The final version of that commercial with all the bouncing rubber balls in San Francisco
It’s an ad for Sony’s new line of LCD TVs. (See also, production photos on flickr.) #
Archive for May, 2006
Interesting stats on information overload
“The daily New York Times now contains more information than the 17th century man or woman would have encountered in a lifetime.” #
Gladwell: what’s changed about CEO compensation in the last 50 years?
(it’s not how much they make) #
Another D-Plan update: Eric Axelson (bassist) quit Maritime after recording their new album
Supergroup no more. Apparently this happened in February, but I totally missed it. #
Jason Caddell, The Dismemberment Plan’s guitarist, has been keeping busy
He’s recording, engineering, playing, and mastering for bands from DC, and working as an audio tech on a tour in Ukraine. He’s also on Flickr. #
Optimized Firefox builds for PowerPC
If there’s one reason I really really want to get an Intel Mac, it’s so that I don’t have to deal with Firefox being so unbearably slow. For now, I’ll try an optimized build of 1.5.x, and disable some extensions that I use infrequently… Hopefully that will tide me over. #
The MPAA rejected the original poster for the new documentary The Road to Guantánamo, ostensibly because it depicts torture
WaPo makes the good point that according to the Bush administration, “hooding” is not torture. And according to the MPAA, dismemberment, suggested frontal nudity, and Rob Schneider with an animated phallus are A-OK. So the logical conclusion here is that Guantánamo’s poster was rejected because it depicted something real. Wouldn’t want the public to have to see that! #
undelicious
I’ve finally given up on del.icio.us and switched to Yahoo! My Web 2.0. Mostly, I was sick of being limited to 255 character descriptions, but Yahoo also offers to cache a copy of the page when you save it, which is cool. Linkrot no more.
So I had to rewrite my WordPress del.icio.us importer plugin for My Web 2.0. Notes:
- Yahoo web services send dates as Unix timestamps in Sunnyvale time… kind of strange (and also, the timezone issue is undocumented). I guess this is the lowest common denominator of time representations, and therefore probably supported in an arbitrary language?
- They have an importer for del.icio.us links which seems to work as advertised, except that imported links accessed through the API return the time of import, rather than the original time of creation (on del.icio.us). That’s not unreasonable, except that it shows the original del.icio.us creation date in the actual app. Holy inconsistent behavior, Batman!
- PHP date/time functions do automatic timezone conversion if you have your timezone set in the environment, which is really nuts. You can put a timezone-agnostic Unix timestamp into date() and get a string out that’s a couple hours later. This reminds me a lot of gpc_magic_quotes… A little useful for novices, a lot annoying for experts.
- Why is it so difficult to get a permalink to your page in a lot of Yahoo apps? I had to send an invite email to myself to figure out my friendid, which is GDsGTFXF4ulazZqVVB5GDu4-. Hooray, that’s easy to remember. Why not use usernames? And make the URL displayed in the browser something useful? A URL-saving web app should have URLs that are savable.
- It strips HTML tags from the “note” field. Oops, I kind of need that. For now I’ve resorted to using Textile (which looks pretty ugly and unsemantic on my links page).
Boubo, a Chinese Upcoming.org rip-off
Check out the nav boxes from the Flickr UI on the right, too #
Two songs from The Velvet Teen’s forthcoming Cum Laude on this MySpace profile
“Flicking Clint” and Steadman (at long last) #
