May7
Chris Mills looks at Dragonfly, Opera’s new Firebug-ish developer panel. It’s not Firebug, but it’s much closer thereto than the competition from IE and Safari.
(0)May6
Mark says it best, once again. Mozilla’s absence from the Cannonball Run–style race to comply with Acid 3 was disappointing. They’d have come in third place, but that’s not the point. If you play, you win. If you make excuses, grumble about the rubric, or quibble over minutiae, you lose.
(0)Apr25
It’s never an encouraging sign when a film about the murder of John Lennon has audiences rooting for the climactic shooting, just so a dreary, sordid, worthless film will come to a merciful end.
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Apr10
GitHub just went live. No invite required. Sign up and start hacking on Prototype!
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Apr8
While I don’t agree with the central premise, I think this exploration of Ruby’s flaws is mosly fair and accurate. Individual developers may decide whether it’s worth it to use Ruby in spite of these problems. But the claims made in this section are plainly ridiculous. As ridiculous as asserting, with a straight face, that OpenOffice would be as good as its Microsoft colleague if it simply adopted an animated paper clip.
(3)Apr4
This is the show I’d hoped 24 would be — a high-concept, smart, solve-the-mystery serial with an ass-kicking protagonist. This is the show that pre-empted Lost one winter and never got a fair shake. It lasted only 13 episodes, but that’s the perfect length for a story like this. I love this show dearly.
(2)Apr3
I’ve begun to suspect that Mike Gravel’s run at the presidency is just a cleverly disguised experiment in conceptual art.
The UK is unveiling some new currency hotness. H&FJ place things in perspective. I’m willing to tolerate the giant purple numeral if only they’d give the one-dollar bill the same makeover as the rest of our bills. Wouldn’t it be nice if our currency, y’know, matched?
Apr2
After nearly two years of complications from thyroid cancer, Roger Ebert will soon resume writing movie reviews on a regular basis. Ebert’s one of my favorite living writers — he articulates his love of movies so well that I enjoy reading even those reviews I disagree with. I can’t wait until he’s back on the job.
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