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Re: http://screwrocknroll.tumblr.com/post/4082930092

colinashe — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:11:58 -0000

Cached source (I think it was hit by Boing Boing and went down):

http://webcache.googleuserc...

Re: http://anythingyoucandoicandometa.com/post/1516714368

colinashe — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:57:51 -0000

"Sarah Palin couldn't believe, at first, that her death panel stories were actually true; they were so diabolically - so deliciously - well-disguised..."

Re: Pregnant Women Take Drug To Prevent Lesbian or "Masculine" Daughters

colinashe — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:55:44 -0000

I know. Nuts.

Re: Queued posts issue

colinashe — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:34:27 -0000

My queued posts have never actually published - will this fix actually address that issue?

Re: http://anythingyoucandoicandometa.com/post/713299902

colinashe — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:52:10 -0000

Haha, yup.

Seems like modernity never really drives the past back - it just piles more future on top.

Re: http://anythingyoucandoicandometa.com/post/677816968

colinashe — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:26:54 -0000

Haha, well then, patience! :) Safari 5 has barely been out a day thus far... personally I'm more excited by the "Undo Close Tab" feature than anything else - it had to be the only thing I really missed about Firefox.

Re: http://anythingyoucandoicandometa.com/post/677816968

colinashe — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:20:36 -0000

As seen above: "Michael hasn’t released a compiled version yet, but he’s made the code available; keep on eye on the website for a compiled version soon."

I'll update this post when an installable version is available.

Re: http://anythingyoucandoicandometa.com/post/640650924

colinashe — Fri, 28 May 2010 22:00:19 -0000

You both missed the point and helped to illustrate the social problem I was alluding to. People need to find ways to share space in a city, and using the police force to deal with minor annoyances like rowdy kids in a city is a hamfisted and ineffective way of approaching these issues. My feeling is that Bostonian politics encourages a cycle of this sort of abuse; this is a cheap and easy way to pander to voters. Nothing good comes from it in the long run, but if your (aggregate) smug satisfaction moves the ballot box, it'll keep on happening - and you'll stay ignorant and grumpy until you literally *are* yelling at the kids to get off your lawn.

Re: http://anythingyoucandoicandometa.com/post/420458978

colinashe — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:39:34 -0000

Exactly! Kevin Bacon is our National Stem Cell.

Re: http://anythingyoucandoicandometa.com/post/396774346

colinashe — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:27:40 -0000

Huh, no - I just finished reading it. Your friend worked with Jacobs on the research for that book? I'd love to talk to him/her about it if so...

Re: http://anythingyoucandoicandometa.com/post/372356534

colinashe — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:13:35 -0000

Oops, 30 seconds of googling, and most of our assumptions turn out wrong.

This doesn't address all of my questions, but this interview with David Link (co-founder of The Wonderfactory) has some great insights on the thinking that went into their concept.

Link says: "The assumptions we made for the SI demo was that the Apple tablet would use a more advanced and evolved version of the iPhone SDK. So we developed the SI prototype based on the iPhone SDK on steroids."

He goes on to note that they foresee tablets running Windows 7 and browser-only OSs - Chrome OS, JooJoo, whatever - as additional targets, some of which would indeed allow Flash content in addition to HTML5, etc. He doesn't explicitly state that the video they produced envisioned their "iPhone SDK on steroids" flavor, but I believe that's implied.

http://www.spd.org/2010/01/...

Re: http://anythingyoucandoicandometa.com/post/372356534

colinashe — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:02:08 -0000

I can't, but I know that type of interface would definitely be *possible* in Cocoa, even if no one has built it yet. But that SI 'demo' is just a video, not an actual Flash application. I suppose the question then is whether Flash can really power something like the SI concept?

Re: http://anythingyoucandoicandometa.com/post/372356534

colinashe — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:01:58 -0000

Yeah, lock-in to Apple would definitely be a concern for a publisher. The Kool Kids do have credit cards, though, so there's that. I could imagine parent companies or cooperating publishers might develop some sort of shared framework to make building specific interactive magazines relatively painless. Whatever happens, I guess that (as with developing with Flash) market share and unit sales will guide their cost-benefit analysis.

