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There's an Artist Series Documentary featuring Mark Romanek up over at Hillman Curtis. Watch the one on Pentagram while you're there, too.
There's an Artist Series Documentary featuring Mark Romanek up over at Hillman Curtis. Watch the one on Pentagram while you're there, too.
I've seen hints of what's coming as far as markup on the web, but the IBM series The Future of HTML definitely spells it out for me. Part one of the series deals with the WHATWG, HTML 5 and Web Forms 2. Whereas, Part two takes on the future of XHTML 2.
HTML more confined to standards mixed with Web Forms 2 sounds like a great start to me. A total adoption of either seems impossible. Obviously, any of these changes will be phased in over several years.
Apparently, these are the IPs for the upcoming "BigDaddy" algorithm switch at Google: 66.249.93.104 and 64.233.179.104. I was still at the top of the list for "Robbie Player", but apparently it's supposed to shake things up a bit.
The owner of Abercrombie & Fitch looks weird.
Awesome breakdown of Web Authoring Statistics from Google. I'll have to dig through this more at home.
I haven't ever had a reason to use the Favorites options on Flickr until I saw this picture of Ben's friend Justin. So good.
I'll have to try out the Paper CD Case. If anything, just another clever way to package mixes.
If there is any justice in this world, Mastodon will go down in history as the best metal band of my generation.
I agree with the University of Minnesota and 37 Signals: meetings are usually more detrimental than helpful. Length, lack of focus and poor preparation are usually to blame.
I like dabbling with the XP command line occasionally. This XP/2000 command list is the best reference I've seen.
I completely cleaned out IE 6 yesterday and moved everything over to Firefox for good. In the process, I remembered I used to be addicted to Invisibles. I immediately added it back to my bookmarks. Glad to see it's still updated weekly.
I understand why Windows XP/Vista eventually running on the new Intel-Macs is positive for Apple, but the real question is will the Intel build of OS X run on my PC?
All the 2006 predictions have started rolling out. Two lists I've seen that seem reasonably plausible are I, Cringely and Popular Mechanics.
Things that will affect my life in '06: metadata, the proliferation of AJAX, new stuff from Google, NAND Flash memory, and Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia.
I may at some point or another, if you've had a meal with me, have mentioned aperitifs and digestifs. I almost always get a puzzled look in return. Nevertheless, for all of you in the dark, an aperitif is drink that is served before a meal to stimulate the appetite (e.g., sherry is a popular one, as well Greek ouzo — like an appetizer). As you may have guessed, a digestif is served after a meal and should aid in digestion (e.g., brandy and cognac are popular). Basically, a lighter, sweeter drink beforehand, a heavy, strong drink afterwards.
There is no point to this post, other than to educate those who may not have known what I was talking about at the time. I don't know why this idea has always attracted me (although I believe it may have been in the movie Made), but I'd like to get back to the usage of aperitifs and digestifs. If only to see if they actually do aid in creating an appetite and/or digestion.
Yeah, I know this is weird way to start 2006.
To the handful of people who come here regularly, I'll be attempting to take a break from the interweb over the Christmas and New Year holidays. I should be back to posting again on January 2nd. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, everyone!
ExtraTasty is live. Get your booze on.
I'm going to consider this the final push I needed to finally remove Mac IE 5 from my machine at work.
C82 posted a great alternative to a multiple select element. Displaying the information as a scrollable checklist is a much more intuitive solution.
Apparently, you can design a single shirt and have it printed over at Spreadshirt. Quality is the big variable, of course.
I was told about The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst several years back. Richard Rutter is applying the same ideas covered in the book to the web through CSS. Should prove to be a useful resource, if only to motivate me to buy a copy of the original book.
IE 7 to use Mozilla's RSS icon. Now if only Republicans and Democrats could play nice.
Giant jellyfish terrorize the people of Japan!
Here's a great thread that has crept its way back into the limelight over at YH: Sexual Euphemisms That Won't Catch On
Ray Kurzweil was on The Diane Rehm Show this morning talking about Singularity, human vs. computer intelligence and advances in technology. Stream the show if any of that sounds interesting.
Honestly, I'm glad the US managed to maintain control of the internet's root servers. Getting the UN involved would just screw it up for everyone. We made it, it's ours.
