Phil Nelson IE 9 Will Support HTML5 Video With H.264 Only
A shame, but I can’t say I’m particularly surprised. Firefox may have to join the H.264 bandwagon or get left behind.
I like the idea of Vorbis, but if I’m authoring video I’m thinking it’s not worth my time right now.
How To Challenge a Wrongful YouTube Takedown
A helpful video by Know Your Meme. Feel like I’m just reblogging Waxy today.
Steve Jobs: Thoughts on Flash
An actual post by Steve Jobs on why the iPhone doesn’t support Flash, and why it’s not likely to in the future. Well-written, and covers pretty much every logical base.
US Rep. Duncan Hunter backs deporting U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants
Nothing funny about this, just utterly depressing hate from an elected official. If you are born in America you are American. Full stop. That’s how this thing works.
“The kid who doesn’t exist”
In-depth reporting from the Indianapolis Star about an 18-year-old with no official identity. Almost sounds like the premise for a Philip K Dick story. Since he doesn’t have a social security number he can’t get a driver’s license, part-time job, or qualify for financial aid programs for college.
Godzilla Haiku
Thanks, internet. Thinternet.
Release Notes
Panic’s release notes for Transmit 4. Contrast with Bare Bones’ release notes for BBEdit 9.5.
CSS3 Gradient Buttons That Degrade Well
Excellent work from Web Designer Wall. I’ve been using a similar approach on a client site lately, but this one has a few tricks I hadn’t considered.
Transmit 4
Panic releases the newest version of their FTP client, and it’s a doozy. The website is, as I’ve come to expect from Panic, completely awesome.
The World Bank Opens Up It’s Data
A massive amount of interesting data available in a variety of formats. Get to makin’ shit.
Man Builds Working Star Trek Phaser
Using one of those 12X Blu-Ray laser pointers. IT pops balloons, burns paper, and apparently even makes the sound effect from TOS.
Turning down Netflix
Netflix refuses copyright holder’s request to stream her film without DRM. Nina Paley (the filmmaker) owns the film outright. There are no rights issues whatsoever. I believe the issue here is related to this culture we have where we assume everyone is a criminal. It’s actually more work for Netflix to let people watch a movie without digitally encrypting it than it is to just encrypt everything. I doubt Netflix’s service was designed to even support sending a movie in the clear, without DRM. It’d probably cost them tens of thousands of dollars to modify it.
Either that, or Netflix thinks their job is protecting copyright holders from themselves. Must be hard, knowing what’s best for everyone.
CNet: Lost iPhone prototype spurs police probe
Silicon Valley police are investigating what appears to be a lost Apple iPhone prototype purchased by a gadget blog, a transaction that may have violated criminal laws, a law enforcement official told CNET on Friday.
I believe the whole thing was a case of common theft and the sale of stolen goods. Looks like Apple is treating it just like that, at least externally.
Illustrated Dwarf Fortress Tale: Bronzemurder and Oggez Rashas
Wonderfully drawn and told. I’d buy a print of this in a heartbeat.
Android OS Installed on iPhone
This is, as Andy Baio calls it, “a clever hack”, and that’s about it. It is worthy of note primarily because it is, as far as I know, the first time a non-Apple OS has been installed on the iPhone hardware. At least, the first time in public.
The real power of the iPhone isn’t that it’s got a pretty shell or the best capacitive touchscreen on the market. The power of the iPhone is the interplay between hardware and software that were designed to compliment each other by teams of carefully chosen engineers whose only job was to make the iPhone hardware and software fit each other perfectly.
Akihabara, an HTML5 Video Game Toolkit
It is a set of libraries, tools and presets to create pixelated indie-style 8/16-bit era games in Javascript that runs in your browser without any Flash plugin, making use of a small small small subset of the HTML5 features, that are actually available on many modern browsers.
There are 5 really nice demos, to boot. Works on iPhone.
An HTML5 Presentation Written in HTML5
A good introduction to the highlights of HTML5, using the code itself for examples. Best viewed in a browser that, you know, supports HTML5.