Archive for August, 2008

Olympic Streaming from NBC and MS Silverlight: Impressive

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Since I'm often more than happy to diss Microsoft products for being poorly designed, buggy, and otherwise painful to use, I thought it only fair to admit it: judging by NBC's implementation, the Silverlight web plugin is pretty good. Like everyone, this is now on my radar because of the Olympics. ...

Denver Post, Obama, and Flava Flav

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

On their website today, the Denver post ran an ordinary story about the Democratic National Convention, but inexplicably paired it with a picture of rap star Flava Flav.   [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="661" caption="Denver Post thinks Flava Flav represents Dems"][/caption]   Um... What the hell is this? Flav wasn't mentioned in the story, and ...