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Flash is not dead, nor will it die in the near future

Apple Didn’t Kill Flash, HTML5 Did

Yes, there are a million sites and articles that will explain this a lot better than me, but then there are idiots like Christina Warren at Mashable that say stupid things, and annoy the heck out of me, so to save me from responding to individual tweets, I might as well rant a little here.

It pretty much comes down to this…

  • Can designers/developers create experiences like they do in Flash? If you want a frakn HTML5 video site, fine, go for it. But how much more difficult is it for the average Flash designer/developer, currently, and in the near future, to create an experience with the ease and level of control that Flash gives them? I’m thinking it’s pretty fucking hard.
  • Again, from a user experience point of view, for all the demonstration sites that showcase the wonders of HTML5, it still sucks balls in its capability in comparison to Flash, and I really don’t think that’ll change anytime soon.
  • Flash is everywhere. I can’t be bothered finding the numbers, but it is everywhere. You are NOT offering the “best browsing experience”, Steve Jobs [you douchebag], if you do not support Flash on your devices. Nor can you expect everyone to magically convert their sites into HTML5 overnight. Don’t go preaching your “it’s the right thing to do” bullshit, think about the users IN THE TRANSITION PERIOD

I am not saying Flash will never die. It could. What about in the meantime though? HTML5’s capability is at best, limited, and until [if ever] it gets there, from an end user and designer/developer point of view, it’s just crazy to declare it dead, and not support it.

Don’t even get me started on Jobs’ stance on cross-platform development… *reaches for the nearest bottle of rum*

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    LOST – The Last Recruit [spoilers, duh]

    Thoughts:

    • Confirmed: MiB can take on the appearance of only those that are dead, and on The Island
    • Confirmed: Flocke = Christian Shephard. WHAT THE FRAK? NO. CHRISTIAN SHEPHARD != FLOCKE. HOW CAN THAT BE? >.< See my theory on why this can’t be. Reading this again, an additional argument in my favour was the scene when “Christian Shephard’ appears on the freighter to Michael; how could that be, if Flocke cannot leave The Island?
    • “Because Jacob chose you, you were trapped on this island, before you even got here”
    • Does Flocke actually need The Candidates to get off The Island? Why? All he seemingly needs to do is kill them
    • “John Locke was not a believer, Jack. He was a sucker”. Wow, way to devalue Locke’s 4.5 seasons of faith in The Island and Jacob
    • Sun recognised Flocke in the flash sideways, I assume
    • Sayid can’t have killed Desmond. What does that mean though? Did Desmond tell him something to stop him from killing him, or is Sayid not as evil as Flocke thinks he is?
    • I’m impressed on the casting of mini Jack Shephard 
    • “We’re done going back, Kate” Yeh, haven’t heard that before! See you there in two eps, Sawyer
    • Jack Shephard. The last recruit
    • Am I the only one that expected Shannon to show up? @marawlings has pretty much convinced me that he’ll choose Shannon, and not Nadia, for whatever reason. She’ll be in the next episode
    • And speaking of the next episode, according to DarkUFO, there’s a hiatus next week
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    The Johnny Cash Project

    The Johnny Cash Project is a global collective art project, and we would love for you to participate. Through this website, we invite you to share your vision of Johnny Cash, as he lives on in your mind’s eye. Working with a single image as a template, and using a custom drawing tool, you’ll create a unique and personal portrait of Johnny. Your work will then be combined with art from participants around the world, and integrated into a collective whole: a music video for “Ain’t No Grave”, rising from a sea of one-of-a-kind portraits.

    Strung together and played in sequence over the song, the portraits will create a moving, ever evolving homage to this beloved musical icon.  What’s more, as new people discover and contribute to the project, this living portrait will continue to transform and grow, so it’s virtually never the same video twice.

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    LOST – Everybody Loves Hugo [spoilers, duh]

    Thoughts:

    • Michael! I’ve missed you!
    • Hugo gets his first date. Awww. “you don’t remember me do you?… Island… Plane crash.” What the frak? Is there really some connection with dead people being aware of what happened on The Island in the flash sideways?
    • Oh snap! *boom* goes Ilana. Guess she wasn’t important then… Seems like a lot of time invested in her for no reason
    • What’s with the smug look, kid? This kid must be the higher power that “cast” Jacob and/or MiB in their roles on The Island.
    • The Whispers. Explained. Tick that off the list. People stuck on The Island because of what they did/their “sins”. “The ones who can’t move on”. Feels like I need to revisit every ep with The Whispers and look for appearances which i previously thought were Smokey
    • Really? “love” is the trigger? Feels like a bit of a cop out… Ok, love and car crashes! Or any sort of, what, trauma?
    • So, Locke’s facial expression changed, and it felt like he had that moment of realisation, but did his eyes change colour? @marawlings has been going on about this eye colour thing for the whole season. Will need to re-watch.
    • There was NO mirror scene in this ep as far as I can tell

