I do my own stunts

loved Emerson Fittipaldi e George Harrison on Boxee

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:14:23 -0400

loved Emerson Fittipaldi e George Harrison on Boxee

test

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:33:03 -0400

"In recent years, people have gotten into the habit of using “passion” as a drop-in substitute for..."

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:52:48 -0500

“In recent years, people have gotten into the habit of using “passion” as a drop-in substitute for “thing I like doing on a Saturday afternoon while I have my Mint Julep.””

- Paid to Eat Pancakes: The Truth about “Passions”

"So what’s left to me is to take comfort in the fact that eventually Facebook is likely to go the way..."

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:23:46 -0500

“So what’s left to me is to take comfort in the fact that eventually Facebook is likely to go the way of all companies that are stupid versions of the Web.”

- http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/01/19/and-now-for-no-particular-reason-a-rant-about-facebook/

"I suggest adopting the following not-quite-boycott of Hollywood: never pay to see a Hollywood movie..."

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:12:13 -0400

“

I suggest adopting the following not-quite-boycott of Hollywood: never pay to see a Hollywood movie unless you have specific indication from a trustworth source that it isn’t crap.

Since nearly all Hollywood movies are crap, due to the system that produces them, this will have practical results almost equivalent to a total boycott of Hollywood.

”

- blog.reddit — what’s new on reddit: RMS AMA

What Blackbird Pie could learn from QuoteURL

Tue, 04 May 2010 19:16:16 -0400

[Disclaimer: I am the author of QuoteURL.]

Twitter have just released Blackbird Pie, a tool to quote tweets that generates html code that can be embedded on your website. Much like another tool to quote tweets that generates html code that can be embedded on your website, QuoteURL.

I think this is great news, and somehow a recognition that the concept of having a simple way to quote tweets and reference twitter conversation (other than screenshots) is a valid concern and an useful feature to have :)

I feel flattered, and I want QuoteURL to become obsolete. I am not one of those developers that oppose Twitter filling up their own holes. The only reason that this open-source project exists, is because I needed (back in the days) to scratch an itch of mine, and if a company with full-time employees want to take the challenge of keeping such a tool available… good for us!

However, Blackbird Pie is still in it’s infancy and lacks some important features, not quite ready to replace, or even compete with quoteurl… So here are my small list of suggestions on how to improve Blackbird Pie:

1. Providing just the HTML code is not enough to ensure reliable quotes

On @twittermedia’s announcement they mention fidelity as one of the advantages of such tool:

Have you ever been quoted in a news article or blog post? If so, you know it can be a strange experience: you recognize your words, but they never sound quite right. It’s the peril of transcription.

…

Finally: quotes that everybody can agree on.

Yes, copying the html code of a tweet will give you the exact words used by a person at a given time. The problem is: one can still intentionally put words on other people’s mouth by simply editing the text.

How QuoteURL addresses this issue:

Every quote generated by QuoteURL has a permanent link, an individual page on quoteurl.com with an unique URL, and all generated embed code contains a link back to this page a “this quote[linked] was generated by quoteurl” small text at the end.

This link goes to a static page that cannot be edited or deleted by anyone other than the owner of that particular appengine account (which in the case of quoteurl.com is myself, but could be any other trusted domain since QuoteURL is open source and can be installed on any other server).

It is still possible for anyone to edit the code that will go on the page, but you can’t generate a quoteURL page that links to the correct person account on twitter with your fake text. So your only choice in this case is to remove the “this quote” link part at the end of your fake quote. And people can get used to be suspicious about QuoteURL quotes that doesn’t link back to the proper originals.

2. Ability to quote multiple tweets from different people

Referencing a single tweet is a task that can be achieved by simply by copying the contents of the tweet and linking back to the permalink of the original. The real value of a quoting tool is embedding conversations and sets of related tweets, something that can be manually done too, but becomes incredibly easier with a tool for that.

3. “Auto-Bake” or Drag and Drop Tweet links from your page and Twitter Search

This is something that makes batch including tweets from one window to another really quick on QuoteURL, the text field where you paste the tweet links detects when it’s content size grows suddenly, assumes that it was a paste or drag of a link and clicks the “Add” button for you (Bake button on Blackbird Pie).

Also, since Blackbird Pie is a tool provided by Twitter itself, it could use the twitter home and twitter search websites inside the same page instead of on a popup window, a true Split Screen mode that is not possible on QuoteURL’s case due to the iframe buster code that got in place back when a “clickjacking” virus was spreading on their service.

