water, a jigsaw puzzle from the nations nashville neighborhood

 The Nations Nashville "water"

Just found a neat way to indulge a strange habit of mine! I walk my dog every day and we love to see patterns in our neighborhood. It can take dozens of finds to compile a single montage of a theme, and the first one I've compiled features what I believe the next world war will be fought over. I worked hard on it and sent one to Shutterstock for printing, but the iPhone resolution can't be made high enough to do the montage pixel justice. Just today, I found Jigsaw Planet; and here's the first installment , the pics compiled in Powerpoint and saved as a .jpg. More to come on this blog. I remain in search of a platform that doesn't require that I yield rights to my work, but it's really just a fun hobby at the moment and I'm not really concerned with that at the mo'. I also think that those folks deserve whatever they can earn for creating such a fun and easy to use content creation platform!

Tip: Challenge yourself (or make it easier) by changing the number of pieces with the "Play As" function on the site!

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Vanderbilt's iPhone Content Portal!

Very cool, I must say. Just came across Wes Fryer's notice of Vanderbilt University's recent release of its iPhone content portal, expressly designed to efficiently deliver web content to that device, and went and checked it out. The front page, gold letters on a black background, obviously designed for fast delivery, includes the text,

Download coursework, lectures, news, music, sports, special events and more.

Play on your iPod, Mac or PC, or burn a CD.

Stay connected anytime, anywhere.

Explore a world of knowledge at Vanderbilt.

and links to content, including the extensive offerings of Vandy's iTunes U, podcasts also available via iTunes. I looked a little further, into iTunesU and found Community Content, and here's a screengrab of that page. Look what's on top! Yippee!!! If you've been the interview subject in any of Snacks4theBrain!'s now 69 podcasts, zip on out on your iPhone and give yourself a listen!!!