I saw a post today on TechCrunch about StumbleAudio, a Pandora-like service for finding music. I gave it a try, I entered “Godspeed You Black Emperor” into the search field. The first track it decided to play was “Uniform Random Variables” from the Intonarumori “Material” album. MY ALBUM. This was especially funny because my major [...]
I was washing my hands just now and something struck me. How does a submarine achieve negative buoyancy by flooding tanks with water when it is still filled with oxygen? If this had struck me 20 years ago, I would have probably tried to reason it out. Given how little I know about submarines, I [...]
I want to rate my books, music and DVDs once on netflix, Amazon, Facebook visual bookshelf, iTunes and I want the data shared across all of them. However, I want complete control over how each of them uses every bit of that data and I want to approve who gets to see it, even among [...]
A lot of the “cross fades” that I’ve seen for flex were really fade-out/fade-in transitions, so I decided to show a “real” crossfade example. The trick is to use absolute positioning so that the image objects are on top of each other. [download the mxml file]
I’m a Generation X geek. This means that all this web 2.0 and social networking stuff doesn’t scare me (I was on BBSes before the internet y’all), but it also means that I’m not into giving away all my creative output for free or sharing personal details with strangers. It also means that I’m experienced [...]
Hey social networking sites, can we just cede the video sharing to youtube, the audio sharing to myspace, the photo sharing to flickr and the rest to whatever. At least, can you all stop forbidding embedding of each others’ content? It is such a pain in the ass to have to upload each video or [...]
whoop-de-doo! Hopefully, they’ll offer a mac client someday so I can actually take advantage of it…
I’ve been a network solutions customer for many many years now. Partially, because when I first registered my domains, they were the only registrar. Later, I would occasionally register a new domain with them if it was important. I never trusted GoDaddy or some of the other discount registrars, NetSol seemed to be more professional [...]
I applaud you, Radiohead, for doing such a forward-thinking experiment with your distribution for InRainbows. However, you’ve unfortunately made sure that any data you receive from this experiment will be useless. Why? Well, because your website and ordering process are HORRIBLE. I had so many problems getting your website to work that I almost gave [...]
I’ve been doing PHP for a little while, but I’m always hearing about how much better Ruby on Rails is. Luckily, Derek from CDBaby decided to rewrite his site with Rails and actually decided that PHP was better for some stuff. 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails – OReilly [...]
