Stephen's Personal Blog » Links http://stephensite.net/WordPressSS Everything's Programming Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:41:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Wedding Blog is at.. http://stephensite.net/WordPressSS/2009/09/28/the-wedding-blog-is-at/ http://stephensite.net/WordPressSS/2009/09/28/the-wedding-blog-is-at/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:29:07 +0000 Stephen http://stephensite.net/WordPressSS/?p=1611 Of course, you know I would have to make a blog for anything significant. The wedding blog is at http://stephensite.net/thewedding/

]]> http://stephensite.net/WordPressSS/2009/09/28/the-wedding-blog-is-at/feed/ 0 Looking for a BathTub – Links http://stephensite.net/WordPressSS/2009/09/09/looking-for-a-bathtub-links/ http://stephensite.net/WordPressSS/2009/09/09/looking-for-a-bathtub-links/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:33:47 +0000 Stephen http://stephensite.net/WordPressSS/?p=1596 http://www.remodelcenter.com/
http://designerplumbingoutlet.com/

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http://lifehacker.com/5048189/five-best-calendar-applications

http://lifehacker.com/399407/how-to-sync-any-desktop-calendar-with-google-calendar

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Thursday
Friday
Swim with the Dolphins
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Canopy Tour
Tuesday

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Ex. http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/spreadsheetsmapwizard/makecustommap.htm
Creating a Blog from withing Google Maps
Ex. http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/blogarchive/012936.html
Google Calender on a Google Map
Ex. http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/01/killer-mashup-p.html
Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets
Ex. http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/data-scraping-wikipedia-with-google-spreadsheets/
Interactive Election Map
Ex. http://mapmash.googlepages.com/election_map.html
Video in the Google Map pop up
Ex. http://5tvs.com//internet-tv-maps/news/
BBC News Stories by map
Ex. http://dev.benedictoneill.com/bbc/
Doctor Who Locations
Ex. http://www.doctorwholocations.org.uk/
Flat World Map view
Earthquakes This Week
Ex. http://earthquakes.tafoni.net/
EPA Pollution Data
Ex. http://findpollution.org/
Complex Info Pop Up
World Bank + Google Map Mashup
Ex. http://geo.worldbank.org/

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OpenSecrets.org
http://www.opensecrets.org/travel/search_results.php?state=TX

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Drawing borders on the map by region or district
Custom Overlay
Ex. http://www.wis.ro/index.php/en_GB/WISroGIS/Combining-Google-map-with-custom-overlays.html
Ex. http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_states2.htm
Ex. http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_eshapes.htm
Adding pics to marker points
use a web server to host the images and include an tag to the image
Driving Directions
..
Show claims by region
SW has a gif drawing dll, use that to draw a pic and use that pic as the marker
Complex map with points, lines, and different colors
Make a KMZ/KML file that is on a (public?) web server
Ex. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.bettertrolley.com/maps/SanDiegoTrolley.kmz
Ex. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.traveladventures.org/Traveladventures.kmz
Making Lots of Markers
Ex. http://viswaug.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/creating-a-lean-and-fast-custom-marker-overlay-for-google-maps/
Pics Overlayed on top of Google
Ex. http://ags.gmaps.googlepages.com/gmap_tile_ground_custov.html
Overlapping translucent circles
Ex. http://www.maptiler.org/google-maps-overlay-opacity-control/
Google Search in Map window
Ex. http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_baroptions2.htm
Driving Directions
Ex. http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_steps.htm
Pictures in Bubble pop up
Ex. http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_interceptor.htm
Customize Cursors
Ex. http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_cursors.htm
Let User Add a Pt to a map
Ex. http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_store.htm
Infobubble with Maximize
Ex. http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_htmldata.htm
Layer of Photos and Wikipedia
Ex. http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_layercontrol.htm
Animate a Car Driving on a set path
Ex. http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_cartrip.htm
Ex. http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_cartrip2.htm
Map Type Control Demo
Ex. http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_maptypecontrols.htm
Complex Overlays on Google Maps showing Velibe Bike Stations
Ex. http://ineedabike.gmapify.fr/
Boston Bike Survey
Ex. http://andrewbikes.blogspot.com/2007/08/city-of-boston-hub-on-wheels.html
Tour of California
Ex. http://map.tourofcalifornia.org/
Click a Marker and View Pic outside of Map
Ex. http://www.dansmith.info/cdg/in.html

]]> http://stephensite.net/WordPressSS/2009/02/15/google-maps-links/feed/ 0 Stimulus Tracking Websites http://stephensite.net/WordPressSS/2009/02/14/stimulus-tracking-websites/ http://stephensite.net/WordPressSS/2009/02/14/stimulus-tracking-websites/#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:51:35 +0000 Stephen http://stephensite.net/WordPressSS/?p=1280 It looks like the stimulus bill will pass today. The latest numbers I see are $787B to make 3.5M jobs. This is actually a bullshit number, because many incentives are tax breaks and if no one claims them or more than the expected number claim them the final tally won’t be $787B. Job numbers are based off of estimates, which seems like a good bit of tea leaf reading. They could give Boeing an tax incentive, which it claims, and then Boeing still lays off 50,000 works. Boeing is an example, but IBM actually did this. Let’s assume no one is lying and everyone involved is of the highest moral and ethical standards; incarnations of Buddha, Jesus, and Krishna. We will spend $225,000 per job “saved”. This is galling. I work in a educated field requiring a technical 4 yr degree and I have 10 yr experience. Even with benefits, my employer doesn’t spend anywhere near this number on me.

The Internet was stirred up by Obama’s election. Weeks before the stimulus bill is passed a website was created to track it’s expenditures and returns. If you would like to participate and note the use of funds in your own community go to:

Shovel Ready
ShovelWatch is a joint project of the non-profit investigative outfit ProPublica, the morning news program The Takeaway and WNYC, New York’s flagship public radio station.

With investigative reporting, interactive features, and (not least) help from you, we’ll be tracking the stimulus bill dollars as they travel from Congress to your neighborhood. With your help, we’ll make sure that one of the biggest, fastest appropriations ever has a big, fast army to track whether it is well spent.

One note: This is only a first step. We’ll be building and improving the site quickly.

And

Stimulus Watch
StimulusWatch.org was built to help the new administration keep its pledge to invest stimulus money smartly, and to hold public officials to account for the taxpayer money they spend. We do this by allowing you, citizens around the country with local knowledge about the proposed “shovel-ready” projects in your city, to find, discuss and rate those projects. These projects are not part of the stimulus bill. They are candidates for funding by federal grant programs once the bill passes. Learn more by reading the FAQs.

How can you contribute? Find a project that interests you, or about which you have special knowledge, and let us know what you think. You can find projects by searching or by browsing by locality or program type. Once you find a program, there are three things you can do: 1) vote on whether you believe the project is critical or not; 2) edit the project’s description and points in favor or against, and 3) post a comment in the conversation about the project.

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http://www.pioneerthinking.com/milkpaint.html – Milk Paint Formula

http://dundean.com/tips_milk_paint_how_to_use.shtml

http://www.appropedia.org/Curdled_milk_paint_recipe – Curdled milk paint recipe
http://www.houseinprogress.net/archives/000537.html – Removing 100 yr old milk paint
http://www.ecowise.com/product_info.php?products_id=140 – Eco Wise Milk Paints

http://www.dairy-info.org/cm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=61

http://dans-woodshop.blogspot.com/2008/07/milk-paint.html

http://www.vintagepaintworks.com/vmp.html

http://www.no-wood-unturned.com/images/milkpaint/milkpaint.html

http://www.howardhallfarm.com/greenpaintinfo.html – Adv/Disadv all Eco Paints

http://www.querycat.com/faq/9cbbc80a94b3c36ff0f725111daa1f9c

http://www.homesteadhouse.ca/faqs/ – Good Notes on Milk Paint

Disadvantages
Milk Paint becomes very hard making it highly durable and equally difficult to remove. It is susceptible to water and has to be sealed. Limited or no color matching. Not locally available?

Advantages
Durable, won’t fade, cheap, biodegradeable, non-toxic though the lime ingredient by itself is dangerous, shipped as a water mixable powder, textured classic look. Ingredients, except untreated milk, are readily available.

Possibilities
Some Milk Painted structures have last hundreds of years. Perhaps sealed milk painted wood might be a good eco friendly covering for wood exposed to the elements.

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http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney/articles/paints.cfm

http://www.ecowise.com/index.php?cPath=21_132

http://www.environmentalhomecenter.com/home.shtml

http://www.infinitehealthresources.com/Store/Resource/Article/85/1/1138.html

http://www.getwithgreen.com/2008/03/31/paint-finishes-home-depot-offers-eco-friendly-paint/

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