two scoops

Jul 1

“Each full page is a giant image – there are actually two images for each page: one for landscape and one for portrait mode. Yes, I’m laughing on the inside too. There is no text or HTML, just one gigantic image.”

Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

Talking about the Wired iPad app/magazine and why it’s bloated to 500MB.

From the Sidewalk to Your Living Room

Reminds me of Joe and Ann and their curbside treasures.

“Vulcans are renowned throughout the galaxy for their compilers and algorithm libraries. You would be crazy to use a non-Vulcan regular expression engine. But they are equally as famous for their terrible user interfaces, where they lack objective metrics to optimize. And don’t ask them to build something without first having a precise and complete specification, unless you’re into that nerve pinch thing. Luckily for the galactic software industry, there is an even larger community of programmers who originated on the Planet of the Apes.” Vulcans vs. Apes

Jun 10

So meta it hurts. No, really it’s headache inducing.

Jun 2

Scan for Viruses from the Windows AutoPlay Dialog

Useful reghack to check out iffy thumbdrives and the like.

May 19

Reclaim (Facebook) Privacy

catharsis:

This bookmarklet by Matt Pizzimenti allows you to easily see which of your Facebook privacy settings might not be as secure as you think.

For more info, check Twitter (@reclaimprivacy) and/or the source code on Github.

/via Teehan+Lax

May 18

“But therein lies the rub. All of my open-sourced projects share two attributes. First, the source code is extremely stylized and meant to be /read/ more than /used/. They are literary arguments in code much more than a useful piece of infrastructure.”

Magic Scaling Sprinkles

That’s definitely one way to communicate.

May 17

via www.smbc-comics.com

May 12

“That is the web: The beautiful interconnection of navigable content. If your website locks content away in a container, outside the reach of hyperlinks, you’re not building any kind of ‘web’ app. You’re doing something else.”

Understand The Web · Ben Ward

It’s fun when your toys can play together.

May 5

“Of the big five, only two browsers currently use this protection on Windows; Internet Explorer (7 and 8), and Chrome. For this reason alone, I’d be hesitant to use Safari, Opera, or Firefox. Their security track record isn’t really any better than Microsoft’s, and the consequent exploitability of these browsers is much greater.”

Peter Bright, Arstechnica - On Mandatory Integrity Control enabled by Chrome and IE7/8/9 on Vista and Win7.

I wonder what the holdup is with WebKit and FF?