Month: July 2009

YouTube – Ancilla Tilla strips for Wakker Dier Ad of a model stripping then being gutted by a fisherman to protest live gutting of fish. (tags: model fishing argiculture protest advertising video animalrights) EBay Says It Has No Deal With G.M. – NYTimes.com Really GM this is how you are going to start off, selling […]

MediaPost Publications Facebook Sued For Click Fraud 07/10/2009 "Sports site RootZoo has sued Facebook for click fraud, alleging that the social networking site charged for more clicks than actually occurred. The lawsuit comes several weeks after Facebook users began flooding message boards with complaints about overcharging. " The first of many I'm sure. (tags: facebook […]

BBC NEWS | Technology | TalkTalk drops ad tracking firm "UK internet service provider TalkTalk has pulled the plug on its agreement with online behaviour tracking firm Phorm." Another ISP goes down. (tags: isp internet technology privacy phorm advertising) Fox's Napolitano falsely claimed "[t]here was no testimony whatsoever in court" in GM bankruptcy | Media […]

Coding Horror: Code: It's Trivial "Writing code is trivial. And fun. And something I continue to love doing. But if you really want your code to be successful, you'll stop coding long enough to do all that other, even more trivial stuff around the code that's necessary to make it successful." The code is trivial […]

Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate – Ars Technica "The HTML 5 video element has the potential to liberate streaming Internet video from plugin prison, but a debate over which codec to define in the standard is threatening to derail the effort. Ars takes a close look at the HTML 5 codec controversy and […]

Powell Hits Back at Limbaugh: Calling Sotomayor a 'Reverse Racist' Is 'Nonsense' | PEEK | AlterNet "Powell said Sotomayor is a "gifted" and an "accomplished woman" with "a judicial record that seems to be balanced and tries to follow the law." " Good job Powell. (tags: colinpowell politics satomayor supremecourt racisim rushlimbaugh) Modernizr "Modernizr does […]

mosaic01.jpg (JPEG Image, 4959×3305 pixels) – Scaled (25%) Really cool mosaic photo. (tags: photography) Apple, Acer and…Arrington? – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com "The purpose of the CrunchPad will be very simple: surfing the Web. Turn it on and up comes a browser. It will not have a hard drive or keyboard, though users can plug […]

Daring Fireball: Creating Ogg Theora Files on Mac OS X With ffmpeg2theora To use the new video tag and support Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari:<video> <source src="example-video.mp4" type="video/mp4" /> <source src="example-video.ogv" type="video/ogg" /> </video> (tags: video html5 mac osx mp4 ogg apple firefox browsers) BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Moon probe returns first […]

FactCheck.org: Was Obama rude to wounded veterans during a visit to the National Naval Medical Center? " It's true that Borden's father, David Borden Sr., initially wrote a personal e-mail about the visit, according to Master Sgt. Joseph Liptok, the deputy director of the Marine Corps liaison office at the medical center. But, Liptok told […]

Book Review – 'Masters of Sex,' a Biography of William Masters and Virginia Johnson by Thomas Maier – Review – NYTimes.com "It was in medical school that he conceived the idea of becoming a great sex researcher. Doctors knew nothing of human sexuality except what Alfred Kinsey was recording in the 1940s and early ’50s, […]