Thing 7

This was made with the Image Chef at http://www.imagechef.com/
No more tonight... I am going to play!!

Thing 6 - Flikr mashups

Mashup... this is a new one for me. I had heard the word and have been meaning to explore the concept, but never had the chance.
I played with some of the toys and ended up with this picture of my granddaughter in front of the jewelry display case at Sam's...
I have played with some of these before (inserting friend's picture in magazine covers, Stumble upon sites where these mashups are possible) but never under the title of "mashup". Another Web 2.0 term that is better explained in Wikipedia or in Webopedia.
I found some of the applications slow and still in an experimental state. Color picker was entertaining for a bit, the bighuge lab is where I found the mashup for the picture I posted. There are a variety of options there for all tastes - READ motivational posters, ID cards for library patrons, Mat maker for"framing" pictures... it'd take days to explore them all!
Let me try the letters now...

Nice... two granddaughters in one post!

I played with Splashr and ended up with these cats
http://splashr.com/show/slideshow/cat/25/
Way cool.

Thing 5

I went "Flickring" and discovered I already had an account, which I had to open when my daughter started trying out wedding dresses and wanted my opinion from afar. I went ahead and uploaded some pictures, which i left private since they were just tests of the editing capabilities of Flikr.
One thing I found annoying is that the pictures have to be seen one by one. I have the Firefox add-on Cooliris and this would let me look at ALL the pics at once on those pages full of thumbprints... I guess this is part of the Pro features? I'd have to go back and look again.
Since I've been looking at library furniture to improve my place, I did a search for "library furniture" but wasn't very successful. During the process I found this beauty, which I know some of you will be able to appreciate:


Taken from
http://flickr.com/photos/51035720546@N01/2962333065/

Yes, and I did check. They are available on Ebay if anybody is interested in one of these.