4. Option for unstyled embed codes

Inline-styled quote html embed codes can be very large, can break the layout of the pages where it is pasted and sometimes depending on the blogging platform can turn into a very ugly result because the publishing systems strip out some styling tags and change attributes automatically.

How QuoteURL adresses this issue

I’ve tested the styled embed codes in a bunch of different blogging tools and I have tweaked the code to workaround some of the auto tag-stripping that goes on on the most popular blogging platforms, however even with a well crafted html code, it is simply unpredictable how your code will behave on someone else’s page template and css. So, on every quote page, right below the embed code copy textarea you have a checkbox and can opt for the unstyled version of that quote, which means only the HTML tags with the classnames, it is up to the site author to style the quotes.

As a result of that option, people can have smaller embed codes and avoid redundancy of styling code on their pages.

Conclusion

Blackbird Pie is promising, and I hope to see it evolving fast, it would be nice to see if it will get some API love as well, as a developer I am looking forward to that. I am also willing to help improve BP‘s script with anything within my reach, including borrowing code from QuoteURL, since it is already open-source (BSD Licensed). Overall I am excited with the nice reception this tool/hack is getting and I hope to be able to participate on that conversation :)

fuckyeahdementia: metal

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:22:51 -0500

fuckyeahdementia:

metal

Five Years After the awesome Hey Jude and Total Eclipse of the...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:58:00 -0500

Five Years

After the awesome Hey Jude and Total Eclipse of the Heart flowcharts, I decided that Bowie deserved some flowchart love too, so I made this one for the chorus of one of my favorite songs, with guitar chords since I am learning how to play it :P (click to see it bigger)

Also available in SVG

"We think open is better than closed — not because closed is inherently bad, but because when..."

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:41:44 -0400

“We think open is better than closed — not because closed is inherently bad, but because when it’s easy for users to leave your product, there’s a sense of urgency to improve and innovate in order to keep your users. When your users are locked in, there’s a strong temptation to be complacent and focus less on making your product better.”

- Google Public Policy Blog: Introducing DataLiberation.org: Liberate your data!

10 of my sxsw picks

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:47:52 -0400

Dorm fire in New York University (via Pollario)

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:48:07 -0400

Dorm fire in New York University (via Pollario)

doutromundo: guz: kaluluwa: Free Hugs Prank - $2 Deluxe...

Fri, 22 May 2009 12:08:23 -0400

doutromundo:

guz: kaluluwa:

Free Hugs Prank - $2 Deluxe Hugs!

Awh, How Cute: A Little LEGO Nintendo - Geekologie

Sun, 17 May 2009 14:01:45 -0400

Awh, How Cute: A Little LEGO Nintendo - Geekologie

"After founding a lost onion on my fridge, and noticing that it wanted to live. I went through a..."

Fri, 15 May 2009 20:08:52 -0400

“After founding a lost onion on my fridge, and noticing that it wanted to live. I went through a journey of experiments and photo-shooting until I finally gave it to my mother as a Mother’s Day gift :)”

- House Onion - a set on Flickr

…oh and btw, #fixreplies on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Fri, 15 May 2009 01:35:24 -0400

…oh and btw, #fixreplies on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

"The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from..."

Sat, 02 May 2009 18:20:16 -0400

“The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can.”

- Running from Camera

Nice little red ridning hood animation! Slagsmålsklubben -...

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:39:43 -0400

Nice little red ridning hood animation!

Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

"Sometimes our actors did not even know how many cameras were trained on them,” Trost confided. “We..."

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:15:42 -0400

““Sometimes our actors did not even know how many cameras were trained on them,” Trost confided. “We have one scene where Jason is fighting off a dozen other guys. Right as we are calling ‘Roll camera’ and about to call ‘Action,’ Jason yells out ‘Where is all the cameras?’ And I yelled back to him, ‘There are 12 of them out there, man, just go.’ ””

- Canon’s XH A1 and VIXIA HF10 HD Camcorders Used to Photograph Groundbreaking Action Movie Crank High Voltage | The Briefing Room

Girl Talk is so last year… Kutiman is the new shit!

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:50:12 -0500

It’s still March and this artist already has my vote for Best Release of the Year:

Check out some of the tracks he assembled using youtube videos.

JavaScript: The Good Parts (via googletechtalks)

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:34:58 -0500

JavaScript: The Good Parts (via googletechtalks)