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Diversity Inc Photoshopped Covers

2010 Feb 26, 5:00

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Diversity Inc Photoshopped Covers

Jen's going away surprise for me was to add to my Diversity Inc cover artwork with my own photoshopped cover.

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Diversity Inc Photoshopped Cover Closeup

2010 Feb 26, 5:00

sequelguy posted a photo:

Diversity Inc Photoshopped Cover Closeup

Jen's going away surprise for me was to add to my Diversity Inc cover artwork with my own photoshopped cover. Note the attention to detail in the headlines.

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Comcast DNSSEC Trial FAQs

2010 Feb 25, 4:10Comcast is running an opt-in DNSSEC trial for all Comcast customers. Their FAQ covers the incompat. of DNSSEC with their Comcast Domain Helper (typo DNS redirects to Comcast ads... bleh!): "What happens to Comcast Domain Helper, which offers DNS redirect services, when you fully implement DNSSEC? We believe that the web error redirection function of Comcast Domain Helper is technically incompatible with DNSSEC. Comcast has always known this and plans to turn off such redirection when DNSSEC is fully implemented." Yay!PermalinkCommentsdns dnssec comcast faq internet ip security technical

Kalik Beer Box

2010 Feb 25, 1:18

sequelguy posted a photo:

Kalik Beer Box

A box of Kalik beer (official beer of the Bahamas) was just sitting on the ground. Filled with empty beer bottles though.

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Awkward Zone: Defeated! (Questionable Content: New comics every Monday through Friday)

2010 Feb 25, 1:03PermalinkCommentshumor comic web awkward-zone

Washington Driver's License Numbers

2010 Feb 24, 12:42Apparently Washington State uses an algorithm to generate drivers license numbers. Unless someone else has the same name and birth date your license number is based entirely on your name and birth date.PermalinkCommentsmath identity washington reference

Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login

2010 Feb 22, 3:55Hilarious Internet illiteracy generates tons of confused comments on RWW: '... We've determined by looking at our traffic stats that people are doing Google searches for "facebook login" and coming upon RWW. They see the FB Connect button and assume that RWW is the "new Facebook." Sigh. The Internet Is Hard.'PermalinkCommentsvia:kottke facebook internet identity openid

Treasure Cay Harbor

2010 Feb 19, 12:04

sequelguy posted a photo:

Treasure Cay Harbor

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Bahama Beach Club Beach

2010 Feb 19, 12:03

sequelguy posted a photo:

Bahama Beach Club Beach

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Revised Font Stack | A Way Back

2010 Feb 5, 8:00Font stats on Mac and PC respectively.PermalinkCommentsfont statistics html css web design typography via:kris.kowal

New Paintings Page: Ward Shelley

2010 Feb 4, 2:07Infographic oil paintings of things like the historical influences of avant garde or the life of Frank Zappa.PermalinkCommentsart design visualization information gallery infographics painting ward-shelley via:infosthetics

No, you can’t do that with H.264 « Digital Diary of Ben Schwartz

2010 Feb 4, 2:01On the crappy licensing of the H.264 and MPEG codecs in popular video encoding software.PermalinkCommentsvideo encoding codec patent legal law apple microsoft theora h.264 technical

Methods of Watching TV

2010 Feb 3, 1:09If you've got cable, Internet, and Netflix you end up with a large number of TV viewing options. Its nice to have the options but is there some way to collect and summarize my available options at any one time?

TV PC
Comcast TV Xbox 360 + Windows Media Center Windows Media Center
Comcast OnDemand Cable box Fancast
Hulu Xbox 360 + PlayOn + Windows Media Center Hulu
Netflix Watch Instantly Xbox 360 + Netflix App Netflix Watch Instantly
Netflix DVDs Xbox 360 PC
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Steven Pinker on the myth of violence | Video on TED.com

2010 Feb 1, 8:39"Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence." Working up towards Forever Peace?PermalinkCommentsvideo history violence culture ted steven-pinker game-theory

Harbor across from Oceano

2010 Jan 31, 1:03

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Harbor across from Oceano

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YouTube - Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News

2010 Jan 30, 2:26Similar to the "This is the title of a typical incendiary blog post" (http://faultline.org/index.php/site/item/incendiary/) except this is a typical news report. "...and this is a lighthouse keeper being beheaded by a lighthouse beam."PermalinkCommentsbbc humor video via:waxy satire journalism tv news

Thought Experiments and Design Principles

2010 Jan 29, 3:54

Raymond Chen has some thought experiments useful for discovering various kinds of stupidity in software design:

Tim Berners-Lee's principles of Web design includes my favorite: Test of Independent Invention. This has a thought experiment containing the construction of the MMM (Multi-Media Mesh) with MRIs (Media Resource Identifiers) and MMTP (Muli-Media Transport Protocol).

The Internet design principles (RFC 1958) includes the Robustness Principle: be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving. A good one, but applied too liberally can lead to interop issues. For instance, consider web browsers. Imagine one browser becomes so popular that web devs create web pages and just test out their pages in this popular browser. They don't ensure their pages conform to standards and accidentally end up depending on the manner in which this popular browser tolerantly accepts non-standard input. This non-standard behavior ends up as de facto standard and future updates to the standard essentially has had decisions made for it.

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YouTube - Lookwell!

2010 Jan 26, 2:26Adam West is Lookwell in Lookwell! a pilot by Conan and Robert Smigel that wasn't picked up in the early 90s. Awesome. "Maybe if you watched a little more television, you'd be better at your job".PermalinkCommentstv television humor adam-west conan robert-smigel lookwell pilot

Obama should back up Google with more than rhetoric: The US should challenge China’s “firewall” before the WTO. : First Amendment Coalition

2010 Jan 25, 5:25"...file a complaint with the World Trade Organization, contesting China’s internet censorship as a breach of the international trade rules to which China, as a WTO member, is subject. The US can argue that China’s “Great Firewall”–a system of filters and bottlenecks that effectively shutters the country within its own intranet–is an illegal restraint on international trade because it bars foreign companies from competing, via the internet, in the vast Chinese market."PermalinkCommentseconomics wto politics google china internet censorship us

One year after putting NFB films online – Here are the stats… – NFB.ca

2010 Jan 22, 1:23Canada's National Film Board gives the successful stats of its website on which you can watch their films.PermalinkCommentsfree video film canada movie internet statistics
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