These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 04/10/08 … please enjoy:
Incredible! on Vimeo
Dig the runningman!
How the iPhone is killing the ‘Net | Network World
Zittrain argues that today?s Internet appliances such as the iPhone and Xbox hamper innovation. That?s because these locked-down devices prohibit the kind of tinkering by end users that made PCs and the Internet such a force of action and change.
Episodic Strong Bad Game Coming to WiiWare | Kotaku
Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People, a series of episodic games for WiiWare, is coming to the Wii this June, Telltale Games announced today. The game will include plenty of dialog-based puzzles, the ability to make prank phone calls, and more!
Ugly? Adorable? | Uglorable!
Adorable pictures of “Ugly” animals! Super cute/ugly!
Arlington Cemetery Makes Historic Exception for World War I Veteran | Salem-News.Com
Buckles did not qualify for internment at Arlington, so Ross Perot, former U.S. Presidential candidate, took the cause to the White House. In less than two weeks, he had succeeded in securing an internment for Frank Buckles at Arlington National Cemetery.
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These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 04/07/08 … please enjoy:
Meet ApriPoko, Toshiba's channel surfing helper-bot | Engadget
ApriPoko is capable of learning how to control electronics by watching you and asking questions about your behavior. When you use an infrared device, the robot senses the signal and asks the user "What did you just do?"
MySong: Automatic Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies | Microsoft Research
MySong, introduced in our CHI 2008 paper, automatically chooses chords to accompany a vocal melody, allowing a user with no musical training to rapidly create accompanied music.
CERN creates a new super-fast internet, invites tons of people to a deathmatch | Engadget
Apparently, when CERN isn't colliding particles (and ripping massive holes in the space-time continuum), it's busy working on a new "internet" which will be 10,000 times faster than our current version. The project is known as "the grid."
Gator blood touted as potential source of lifesaving drugs | Palm Beach Post
Someday an alligator might save your life. Researchers in Louisiana say they've discovered unique antibiotic proteins in the blood of American alligators that can kill a wide variety of deadly bacteria, halt the spread of common infections and perhaps ev
Magic Pen by Alejandro Guillen | Fizzlebot
This is pretty much just an online clone of Crayon Physics, but is pretty fun!
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I found this on Fazed today… the Coolest Guy on Earth, check it out (click the link for bigger):
How cool is he? Let us count the ways he is awesome (thanks Cheatch):
- Cigar
- Parrot
- Motorcycle
- Sunglasses
- Goatee
- Headphones
Sorry, I don’t think anyone can compete with that.
Update1 - Okay, so it seems to have some troubles with certain buttons on my site, as well as with Gmail chat. From what I can tell, Gmail is set to the “Older Version” mode, with no way to change back. Also, no javascript buttons/rollovers seem to work for me. Interesting.
Update 2 - It appears to have to do with Javascript, although I don’t know what yet (I’ll have a post when I do). I’m currently on the latest version (JRE 1.6.0_05-b13) and it says it’s enabled. Oddly when using the “Emulate IE7″ mode, it causes everything rendered in IE8 to work again, although Gmail looks a bit funky now (see image below). Very odd…
Update 3 - Installed on my Vista system and the problem remains. I’ve now decided that it’s not a problem with Javascript, but perhaps just an issue in how Internet Explorer 8 renders certain code (other sites with issues don’t use Javascript). Now, the weird thing… my new updated design passes both the “Valid CSS” check and the “Valid XHTML 1.1 Strict” test… and it is completely broken in IE8. I’m going to hope that there is just a problem with the program, and not something perhaps worse (web designers having to re-design sites for IE6 and IE7 know what I mean). Screenshots below. Let’s hope my next IE post is good news!
Get it while it’s hot, folks (this was just released today!):
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm
The beta comes in the following flavors:
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Vista x64 Edition and Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Window XP SP2
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Server 2003 SP2
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Server 2003 SP2 x64 Edition and Windows XP SP2 Pro x64 Edition
Links are all currently active, so go have fun! For those wanting some info, here is a link to all the new goodies you get:
Internet Explorer 8 - New Features
EDIT - Installed (Windows XP SP3):
Updates soon!
