Extra Future

Month: June 2010

  • Apple Bans Adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses from App Store

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    [Banned due to a scene which features a nude man diving into the ocean][link]. It isn’t even well-rendered generalia, nor is it sexual in nature. It’s just a little lump below his belly. It’s just a penis, which takes up maybe 1/64th of one panel of a comic book. I guess comic adaptations of James…

  • Steven Frank’s shutup.css Available As A Safari Extension

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Bring a zen-like calm to the comments section of sites like YouTube.][link] [link]: http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/680724930/thanks-to-the-very-nice-ricky-romero-my “Steven Frank – Thanks to the very nice Ricky Romero, my…”

  • MacUser on Safari 5’s extensions

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    [A little detail into the workings of Safari 5’s biggest new feature][link]. [link]: http://www.macworld.com/article/151899/2010/06/safari5_extensions.html “First look: Safari 5’s extensions | Browsers | MacUser | Macworld”

  • How To Enable Extensions For Safari 5

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    If you, like me, have tried to install a Safari 5 extension such as Coda Notes, and were met with the following dialog: and then spent 5 minutes looking through Safari’s Preferences window to no avail, this is how you enable Extensions on Safari 5: 1. Open **Preferences** 1. Click **Advanced** 1. Click **Show develop…

  • Coda Notes: a Safari Extension

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Unveiled by Cabel Sasser on stage at WWDC today, this is already hot shit][link]: >When you install Coda Notes, you’ll get a new button in your toolbar. Click it to see all our annotation tools, built right into Safari. Draw some notes on your favorite website. Communicate changes, ideas, concepts, or problems. Then, when you’re…

  • Liblr, The Twitter Mad Lib Machine

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    [Liblr][liblr] is an [Extra Future 6-hour Project][6] which takes the public Twitter stream and lets your replace one phrase with another, in the name of fun. An example, taking the phrase [‘had sex’ and replacing with ‘played scrabble’][example] gives you gems like the following: >Is it normal for a 21 year old boy to have…

  • Adam Lisagor: iPad TV

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    [The Sandwich has some thoughts on the iPad, TV, and the rumored new Apple TV][link]. I like what he’s thinking: >Could it be that Apple has chosen to separate our video content and store it temporarily in this ghetto because there is something new and awesome on the horizon? Here’s what I think: Soon enough,…

  • Apple – HTML5

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    [An Apple-sanctioned HTML5 demo site][link]. This is a good first step towards getting serious about HTML5, in the sense of actually building things. Things of note: Most of these aren’t HTML5 per-se, and they won’t work in other browsers that don’t use webkit, due to Apple only using their vendor-prefixed CSS attributes (`-webkit`). [link]: http://www.apple.com/html5/…

  • A REAL Facebook privacy issue: Email addresses NOT listed on Facebook are getting indexed by Google

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    [Cory Watilo][link]: >So what’s happening here? Well, Facebook’s “Opt out of emails from Facebook” page is getting indexed by Google. That means that the email address that Facebook shows you on the page is also indexed. Meaning it is spam-harvester heaven. The hits just keep on coming. [link]: http://corywatilo.com/a-real-facebook-privacy-issue-email-addresses “A REAL Facebook privacy issue: Email…

  • F*****M From Porn

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    Phil Nelson
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    [WFMU’s Benjamen Walker on Apple’s terrible text auto-censorship][link] in iTunes. [link]: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/06/fm-from-porn.html “F•••••M From Porn – WFMU’s Beware of the Blog”

  • Ars Technia on Indie Filmmakers’ P2P Lawsuits

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    [It’s not just for the MPAA anymore.][link] Lots of these films probably made more from the lawsuits than they did in the theater. [link]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/06/the-riaa-amateurs-heres-how-you-sue-p2p-users.ars “The RIAA? Amateurs. Heres how you sue 14,000+ P2P users”