Abandoned Projects: Things with Googly Eyes on Them

Just over a year ago, I had the brilliant idea to start a blog of pictures of “things with googly eyes on them.” About a week ago, the domain I had purchased, thingswithgooglyeyesonthem.com, expired. Needless to say, it was blank and had never been implemented.

I share with you now the three and only three pictures I took for this abandoned project…

A SanDisk card reader with googly eyes on it:

A container of tums with googly eyes on it:

A rubber band ball with googly eyes on it (my fav):

Best $12 I ever spent.

Pop-Up Book/Card Prototype Thing

Found this today while going through some old things. (I’m moving tomorrow!)

It’s a guy with a beak mouth in a hat, if you couldn’t tell. On the front it says:

10-27-07
Toni is out Halloween partying and I am working on her birthday card.
This is the prototype possibly.

I Scanned an Old T-Shirt…

…and made it my new desktop wallpaper.

That, friends, is the bull, an animal that Spaniards love to make big signs of, get chased by, kill, and put on souvenir shirts for me to buy.

Books / Branches

Floyd

Necessity is the mother of invention and the prerequisite to my latest project.

Say hello to Floyd, a web application for storing text on the cloud. Basically, it’s like a piece of paper, except it’s on the internet.

From the About page:

I spend a lot of time on the internet, in a lot of different places, through a lot of different interfaces. Common to all these instances is a need to store important information in the simplest way possible and have it be just as easily retrieved from anywhere else…

Floyd is my own solution to that need. It is simply a box of text that saves to and restores from a server. Its interface is minimal, its usefulness ample.

Could it be useful for you too? Probably! Is it worth the time? Possibly!

Floyd is written in PHP and jQuery/JavaScript and is currently Version 1 point something, with upgrades planned for down the road. It will be kept alive for as long as people use it. Suggestions and feedback appreciated!

Link: http://floyd.iamnotagoodartist.com/

Abandoned Projects: Paperbot

I have a tendency to get really passionate about things. I also have a tendency to be easily distracted. Combine these two tendencies and you’ve got a short stack of unfinished ideas and half-baked ventures. Thus, this new series on my blog, Abandoned Projects.

Papercraft is nothing new to the internet, and Paperbot was my foray into the subject about two years ago. Unlike traditional models that use glue to assemble, I was fascinated by structures that could “self-enclose,” as I termed it, things that only needed themselves to stay together.

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WordPress Admin Toolbar Bookmarklet

wptoolbar

Bookmark this and/or drag it into your bookmark toolbar:

WP Toolbar

What it is

A JavaScript bookmarklet for WordPress site administrators and designers.

What it does:

Using jQuery, it appends the default WordPress admin menu to whatever page you’re currently on and styles it with CSS, fixing it to the top right corner. Assuming you’re on a site that’s running WordPress ~~(and it’s installed in the domain’s root)~~, you now have instant access to the entire administrative back end (sans any pages from custom plugins, etc) from the front end.

To remove the the toolbar menu, just re-click the bookmarklet, ad infinitum.

What it doesn’t do

It does not give you access to anything you wouldn’t already have. If you use it on this site, for example, you’ll still have to log in. Also, if the site doesn’t run on WP, you’ll get a whole mess of 404s.

Made using the menu from the most recent WordPress release, 2.8. Tested with FireFox and Safari on Mac. Not tested with IE or Windows. Feedback appreciated.

Updates

GreaseMonkey script (3/3/10)

Hendrik from Germany has made a GreaseMonkey script that automatically loads my WP toolbar when on a specific site. Pretty cool.
http://www.kulturbolschewismus.de/2010/03/03/wordpress-admin-toolbar/
(or translated into English)

Support for folder’d WP and some CSS/JS fixes (3/19/10)

By popular request, I have now added support for WordPress installations not in the root folder. Here’s the bookmarklet for that:

FOLDERNAME WP Toolbar

After you’ve dragged it into your bookmarks toolbar, replace the two instances of FOLDERNAME with the name of your folder. Old bookmarklets without this new variable will continue to work.

I’ve also fixed some minor CSS positioning things and made it check for jQuery before loading it… so it should look nicer and be faster!