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Archive for May, 2007

Video Deathmatch

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Go Vote For Your Favourite Music Video.

Caught a whiff of this from Robert Scoble. Go watch some vloggers in a contest to make a music video and then vote for your favourites (each IP address is allowed 2 votes). My favourites:

And if you’re one of those who aren’t sure what a “video blog” is supposed to be or do, go watch this awesomeness and tell me you aren’t fired up about it by the end…

Heroes Flopping

Monday, May 14th, 2007

The last couple episodes of NBC’s Heroes have really been a let-down, with hastily written scripts, ridiculous plot holes and a nagging suspicion that the writers don’t really know what they’re doing - they’re just rushing to the finish line. Hey, I hope I’m proved wrong, but here are some of the many things that don’t make sense to me in the last two episodes. Warning! Major geek ramblings and spoilers ahead! Click To Read More...

Sam Ruby: Inline SVG in IE

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Thanks, Sam for kicking this off - I knew it was just a matter of time before someone would do a proof-of-concept, but the week of MIX07 was earlier than I expected! :)

One suggestion: If you’re going to use simple IE detection, then why not use IE conditional comments rather than forcing other SVG-capable browsers to load and parse and run the JavaScript? Something like:

<!--[if IE]>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="SVG2SL.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
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