The Official Blog of Ben Hale http://b3nmedia.com/blog Art, Design, Technology, Digital Media - A great resource for artistic/mathematical types. Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:22:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Early 1900′s in Color. http://b3nmedia.com/blog/2010/06/04/the-early-1900s-in-color/ http://b3nmedia.com/blog/2010/06/04/the-early-1900s-in-color/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:22:44 +0000 Administrator http://b3nmedia.com/blog/?p=343 Here’s a fun web site that has a nice collection of photographs from the early 1900′s in color:

http://citynoise.org/article/10598

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Bay Area Maker Faire Hackaday 2010 Pictures

Hopefully, Orlando’s Creative Village idea will be able to host events like this in the future.

Read the Orlando Creative Village Proposal Here (pdf warning: 6.52MB)

Read Scott Maxwells Opinion Article on the Orlando Creative Village from the Orlando sentinel here.

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I remember WebTV and how that failed, but I do believe the time is right, the company behind it is right, and the Google TV will prove to be successful.

One interesting page is Google’s design tips for designing websites for the TV. Check out the tips here:
http://www.google.com/tv/developer/

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http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/06/modern-css-layouts-part-2-the-essential-techniques/

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Here’s a cool Atronomy picture of the Day from NASA. It shows the ash and lightning above the recent Icelandic Volcano.

Check it out here

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Here are 50 examples: Data Visualization

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I fixed it by following the directions here.

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http://ayesee.imgur.com/backgrounds

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/photogalleries/100218-best-science-pictures/#025894_600x450.jpg

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