Hilary Rosen worked for the RIAA from 1987 to 2003 and was instrumentally responsible for a bunch of lawsuits against music fans as well as pushing through the DMCA, one of the ugliest pieces of legislation to ever make it through Congress. Now she’s doing public relations work for BP. Needless to say, The Huff Post is officially cutting ties with her.
Category: Journalism
Reading Material
- Apparently Hollywood has only one prop newspaper and it’s used in a ton of shows and movies. It’s like the Wilhelm scream of the prop world.
- One of these days I’m going to get an Android phone. Some Android reading: 10 Things Android does better than iPhone (though some of these are moot after yesterday), the new HTC Evo (I want, I want) was rooted before it was officially released, and why Android fragmentation might be its downfall.
- CSS3 and HTML5 will take over the world. Or something: 48 Potential Flash-Killing Demos, Easy Link Prefetching, a bunch of good CSS3 techniques you can use right now, Apple’s HTML5 showcase (Safari only, which is silly), and 10+ Free HTML5/CSS3 templates to start with. If you’re wondering why you should care about HTML5, see this pretty graphic (and see how MSIE isn’t even remotely ready).
- With the iPad getting as popular as it is, :hover might become worthless. Speaking of designing for the iPad, you’re going to have to take into consideration what happens to your design when the screen is rotated — here’s some CSS to help you out.
- How the U.S. Government Killed the Safest Car Ever Built.
- What’s the worst-case scenario for the gulf oil spill? Let’s ask Michael Bay.
- Wired News (and Adrian Lamo) report alleged Wikileaks “Collateral Murder” video leaker.
- What happens when you add Alka-Seltzer to a drop of water in microgravity?
- More videos: Steve Jobs introduces the Death Star, Super Mario 64 Avoid the 1-Up and collect the red coins challenge .
- Mapping the damn tourists.
- Open source tools for working with dual monitors.
- Notepad++ is moving off SourceForge because of an idiotic decision by SourceForge.
- LifeHacker Pack 2010: Essential Windows Downloads (I really need to update my list).
- 32 Incredible Bookmarklets for your browser.
Reading Material
- If the Empire’s IT tech’s wrote a blog, it would look something like this.
- Really nice HDR wallpapers.
- If I’m ever old and have a disabled parking permit, I’m going to be just like this guy.
- 10 Things you Didn’t Know Google Maps could do.
- The hacks will always continue: CSS3 solutions for Internet Explorer.
- XKCD’s results from its color survey are in.
- Top 10 Reasons you should quit Facebook.
- After Steve Jobs ripped up flash, Adobe responds and confirms plans to move away from Apple.
- The Taco Bell Chihuahua is going on a beeg, beeg treep (thanks, Dren!).
- Somebody with far too much time on their hands: A DIY Lamborghini (thanks, Ben!)
- How Wired.com Tracked Down The iPhone 4G finder.
- 17 Tips Every Windows 7 User Needs To Know (related: 60 Tweaks and Hacks for Windows 7, Vista, or XP).
- The most clever ways to use Dropbox that you’re not using.
- What is everybody on Facebook “Like”-ing? Find out (though I still prefer popurls to see what everybody’s liking or linking to).
- TechCrunch hacker identified: Should they press charges?
- All newscasts could be better if their cutaways were accompanied by the Law and Order “chung chung” sound. Anybody want to over-dub a KTVZ broadcast and send it my direction?
- Bend is #4 in America’s top-10 cities for start-ups.
- Think an image might be photoshopped? Throw the URL into here, and it might help you find out.
- If you’re going to plagorize somebody’s art and win a huge chunk of money, the original artist is bound to find out.
More on the Gizmodo Stolen iPhone Police Raid
- Editors from LA Times, Salon, CrunchGear, Hot Air, and Mediaite weigh in on whether Gizmodo editor should be considered a “journalist”.
- One expert says that and invalid warrant was used in the raid.
- cnet posted a new story to follow up yesterday’s piece about this interesting mess.
Link Dump
Been dealing with some malware-infected computers of family members and friends, and have also been a tad under the weather, so blogging hasn’t been a priority the last few days. But I have too many links sitting here that need to be disposed of, so here ya go:
- Conan O’Brien is moving to TBS. Speaking of Conan, Team Coco billboards are popping up all over the place. All this is probably timed with the start of his tour, which started in Eugene last night (anybody go? It looked like fun.).
