July 2008
Photoshop Retouching: Start ’em Young
Posted by on Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 6 comments
While in the hospital with our perfect new baby, we were given a catalogue for a photographer that takes baby pictures. One of the services offered is creepy beauty-magazine-like, skin smoothing, blemish removing, photo retouching. • Just in case your baby wasn’t already born with a body-image …
Rock Slide Bugzilla Humour
Posted by on Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 1 comment
The 2008 Mozilla Summit is happening in Whistler, British Columbia, this week (I was going to be there but had a baby instead). A massive rock-slide has closed the road from Whistler to Vancouver, stranding loads of travellers. • Resourceful nerds that they are, the Mozillians have filed a bug … read more »
Acts of Volition Radio: Session 32
Posted by on Sunday, July 20, 2008 in - 6 comments
A summer session of Acts of Volition Radio with 2/3rds Canadian content. • Acts of Volition Radio: Session 32 (53MB Ogg Vorbis) (or 48MB MP3) • 2/3rds Canadian content. Recorded Sunday, July 20, 2008 by Steven Garrity. Run time: 64min. • Matt Mays – Building a Boat • Sloan – Witches Wand …
Speakergeek (or “Dennis”, as I call him) has written a lovely letter and playlist for the guy who stole his iPod.
Posted by on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Feist on Sesame Street: “1, 2, 3, 4, chickens just back from the shore”
Posted by on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 in - 4 comments
Saddam Hussein's Music
Posted by on Monday, July 14, 2008 - 2 comments
Spotted in iTunes on wifi in the San Francisco International Airport: • The plane was boarding and I didn’t have time to open his collection to see what he likes.
Feature Suggestion for YouTube: Double-Time
Posted by on Sunday, July 13, 2008 in - 2 comments
I think almost any video on YouTube would benefit from having a “play at double-speed” button. Who has time to watch a full 25-second video in real-time? • While I’m (mostly) joking here, this is the kind of thing you’d actually be able to do if the video weren’t in a proprietary Flash …
I’ve got a nice ergonomic laptop bag I don’t need for sale on eBay. Buy it! Update: SOLD!
Posted by on Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 1 comment
Posted by on Saturday, July 12, 2008
"That’s one of the great contradictions of white people. For the most part, all the world’s ills are based on large, evil corporations -- government corruption, American expansion through the use of corporate contracts, pollution, globalization, every bad thing that's happened. But if it happens …
Posted by on Saturday, July 5, 2008 in - 1 comment
The Long Road to Firefox 3
Posted by on Friday, July 4, 2008 in - 7 comments
With the release of Firefox 3 last month, the Mozilla project, corporation, community, and the open-source software world in general have a great achievement on their collective hands. • My involvement with Mozilla began with a weblog post in October of 2003, over a year before the initial …
“Where the Hell is Matt?” is an oddly heart-warming short-film of a dancing fool dancing all around the world (via BoingBoing).
Posted by on Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Here’s a code-swarm visualization of the Swat open-source project I work on.
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