December 2009
9 posts
stevenf:
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Here is another example of why I can’t really use Android, despite having mixed feelings about the iPhone App Store.
Here I am trying to view a particular HTML email in the stock email client.
merlin:
Tegan and Sara - “Hell”
Liking this new one from Tegan and Sara, produced by Mr. Walla.
Unrelated. A flat in San Francisco. 7:30 AM. MERLIN holds Shazam up to speaker streaming John in the Morning. He yells back and forth with MAD in the kitchen:
MERLIN: I forget. Are Tegan and Sara sisters or lovers? MAD: Sisters. Actually, twins, I think. MERLIN: Right. Like Ackbar and Jeff. MAD:...
Recommendation: Disable Invisible Flash
rentzsch:
To this day, I still question a small change we made back in ClickToFlash 1.4: enabling loading of invisible flash by default.
“Invisible” Flash are small flash views that are ≤ 8px × 8px. We choose 8px based on numerous bug reports about sound/music sites not working with ClickToFlash, and discovered most of these sites utilize Javascript-controlled faceless players as a sort of an...