Fun with fireworks and firework stand wars. The video he has attached to it, featuring the stretch of road wherein two competing fireworks places inhabit, plays like a Mr. Show sketch. Happy birthday, America.
The Bees have finally gone too far. They are testing us, and we are failing.
This is giant news for anyone who makes websites. See also: W3C’s FAQ for the situation.
Mozilla won’t support H.264, Apple won’t support Ogg, Google will support both, and Microsoft won’t say. Doubt this will change anytime soon, which really makes me sad.
By way of, naturally, the BBC:
The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination. What’s more, people are unwittingly helping the mega-colony stick together.
This is HUGE news. Andy notes Eurogamer’s estimates: $10 billion dollars amongst 1 million workers.
Benjamin White is offering stitched Haggle Man buttons for everyone who sends him the receipt for their copy of Retro Game Challenge. It is NOT the best game I’ve ever played, but it’s one that has given me loads of fun for a pretty small price.
If Game Center CX 2 doesn’t get localized, it will be a real shame.
With a week’s notice, and no way to back everything up. This is just unacceptable. You don’t do this kind of thing to your users. You could pay one of your engineers spend a day building an export tool, which in the long run costs you nothing, and buys you immense social capital. When a service is already taking away functionality (users hate this) why make it worse?
via Andy Baio.
The two leading teams BellKor in BigChaos and Pragmatic Theory combined their talents to push over the 10% finish line. $1 million split 7 ways still sounds pretty damn good. Netflix also allows the winners to sell their algorithms to anyone else they like.
As Shawn Medero points out, the other teams have 30 days in which to submit their solutions, as well.
In what can only be described as a historical reenactment of a Street Fighter bonus stage.
Given their size, It is simply impossible that someone at Microsoft didn’t know about this. The only question is how deep into the process were they, and how many people were afraid to speak or were told to sit down and shut up.
Consolidates and optimizes CSS in a way which I’ve not seen before. Which is cool, but it would be nice if it could convert it BACK so humans could read/edit it easily. Check the examples, you will be glad you did. Hey, it does do that.
via simplebits.
As my friend Kate Dickson says, “ooooh, which X-Men have snogged each other?“
Glad to see it. One of the most important parts:
I believe that, when my daughters grow up, barriers to marriage equality for same-sex couples will seem as archaic, and as unfair, as the laws we once had against inter-racial marriage.
And I want them to know that, even if he was a little late, their dad came down on the right side of history.
Wonder why? Definitely interesting fodder for the Skull & Bones watchers out there.
A very useful looking Interface Builder plugin from Brandon Walkin.
With 700,000 documents to comb though it is a totally rational approach. It can either take a team of experts 2 years or it can take “everyone” a few days.
Obviously the potential is there to game the system and make your guy look good or the other guy look bad, but review is a lot cheaper than the original work.
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