Freestyle Counting

I think I missed Thing #6, exploring Flickr mashups and the like. So let's see if I can do this spell-with-flickr thing:



There! Well that was a
!! In fact, it was so much fun I'm not sure I can


But I will for now.The nice thing about this application is the ease with which you can change the individual letters. Don't like this "p"? Click it and get another. That one is unbalanced with the sizes of the other letters? Click again and presto. I'm thrilled I don't get a field of letters to choose from, as that would suck time like a Dyson.

Photo Montager is another Flickr mashup I tried. Now there, I wish I'd had some choice of which photo would be montaged, but no, you pick a tag and some photo with that tag is chosen for you and "montaged", or roughly imitated, using many many flickr photos. Meh, I thought, but then I was charmed when I realized that, as your cursor passes over the montage, individual pictures pop out. That was a sweet little effect. I want to play with that some more using really unusual tags...

Blog This My Foot.

Okay, so you can't choose your layout when you use the "Blog This" function
in Flickr. I like the photo-centered-over-text layout, and apparently it's a
default text-to-left-of-photo that you get. Grumble.
AND I just realized it posted not here, but on another blog I have, that I suppose
Flickr associates with me. If I sign out of Flickr, and browse it anonymously, there
is no "Blog This" option offered. Gah! How to explain to the Flickr the having of more
than one blog? Who cares. It's a little bell, a small whistle, the world is too noisy
already, I'll pass.

Thing Number 5

Ah, Flickr. Fun to say, fun to spell. For thing number 5, I've made
one of those Flickr badges that pokes out one picture after another
in an amusingly animated way. There it is, over in the left-hand column.