I love Jon Stewart. Carl Rove is defending Sarah Palin’s experience while previously desparaging Obama’s VP possibility Tim Kaine who has considerably more experience! Let Jon explain it to you…
(via Digg, go Digg it!)
My only complaint so far with Google Chrome (only complaint really) is that it has no support for Java “out-of-the-box.” When viewing a page or web app that requires Java, it shows the plugin icon, like FireFox, however, clicking on the plugin icon does nothing. After searching around I came accross a distribution of Java that semi works here: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
However it only works half-ass. After instalation of this distro, the screens that are Java powered show some of the text, but most of the presentation is actually black.
Come one Google, make it work!
Does anyone have a better version, or a more compatible version of Java for Google Chrome? Let me know!
When I receive documents, preliminary designs, or see signatures on emails, websites or PowerPoint presentations that use Comic Sans as a font, a little peice of the creative “me” shudders and falls down dead.
It’s unprofessional people. As soon as I see it, you move up a few rungs on my ladder of douchebaggery. Try a font that is more clean and professional like Myriad, Futura, Caslon, or even Arial. Comic Sans looks like a child grabbed a fat Crayola and started scrawling about. It’s not clever, it’s repulsive and immature!
DIE COMIC SANS!
I was reading the Wikipedia blog from Ben Yates regarding Google’s new browser called Chrome hitting the streets tomorrow. Should be interesting. It’s based on WebKit engine (used by Safari, originally developed by Apple, Inc.) and includes a javascript engine that Ben says is supposed to be quite a lot faster. So, being based on WebKit means that as web designers, we won’t have to worry about making sure our websites work on a different browser architecture. YAY!
Looking forward to testing it.
Update: Google’s comic book intro for Google Chrome. Very informative.
UPDATE: Released! Go get your copy here.
Vasché: He just doesn’t get it.
Margaret Randazzo, President of The Modesto Bee (aka McClatchy Modesto), wrote a piece last Sunday about how The Bee cares about the local community and despite McClatchy missing the mark on keeping pace with the news industry, The Bee still has a strong death grip on local information reporting. Oh and that people still read The Bee (No really, they swear! Just forget the fact that statistics everywhere say newspaper readership is declining more and more every year).
A lot of people left comments on her posting noting some pretty good points. Everything from The Bee losing focus of it’s advertisers to The Bee pandering to city politics and even The Bee moving all of their printing business to Sacramento. It might not be far fetched to say that The Modesto Bee might end up being just a bureau of The Sacramento Bee. One good commentor pointed out the fact that The Bee has dropped their workforce considerably, losing many members of their editorial staff and has started reprinting wire stories. Thats leads to another question: Why read ModBee.com if they are just reprinting Associated Press wire stories that are available on more credible, professional and easier to use websites like CNN.com or FOXNews.com?
Well on ModBee.com yesterday, Mark Vasché, Editor and Vice President of McClatchy Modesto, decided to spat back at the commentors. In a posting titled “Golden Age of Newspapers II - still exciting but more challenging,” he reminisces of the good ol’ days when readers could only turn to The Bee for news and was no doubt missing the days when advertisers dropped serious coin to be in his “paper of the past”. He then proceeded to mention a good friend of his who mistakenly thought he was being relocated to Sacramento, just like his printing press. Funny, huh?
Then Mark started in on the commenters of Margaret’s posting. Saying that they were wrong and that The Modesto Bee does have the communities best interests at heart, despite overwhelming appeal by readers and advertisers for better reporting and better advertising opportunities.
It’s OK Mark, I know you don’t get it. However, I imagine as an editor it would be fun to be a spin man. You should write about that. That would be more interesting. Oh and it must be nice to be a monopoly in the area. You should write about that too.
