While in the hospital with our perfect new baby, we were given a catalogue for a photographer that takes baby pictures. One of the services offered is creepy beauty-magazine-like, skin smoothing, blemish removing, photo retouching.
Just in case your baby wasn’t already born with a body-image problem.
The 2008 Mozilla Summit is happening in Whistler, British Columbia, this week (I was going to be there but had a baby instead). A massive rock-slide has closed the road from Whistler to Vancouver, stranding loads of travellers.
Resourceful nerds that they are, the Mozillians have filed a bug in Bugzilla to address the situation.
A summer session of Acts of Volition Radio with 2/3rds Canadian content.
For more, see the previous Acts of Volition Radio sessions or subscribe to the Acts of Volition Radio podcast feed.
Speakergeek (or “Dennis”, as I call him) has written a lovely letter and playlist for the guy who stole his iPod.
Feist on Sesame Street: “1, 2, 3, 4, chickens just back from the shore”
Spotted in iTunes on wifi in the San Francisco International Airport:
The plane was boarding and I didn’t have time to open his collection to see what he likes.
I think almost any video on YouTube would benefit from having a “play at double-speed” button. Who has time to watch a full 25-second video in real-time?
While I’m (mostly) joking here, this is the kind of thing you’d actually be able to do if the video weren’t in a proprietary Flash player/format – though we don’t have a standard alternative, yet.
I’ve got a nice ergonomic laptop bag I don’t need for sale on eBay. Buy it! Update: SOLD!
BoingBoing asks “Are musicians owed royalties for performance of their music in torture chambers?”
“That’s one of the great contradictions of white people. For the most part, all the world’s ills are based on large, evil corporations — government corruption, American expansion through the use of corporate contracts, pollution, globalization, every bad thing that’s happened. But if it happens with nice design, it’s acceptable.” ― Christian Lander, the Stuff White People Like guy, in an interview with Salon.
