Flowplayer is a great little bit of Flash and JavaScript for incorporating streaming video on your site (until we get a fully viable, widely supported HTML5 solution). I’ve used it in various capacities for putting together apps to stream recorded...
One of my favorite things about summer is watching the bumblebees at work on my Salvias — they love the stuff.
I love this photograph from the The Big Picture blog: The caption for this photograph: Cyril Forck, 90, catches a small perch fish from his backyard deck, which is usually 50 feet away from the edge of the Mississippi River,...
As a newly minted father, I found an interview with Ian Brown, regarding his son’s cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome, fascinating from a variety of angles. When he was 8 months old, Walker Brown was diagnosed with cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome (CFC), a rare disorder...
In my 29 years of life, I’ve never once thought much of mistletoe. We all know the holiday songs, kissing under the mistletoe, etc. But just what the heck is the stuff? An NPR story on the harvesting of mistletoe...
Peter Bright has an interesting, in-depth write up of the aftermath of PDC and the future of Silverlight and WPF. Of particular interest to me is that it seems to imply the impending doom of WPF. This genuinely surprised me...
The news media has recently been abuzz about about this so-called “Frankenfish“. It’s been puzzling to me what the hullabaloo has been all about. The fact of the matter is that humans have been altering the genetics of just about...
(Alternate title: Failing Productively) I posted some snippets from a recent interview with Fred Brooks in the August issue of Wired (by the way, I’m working through his latest compilation of essays, The Design of Design). I’ll repost the relevant...
For some time, I’ve had hosting with WebFaction for some personal python+django projects I was (well, am still…) working on while my main blog was hosted with ServerIntellect (a great hosting company, by the way). While WebFaction breaks one of...
Bear with me here for some politics 😉 Caught an interesting article last night regarding increased investment in a new weapons program to complement the decrease in the nuclear arsenal. Prompt Global Strike (wiki) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36253190/ns/us_news-washington_post/ The administration has asked Congress...