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    It’s hip not to whoresquare

    I recently enabled Foursquare email notifications for check-ins. You see, for once, the way Android handles notifications is inferior to the iPhone. For reasons posted by Joe Lapenna last year, Android cannot handle Foursquare push notifications like the iPhone, and after a few months of Foursquaring, I really did feel like I was missing out on half the point of Foursquare; knowing where your friends are. Of course, I could open the app each time and look at recent check-ins, but that’s a pretty substandard way to do things, so I thought, “What the hell, how many emails can I really get a day?”, checked the box, and boy was I surprised.

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    LOST – Happily Ever After [spoilers, duh]

    Thoughts:

    • So, Desmond is apparently surviving catastrophic electromagnetic event guy. Widmore needs to know if he can do it again, because it looks like there will be one more gigantic electromagnetic explosion on The Island, with Desmond having to make the sacrifice [stay on The Island and cause said explosion while everyone else is ferried via sub to The Hydra?] that Widmore spoke of
    • What exactly did that test do to Desmond? Remove him from his consciousness?
    • Written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. Of course it was. Clearly they get dibs on Desmond episodes
    • Was that painting with the black and white scales always there in Widmore’s office o_O ?
    • “Consciousness-altering love”
    • How the hell does Charlie know to “show” Desmond? Did he try and re-create that Looking Glass event, which triggered his memory?
    • WHAT was with that look Eloise gave Desmond when she first saw him?
    • Is Eloise another Constant? Some kind of time/balance/force keeper? It feels like the Eloise we saw in ‘Flashes Before Your Eyes’ is the same one, thoughts, consciousness and all, that we’re seeing in this episode
    • “Ready for what?!” Why can’t he see the list?
    • Are the other flash sideways losties going to experience visions of their alternate lives, like Charlie, Desmond and Faraday? Or will they not experience them because they were on The Island at the time of the nuke detonation?
    • Seems like Widmore pretty much re-created The Swan failsafe event, allowing Desmond’s consciousness to become dislodged again
    • Whatever Eloise thought Desmond wasn’t ready for with seeing that list, it looks like he’s going to do the same thing with the losties after he gets that manifest
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    MGMT – Live at the Hordern [Dec ’08]

    Reliving today’s MGMT setlist led to nostalgia overload, and me rediscovering the Triple J stream that I ripped after I saw them for the first time in December ’08, so I thought I’d finally convert it from an asf file [nfi why it was like that in the first place] to mp3 and throw it on here. Enjoy.

    Setlist [~44:20]:

    1. 4th Dimensional Transition
    2. Pieces of What
    3. Of Moons, Birds & Monsters
    4. The Youth
    5. Time to Pretend
    6. Electric Feel
    7. The Handshake
    8. Future Reflections
    9. Kids

    if (FlashDetect.installed) { $(‘flash_embed-npDwFGxiGA’).show(); $(‘quicktime_embed-npDwFGxiGA’).hide(); } else { $(‘quicktime_embed-npDwFGxiGA’).show(); $(‘flash_embed-npDwFGxiGA’).hide(); }

    Or download it [right click, save as…, bla]

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    The Picnic Trials: Take One

    So, Picnic decided to create a competition to see whether people could eat a Picnic bar in under 30 seconds, while filming themselves doing so, mentioning the tagline at the end [“PICNIC. IT’S NO PICNIC”] and then uploading it.

    Being the suckers that we are, @marawlings, @jymmysim and I decided to take on this challenge, and today was the trial run. Suffice it to say, we failed. Me especially.

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    iPad: An amalgamation of detractors

    I’ve read more iPad reviews than I care to remember over the last couple of days, but luckily, not all of them have been gushy, fan boi reviews *looks over at Pogue, Mossberg and co.*

    i.e. crap like [no offence, @amandamli] this from LineHive:

    iPad reviews from 6 of the most popular publications: general agreement that it’s a new paradigm. http://linehive.com/show/207

    So, without further adieu, here are some real [by real, I mean anti-iPad reviews that bring a smile to kittens across the globe] reviews.

    Note that I’m probably bastardising these reviews by pulling out a paragraph or so from them, so please do go read them!

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