Catching Zebra

by Noah Kalina

800 installs and an update

I’ve just submitted an update to the Catching Elephant theme.

It will include:

• Pages Support. Pages will work already, but their links won’t automatically come up in the nav bar. This update will put a link to each page under the Home link, which seemed like an appropriate place to put them.
• More custom links. There’s now four custom links at the bottom of the nav bar. These can be added in the Appearance tab of Customise.
  Note: Custom links MUST have the http:// to work.
• Big arse album art. The theme now also pulls album directly from the mp3 and displays it huge. See here for an example.

I still need to work out why the comment count for Disqus only shows on permalink pages and not the front page. It’s baffling.

When it is approved it will automagically install for anyone who has not enabled custom HTML.

staff:

Now testing: Pages

You can now add static pages to your blog, with a few very useful options. Head to your blog’s Customize page and click the “Pages” menu to get started. There are currently three types of Pages you can create:

• Standard Layout. Create a simple page with a title and body using your current theme.
• Custom Layout. Create a page with a completely separate layout.
• Redirect. Forward a route to a page on another domain. Useful for maintaining links when moving your domain name over to Tumblr.

Developers: Check out the Theme Docs for instructions on implementing the new {block:Pages} tag.

Finally. :) Going to have a play around with this tonight. See if I anything needs to be done to update my theme.

Fear and Loathing on Sesame Street

Can’t find any credit on this. It was originally posted by Palahniuk & Chocolate so they might have done it. But I don’t think so.

Brad Elterman:

My timing could not have been more perfect to be nineteen and right there on the scene with The Ramones, Runaways, Dylan and nude swim parties with a camera hanging around my neck. If I was a couple of years later, I would have missed everything!

I think John Rockwell invited me to this party. Directly behind the Beverly Hills Hotel is a huge mansion owned by David Lane. I knew many of the guests, although an older crowd because I was about 21. It was a warm sunny afternoon, I was standing next to the bar trying to get a drink and all of a sudden this lovely girl started to strip down right in front of me. I only had a wide-angle 24 mm camera lens, not really wide enough, so I backed up as far as I could, almost knocking over the bar. You have to do the best you can in these situations. Take a close look at the guy on the left of the photograph walking towards the girl. That is Burt who was and still is, almost thirty years later, a permanent fixture on the party circuit. I am sure that he was on his way to get this girl’s telephone number. Back then, I did not think it too much of a big deal going to a Mega Mansion party in Beverly Hills with nude girls because I attended three or four of these a week! This was the only photograph worth taking at the party and now is one of my favorite photos. It truly captured a moment from that incredible era that I will never see again.

Photo by Brad Elterman

New Dress Code

550 Installs

My Catching Elephant theme has now had 550 installs. Thanks heaps to everyone using it.

Where planes go to die

It’s where old planes go to die - a 2,600-acre patch of U.S. desert where several generations of military aircraft are stored.

The US$35billion (£22billion) worth of outdated planes is kept as spare parts for current models at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona.

Some planes are merely stored at the base between deployments, but for more than 80 per cent of the 4200 aircraft that call it home, it is a cemetery of steel - 350,000 items to be called on when needed.

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