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The Offense of the Defense of Marriage
In a recent episode of Futurama, the professor is faced with a group protesting the teaching of evolution in school. The protest is lead by an orangutan, Dr. Banjo, who claims that if evolution (which is just a theory “like gravity or the shape of the Earth”) were fact, there would be no ‘missing link’ […]
Another Day, Another iPod
Apple -- or more precisely, Steve Jobs, announced a complete revamp of their iPod line-up this morning, and as usual they've managed to one-up the competition on all fronts in the battle for your digital pocket, creating new products too sexxay to keep hidden (though too pretty not to fear being mugged for) and dropping the prices at the same time.
I already own a Shuffle, a Nano, and an iPhone. I had an iPod "Classic" (as they're now called) but it died recently, and would not hold a charge no matter how hard I tried to make it do so....
More → Magnetosphere Beta Available
I must admit I'm a little bit jealous of all my friends being suddenly pregnant. I know at least four lady womens who have buns in the oven, and they are all about the "it feels like this!" and "I can't wait until it's out there!" and "I pee a lot!"
Well, I've been living the life of the dude who watches the mommy going through the birth pains thing on my own, sort of, and can now proudly announce the birth of a 319Kb bouncing baby application saddled with the mouth-twisting name of Magnetosphere.
What is it? It's an iTunes visualizer...
More → The Big Fat Open Directory in the Sky
My boyfriend, Robert, is very smart and very creative (and, you know, sexy) and makes very beautiful stuff out of pixels and sound. He uses Processing to program up these amazing interactive screen toys that respond to anything they hear, and you can use your keyboard to change the way they interact with those sounds, too.
Lately, he's been building very complicated and extremely processor-intensive media toys that the average -- or even the above-average -- computer has a hard time dealing with in real time, so he sets them up to render overnight and then he creates a Quicktime movie...
More → Repositioning glassdog, Part 2
Continued from Part 1
I always start my designs in Photoshop, and worry about how I'm going to accomplish it later. I mean, sure, I keep in mind the limitations and problems that HTML and buggy browsers provide, but when I'm setting out to redesign my own site, I'm usually more concerned with the "what" than the "how." Although I am also usually intent on exploring the capabilities of HTML, CSS and JavaScript when it's all put together toward a single goal.
That being said, I have to point out that I am not a JavaScript coder. I am a JavaScript borrower...
More → Repositioning glassdog.com, Part 1
Hello, again! It's been more than a few months since my last post here at glassdog, and I'm starting up again with a new/old direction; Web site design. Perhaps some of you remember many years ago when you could come visit glassdog and dig through Design-O-Rama and get some tips and tricks in the early days of HTML and tables and transparent GIFs and CSS when all it could really do well is help you define your typographic elements.
Times have changed greatly, and I've been trying to catch up and make sense of it all, and as I do I'm...
More → Mobile gaming and video and… everything
In the U.S., it's pretty unusual for mobile phone users to do anything other than talk or take pictures with their phones, and even picture-taking isn't as widespread as you think. But in the coming months and years, look for that to change dramatically.
Stage one: Mobile gaming. It won't be like video or computer gaming, because it can't be. Tiny screens, tiny buttons and tiny time frames all limit the cellphone to upstart games like Doom creator John Carmack's "Orcs and Elves," id Software's first new title since "Quake" debuted in 1996.
And what else can you do with a cellphone?...
More → New election; Same old enemy
You knew it was coming, and here it is right on time. The Republicans are scared of losing control of the House and Senate because they're just not very good at governing and upholding the Constitution and running a specious war and so forth, and their own constituents seem to be leaving their ranks. So what to do?
Why, drag out Queer Fear again! Just in time for the mid-terms, a group of religious leaders has opened up a new web site and signed an online petition calling for a Constitutional Amendment to bar same-sex marriage. While the timing isn't curious,...
More → Starblecchs
Reading this entry at Yahoo! News about a Temple University prof's multi-year Starbucks-based modern culture research project, the only thing that struck me as amazing was that there are 500 Starbucks in Tokyo.
"Is that all?" I thought to myself. "I think there are 500 Starbucks at the local mall."
And also: Blecch! Starbucks? Blecch! Peet's Coffee! (On those occasions when I am not near the Blue Bottle kiosk in Hayes Valley, of course.)
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More → The next Orbitz?
Liquid Cereal - The BevNET.com Review
"With a slight thickness to its body, this product also feels somewhat like cereal in your mouth. The greenish color is probably our biggest issue with this product as green colored milk is typically a sign of some sort of problem."
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More → Tolerating intolerance
Christian Evangelicals are taking their intolerance of homosexuals (Editors's Note: Lance Arthur is a professional homosexual) to the courts in order to make it legally acceptible not to accept others, starting with the gays.
In Georgia, a 22-year-old college student is suing her college, the Georgia Institute of Technology, to force it to revoke its policy of tolerance so that she's free to be intolerant. And the Christian Legal Society is a national group of what we will assume to be backwards-looking narrow-minded judges and lawyers to challenge tolerance policies in federal court.
Why do they think it's time now to strip...
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