October 12, 2007
September 7, 2007
Internet People
A song about internet memes. Sadly, I know almost all of these.
August 24, 2007
August 9, 2007
Minesweeper: the movie
This video game to movies trend has just got to stop
August 6, 2007
Vimeo is so much better than YouTube
Reggie Watts: Lost in the Options from Jakob Lodwick and Vimeo.
Other than the dumb video on the home page, it's a much nicer experience. Plus, Vimeo is a home for videos made by the users, not just stolen from somebody else. Or videos timeshifted from television. Plus, the video quality appears far better than that on YouTube.
And, I've heard the workplace environment doesn't suck. Well, not all the time.
Now, if only I had a video camera or something. Like, talent.
[video via]
August 4, 2007
Movable Type 4.0 Release Candidate 2
We've covered this quite a bit, as we're really excited about the impending un-beta-ing of the latest version of Movable Type (the content management system that powers this site). Now those wacky Six Apart folks give us Movable Type 4.0 Release Candidate 2, with the requisite list of fixed stuff, and…okay, that's pretty much it.
So what? All I want is me some movably–typed goodness, and I want it now.
August 3, 2007
Who says Apple spends too much time on stuff that doesn't really matter?
Somebody got paid good money to think this up.
Read the instruction at Flickr.
This is the package for the paperclip to get the SIM card out for your iPhone.
This is completely real.
UPDATE: Now people are starting to rebel, and the hacker community has started an open source version. While it sounds promising, early on there's still some issues.
August 2, 2007
Slashdot launches Firehose
Slashdot gets into the social news scene with the public launch of Firehose:
The Slashdot Firehose is a collaborative system designed to allow users to assist our editors in the story selection process. The hose contains submissions, RSS Feeds, journals and Slashdot stories, each color-coded along the color spectrum to indicate popularity. Red is hot, violet is not. Try tagging and voting on the entries below, and by using the 'feedback' menus.
The news for nerds now has user–generated content like some of the other, much younger sites (*cough*Digg*cough*reddit*cough*). Pete Cashmore at Mashable! says bloggers drive traffic, but when did /. not bleed traffic?
It'll be interesting to see what goes on with this within the Slashdot users. The best part of the site isn't the stories, or even commentary, it's the users and their explanations. Lots of good old fashioned Digg–bashing down in the announcement story, such as this, and just plain old really funny, such as this.
August 1, 2007
This one's for you, Elton
This is what happens when you get the internet CLOSED DOWN.
Sir Elton John, internet idiot.
Hard times befall a once great cover band
Sad to see The Rock-afire Explosion lowering itself to doing Fergie songs. I guess it's 'cause times is tight, and we gots to do for me and mine.
The explanation video of this video is even better than the London Bridge video. They are really playing those instruments.
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July 31, 2007
YouTube to begin filtering copyrighted material
This news from the Times Online. The timeline given by Google says they're on pace to start implementing the technology in September. What that means for you is that you'll lose that ability to post your "Lazy Sunday" videos faster than ever before. The MPAA and RIAA must be licking their chops.
Only a matter of time before we find out what'll happen to the underground videos that could come under the fire of overly–litigious lawyer types. It could spell the end for the very videos that made the site popular in the first place. Even with fair use, videos like this one could be gone by September (well, from YouTube, anyways).
July 30, 2007
Microsoft Works to become a free, ad-funded product
So says Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet.com:
Microsoft’s next version of its small-business/home productivity suite, due imminently, will be free and ad-funded.
That seems unequivocal, huh? It seems they can still make enough money just from ads to continue development of the product. That's probably how Google can afford to give away it's online office suite, Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
Quick show of hands, how many of you actually knew Microsoft still make Works?
Anybody?
July 25, 2007
Apple sells 270,000 iPhones
Unlike some wild estimates that had the numbers up to 1,000,000 units sold, it appears Apple only sold 270,000 of the next–generation cell phone in the first weekend of sales. This is not, however, a bad thing, as Apple expected to sell its 1,000,000th unit in the next year. It still appears that they will meet that expectation.
