Rob Davis on NPR’s Future Tense about the Firefox New York Times ad campaign
This song about a plate of nachos sent in by a reader is surprisingly amusing (reminds me of Adam Sandler)
Icon Illustration In Practice
Jakub Steiner is an artist that works on Linux icons and interfaces at Novell. He is responsible for much of the look and feel of the Gnome icon set.
This week, he posted a fascinating movie of his illustration process. He was drawing a small dog/puppy icon for a notification panel applet and recorded the entire illustration process.
As he suggests, you should watch the video at a high speed, since it would be a bit long to watch the whole thing in real-time (about 10 minutes). I’ve re-encoded his video at a faster speed: download the high-speed version of Jakub’s video.
More rumblings about Adobe making open-source moves and some apt speculation from Novell’s Garrett LeSage
CBC is experimenting with Ogg Vorbis free/open audio streaming – excellent! (hat tip to nathan for calling them on their proprietary formats)
CNN: Election Tied!?!
According to CNN, as of this morning, the election is exactly tied!
I did a short interview with ITBusiness.ca about Firefox
Dan James thinks about the future of the Mozilla Foundation
PBS Frontline: Rumsfeld’s War
Watch the PBS documentary in small streaming format from PBS.org or download the higher-quality bittorrent version
The PBS Frontline special, Rumsfeld’s War, details the internal power struggles that have shaped American foreign policy over the last ten years. The documentary is available, as one web forum poster put it, “…in Gameboy size resolution and s-s-s-s-streaming format…” at the PBS website. For a significantly better viewing experience, there a complete bittorrent version (bittorrent file) with much higher quality.
The documentary is striking for several reasons. First, the internal political posturing that characterizes the most powerful positions in U.S. foreign policy is as fascinating as any Hollywood war drama.
Second, the line between fiction and reality is eerily faint when all of your information comes through a small color screen in your living room. Last week, I was struck by the lack of contrast between the depiction of the Middle East conflict (or as Jon Stewart calls it, “Mess-o-potamia”) as depicted in the NBC drama, The West Wing, and the nightly America television news.
Regardless, the PBS special, Rumsfeld’s War, is worth watching.