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More semi-random link goodness for today.

Wookieepedia is an impressive Wiki for all things Star Wars. First of all, you can’t beat that name. Wookieepedia has got to be one of the Top 10 web site names in my book. Second, the Wookieepedia is great for catching up on all your Star Wars lore. I’ve fallen way behind on the books (and will not catch up anytime soon), but in just a few minutes browsing I found out that one character from the Marvel Comics Star Wars run is returning. Lumiya was one of the first evil Jedi created after Darth Vader and has quite a good history in the comic series. Definitely makes me want to read the new Legacy of the Force series.

myIPneighbors.com is a fascinating site if you have a website. You can enter your IP or domain name and see what other sites are sharing your server. Since my host is European, nothing really cool popped up. That also means that my site (and the few others a friend and I host on that server) get most of server resources. Find the most overloaded server out there. Once search returned 641 sites on a shared host. Wow.

Texter is a great time saving tool for Windows users that do a lot of typing or coding. Within a few minutes, you can set Texter up to replace a few keystrokes with any text you choose. It makes blogging a snap. I can type hre+TAB key and instantly I’ve got a fully formatted link tag with the URL in my clipboard pasted in my document. Try it, you’ll like it.

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Looking through the site logs today, I noticed some of the terms/phrases that have led people to my little slice of the Internet. In an attempt to “give them what they want” I’ll pick a few and provide the answers. Here we go:

getting a silver surfer quarter: My guess is ebay is the only way this will happen. With the US Mint putting the smack-down on 20th Century Fox and the Franklin Mint for distributing these babies, they’re going to be even more rare. If you really, really want one, just print the image below and glue it to a California state quarter.

Silver Surfer Quarter Image - Print and Glue to Your Quarter

why do ben and johnny switch powers? I’m not sure about this, because I haven’t seen the movie, but the preview leads you to believe that after Johnny is touched by the Surfer, his molecules become unstable (in a nod to the comic fact that the FF’s costumes are made from unstable molecules). When he is touched by another member of the FF, they swap powers.

dc comic water wizard photo: The Water Wizard is actually a Marvel villain, so searching for DC Water Wizard might not get you much. Perhaps you were thinking of the Weather Wizard, who is a DC comics villain and enemy of the Flash. Anyway, here’s a picture of the Water Wizard. Get all his info in the database.

Marvel Comics Water Wizard

harvey birdman font: If I recall correctly, the closest I came to matching the Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law font was with the dafont.com Dynomite Font.

Demo of the Dynomite (Harvey Birdman) Font.

and finally, saving the best for last…

what sinister secrets are being hidden in winnie the pooh: I don’t know, but if anyone finds out, I too, would also be interested in knowing.

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When I read about Google Gears (Beta) this morning, it really didn’t click with me until I read LifeHacker’s article explaining how to use it to read you Google Reader RSS feeds off-line. LifeHacker also mentions off line support is possibly in the works for GMail and Google Docs as well.

If Google wants to compete with Microsoft, I would say this is a much needed step. The key integration with Gmail and Google Docs will, of course, be synchronization with online content. Being able to allow users to work on documents and compose email, then upload/send those file when online access is available again is a pretty outstanding feature, if it’s done seamlessly. In order for users to select Google over Microsoft (or even Open Office) there needs to be a compelling reason, and online / off-line access could easily be the best one yet.

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Version 4.5.2 of DotNetNuke was released on May 29, 2007. Since I’m still heavily developing the site redesign for work in DotNetNuke, I downloaded the upgrade and installed it. It was a simple enough upgrade and worked flawlessly (as far as I can tell).

One thing did bug me. The SEARCH feature added two radio buttons next to the text area for the search, allowing users to search the site or the web. The web search uses Google (of course) and it even comes pre-filled with the DotNetNuke Google AdSense Client ID. This “feature” wasn’t in any of the preview releases, so it’s definitely like they tried to sneak that one in.

To disable the web/site search feature, you have to edit your skin file (it really should be an admin configurable feature). Just add the following, bold code to your search call:

< dnn:SEARCH runat="server" id="dnnSEARCH" showWeb=”False” showSite=”False” />

If you want to use your own Google ID, just locate the file at: admin/skins/App_LocalResources/Search.ascx.resx and change the client=pub-9770992166002654 to your own Google AdSense ID.

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About 2 weeks ago I made a post about the redesign of Wizard Magazine’s web presence. WizardWorld.com seems to show slightly out of date content, but all links connect to the WizardUniverse.com domain. Many other sites and forums echoed my opinions. It looked like the world wide web universe generally agreed.

I guess Wizard agreed as well, since the only place to see that redesign is at an IP address – http://208.122.2.22/. It’s pretty bad when to launch an poorly designed and built website, but I’d have to say, it’s even worse to admit you did and revert back to your old design less than 2 weeks later.