Music, opinions, and portfolio of Mark Eagleton, musician and web developer in Northern CA.
Comentary about things I have found around the web.
Amazing video of the February 24th launch from cameras mounted to Discovery’s solid rocket boosters. From lift-off to splashdown, you see the WHOLE thing! Notable shots at 2:26, 6:04, 10:10, and 28:06.
Really incredible perspective.
Discovery’s final launch captured on video from inside an airplane. So very cool.The Captain bought a round for everyone to celebrate.
Danny Barnes has one of the best music blogs I have ever read. This piece is worth it’s weight in gigs. The message:
play great and be easy to get along with
The WHATWG’s HTML5 specification for web developers. Your new instruction manual.
The most illogical, impractical, yet common of all arguments for belief in gods thoroughly discredited once and for all. Direct all future abuses to this URL.
She beat Justin Bieber. What? The Grammy’s are real?! Is there hope for pop music again?
Some amazing tricks in here. I checked out the HTML5 Boilerplate months ago, but thought it was pretty overkill for my taste. There is definitely reason to reconsider now.
Money quote:
You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
(via @thinkgeek + @sanbeiji)
She’s touring with a bad ass almost all-girl band. She is so dreamy. (via The Upton Report)
Frannie Kelley for NPR:
The singer, who was born Charlie Elzer Loudermilk and became well known as one-half of the country and western duo The Louvin Brothers, died Wednesday morning. Louvin, who had continued to perform even as he battled pancreatic cancer, died at home in Wartrace, Tenn. He was 83 years old.
I never saw him play.
One of Carl Sagan’s lesser-recognized gifts to mankind was nurturing this man’s excitement of the cosmos. If you aren’t already a fan of Dr. Tyson, this video will convert you. If you are a fan, you’re probably already raising your kids to be just like him when they grow up. Just enjoy the interview.
A jQuery-powered, multi-file upload widget that gracefully degrades for clients without javascript. (via Jake Bellacera)
Kim Gordon is 57 years old, ladies and gentlemen.
A great primer for combining typefaces from Douglas Bonneville at Smashing Magazine. Very useful in this brave new world of @font-face. (via Scott Pargett)
When everyone has easy access to their favorite diversions and every diversion comes with a rabbit hole’s worth of extra features and deleted scenes and hidden hacks to tumble down and never emerge from, then we’re all just adding to an ever-swelling, soon-to-erupt volcano of trivia, re-contextualized and forever rebooted. We’re on the brink of Etewaf: Everything That Ever Was—Available Forever.
And his message is packed to the rim with nerd-culture references that would make Seth MacFarlane blush.
Simurai has created a toggle button that uses CSS3 and zero javascript. Next level shit.
“Don’t use some home-brew CAPTCHA syste that requires compound eyes to read.â€
I was unaware of the CSS triangles technique! Bad ass!
A pretty, passive aggressive website on preparing Photoshop documents for developers.
I’m not a fan of Google’s decision. I’d rather browser vendors supported open source and established open standards.
We are putting more and more carbon dioxide into the air while decimating more and more of the forests that consume it. Isaac Asimov had been studying this greenhouse effect for 20 years prior to this speech.
Bill O’Reilly played his tides go in, tides go out card again the other day on his show. Neil Degrasse Tyson made a surprise appearance on the Colbert Report to clear up the confusion for America. The segment starts at 11:00.
This issue has been coming up for projects lately. I thought it was time for a reminder.
A study of people reading long-form text on tablets finds higher reading speeds than in the past, but they're still slower than reading print.
Enjoyment level was comparable with printed books. I find this to be true in my experience:
Users felt that reading the printed book was more relaxing than using electronic devices.
I love technology and reading on the iPhone and Kindle, but I also love printed books. I struggle with which format to buy every time. I should avoid the dilemma and just get a library card.
My career has never been more exciting.
There should be celebrating in the streets, dancing on the ceiling, Ewoks, and the firing pistolas in the air. For years we've had to preach and defend the gospel of web standards to the mouth-breathing masses who have been drawn to twinkle lights and really bad house background tracks. No more will we have to spend precious time debating the merits of presentation layers being divorced from markup, usability, and every day common sense to a communications major who would really rather be producing ads for television.