rants

Dear Digg, Please Fix the Podcasting Section

Digg.com is probably my favorite website, I usually land there first before checking real news websites, and before any social networking sites. I love the news/images/videos sections now and how they're not as separate as before. But the Podcasting section was added several months ago and has remained rather useless in my opinion for discovering the weeks best content.

Video and Smart Playlists on iPhone & iPod Touch

Okay, now that I've had the magical iPhone for a few weeks and the love affair with the device is over, I have two major complaints:

  1. Videos do not play in playlists
  2. Smart playlists do not sync properlly

A McDonalds Every 26.6 Miles

Baby Ronald

Still no regular internet access, hence lack of blog updates. Here's an interesting tidbit though:

How a Computer Understands Pixels (In Plain English)

ET. Best Game Ever.

Warning! Extreme geekery up ahead!
In a recent conversation I had with a friend, the subject came up about how a computer knows how to display certain colors for certain pixels. I've dappered around with Max/MSP, and in doing so understand at least the basics of how this works. It's like this:

Why Open Source Works

I'm sure the topic of this post has been written a thousand times, but following up on a recent conversation I had with some friends I thought I'd throw my two cents in to the internets.

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