Do not install that new version of AIM. Sure, it is an improvement over what's out there now, but it's a RAM hog and it basically infects your computer with its madness. The Notification Manager remained installed and continued to weasel its way into my start-up process.
Oh, man. I can't wait.
China released the set of illustrated mascots that will be used for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Definitely puts past US mascots to shame.
Glad to see the guys/gals on The Hill decided to do something about the ridiculous profits the Big Oil companies reported last quarter. Like I said before, there's nothing wrong with capitalism and making a profit, but it's how much profit certain oil companies made during the past several months. And how much they could make if nothing is done about crude oil before Winter sets in.
Unfortunately, the wonderful Republican solution looks like they are going to drill in the Alaskan wildlife refuge. Mother Earth is going to wipe us out and not think twice about it, one of these days.
I was familiar with about 90% of these alternate PHP control structures. It's still a nice reference.
Two years ago, I was part of The Beard Contest 2003 over at yewknee.com. Well, it's back and this time it's been dubbed Whiskerino 2005. If you'd like to keep up with my progress, here's my personal detail page over at Whiskerino. There's a larger NC contingent this year.
Back from vacation with Amy to California for her 30th birthday. It was an eventful trip and we actually ended up in Los Angeles for a day or so.
And then there was Google Print.
Definitely seems like I haven't stayed put much lately. I just got back from Boston this past weekend and am heading to NYC for the CMJ Music Marathon tomorrow.
A contributor to A List Apart has created fvlogger, a Javascript logging utility. I would've liked something like this many, many times in the past. I'll have to keep in it mind for future projects.
A quick Ruby primer with cartoon foxes.
I just learned this Japanese shirt folding technique courtesy of ReadyMade. Makes folding laundry fun again!
John Gruber: once again, the voice of reason. For some background, his post is in response to a NY Times article posted online last week claiming Google to be the next evil empire.
I was looking at Tiny Showcase tonight and it conjured up some old Slatch memories. Thanks to good old Google, I browsed the Slatch archives and found a few of my favorites: cookie dough baseball, stair surfing, townie/surfer guy vs. frat boys, kick the ceiling, resident assistant and chick fight. If you like those, there are plenty more.
I ♥ Slatch.
In case anyone's interested, here's the new IE 7 logo. And, in case you missed it earlier this month, check out the MSN IE 7 blog. I use Firefox and rarely open IE 6 now, but we have to live with IE and it's nice to know what's coming down the chute next year.
People are already what's after AJAX? Feels a little premature.
Audioscrobbler just launched their new site and folded into Last.fm. Audioscrobbler will soon become a development platform with some sort of API to interact with your new Last.fm profile.
If anyone's interested in following the development of IE 7 for the upcoming Windows Vista, bookmark the official Microsoft IE blog. Unless you're a "web developer" of any kind, it probably won't be very interesting nor helpful.
Amy and I geeked out on movies this weekend. We watched Sideways, Hotel Rwanda, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason and A Very Long Engagement. Five very different movies that I feel five different ways about. I recommend them all, if you haven't seen them.
After an incredibly hot week, we get a weekend of rain. At least, it's a good weekend to catch up on the movies I've been neglecting to see. Thanks to a $0.99 rental coupon from Hollywood Video, Amy and I picked up Sideways, A Very Long Engagement and Hotel Rwanda. We're going to try and watch the rest today, so we can go rent more.
I just got home from Jeremy D's cookout an hour or so ago. I ate way too much: 4-5 shrimp kabobs, a hamburger, a hot dog, two plates of salad, an italian sausage and a half an ear of corn. It was all too good to resist. Despite the swarm of gnats and mosquitos near dusk, it was a good time. Hopefully we can do it again soon, once it cools off like 8-10 degrees.
Danny Way successfully jumped The Great Wall in China.
I woke up this morning to hear about the explosions in London. Tony Blair's simple remarks regarding the tragedy are just enough to make people rally around defeating terrorism worlwide. If only George W. Bush could speak with such sincerity and eloquence from time to time, I might actually support some of his intiatives.
The real reason I wanted to post was to show the comparison between headlines run on US news sources versus the BBC. Just to give this some perspective, the attacks happened in the same city where the BBC offices are located. Do you need further proof that America thrives off of sensationalism and fear?
I posted another quick photo set over at Flickr of Studiobanks. It's only ten photos, so it's a quick little trip around the office for those who may be interested in where I work.
