The Kitchen Cabinet PAC Now Launched
Launching today, November 17th, 2009, The Kitchen Cabinet PAC is the supporting website for the recently created Conservative Womens’ Political Action Committee of the same name.
Designed to help give a strong voice to women throughout the US and its territories, commonwealths and military facilities all over the globe, The Kitchen Cabinet PAC features educational articles, contact information for The White House, Senate and House of Representatives and will soon offer a user-supplied nationwide directory of political and service organizations.
Arthur Baker Design worked with the PAC’s creator Sonja Eddings Brown to provide a rich user experience via the power of the WordPress engine as the CMS. The donation element of the site is from Blue Swarm.
If you are of like mind, or just want to gain insight into the realm of conservative politics — take a peek.
VaraRam Industries Complete Product Line Added To BTGMotoring.com Online Store
We have just completed adding the entire product line from VaraRam Industries to the BTGMotoring.com online store, including the Dodge Ram HEMI intake system that you see represented here. BTG Motoring became a VaraRam authorized retailer after its owner purchased the VaraRam Pontiac G8 intake for his personal G8 GXP. In their online mission statement VaraRam states:
Vararam Industries was created to bring true racing technology to the street, the most efficient air induction systems on earth. Our air induction systems produce more Power and Torque, offering you more real world performance than any of the other intake system out there, We’ve been tested to be the best, compared to the rest and each time VR comes out on top. VR systems are guaranteed to be the best or we will buy them back. We are true air induction specialists, we don’t sell hot air, just real world performance. We use the latest in aerodynamic technology and real world testing to produce our intake components. Most VR systems take up to a year to develop. We use a very tedious testing process of evaluating a particular applications true restrictions and reducing them to zero, we then try to force feed the engine or tune the system to a particular application. This maximizes the overall performance of that vehicle, for instance, Trucks. We made Torque and Power UNDER the curve our priority, not peak power, this maximizes the performance of this particular type of vehicle. Another example would be the GM LS line of engines, here we identified the point of restriction and created the VRX line of throttle bodies(coming soon…), these are all over 100% efficient and use a self contained venturi system to boost flow at every RPM range maximizing the overall power curve. At VR we are specialists and all of our products take time, so if you are in a hurry buy the other guys stuff, but if you want to set records and win races Run a VR, they are always worth the wait.
Their stuff certainly looks high-tech, and their flow-tests back up their claims! Since we get a commission on sales from this website ABDesign certainly hopes so! 
Silverlight & FireFox 3 — Getting It To Work
We’ve been working on a project that includes implementation of Slide.Show from Vertigo (see above images from Vertigo.com) and all was well and copacetic until this AM when I upgraded to FireFox ver. 3. All of a sudden I was being prompted to install Silverlight, and that was where it would stop — with the prompt over and over again, even after closing and restarting the browser.
A brief tour around the forums told me that the SL ver. 1.0 version of the SilverLight.js was the culprit as the way FireFox was handling certain connections changed from ver. 2.x. The SL 2 Beta 1 didn’t address all the problems, but it appears that SL 2 Beta 2 is the fix. You can download and install the SL 2 Beta 2 SDK and get a copy of the new SilverLight.js file, or you can get the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Silverlight.js script here at the Vertigo site. I had gone there to see if they had Slide.Show working for FF3 and sure enough, it was. The one caveat is that the full-screen feature doesn’t work once you install the SilverLight 2 plugin, which is necessary to access applications such as the Hard Rock Memorabilia site and NBC Olympics coverage. The developers are promising a fix sometime in the future, so keep an eye on this space for source code updates for Slide.Show.
BTW — check out Slide.Show as it’s quite the deal — Open Source, lots of features, and a Slide.Show Pro version when you want to incorporate video and such as well or use with Flash or Lightroom.
The NBC online coverage of the Olympics next month (Aug) will be via a custom SilverLight player that will deliver multiple ‘live’ event feeds as well as hundreds of available recorded feeds covering that two weeks — along with data overlays, blog overlays and more. They are showing preliminary competitions and events now. Way back in March, Adam Kinney posted some screen shots of the player and made this comment:
17 days of 34 sports which results in 2200 hours of video, shown live and then made available as video on-demand[.]
What can one say? – Wow!