January 2010
15 posts
Growlers, the New Old Beer Conveyance -... →
A beer “trend” I’m apparently missing out on.
iPad will use ePub format
This is good news because ePub is an open format, unlike Amazon’s AZW ebook format.
However, the ePub spec leaves open the question of DRM. Most ebook sellers are currently using Adobe’s ADEPT DRM. Sadly, there exists different versions of this DRM and so an ePub file from Barnes and Noble won’t work on a Sony Reader without an update to the Sony Reader.
There are three...
And we have knot competitors!!
Double wrap reef knot
Ian’s Secure Shoelace Knot
(from reddit’s discussion of aforementioned video.)
WatchApparently I’ve been tying my shoelaces incorrectly (with the “dreaded” Granny Knot). Learn to switch to a reef knot.
(Find written instructions at Runner’s World)
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Teddy Roosevelt
Never forget...
That H.264 support wasn’t added to Flash Player until version 9.0.115. So kids, when you use something like SWFObject to embed Flash video, if your source files are MP4s encoded in H.264 then make sure you set the minimum version to 9.0.115.
Court asked to allow prosecution for sexting
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Not what child pornography laws were created for.
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing...”
– Calvin Coolidge
Police fight cellphone recordings - The Boston... →
Troubling.
In arresting people such as Glik and Surmacz, police are saying that they have not consented to being recorded, that their privacy rights have therefore been violated, and that the citizen action was criminal.
Charlie Rose - A conversation with Mickey Drexler →
Fabulous interview of Drexler, the current CEO of J.Crew and former CEO of Gap.
“On July 25, 2008, California became the first state to ban trans fats in...”
– Trans fat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (citations omitted) 