Acts of Volition

Artist Shepard Fairey has recently become widely known for his iconic Obama posters (featured on the cover of Time magazine). It is much less widely known that he created another iconic image from the tech world.  •  Sometime in 1998, Shepard Fairey created the lizard artwork that became the logo …

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 …

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 …

Google has a new favicon. If you don’t know what a favicon is, rather than explain it, I’ll suggest that you probably won’t care about the rest of this post.  •  If you’re still with me, the new favicon is notable because the old one was a small but ubiquitous sign-post on the web. What I find … read more »

Peter Rukavina - from a debate about the impact of social software:  •  ““it’s harder to shoot someone if they’re your Facebook friend””

Jason Kottke has released his pixel-font, Silkscreen, under the Open Font License. This means it can be included in most open-source software distributions by default.  •  Thanks, Jason.

I’ve often wondered how it is that Apple remains in the single-digit percentages of market share, while any computer-related event I attend (even open-source software related conferences) seems riddled with MacBooks (and PowerBooks, though to a less extent these days).  •  Who’s the other 95% of …