Normally I write about tech stuff but...

Earlier this week (Monday) a series of moves by the McCain campaign redefined the limits of political bullshit and entered into the realm of the surreal.

This man is not fit too lead (as is his running mate Sarah Palin). If you happened to miss this series of bizzare events, MSNBC's "Coundown" by Keith Olbermann re-caped the days events and the Maverick's erratic behavior when economic bailout went into the tank. Please watch the video below.

Embed it into your blog. Pass the word and get out and vote.

We can't afford another 4 years of the last 8 where a blundering presidential administration makes decisions as if they are running a poorly executed hurry-up-offense.

embed this video

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As a security feature Joomla does not allow front end editors to include java script in content. In most cases this is desirable as one would not want malicious code being introduced into the site. A work-around and faster approach to this problem can be solved by using the Jumi mambot. Jumi will safely call in the java script code for front end editors. Jumi is essentially a rapid development tool for Joomla that allows the insertion of just about any type of code into any content or module.

Below is an example of the Jumi bot in action using the jquery.faq plug-in developed by projectatomic who also wrote the jquery.flickr plug-in demonstrated earlier.

You can down load both for free here:

Jumi mambot and module

Jqery FAQ Plug-in

First item in accordion

Enter text here

Second item in accordion (extra long)

First paragraph using p tags

Second paragraph

Third paragraph

Third item in accordion (medium long)

First paragraph

Forth item in accordion

the trick is to use the dl dt and dd tags see coding example below.

Here's the basic coding structure on the above accordian. Notice the instance of the Jumi tag and relative link to the actual "accordian.js" file within the square brackets []. A final } should be used to closethe jumi tag

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Codex is a clearing house of video clips, audio sound bytes and textual pieces created but never finished since I moved to NYC in 2003. Through the use of a semi-random algorithm the narrative body flows through sorted sets and grouping of ideas and movie clips that deal with fictional and non-fictional mini-narratives. The mini-narratives range from subjects concerning geography, technology, capitalism, socialism, political history, spiritualism, the occult, multiplicity, and direct observations of urban life on both broad and micro levels.

It's a movie that is never complete, never ending and never the same twice. It's about me, you and everything around us past present and future. Call it artful dodging by computational power, call it laziness, call it a hopeless but beautiful mess because who has time to sort out interrelated ideas, who has time for anything longer that 30 seconds ? I don't but the codex, or rather algorithm does and can neatly sort it all out for us.

Having recently been on the hunt for a good free flash player for this site and others. I came across a revolutionary new concept, actually not revolutionary but standards compliant. The concept is SWFOjects envoked by java script replaceing the <object> tags so commonly used to place media in a web page.

There are good reasons to switch from using <object> tags to embed your flash media to a java script invoked SWFObject and that's mostly because the <object> tag never really existed as an HTML compliant tag. You can read more about the SWFObject about it here :

Abobe.Development Center

code.google.com

Two really good, ready to use free flash players I found that used the SWFobject method were The JW FLV player and the GDD player. Which you can see below.

I chose the GDD player because it was ready to go with the features that I wanted ASAP, however I would have a look at the JW FLV Player as it is skin-able and way more customizable. Not only that, but the site has a massive amount of documentation to support the more advanced features of the JW FLV player.

All that being said I am still on the hunt for a good flash DAM that is both standalone and embeddable, does video conversion on upload, is CDN ready or has CDN like features, and is free. My good friend Lee Wells and my self are currently exploring PHPmotion and other low end Flash Based DAM'S.

Here's the code used on this page to call an SWFObject: