Well, that wasn’t even the best PowerPoint presentation I’ve sat through lately.
— Charlie Jane Anders quoting a friend right after watching The Matrix Reloaded, one of the Top 10 Science Fiction Disappointments of the Past Decade.
The CPM has done more to stunt innovation and drag down quality products than any single thing on the internet.
— Whiskey Media CEO Shelby Bonnie makes a plea to kill off the outdated practice of paying for online ad impressions. He doesn’t offer a replacement, rather a starting point for a method of measurement that works better for individual campaigns. (via Che Tamahori)
Be passionate about what you do. If you’re not passionate about design, or development, do us all a favor and start doing something else. Passion can lead to greatness.
— Noah Stokes writing about The State of the Web Design Profession. (via Darren Wood)
Children of Men features in part two of Wired’s Favourite Sci-Fi Flicks of All Time. Not a bad list — quite happy to see The Hidden in there — but where the hell is Primer? (Spaceballs can GTFO.)
Super Friends Guide to HTML5 Hiccups
Jeffrey Zeldman and friends with a guide to the major niggles and inconsistencies in the HTML5 specification. Lots of valuable clarification, common sense and good suggestions here people. Plus there’s a unicorn at the bottom.
The agency problem is the problem of doing one-off work in a world in which software is becoming a service that needs constant attention.
— Josh Porter identifies a key difference between the print and online service industries: ongoing maintenance.
By not supporting the practical format, Mozilla isn’t making a brave statement or taking a stand: they’re just keeping everyone on Flash and preventing meaningful adoption of HTML 5’s
<video>element.
— Marco Arment’s take on the new <video> element is, as always, on the money. The best way to support everyone for the foreseeable future is still H.264 in Flash for the majority, falling back to a raw H.264 file via an <embed> element for non-Flash devices such as the iPhone.
The contraction of space on a shrinking planet suggests a time, not far off, when there will be no remoteness: nowhere to become lost, nothing to be discovered, no escape, no palpable concept of distance, no peculiarity of dress — frightening thoughts for a traveler.
— Paul Theroux. (via José Barbosa)
