
map.addControl(new GLargeMapControl());
map.addControl(new GMapTypeControl());
map.addOverlay(geoXml);
}
}
</script>
<div id="map" style="width: 300px; height: 500px"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">setTimeout("loadMap()", 1);</script>

There is another way of doing it, simple go to maps.google.com and paste the georss feed url into the search box and click search, you can then embed it using an iframe. I couldn’t use this method on my other site because of some weird bug with adbrite!

I’m possibly the slowest most forgetful person in the world! I remembered this morning where I’d put some images from a device I was sent to review a few weeks ago. Unfortunately with all this being made redundant and starting new jobs put it to the back of my mind, but here is is, my thoughts on Paper Show.

Its a great idea, in theory. Its similar to a graphics tablet, but where a graphics tablet aims to get rid of paper, paper show doesn’t. The device itself is just a normal pen and a sensor that detects what your writing. The clever part of the device is the paper (you wouldn’t think it!).

The paper is just paper, its what’s printed on it. Icons and symbols similar to those in an application are printed on the paper, when you tap the pen over say a red box the colour of the ‘ink’ changes to red. Of course the real pen colour is still black but whats on screen is red.

I decided to write my review using the actual papershow! Apologies for my handwriting!

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