DreamHost Flash Tools
What I really care a bit about I think is…
Flash Image Rotator
The Flash Image Rotator enables you to show several photos in sequence with fluid transitions between them. It supports rotation of an RSS/XSPF playlist with JPG/GIF/PNG images, a wide range of flashvars (settings) for tweaking both behavior and appearance and an extensive, documented javascript/actionscript API.
You’ll need to create a XML playlist (here’s the one for our slideshow above) for any images that you wish to use, but it’s really not that hard and the comprehensive documentation in our wiki will have you up and running in no time!
NASA - NASA Images Suggest Water Still Flows in Brief Spurts on Mars
NASA photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years.”These observations give the strongest evidence to date that water still flows occasionally on the surface of Mars,” said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, Washington.
Is all you need to know. For example, if you need to refresh on how position: whatever works, just go to http://cssdocs.org/position.
cssdocs.org — thanks and a tip of the hat to Pete Freitag.
PERL One Liners
Just enough PERL to do almost anything. Except help me debug this script:
$random_file =
"random_image.dat";
# contains a list of image urls, just a plain text file
open (FILE, $random_file);
@LINES=; close(FILE);
srand;
print "Location: [int rand(@LINES)]";
I thought I understood this to be opening the file of image urls, and then [int rand(@LINES)] picked one line to print out as a Location http header. Well, I found this page while I was googling my problem, and thought it looked like it was worth saving, since PERL is an eternal mystery to me.