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IEBlog : Engineering POV: IE6

2009 Aug 12, 4:55"As a browser supplier, we want people to switch to the latest version of IE...", "Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the product.", followed by a large number of comments from irate webdevs who missed the point.PermalinkCommentsblog microsoft ie ie6 dean-hachamovitch technical

ยป What is Question Box? | Appfrica

2009 Jul 24, 5:13"Question Box, a service which effectively provides a speaking Wikipedia for people in remote villages in India and Africa without access to the internet and those unable to read."PermalinkCommentsafrica wikipedia internet literacy india

Current Berkman People and Projects

2009 Jul 20, 5:06Berkman Center aggregate blog of its members and activies.PermalinkCommentsberkman harvard legal blog feed technical

Scribblenauts director: believe in the idea, move slowly - Ars Technica

2009 Jul 20, 5:04"We had five people, over about six months, research and come up with the tens of thousands of words present on the Scribblenauts dictionary."PermalinkCommentsgame scribblenauts videogame nintendo dictionary

Safeco Field Concessions Stand

2009 Jul 11, 1:57

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Safeco Field Concessions Stand

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Mariners vs Rangers, Safeco Field, Seattle

2009 Jul 11, 1:57

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Mariners vs Rangers, Safeco Field, Seattle

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Sarah and Me at Safeco Field

2009 Jul 11, 1:57

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Sarah and Me at Safeco Field

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CAN PEOPLE DISTINGUISH PATE FROM DOG FOOD? - AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WINE ECONOMISTS

2009 Jul 6, 2:06"Considering the similarity of its ingredients, canned dog food could be a suitable and inexpensive substitute for pate or processed blended meat products such as Spam or liverwurst... Although 72% of subjects ranked the dog food as the worst of the five samples in terms of taste... subjects were not better than random at correctly identifying the dog food."PermalinkCommentshumor science statistics food culture research study paper

A bold new computer metaphor

2009 Jun 22, 7:00"...computer technology has made it to the late sixth century AD, at best. In the olden days, you see, the upper classes were able to read and write, but they generally preferred not to. They left it to people who had to do it, like scribes and clergymen."PermalinkCommentsliterature paper history literacy religion

Linking to or Embedding a Portion of a Video

2009 Jun 19, 10:12

I'm excited by HTML5's video tag as are plenty of other people. Once that comes about and once media fragments are adopted, linking to or embedding a portion of a video will be as easy as using the correct fragment on your URL thanks to the Media Fragments WG who has been hard at work since the last time I looked at fragments.

However, until that work is embraced by browsers, embedding portions of videos will continue to require work specific to the site from which you are embedding the video. On the YouTube blog they wrote about how to "link to the best parts in your videos", using a fragment syntax like '#t=1m15s' to start playback of the associated video at 1 minute and 15 seconds. Of course if you want to embed part of a Hulu video it will be different. Although I haven't found an authoritative source describing the URL syntax to use, you can follow Hulu's video guide on linking to part of a video and note how the URL changes as you adjust the slider on the time-line. It looks like their syntax for linking to a Hulu page is to add '?c=[start time in seconds](:[end time in seconds])' with the colon and end time optional in order to link to a portion of a video. And the syntax for embedding appears to be "http://www.hulu.com/embed/.../[start time in seconds](/[end time in seconds])" again with the end time optional.

For more sites, check out the Media Fragments WG's list of existing applications' proprietary fragmenting schemes.

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Parents at Eileen's Party

2009 Jun 1, 2:30

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Parents at Eileen's Party

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Sarah and I at Eileen's Party

2009 Jun 1, 2:30

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Sarah and I at Eileen's Party

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Chairs and View at Eileen's Party

2009 Jun 1, 2:30

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Chairs and View at Eileen's Party

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Lanterns at Night at Eileen's Party

2009 Jun 1, 2:30

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Lanterns at Night at Eileen's Party

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Eileen's Party Tent Interior

2009 Jun 1, 2:30

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Eileen's Party Tent Interior

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Eileen's Party Tent Exterior

2009 Jun 1, 2:30

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Eileen's Party Tent Exterior

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Persuading Microsoft to Implement Canvas - Processing.js Blog

2009 May 27, 3:01"The Microsoft Connect service is a web-platform for communication between Microsoft Software Engineers and their developer community... Unfortunately the sign-up and feature request process is a little confusing, and long-winded, so I have put together a guide to help people get to the right place."PermalinkCommentsmicrosoft internet ie ie8 ie9 html5 canvas humor reference screenshot

Data.gov: Unlocking the Federal Filing Cabinets - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

2009 May 26, 11:28"But Data.gov is different. It is primarily for machines, not people, at least as a first step. It is a catalog of various sets of data from government agencies. And the idea is to offer the data in one of several standardized formats, ranging from a simple text file that can be read by a spreadsheet program to the XML format widely used these days for the exchange of information between Web services. Other data is presented in formats that are meant to feed into mapping programs."PermalinkCommentsdata nytimes xml government

Dispatches from the Island: Went to a Castle

2009 May 22, 6:37Famous people are just like me! That is, Jorge Garcia (Hurley from Lost) also has a blog on which he writes about and posts pictures of his visit to the Neuschhwanstein Castle in Munich (the basis of the Disney castle). But apparently unlike me he didn't take the Bus of the Year 2005 to get to the castle.PermalinkCommentsvia:kottke hurley lost tv blog germany for:hellosarah

Capitola

2009 May 22, 12:10

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Capitola

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