[2006/10/30]

→ Interestng article on optimizing page load times using some unexpected behaviors. These would probable not be useful for any proejcts I work on, but two interesting results: When serving many small objects you might actually bottleneck the page load on the users' upload bandwidth and using four hostnames instead of one for your objects give you more concurrent connections. (more...)

[2006/10/27]

→ The Haunted House down the street at CSV was actually kind of impressive last year.

[2006/10/19]

→ I'm surprised they didn't go for a name more like Coke Negative, but I guess Enviga isn't really in the Coke line of products. What it is: Part of what I can only assume will be a fast growing category: Negative calorie foods. Supposedly it burns 20-33 calories per can.

[2006/10/18]

→ Logozoa (and the LogoZoo) is a fun, playful project by Rob Kendall, a friend of my Fa's from the New School whose work appears in Hypertext 3.0. (more...)

[2006/10/05]

→ A new verison (4) of the Mac (PocketMac) desktop application for BlackBerry came out today. Haven't tested it yet.

[2006/10/03]

→ Yet another article about how Sooner or Later, All Electronic Gadgets Will Converge Into a Single Gadget, a premise I strongly disagree with. Someone writes one of these every few years and every time a new "Converged" gadget comes out it does some things better than the last disastrous attempt but always fails miserably compared to single-function devices. I think it is going to be a long, long time until these fantastical perfectly converged devices exist. If ever. This is becuase of the interface -- by far the largest problem. Think about how much harder mobile phones have gotten to use as they add more functions. While software and digital bits are malleable and flexible, the physical form factor and physical buttons are not. This is the classic Video Player vs Phone vs Email devices issue: Do you want a big screen that fills the while device? Do you want the device to fit on your pocket? Do you want a full keyboard? All of those are phyiscally incompatible.

[2006/10/02]

→ I did not know that there was a CERT advisory for Diebold machines (A vulnerability exists due to an undocumented backdoor account, which could a local or remote authenticated malicious user modify votes). Woah.