Re: http://anythingyoucandoicandometa.com/post/361883915

colinashe — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:56:41 -0000

Well, the choice is, in fact, yours. No one suggested it wasn't - if you're referring to the current iPad silliness, then, well, don't buy an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.

And yes, of course I understand that Tumblr uses Flash to deliver audio content, and that I've embedded Flash video all over my little blog. *And* that Flash is also used on a great deal of other websites, many of which I use daily. My beef isn't with Flash's ubiquity or its demonstrable versatility.

The problem is that Adobe's Flash player for the Mac is abjectly terrible. Crashes and outrageous CPU and memory usage are the norm. Worse, many Flash applications - and I don't know if this is for technical or cultural reasons - provide a shockingly bad experience. Non-selectable text. Inaccessability to deep linking. Buggy scrollbars. Popovers. Automatically playing video, audio, animations. Etc.

My take here may not be worth much to you, but it seems that Flash works as a mediocre way to get around poor standards support, or to deliver streaming content in an acceptably inaccessible format for the demands of copyright holders. Everything about the experience of actually using it, especially on a Mac, is unpleasant. Along with an increasing number of other people, I can and will switch to alternatives as they emerge.

Re: anything you can do, i can do meta | I am deeply frustrated by my inability to reblog...

colinashe — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:27:18 -0000

Odd, it doesn't seem to show up for me. Maybe they haven't fully rolled out the Ask feature yet. But thanks!

Re: Dr. Denise Horn - The puzzle of democracy and "micro-responsibility"

colinashe — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:39:54 -0000

Maybe the problems for these small-scale economic activities really start when they become connected or influenced by global economic forces - they get thrown into the deep end of the pool before they can really swim. Jane Jacobs (of course!) has a lot to say about similar things happening in American cities...

Re: PCA2, Why the Phantom Menace sucks This is the best...

colinashe — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:54:47 -0000

I watched a whole bunch of it, and it's so on point - but that voice he does the whole time.... ouch.

Re: anything you can do, i can do meta | Fuck you, Wolf Blitzer and CNN. Everyone gets a...

colinashe — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:57:48 -0000

It's just a little shocking to see such huge disregard for such an important principle - but then again, maybe all it really does is serve simultaneously as explanation and consequence of CNN's chief loser ranking in cable news ratings.

Re: anything you can do, i can do meta | The conversion of all questions of truth into...

colinashe — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:49:35 -0000

Hey, thanks – I had been wondering about the context of that quote.

Re: Finally re-enabled comments.

colinashe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:39:17 -0000

oh hey now.

(maybe *safari* is to blame here...)

Re: Kummerspeck

colinashe — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:41:05 -0000

#NewFavoriteGermanWord.

Re: PCA2

colinashe — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:56:37 -0000

Downloaded it the other day – it's like listening to a video game soundtrack that you can't quite place with a specific memory, or listening in to some alternate universe where 8-bit gaming turned into a forum for some seriously strange art. I'm a fan :)

Re: Emptyage

colinashe — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:00:08 -0000

Was about to make fun of you for reblogging another self-referencing post, but i see you snagged it before i slipped in your attribution - my bad :)

Re: I Can See New York City From My House - Free is Farsi for: Keep calm and buy shit. Keep...

colinashe — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:55:29 -0000

Ah, nevermind the typo, I'm just OCD enough to correct it in passive-aggressive quotation driveby :)

Where'd you hear that they're upset they're not getting enough credit? I actually think the idea that he/we rallied anyone is a bit overblown. The Cairo speech was good in a much-needed, "Hey, we don't actually want to bomb your deserts to glass," kind of way, but it was a far cry from HW Bush's rallying of Iraqis in Gulf War 1.

What worries me is your closing question, regardless of who rallied who. All the elements of the ridiculously overhyped web aspect of the protests – twitter, youtube et al – while transformative, are incredibly fragile. Iran basically bought their networks from Nokia and Siemens wholesale, and didn't quite have a lid on it. But how many videos, how many tweets, how many accounts of any kind have leaked out of Xinjiang? Or, for that matter, from Sri Lanka?

Re: I Can See New York City From My House - Free is Farsi for: Keep calm and buy shit. Keep...

colinashe — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:01:58 -0000

"...the [reckless] impact of the Cairo speech."

really...?