Extra Future

Month: September 2010

  • HTML5 Video Player Comparison Chart

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    [A handy reference for the HTML5-minded][link]. via [Gruber][gruber]. [link]: http://praegnanz.de/html5video/ “HTML5 video player” [gruber]: http://daringfireball.net “Daring Fireball”

  • Burnbit

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    [Creates a torrent out of any web-accessible file, posts it for the world to see][link]. As a prerequisite for this being 2010, they have an embed code as well, which (sadly) creates it’s own HTML attributes. I think `Burnbit_file` is going to be a hard sell to the HTML5 Working Group, guys. [link]: http://burnbit.com/ “Burnbit…

  • Digital Comic Museum

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    [A growing collection of Golden Age comics who has come into the public domain.][link] The covers alone are worth it. via [Andy Baio][waxy] [link]: http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/ “Digital Comic Museum” [waxy]: http://waxy.org “Waxy.org: Andy Baio Lives Here”

  • U.S. Ninth-Circuit Court Rules Against Right of First Sale

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    [If the clickwrap EULA forbids sale, then you can’t sell it][link], no matter how much you don’t want it anymore. In other words, goodbye to used game sales. How long before they classify films and TV show files as Software? What do I do with the Xbox games I don’t want anymore? Throw them out?…

  • YouTube Instant

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    [Start typing, it auto-fetches the most relevant video and starts playing it.][link] [link]: http://feross.net/instant/ “YouTube Instant”

  • Compromising Twitter’s OAuth security system

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    [Ryan Paul for Ars:][link] >Twitter officially disabled Basic authentication this week, the final step in the company’s transition to mandatory OAuth authentication. Sadly, Twitter’s extremely poor implementation of the OAuth standard offers a textbook example of how to do it wrong. This article will explore some of the problems with Twitter’s OAuth implementation and some…

  • Amateur Hour

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    [Jesper of Waffle Software on the new, published, App Store rules][link]: >[…] I don’t think it’s unfair for Apple to have a list of the applications produced for its platform that it believes is decent and upstanding, and which it is proud to be associated with. *I just don’t think that that list should be…

  • I Want To Be Your Horrible Boyfriend

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    [John Campbell][link] of the webcomic [Pictures for Sad Children][pfsc] has [a tumblr][tumb] now. [link]: http://boohooboo.tumblr.com/post/1086764474 “boo hoo boo • asked a girl to “go steady” in this way, she did…” [tumb]: http://boohooboo.tumblr.com/ “boo hoo boo” [pfsc]: http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/ “Pictures for sad children”

  • Oilfurnace – A Dwarf Fortress Tale

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    [Another entry in the Dwarf Fortress lore files,][link] well told and with fancy visuals. [link]: http://www.timdenee.com/oilfurnace/ “Oilfurnace – A Dwarf Fortress tale by Tim Denee”

  • In defense of the ‘Happy Days’ ‘Jump the Shark’ episode

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    [Written by the writer of that very episode][link]. More than a little defensive, but it is somewhat interesting to hear the guy talk about it like this. He seems to be confused on one point, though. Jumping the shark doesn’t mean a decline in popularity, though. It means a decline in the qualities that made…

  • Status Of My Predictions For The Sept 1st 2010 Apple Event

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    ### iPod Touch [Wrong on the capacity, it tops out at 64gb. Right about FaceTime cameras and everything else][touch]. This one was a gimme. If you look at [the Apple Store][classic] you will see that, despite it’s absence from the Keynote, they still sell iPod Classics with 160gb hard drives. It’s just a matter of…

  • New Threads; Comment Is Free

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    Thing The First: For those of you who read Extra Future primarily via the feed, it has undergone a rather serious redesign. Maybe hop out of your feed reader and [have a looksee][look]. [look]: http://extrafuture.com “Extra Future” Thing The B: I’ve gone ahead and re-activated Disqus-powered comments on posts here. I think we’re good enough…