- Columbia University will soon offer a soon offer a combined engineering and journalism degree, something I would have totally applied to get into when I was in high school, had it existed.
- Maps in modern web design.
- prettyPhoto is a jQuery-based lightbox clone.
- MFCMAPI “uses Microsoft’s published APIs to provide access to MAPI stores through a graphical user interface. Its purpose is to facilitate investigation of Exchange and Outlook issues.”
- A new Harry Potter trailer, and Hermione has a stalker (NSFW, depending on liberal your boss’ view is on a brief naked bum and some naugtly language).
- Great guide to building an HTPC.
- The periodic table of imaginary elements.
- Steve Jobs’ response to the Section 3.3.1 of the new SDK terms of service, and existing apps that are breaking the new TOS.
- jQuery HTML table toolbox.
- Exploiting a linux kernel NULL dereference.
- iPhone users now have an alternative browser now that Opera Mini for the iPhone has been approved. Here are a couple quick reviews. I use Opera Mini on my Touch Pro with Sprint, and it works great compared to Pocket IE.
- Speaking of Apple products, Gizmodo has some essential iPad apps, as well as a full review.
- Why you should never trust photos you see: Britney Spears, before and after photoshop.
- The season finale of House (one of my favorite shows) was filmed entirely with a Canon 5D Mark II.
- How I ran an ad on Fox News.
- 5 different movies, all completely different, but with the same lines of dialog.
- ZeuApp is a nifty little app to easily install a bunch of different software.
- Things overheard in a newsroom.
- A new database devoted to people who lived in Oregon prior to its statehood.
- Somebody needs to make this for Oregon: A pronunciation guide for everything Wisconsin.
- The Star Wars Sound Effects Quiz.
Reading Material
- Google didn’t have an Easter doodle logo, everybody panics.
- You should never pay more than $10 for HDMI cables. I just got a three-pack of them from Meritline a month or so ago for $8, and the Wal-Mart here in town is selling them for $40 each. Those cables are a rip-off and there’s NO reason to buy the expensive cable.
- The real question everybody’s asking about the iPad: Will it blend?
- Bendite Ashton Eaton nearly sets collegiate decathlon record, but thanks to confusing wind-rating rules, it didn’t happen. Meanwhile, UO student population doesn’t give a rip.
- Five ways to identify that song stuck in your head.
- Deleting files older than N days via the Windows command line.
- Internet Explorer UA Style Sheets.
- jQuery plugin for crashing IE6 (though some of us are stuck with it).
- Top 10 Password Crackers.
- Ultimate Guide to Cloning in Photoshop.
- The Best Free Software of 2010, according to PC Magazine. Which I find odd, as 2010 isn’t even halfway over yet, but whatever.
- Ultimate Windows Tweaker is basically like a TweakUI for Windows Vista/7.
- Want free publicity? Help a reporter find you.
- Gmail Becomes an App Platform, adding OAuth support.
- Remember when you’re in a flamewar or decide to send a scathing e-mail to somebody that there’s a real human being on the other end.
- J.D Shapiro apologizes for making the suckiest movie ever.
- Upload your videos to one site, and have it automatically upload to several video and social networking sites automatically.
Reading Material
- If I was the EU…
- Pick and browse for flickr photos based on color.
- Profs should rethink banning laptops from the lecture halls.
- How Blogs are Becoming More Like Newspapers.
- Pirate a video game, and your desktop and personal information get sent out on the Web.
- I’m sure there’s somebody out there that could use this: Top 20 Blogs about Knitting.
- 11 Things You Should Never Do Online.
- Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers (oldy, may have seen/linked before, but still good).
- A look back at 12 years of hell we call the DMCA.
- URL Shorteners Slow Down The Web.
- Really fun series from Slate: The Secret Language Of Signs.
- Google Apps now has a marketplace — unfortunately none of it (that I can find) works on Google Apps free edition.
- If you have a Philips DVD player, there’s a good chance there’s a firmware hack here for it.
- Making amazing posters and desktops from Google Maps.
- 10 Annoying Habits of a Geeky Spouse (I’ll be the first to admit that a few of these describe me).
- Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein.
- A creative way to setup a laptop in a car so the back-seaters can watch DVDs. A similar product at an ugly site.
- The “No Dashes or Spaces” Hall of Shame — or why your credit card forms on your site suck. My day-job’s site has this issue, too, but considering that our reservation software is barely online capable and DOS-based, I’m not about to monkey with it as I’m afraid I’ll break something.
- It should be easier to contribute to open source projcts, so somebody’s trying to make it easier.
- Paris in 26 gigapixels.
- 10 Geeky Items You’re Embarrased to Admit You Want.
- Search and Share, and interesting add-on for a site, but it effectively disables right-click, which I hate.
- Why new, big hard drives might really suck for Windows XP users.
- 8-bit Austin, a map of the city in 8-bit graphical form.
More Reading Material
Cleaning out the links that have collected over the last few days before I head to the concert tonight (there are still plenty of tickets available at the door, all free, so I’d encourage you to come!):
- Axecop, a comic written by a five-year-old, but illustrated by a 29-year-old pro.
- Newbie fashion tips for grown-up men.
- 35 Useful jQuery Plugins for Slideshows, Graphs and Text Effects.
- Windows Phone 7 series: Everything you need to know. While I love my HTC Touch Pro with it’s hacked Windows 6.5 ROM, I have a feeling that come renewal time, I’m going to be looking into an Android phone.
- The 7 Deadly Sins of JavaScript Implementation.
- Greenpeace Tells Facebook: Kick coal in Prineville (Greenpeace release is here). In related news: Central Oregon Tells Greenpeace: STFU. They’ll already be using a loads less power than most datacenters, and the only way GreenPeace would be happy would be if Facebook ran the entire datacenter on Solar or Wind power — which is obviously totally impractical. Meanwhile, GreenPeace’s site is powered by Akamai, who has several datacenters, probably killing all sorts of trees and whales and small children and what not.</rant> (I could go on for a while here, but I won’t.)
- Speaking of lowering power consumption, the Leech plug is a pretty slick little device that needs to become more common.
- Don’t know if I buy this: Almost a third of the U.S. does not use Internet. 75% of those third probably have AOL and don’t realize they’re on the Internet — “they’re on AOL” or “The Google” or something.
- 18 Incredible CSS3 effects you’ve never seen before.
- For content/blog sites: Tips to lower your bounce rate.
- Measuring JavaScript parse and load.
- The best “Hitler Finds Out…” videos.
- As a percussionist, I always appreciate fine street drumming.
- A brief history of pretty much everything.
- I’m still trying to wrap my head around this a bit, but for the math/programming geeks: Labor of Division (Episode 1).
- Thanks to ShadyURL, you can now get to this site via this scary URL.
- If you’re wondering why people are pirating movies instead of buying them, this might explain it.
- Smash Face on Keyboard, Post Result.
- 25 Best Websites for Downloading Free HTML/CSS Templates.
- Which A/B split testing site should you use?
- If you use Blogger’s FTP service (and there are a few of you on Bend Blogs), it’s going to stop working soon.
Reading Material
- Setup a whole-house speaker system using existing phone lines.
- Cheap but powerful video card for HTPC use.
- The thickness of napkins in the programming world.
- SimpleFolio, a nice wordpress theme.
- If you missed the Super Bowl commercials last night, they’ve all been posted here (and the story behind the Leno, Oprah, Letterman ad is over here). Vote for your favorite here.
- According to teenagers, sites like mine aren’t cool anymore. Not that I’m losing sleep over losing the under-18 demo.
- Another high school, another overzelous administration conficating newspapers that do some real reporting.
- Always wear your seat belt.
- The anti-vaccine autism paper had catastrophic effects.
- Symbian Operating System is Now Open Source and Free — but will it matter?
- Relatively Portal.
- Netflix 28-Day Window Would Decimate Their Top Rental List.
- Kwedit, a new completely unreliable payment network.
- Calagator, open-source project for calendar aggregation (like Portland’s tech events).
- Run your own URL Shortener, and hopefully have better luck with spammers than my failed attempt (Ken is using it here).
- If you run a MovableType blog, this site might interest you.
- Licensing Delay Complicates Decision Between Open Source and Proprietary Video Players.