What nobody was expecting was the other, non–iPhone news. During the Apple Financial Results conference call, they reported record revenue and profit. This in a period when iPhone sales wouldn't even register (as they only sold in three reporting days of the quarter). The big news of the day was that they shipped 1,764,000 Macintosh computers — the most in a quarter, ever.
They also sold 9,815,000 iPods in the quarter. Compare that to the relative poor market penetration of the Zune, only recently selling 1,000,000 units. Both sales of Macs and iPods are well over the sales from this time last year.
The goods elsewhere:
- Apple - Quarter 3 - 2007 Financial Results [Apple]
- Apple Reports Third Quarter Results [Apple]
- Liveblogging the Apple earnings call [TUAW]
July 24, 2007
Movable Tweak: Movable Type 3 vs. Movable Type 4: A Modular Site Approach
It's no secret I'm a bit of news hound for all things Movable Type. So to say finding this from Movable Tweak would be a huge understatement. I can't tell you how many times I've been working in a template, and hated the fact that I was going to have to change 4 different other pages with the same information.
That's what made me interested in Movable Type 3 vs. Movable Type 4: A Modular Site Approach. The modular approach is what makes it simpler to design WordPress templates, and it looks like the Six Apart folks learned the lesson. For people looking to upgrade or make the switch, this is a good primer on the change in Movable Type philosophy.
July 20, 2007
Philippine prison does Thiller
This is what happens when you run out of blogging steam. Video posts. Thus, um, pretty much this whole week, then?
From YouTube, the home of all time–wasting.
July 19, 2007
YouTube adds custom players
Although they can be somewhat hideous, YouTube has rolled out a way to create custom players that let you, as Brad Linder says, "ecorate your player in one of nine unattractive color schemes." Using your videos or your favorites, you create a playlist in the Custom Player in your YouTube account.
It's…nice, I guess. There's not flexibility to it, and the colors aren't much help. And the even goofier look doesn't help pay attention to the content at all.
However, you can create custom playlists, as now you'll be able to keep all the crazy videos off the videos you post...right? You know, the videos that are either completely unrelated, or are the same thing somebody copied from you?
Eh, maybe in version 2.0…regardless, it's a step in the right direction of giving the users more control over the videos they upload.
[via]
July 18, 2007
The world's coolest email program
Is not this.
Before you think this is some sort of fake video for the voice–over, take a look at the 3D Mailbox website. They're totally serial, you guys.
[Thanks, TechCrunch]
On another, more sane, note, there's a new site called Sentenc.es. Yes, that's the top level domain for Spain, so there's no .com on the end. But the site is dedicated to getting email replies quickly:
The ProblemE-mail takes too long to respond to, resulting in continuous inbox overflow for those who receive a lot of it.
The Solution
Treat all email responses like SMS text messages, using a set number of letters per response. Since it’s too hard to count letters, we count sentences instead.
sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be a pre-determined number sentences or less. It’s that simple.
From the chatter I've heard on the internets, the five sentenc.es seems to be the most popular at the start. Simply adding "http://five.sentenc.es/" to your email signature lets people know why you're no longer writing your usual magnum opus.
July 17, 2007
Coding templates in Movable Type
It should be no shock to you that we use Movable Type here on the Wizbang family of blogs, and we're proud to tell everybody we do. Yes, there's a great sense of pride using an anonymous pseudonym as extol the virtues of the blogging platform we use.
While we're in the transition from the closed source Movable Type 3 and lower, and moving to the open source Movable Type 4 and higher, I'd like to focus on what the Six Apart folks are doing. I'd also like to show that you WordPress people have been having you fun, but now we're bringing blogging back.
Or something.
Regardless, Anil Dash posts something for the new folks coming to Movable Type on movabletype.org. In Tags, Variables, and Templates, Oh My!, Anil shows off the power of MT tags, and how you can really get into your templates and make them do some very complex things. With that complexity comes a price, and you can get way over your head, quickly.
For power users, this is a good thing. But they've made it simple for anybody to mess with the templates with the StyleCatcher plugin.
