Albinos in Tanzania – extensive links to news coverage and personal/op-ed style observations
Under The Same Sun – Canadian nonprofit highlighting issues surrounding people with albinism in Tanzania
Day: March 30, 2009
Jedi Cologne — New and Improve With More Midochlorians
Star Wars Jedi cologne? Seriously? Well, I guess it couldn’t stink up the joint any worse than the godawful Clone Wars which its branded with. The Clone Wars movie/cartoon seems designed to prove to the world that, really, Episode I was not as bad as it could have been. That it has its own cologne somehow seems appropriate.
Now, if they’d only bring out the full size George Lucas punching bag I think we’re all ready for.
Battle.Net Mobile Authenticator for the iPhone/iPod Touch
WoWInsider reports that the Battle.Net mobile authenticator is now live in the iTunes store for the iPhone/iPod Touch.
RPTools
RPTools is a set of five open source programs written in Java designed to assist with managing roleplaying games. They include
MapTool – An online, multiuser, networked, graphical, interactive, programmable virtual tabletop
TokenTool – Create quick and simple consistently sized tokens for use with any digital battlemat that can use PNG images.
CharacterTool – A configurable tool for managing the number-crunching of building and maintaining player characters.
InitiativeTool – Keep track of the flow of encounters
DiceTool – A general-purpose dice rolling application with programmable buttons and extensive customization.
I’ve seen quite a few open source RPG-related projects, but these are really slick looking and are being very actively developed.
WordPress Plugin: Custom More Link
I mentioned the WordPress More tag for long entries earlier today, and digging around the WordPress site I came across the Custom More Link plugin that lets the user change the text, customize the markup, etc. of the More tag output without having to edit templates.
ScribbleLive
This weekend I found myself at a conference that I wanted to liveblog, but of course when I arrived there that morning was the first time I actually bothered to wonder how exactly I’d accomplish that. Fortunately, a quick Google search of live blogging tools turned up ScribbleLive.
ScribbleLive made liveblogging ridiculously easy. I didn’t have to create any account, simply login via Facebook connect. Once logged in, it took about a minute to create a liveblog for the event. Then it took about another 5 minutes to figure out how to set up ScribbleLive so it would automatically cross-post everything to my WordPress install (the hardest part there being finding the *&#! setting in WordPress to re-enable the XML-RPC interface which I had shut off a long time ago for security reasons).
I was very happy with the results and plan to get a lot of use out of ScribbleLive for future conferences and presentations.