AIM Terms of Service (iChat related)
Cory at BoingBoing.net points out that AOL has changed their AIM Terms of Service: Many readers have written to point out that AOL’s new Terms of Service for AIM “include the right for AOL to use anything and everything you send through AIM in any way they see fit, without informing you. A sample passage: ...
Apple Joins Blu-Ray Board
The Blu-ray Disc Association announced today that Apple has joined the Blu-ray forum, one of the competing standards for high-definition DVD format. Currently, there’s no single accepted standard for creating HD-formatted DVDs. When you take HD content into iDVD, for example, it’s sampled down to standard-definition format. Apple’s participation is likely to make a sizeable ...
Bush Continues to Flout International Law
Today’s news that Bush is appointing John Bolton to be ambassador to the United Nations shows that this administration has no interest in being part of the world. Fred Kaplan at Slate quotes Bolton as once saying: “It is a big mistake for us to grant any validity to international law even when it may ...
NYT on Body Armor Delays
The New York Times has an article today investigating the unconscionable lack of body armor for US troops serving in Iraq: International > Middle East > Missing in Action: The Supply Gap in Iraq: Many Missteps Tied to Delay in Armor for Troops in Iraq” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/07/international/middleeast/07armor.html?hp&ex=1110258000&en=4c8f9c351e1cfaa3&ei=5094&partner=homepage”>Missing in Action: The Supply Gap in Iraq: Many Missteps ...
iSci-Fi
Okay, raise your hand if you’re involved with movie editing because you’ve secretly always wanted to make a Star Wars movie. Now you’re one more step in that direction: Samples4.com has release iSci-Fi, a collection of science fiction themed sounds and music as Apple Loops (AIFF format), which are compatible with iMovie and Final Cut. ...
Blank iDVD 5 Settings Pane
According to a new Apple KnowledgeBase article, you might see a blank Settings pane in iDVD 5 if you have Multiple Master fonts installed: iDVD 5.0: Settings pane is blank.
Just How Much Disk Space Does HDV Use?
Until iMovie HD came out, it was easy to estimate how much disk space you needed to store a project: roughly 13 GB per hour of DV footage. HDV, however, is a different beast — an HDV camcorder such as the Sony HDR-FX1 captures high-definition video and then compresses it in-camera using MPEG-2 compression (the ...
Ruined by Perfection
Last coffee post of the day: an online addendum to a recent National Geographic cover story on caffeine, the “world’s most popular psychoactive drug.” Photographer Bob Sacha narrates a slideshow of photos taken while researching the article. National Geographic Magazine’s Sights & Sounds: What’s the Buzz?. Man, I just finished a latté and already I ...
Naked Portafilter Espresso
Reading through the forums at CoffeeGeek, I came across a thread about naked portafilters. Apparently, baristas at Seattle coffeehouse Zoka modified a portafilter (the cup that holds the espresso grinds) so that the espresso comes straight from the basket, rather than through a lower piece that directs the espresso into the cup. I don’t know ...
eSCENE Temporary Home
[Update: I was mistaken. www.escene.org wasn’t working due to a configuration glitch, not because Glenn turned off the server. The site works now as it did. But the following rambling memories still apply.] Several years ago, just as the Web was starting up, I started an online literary magazine (ezine) called eSCENE, which served as ...
Jeff Carlson | Never Enough Coffee Creations 