Ooh, I'm Excited ...

... that I may finally have made a good gadget purchase decision. Casio has already released a firmware update for their Exilim Pro EX-P600 camera I plan to buy. Quick firmware updates for brand-new products usually mean the company means to support a particular model (as opposed to just plopping it down in the market), and I'm happy as a clam.

(Via Photography Blog)

iPodding Your Way Past Social Critique

Gizmodo:

Apple's silhouette iPod ads have been far more pervasive than anyone probably imagined, and now thanks to an anonymous New Yorker (or, more likely, New Yorkers) armed with a Sharpie the posters have become a platform for expressing the various feelings of hate, jealousy, passion, and, yes, poetry, that the tropical-hued advertisements and their white audio sperm inspire. Starting with the same argument levied against the iPod's great uncle, the Walkman, the phrase, "The "i" in iPod stands for isolation," was scribbled on the first ad, replicated down the line with "irrational," "insecure," and other iWords taking the place of "isolation." Deep! Ironically, the people that felt the need to parley an mp3 player into social critique are exactly the people we wear headphones to avoid.

Joel Johnson has been getting cheekier and cheekier, and his gadget-lust site Gizmodo just keeps getting better as a result. If he'd just cut the unnecessary profanity (seen in other posts), all would be good and right in the world.

Jon Stewart's ('84) Commencement Address

Jon Stewart's Commencement Address:

It begins:

Thank you Mr. President, I had forgotten how crushingly dull these ceremonies are. Thank you.

My best to the choir. I have to say, that song never grows old for me. Whenever I hear that song, it reminds me of nothing.

Bookmark: Slashdot | Teaching History In Schools With Video Games

Slashdot | Teaching History In Schools With Video Games

I've always thought history should be taught in reverse chronological order -- start with an event relevant to the day's students, then explain what happened on the way there.

Like the New Style?

Do you like the new style here on johnfulwider dot com? Please leave a comment. Be honest and specific. I'm open to changes.

Please also point out any errors you encounter. I've only gotten around to testing on Safari (OSX), IE (WinXP) and Mozilla (WinXP).

Style Credit Where It's Due

Lest my loyal seven readers think I've suddenly become talented at Web design, I have to disclose that johnfulwider dot com's new style is a minor modification of Pink Lilies by Naoko M., which won the first WordPress CSS Style Competition.

I modified Naoko's beautiful background image of pink lilies to omit the flowers so my site wouldn't be too girly. After this, I read this post on Naoko's site:

my design was not generic and it may not be something many people wnat to actually use. Especially guys!

Well, there you have it! I also changed the header to a solid color (safety orange, my favorite) and changed the a: hover and a: active attributes so links would change to safety orange, instead of pink, when selected.

Climbing Slideshow Problem Fixed

I fixed the problem where links to the Spring 2004 Climbing slideshow actually pointed to the Jami's Graduation Party slideshow. Thanks to Jon and Erin for pointing out the error.