An intresting hack using CSS or JavaScript to jave fluid width YouTude videos.
"Gibbs found the Toronto sweat bee while he was heading to his laboratory at York University. He was walking from home to College St., heading to the subway and something caught his eye."
An interactive film by Chris Milk. Featuring "We Used To Wait". Built in HTML5.
"Other game companies at the time assigned alphabet letters or colors to the buttons. We wanted something simple to remember, which is why we went with icons or symbols, and I came up with the triangle-circle-X-square combination immediately afterward. I gave each symbol a meaning and a color. The triangle refers to viewpoint; I had it represent one's head or direction and made it green. Square refers to a piece of paper; I had it represent menus or documents and made it pink. The circle and X represent 'yes' or 'no' decision-making and I made them red and blue respectively. People thought those colors were mixed up, and I had to reinforce to management that that's what I wanted."
"And drivers aren’t the only distracted folks on the road. Take a few commute-hour drives down 2nd Street in San Francisco and you’ll see what I mean. They are everywhere: Pedestrian zombies walking across the middle of a four lane road with their attention glued to a handheld. The compulsion to keep up with the stream has become so powerful that we’re gradually abandoning one of the first and most basic rules we all learned as kids. Instead of looking both ways before we cross the street, we look one way; down at our phones."
"Such knee-jerk reactions are misguided. Google is no Luke Skywalker, and its handling of Java has been questionable at best. To suggest that Oracle is being heavy-handed ignores the larger truth, which is that in recent years Sun's governance of Java has been meek and ineffective. In the absence of strong leadership, the Java community has been saddled with a slow and burdensome development process that has left the future of the platform in serious doubt. The complaint against Google is proof that Oracle aims to change all that -- and it could be just what the Java community needed."
"It makes me feel like everything I’ve posted over the past four years on Twitter, Jaiku, Friendfeed, Plurk, Pownce, and, yes, Google Buzz, has been an immense waste of time. I was shouting into a vast echo chamber where no one could hear me because they were too busy shouting themselves. All this time I’ve been pumping content into the void like some chatterbox Onan. How humiliating. How demoralizing."
"The Ubuntu Sparc port has fallen out of use and updates have slipped, meaning it's fallen below the level of quality needed for an Ubuntu port."
"Actually, Java is worse than open core, now that I think of it. Oracle America seems to believe you can't even clean room a Java replacement, and you can't fork it. You are tethered to Oracle, no matter which way you try to twist or turn. Now we know, without footnotes, that Java is, in the mobile space particularly, proprietary, according to its new owner. So the lesson here is: If you want to develop FOSS, it turns out you need to use FOSS tools and FOSS languages. Google will either need to win, hands down, or lose developers who care about FOSS. Because if they just pay Oracle off, everyone will be watching."
Mike has some nice notes on porting PyOpenGL to Python 3.
“I could see where things were headed,” Kurtz said. “The toy business began to drive the [Lucasfilm] empire. It’s a shame. They make three times as much on toys as they do on films. It’s natural to make decisions that protect the toy business, but that’s not the best thing for making quality films.”
"taptaptap stealthily revealed that the rejected function can be enabled via a simple Mobile Safari URL. Many thought the app wouldn't last long after this was revealed and tonight, it's gone."
"Couchio (http://www.couch.io/), corporate sponsor of the CouchDB post-relational database, today announced that the first release of a CouchDB SDK for Android devices is now available for free download. Designed to take full advantage of CouchDB’s peer-to-peer sync facilities, CouchDB for Android allows developers to build web or native applications that work even if the Internet connection is slow, intermittent or completely down. With continuous access to a local copy of data, developers can leverage their existing knowledge about web technologies to quickly build collaborative business applications on mobile devices."
A collection of talks on NoSQL and Django support.
My first iPhone (the original or 2G) I bought in Florida and brought back to Toronto, I had to Jailbreak it so it would work in the Rogers network. Now it sits on my desk telling me when new email comes in (or in non computer terms collecting dust).
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