My gallery is powered by Menalto gallery2 with integration into Wordpress by WPG2. The theme I’m using for my gallery is custom made based on Siriux with influences from the theme by Pedro Gilberto. I’m using the Wuhan theme for Wordpress, but the gallery theme should look ok with any Kubrik based Wordpress theme, and I suppose it could be used in a standalone gallery2 install.

Requirements

• Gallery 2 RC1 (or greater)
• The theme has been designed to run with the Square Thumbnails module for gallery2, and I’m not really sure how will things will line up without the plugin.

Download the theme here

To install simply unzip into your gallery 2 themes/ directory and it should show as “OsakaNYC” in the gallery theme administration.

Feel free to use and/or modify this theme as you wish, but please retain proper credit.

Known bugs

• Fixed 03/22/2006 - URLs are not being formatted correctly when using the URL Rewrite module
• Fixed 03/22/2006 - When using the EXIF/IPTC module, EXIF/IPTC information does not appear for a picture when the user is logged in. (This is a very odd buggger).
• Admin pages are very kinda ugly

Other outstanding items

• I have not tested this with the gallery comments, shopping cart, or any other non core modules, so I don’t know if they will break things.
• Currently theme.inc is overriding the loadCommonTemplateData() method to work around bug 1239125 in gallery. This bug has been reported as fixed, but I haven’t checked out the latest gallery2 code to check.

My buddy Cary used to be a tank commander in the US Army and had noted that the soldiers with games consoles in thier barracks tended to make the best Abrams gunners. Strategypage has a story with the (slightly cheesy) title of Video Games Can Save Your Life, which makes a similar observation. This time the weapon system in question is CROWS (Common Remotely Operated Weapons System) which I gather is a remotely operated (duh) 50 cal turret commonly mounted on a hummer. While is may be obvious that skills such as hand-eye coordination and reaction time would transfer, what really struck me was this quote.

experienced video gamers are skilled at whipping that screen view around, and picking up any signs of danger

Now they only need a system that makes circle strafing and bunny-hopping a real world tactic.

[via Engadget]

Tylor is quite the little exhibitionist…