Monthly Archives: October 2006

On Costumes: The Obligatory Halloween Post

I stopped by the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade earlier this evening and caught these amazing pumpkin-headed puppets before the crowds got so thick that I couldn't see anything. At school, the Halloween celebration came early with a costume contest sponsored by the Communication Design department. A pair of students with wheeled hands and feet, representing [...]

Attachment List WordPress Plugin

Inspired by, and based on, Harvey Ramer's Autolink Attachment Plugin, this plugin lists attachments to a WordPress 2.x post in a list following the text. Only attachments that are not already linked to or displayed in the post text will be shown (this is mainly to prevent inline images from being listed). Attachments are shown with [...]

Dropdown Archives Widget for WordPress

This widget displays your WordPress archive as a dropdown menu. It supports dates, categories, and tags (if UTW is installed). Dates can either be shown in the default WP format, or in a hierarchy. The widget title may be left blank to display the menu without a title. To see what this looks like in [...]

Safari Search Field Widget for WordPress

As part of the redesign of this site I decided to implement my site search to support the 'search' input type supported by Safari. It renders as the native OS X search field and can keep track of a user's search history. This widget is meant to be a drop-in replacement for the default WordPress search [...]

Connections

Yesterday I got the chance to head out to the New York Hall of Science hoping to gain inspiration from their signage for a museum project I'm working on. Their wayfinding system was effective, but didn't provide too much enlightenment. The museum offered a nice assortment of hand-on exhibits, many that I had seen elswhere [...]

Broken Angel Fire

More photos While walking to school this afternoon, I noticed that the top of the Broken Angel art structure, had some smoke coming out of it. Further inspection showed that the smoke wasn't coming out of any chimney but that a small portion of the upper tower was on fire. Out came the cell phone. After [...]