A friend just wrote a few words about how Facebook has utterly changed what war means to soldiers and citizens back home alike. Short and worth the read.
01.06.09 | # | Start the conversation
Dan Bowling's Journal Entries
My Personal Browser War
I’ve been a proud Firefox user since, well, it wasn’t called Firefox. For a long time, it was the clear leader in the browser market. When version 2 was too outdated to use, and version 3 was buggier than ever, I switched to my OS’s native browser—Safari.
I’ve been pretty happy with Safari for a while. It is speedy, has a great UI, and just oozes excellent typography (something that I have not ignored.) Lately it’s been forgetting my saved passwords which has been frustrating to say the least. At work I use Chrome quite a bit, and I enjoy it. Chrome is (blazingly) fast at JavaScript heavy apps that I use all the time (like Gmail or Google Reader.) I’m also digging the single input search/address bar. But with both Safari and Chrome the lack of quality add-ons is killing me, and I start longing for my trusty Firefox again.
Does anyone have some advice for a user who’s lost his path in the second iteration of the browser wars? Should I forgive Firefox for it’s crashes of old? Is it time to try something else, like Camino or Opera?
01.04.09 | # | 2 Comments
I occasionally listen to the podcast for This American Life. It’s pretty good, and I recommend that you listen to the episode about a few people ruining it for the rest of us. What I especially liked was the single family that caused an outbreak of the Measles because they didn’t vaccinate their children. Some of these things are really about social responsibility.
01.02.09 | # | Start the conversation
Who do you think wins?
12.31.08 | # | Start the conversation
This HD video taken from the Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede disappearing behind it’s parent planet is remarkable to the point of looking like it’s computer generated.
12.28.08 | # | Start the conversation
Fray Magazine lol
I just ran across Fray Magazine’s website this morning. The latest issue is called Geek — True Stories of People Taking Things Too Seriously. Amazing!
Be sure to check out the Storm Troopers in Love article.
Does anyone else know of any other amazing online magazines?
12.27.08 | # | Start the conversation
Some perspective from the Late Late Show.
12.26.08 | # | Start the conversation
Strangers Touching
Richard Renaldi spent a year on self assignment asking total strangers to touch. Then he took their photo.
The results are touching.
Via Very Short List.
11.30.08 | # | Start the conversation
Thanksgiving Day Parade
The best Turkey Day parade float ever:
11.28.08 | # | Start the conversation
Beautiful Building
Such a beautiful building, but an even better video.
56 Leonard Street from david basulto on Vimeo.
Via.
11.28.08 | # | Start the conversation
I was going through my photos today clearing space on my hard drive and I found this nifty photo of an auction business in Butte, Montana: ebutte Auctions.
I’ve been debating notifying Ebay and letting them know, but for now, it’s worth a laugh.
Seriously though, this kind of copyright infringement can get a business in some real trouble. I don’t know how they ever thought that it might work.
11.27.08 | # | Start the conversation
New trailer for BSG
11.24.08 | # | Start the conversation
It looks like the Star Wars spin-off world has been pretty active. Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken just released Star Wars Episode II (sadly, with ads) and I just spotted a trailer for an upcoming movie of a bunch of kids who break into George Lucas’s ranch to steal a copy of the movie before it is released.
11.23.08 | # | Start the conversation
How ESPN is powered
The best sports commercial ever. Americans wouldn’t have as many problems if we had to work for our tv and computer time like this.
11.22.08 | # | Start the conversation
Trans Siberian Orchestra
I can’t wait to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra when I am in Saint Paul. I’m just really upset about their camera policy:
Camera phones and disposable cameras are permitted. Audio recording and cameras with a detachable lens or lens of more than two inches are prohibited.
Ah well. The Blackberry camera phone will have to do.
Update: Now that I have seen the concert, it’s a good thing I didn’t borrow a point and shoot. Even camera phones weren’t allowed during the concert. Bleh.
11.22.08 | # | Start the conversation
It’s official, Dark Matter just came out of the cold.
“It comes in a ‘magic volume’ which happens to correspond to an amount which is 30 million times the mass of the Sun.
“It looks like you cannot ever pack it smaller than about 300 parsecs - 1,000 light-years; this stuff will not let you. That tells you a speed actually - about 9km/s - at which the dark matter particles are moving because they are moving too fast to be compressed into a smaller scale.
“These are the first properties other than existence that we’ve been able determine.”
11.21.08 | # | Start the conversation
Ohhh. I can’t wait.
11.18.08 | # | Start the conversation
Just discovered Chris Gilmour has some very interesting cardboard art.
11.17.08 | # | Start the conversation
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11.17.08 | # | Start the conversation
Call for Twitter help
Does anyone know how I can set up Twitter to notify me of new @danbowling replies?
11.16.08 | # | 2 Comments