Archive For August 25th, 2004

On Camera Policies in Privately Owned Public Spaces

Here’s an editorial piece on photography in public areas. It’s lengthy but it and the comments explore the subject well. There’s a lengthy thread on the Street Photographers list after a number of members were stopped by police. Trouble, trouble, trouble. All because some paranoid daytime-TV-watching shut-in saw someone outside with a camera. And because [...]

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Smarty Plugins Working in WP!

Yay! I got the “relatedstories” plugin working! The hardest bit was converting to use $wpdb instead of the PHP MySQL interface. I love that I could call get_permalink in post.html to figure out the story link: {relatedstories} {if $relatedstories}   <b>Related Stories</b> ({$relatedstoriesWords})   <ul>   {foreach from=$relatedstories key=key item=story}     <li> <a href=”{get_permalink id=$story->ID}” >{$story->post_title}</a></li>   {/foreach}   </ul> {/if}

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Vicipéid – Wikipedia as Gaeilge!

Vicipéid looks like a good attempt to translate Wikipedia into Irish. Here are the pages on John Kerry and George Bush as an example of topical pages on it. (Thanks Kae for the link!)

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Planet of the Apes – Twilight Zone Style!

What happens when you compress the original “Planet of the Apes” down into a 30 minute show? You get this fan-edit episode of the Twilight Zone!

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