Author: lhl

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  • Ben Fry, the other co-creator of Processing
  • Floatutorial – been pointed out everywhere else already, but I just got around to taking a look at it, and yeah, it’s good stuff (but you probably already knew that already)
  • Leader of the Free World – the title no doubt is giving RMS fits; a great article on Linus, the person
  • Cubs Fan – andy writes about the Cubs fan who interfered w/ the foul ball on Tuesday (and how the Chicago Sun-Times probably stepped over the line, publicizing most of his life; usenet apparently does the rest); see also: wil’s letter
  • Child’s Play – Would today’s tykes tolerate the classic games you grew up with? Kids do say the darndest things in this uncut version of an EGM article.now with a bonus game not included in the original story! — some great zingers in there
  • Spider-Man 2 will rock? – description of just finished trailer from Japan. From the talkback: quick, re-read this to yourself with an excited asian accent. it sounds awesome
  • Maya now Free for Personal Use – after the /.ing, you can download it for free (legally this time); oh wait, it’s just the PLE version. nm
  • RIAA Sequentially Repeating Edison’s Mistakes – ba-zing!
  • The Filthy Critic is Dead, Matt Weatherford is Not – I missed that the Filthy Critic ‘died’ this summer. Luckily, it was just the character and not the man behind him
  • iTunes for PC came out; they also partnered w/ Pepsi to give away 100M free songs, which is absolute genius. I’m surprised at the paucity of rare/alternate/remix/live tracks; I’d be much more likely to buy a song for $1/pop if it were something I couldn’t get a high quality version of otherwise
  • EFF: MP3 Caper – this weekend you can see my version (my student film was entitled ‘Fear to Fear’)
  • Nanodot – News and Discussion of Coming Technologies
  • PHP Scales As Well As Java – fLAME 0N!!!1!
  • Adobe and Macromedia copy protection – whoa, Macromedia’s going to write crap in my boot sector? Fuck that. (reply to comment on why not having anti-piracy measures can be a win-win)
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Taking a look at Dave Shea’s redesign (followup) of the new Mozilla website. It’s not horrible, but I’m not sure if it’s an improvement on the current design. I really liked the download buttons on the top left… However, my biggest concern is probably the lack of unity of the look. I’m counting half a dozen different line/bg treaments, round + square corners, flush polygons + borders + white spaced blocks, borders + no borders + dotted lines, 2 different arrow markers, background overlays on the left and right (both in the right ‘column’ (different spaces). Seems a bit of a mess.

But Dave is right, the new Firebird site is pretty… erhh, special.

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Abe Burmeister confirms Andy’s report of Paypal freezing BitPass’s account… Doesn’t surprise me at all considering Paypal’s past history.

10/14: received in email update from Patrick Breitenbach, Paypal employee (posted up b/c he left the same statement as a comment on Andy’s original post):

I’m a PayPal employee and wanted to update readers on the status of the PayPal/BitPass relationship. Over the weekend BitPass’ PayPal account was suspended pending assurances that BitPass and PayPal were in compliance with the US Patriot Act given the nature of the respective companies’ services. PayPal did not intend to disrupt payment processing and we are reviewing our procedures to ensure that this situation doesn’t happen in the future. PayPal has been in direct contact with BitPass on the matter and BitPass’ account was fully restored this morning. Contrary to speculation, this incident had nothing at all to do with competitive issues and in fact PayPal supports companies such as BitPass, Cybersource and Xoom that are building complementary services.