For the Irish amongst us, St Patrick’s day is rolling around again. Don’t forget our pot-of-gold animation that lets you decide who you’d like to see at the end of the rainbow:
And there’s also the ever-popular if somewhat bizarre float-a-picture-on-the-Chicago-River, which is dyed green for Paddy’s day every year:
Enjoy!
New addition to the Picture Mixer collection: welcome to Planet 2009, a new year’s animation. Put your photo or words in the year itself, and watch it loom closer and closer.
Happy new year from MakeSweet!
Tired of the same old Christmas ornaments, year after year? Now you can freshen things up a bit (at least in cyberspace) with this new addition to the picture mixer: a personalized Christmas ornament with your choice of picture or words.
There’s also an animated Christmas tree, but combining the subtle shading of small colored lights with the crude color palette limitations of GIF animations turns out to be not such a great idea…
Choosing a template for your halloween pumpkin, and want an idea of how it’ll look? You can use our new Jack O’ Lantern maker to preview what a picture or words will look like when carved. You can also make a short animation like this one:
Enjoy, and let us know what you think!
Update: this design is particular popular in Italy (ciao!) and Spain (hola!).
What is in your pocketses, my precious? Today, there should be a poem, at least if you live in New York city. Poems eh? When is the last time you read one? Almost forgot that they existed? Well they do. Here’s part of one I like (Among School Children, Yeats), where he basically sums up all of philosophy:
Plato thought nature but a spume that plays
Upon a ghostly paradigm of things;
Solider Aristotle played the taws
Upon the bottom of a king of kings;
World-famous golden-thighed Pythagoras
Fingered upon a fiddle-stick or strings
What a star sang and careless Muses heard:
Old clothes upon old sticks to scare a bird.
I like Aristotle’s approach, very solid.
It is a fairly well known fact that in any group of people, the odds of two of those people sharing the same birthday is a lot higher than you would expect. Once the group size is over 60 or so it is practically guaranteed that some of them share birthdays. The key to understand it: think of how many possible pairs of people there are in the group, rather than just the number of people. Wikipedia has a good write-up of the math. If you don’t believe it, you can see the effect graphically.
This is a case where binaversaries can act a little differently to regular birthdays. The chances of people within a group sharing the same binaversary depends on the age distribution in that group; if they are all the same age then the situation is the same as for birthdays, otherwise the odds decrease according to how wide the distribution is.
In preparation for Valentine’s day, we’re expanding our romantic things to do online list. We’ve given some tips for finding unusual reasons to celebrate (including the fooaversary discussion from this blog). For example, for February 14th, why send a boring old Valentine’s greeting when you could send a card celebrating:
(facts gathered from the History Channel and Scopesys sites).
Update: we’ve made some sample cards for these alternate valentines.
Previous posts have sparked an interest in “foo-aversaries” of all kinds - anniversaries of particular events, perhaps counted in particular ways, that have been given special names. Here’s some interesting ones I’ve been able to dig up, with links to examples of use or explanations.
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