July 2008
Photoshop Retouching: Start ’em Young
Posted by on Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 4 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 …
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 49MB M4A) • 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 - leave a comment
Feist on Sesame Street: “1, 2, 3, 4, chickens just back from the shore”
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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!
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"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 …
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The Long Road to Firefox 3
Posted by on Friday, July 4, 2008 in - 2 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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