July 16, 2007
AppleHound posts iPhone bugs
Mac site AppleHound.com has published its iPhone v1.0 Bugs list. Predictably, you'll get the usual collection of people telling us that nothing comes from Mt. Cuptertino without the blessing of brave St. Jobs, the people who hate people like that and think that Apple is the center of all evil, the folks who can't not write it I-Phone, and the people like me who make fun of them all.
It's nice to see this post, but some of the responses can be a bit useless. For the most part, however, it's a good place to find anecdotal responses to the iPhone.
July 13, 2007
July 12, 2007
Get your Warner fix on imeem.com
VentureBeat is reporting Warner has opened its catalog to stream for free on imeem.com:
Warner Music Group is offering its entire music and video catalog for free streaming on imeem, a Web site focused on letting users share music playlists.
The music is currently live on the San Francisco startup’s Web site, the company told VentureBeat Wednesday evening.
Now imeem users can make playlists with Warner music. Warner, in return, will get a piece of imeem’s ad revenue.
I'm not sure what this will mean for legal song–sharing, but being able to embed your favorite songs legally won't hurt Warner Music Group's popularity. And being able to embed this song in every story involving imeem.com, Sir Mix-a-lot, or embeded codes in general makes me happy.
July 11, 2007
Movable Type beta 6 out now
While many in the blogosphere moved to WordPress, Six Apart's been working to improve the very application we use on the Wizbang! Network. Their latest offering is Movable Type 4, and they're going to release it as open source…some time in the future.
For now, we're helping knock out some bugs. The latest beta version of MT4 is Beta 6. There's nothing exciting about this release, other than the massive bug fixes and patches. Oh, and now I can use it with Safari. Go me!
They've also made mention of how you can get MT4 to interact with some underreported electronics device.
July 10, 2007
Facebook registers thirty million
We knew social network (and anti–MySpace) phenomena Facebook was growing like wildfire, we just weren't sure how much. Apparently, by a lot.
Carolyn Abram on the Facebook blog reported they registered their 30 millionth active user. And not much else.:
Early this morning, Facebook hit a new milestone—we now have thirty million active members on the site. Welcome to Facebook, everyone!
With 30 million members, it's now officially "not cool." That, and I'm a member, thus doubling the uncoolness.
May 2, 2007
Nerd revolt over 16 hexadecimal numbers
It's OK everyone ... I am a nerd, which by Jesse Jackson rules, allows me to call other people nerds.
There were riots in the streets yesterday over illegal immigration, and riots online over illegal numbers. The illegal numbers in question are the 16 hexadecimal numbers that make up the key necessary to decrypt a DVD movie encrypted with the new AACS encryption scheme.
What happened at first, was that a couple bloggers posted stories to the social networking site Digg.com that included the illegal digits. After receiving several "diggs" the stories started showing up on the front page of Digg. At some point yesterday, the AACS sent DMCA takedown notices to Digg, Google, and various other blogs. Over at Digg, they decided to start removing the offending posts, and even posted an apology in their blog. Then all hell broke loose.
So many people were digging stories about the key, that every story on the front page was about the key. A full-scale nerd revolt erupted, and nothing could stop the flow of stories on Digg about the key, as hard as they tried. Eventually, the admins at Digg gave up, and resigned themselves to suffer the consequences.
For now, it appears as if the revolt is over, and the nerds won. With so much exposure, I can't even imagine how the AACS will react. According to an article at Slashdot, as of last night, there were over 283,000 hits within Google for the key itself. Those lawyers are going to be working overtime.
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin is now covering the story, and has included some excellent insight from Bryan Peterson.
February 24, 2007
Firefox changes open dialog behavior yet again
I previously wrote an article regarding Mozilla Firefox no longer allowing one to "Open" files that are clicked on. In that article, I described a small hack that you could use to change the behavior back.
Mozilla released version 2.0.0.2 of Firefox, which included several bug fixes, including bug #347230.
Bug #347230 included a patch that overwrites my workaround.
Details on the fix after the jump ...
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