Sunday, October 07, 2007
Photos. Random Photos.
Well, time to update the ol' blog. Well, way past time, actually, but...First I had to update old entries that had pictures in Yahoo photos, as they've now closed. So now I'm using Photobucket, which my son turned me on to. I know, I could use flicker like yahoo wanted me to, but since when have I followed directions? And hey, Photobucket is part of Google's attempt to take over the world ("We are lab mice bent on world domination").
Speaking of photos, here's a few interesting sites I ran across while looking for a screen saver that does a better job of displaying random photos than the one in XP, which is not random at all. These sites reach out to a photo-sharing site, and just grab a random bunch of images. One is right here in blogger-land. Here's a few more, or just google the two words random photos. In a way, it is kind of weird, maybe voyeuristic? looking at random people's random photos. But kind of fascinating, too.
Anyway, here's sites for flickr, more flickr and yet more flickr. Maybe people use flickr a lot, or maybe they have an easy API...There's also one for a site called shutterpoint, and one for pbase. I couldn't find one for photobucket, though. (Hey, and my album's marked private, anyway...)
In terms of uniqueness, or maybe just feeling a bit edgy or more voyeuristic--there's foundphotos, which shows images found on p-to-p sites like kazaa and limewire. Kind of like a view into the netherworld of file sharing sites.
Finally, there's one that looks for photos on google, based on the standard file names that digital cameras use. In one sense, this site gives you some idea of how popular different cameras are, just based on how many photos there are. Or maybe, how friendly and sharing the folks with those cameras are. Or maybe they're just lazy: They couldn't be bothered to give the photos a real name!
Speaking of photos, here's a few interesting sites I ran across while looking for a screen saver that does a better job of displaying random photos than the one in XP, which is not random at all. These sites reach out to a photo-sharing site, and just grab a random bunch of images. One is right here in blogger-land. Here's a few more, or just google the two words random photos. In a way, it is kind of weird, maybe voyeuristic? looking at random people's random photos. But kind of fascinating, too.
Anyway, here's sites for flickr, more flickr and yet more flickr. Maybe people use flickr a lot, or maybe they have an easy API...There's also one for a site called shutterpoint, and one for pbase. I couldn't find one for photobucket, though. (Hey, and my album's marked private, anyway...)
In terms of uniqueness, or maybe just feeling a bit edgy or more voyeuristic--there's foundphotos, which shows images found on p-to-p sites like kazaa and limewire. Kind of like a view into the netherworld of file sharing sites.
Finally, there's one that looks for photos on google, based on the standard file names that digital cameras use. In one sense, this site gives you some idea of how popular different cameras are, just based on how many photos there are. Or maybe, how friendly and sharing the folks with those cameras are. Or maybe they're just lazy: They couldn't be bothered to give the photos a real name!
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