phonezilla, presented by Paul McAleer

YouTube’s new dynamic closed captioning is very very very much in beta.

Cool - the new @tedleo album is available online today at @amazonmp3 and lala!

Giving the latest by my fave @tedleo a spin - _The Brutalist Bricks_. Stream it for free, buy it Tues.: http://www.myspace.com/tedleo

as many of you have guessed, air care will no longer be part of the method line, but you’ll still be able to find our air care products online and at a few retail partners. if you love our air care products, BUY THEM NOW because we don’t have any plans to reintroduce them.

Gosh darn it.

♫ Berry - Poi Dog Pondering http://lala.com/zjGfI (uses the same drum intro as Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition,” and that’s why I love it.)

As you can tell I’m into Poi Dog Pondering lately. _7_, their latest, is listenable, catchy, and diverse.

(via suttonhoo)

♫ Lemon Drop Man - Poi Dog Pondering http://lala.com/znoLI

If you were hoping the game would involve a cartoon-like Christopher Kimball swinging through the kitchen by a prehensile bow-tie, you might be disappointed.

Bummer.

mrgan:

I mean, where to start.

1. The new version of Microsoft Visio - which, in case you’re not cursed with a sucky office job, is a very popular diagramming app - includes a rip-off of Panic’s Transmit truck.

2. They didn’t just copy the icon, of course - they first ran it through the world’s worst autotracer (check out that front grill!)

3. All the other icons in the app are of this “quality”.

4. Visio also includes a groundbreaking feedback feature called Send-A-Smile/Send-A-Frown. It is of similar quality as well.

(via Cabel)

Filed under “Things that make me sad.”

Engineer 1: Man, I tell you this browser rocks.
Engineer 2: It does! It’s better than that crappy RAZR! High tech!
Engineer 1: For sure. Check this out - I can enter text in an HTML textarea and it’s super easy!
Engineer 2: And you can use the trackball to move around in that textarea!
Engineer 1: That’s right! The trackball is maybe the best part of our whole UI and it works great with textareas!
Engineer 1: Hey, what happens if a user needs to move over just one letter?
Engineer 2: They use the trackball of course.
Engineer 1: Perfect! But you know it’s not that precise, right? Like if someone is scrolling to the right and misses slightly… like just nudging the trackball up or down a bit… what happens?
Engineer 2: Well, we bump them back to the top or bottom of the whole textarea’s content.
Engineer 1: Why?
Engineer 2: Dunno. That’s how it was coded.
Engineer 1: Huh. Well, do we have cursor keys or something?
Engineer 2: No.
Engineer 1: So… huh. This trackball isn’t precise enough to really support letter-by-letter movement in a textarea, but we’re going to use it anyway.
Engineer 2: Right.
Engineer 1: And is that right - textareas don’t wrap text at all?
Engineer 2: Uh… yeah, they don’t.
Engineer 1: So someone could enter a paragraph as one really really long line of text, find a mistake about 500 characters in, and lose their place if they don’t precisely nudge the trackball in the right direction while editing a typo?
Engineer 2: That’s right.
Engineer 1: What about letting them enter a full-screen text editing mode, where we expand the textarea to fit the screen, wrap text, and let them really control what’s happening?
Engineer 2: But it passed our unit tests.
Engineer 1: Ah well. We’ll fix it later.

Scott Brown: drives a truck, ducks a question.

Republicans rip on Bunning | Reuters

successisnotanoption:

OK Go will never be my favorite band, but they are the undisputed champions of one-shot analog music video awesomeness I’ll buy their record just because this sort of work needs to be rewarded.

Good job, OK Go.

Like some commenters, I call BS on this.

The fact of the matter is that healthcare IT systems are a patchwork without any meaningful standards across the board and ugly, hard-to-use “solutions” from a number of vendors. (Ever been to a doctor’s office and see them have no trouble entering something in your e-chart? Yeah, me either.)

I do wish the deadline had stiffer consequences versus just kinda suggesting they do this or lose funding.

Via the tumblr sidebar. Well worth your time.

The number of positive stories about Ebert are just heart warming, demonstrating how much of an impact “just some movie reviewer” can have.