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Month: December 2008
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links for 2008-12-18
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links for 2008-12-17
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"He said there is a belief that WoW players cannot give 100% because their focus is elsewhere, their sleeping patterns are often not great, etc."
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links for 2008-12-16
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"The picaresque novel (Spanish: "picaresca", from "pícaro", for "rogue" or "rascal") is a popular subgenre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and depicts in realistic and often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society. As indicated by its name, this style of novel originated in Spain, where it was possibly influenced by Arabic literature (specifically the maqama genre, which also featured the episodic exploits of a rogue character), flourished in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and continues to influence modern literature."
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"Ambient, experimental vocal music written to accompany Neal Stephenson's novel Anathem. Proceeds from this CD are being donated to the Long Now Foundation."
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The world's largest, most comprehensive illustrated Bible.
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links for 2008-12-15
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity and combinations of these. Following these guidelines will also often make your Web content more usable to users in general.
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links for 2008-12-14
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links for 2008-12-13
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I could be wrong, but I believe this is one of the most complete collection of Bettie Page online.
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links for 2008-12-12
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"Of course it’s crazy to imagine retargeting our industrial capacity in such dramatic fashion, and turning it on a dime, isn’t it? "
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Apple, AppStore and Book Banning
Apple gets into the book-banning business
Apple’s refused to allow an application called “Comic Reader” in the iTunes Store because they don’t like the comic book it ships with — effectively, they’ve gotten into the business of banning or approving literature.
Apple Forfeits eBooks By Banning A Comic Book!
Who at Apple has been set up to vet material? Specifically, why was Murderdrome vetted as an application and not as a publication? Apple has a Books category in the App Store. That’s where Murderdrome should have been placed.
The whole approval process is a problem with iPhone/iPod touch and all console games, Wii, PS3/2, Xbox, that require software distribution to go through the
device creator vs. third parties like with PCs. For
developers it is a bit more of a problem with Apple, the
vetting process doesn’t occur til after the app is created then submitted.
Traditionally with game consoles the original device creator, Sony,
Nintento, Microsoft, work fairly closely with developers from the
beginning so you know that your game/app is going to be allowed. Also with Apple the reality is there are not many consistent
guidelines other than “don’t compete with unless you are really
popular”. Which translates to your web browser, Opera Mini, will not
be allowed but a Gmail client will be allowed.
One intresting way around all this is to not make it an installed app
but run it through a website. Doesn’t always work with the iPod Touch
but does for an iPhone, one of the things I like about the iPhone vs.
the iPod Touch. Another way around would be to release the app with something more “friendly” and imediately allow for downloading the more questionable stuff like Murderdrome.
Regardless it is some good press for Infurious Comics.
And when all is said and done I still hold that the iPhone/iPod Touch maybe what makes eBooks and eComics work and I still want one of each 🙂