Hey Comcast

SUCK ON THIS:

Federal regulators voted 3-2 on Friday to declare that Comcast's
throttling of BitTorrent traffic last year was unlawful, marking the
first time that any U.S. broadband provider has ever been found to
violate Net neutrality rules.

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ReadWriteWeb - Iran Parliament to Debate Death Penalty for Bloggers

The Iranian parliament is set to debate a draft bill that would add a number of crimes to the list of those that can result in execution, among them "establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy." Apostasy means the abandonment of a religion. The official Iranian news agency reports that the bill is intended to "toughen punishment for harming mental security in society."

One Sharp Cookie, Part II

Talking Points Memo | DC Press Lords Lay Down Fire for McCain

The McCain campaign is now launching an attack with its 'truth squad' about the Clark 'controversy' and pushing Obama to "denounce" Clark, etc. It'll be interesting to watch what happens here.

One Sharp Cookie

John McCain:

WICKSOL: When was the last time you pumped your own gas and how much did it cost?

MCCAIN: Oh, I don’t remember. Now there’s Secret Service protection. But I’ve done it for many, many years. I don’t recall and frankly, I don’t see how it matters.

Great Sitcom Idea

I really don't think this can fail, Han and I came up with it last night. It's sort of a cross between Perfect Strangers and Full House Anyway, here's a summary for the pilot:

A man decides to buy his partner an engagement ring over the internet. A couple days later, when he was expecting the ring in the mail, there's a knock at the door. Instead of a ring delivery, it's a child worker from the diamond mines in Africa! Somehow he bought an HIV+ mine worker by mistake! Hijinx ensue!

pookie reading

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He's been really into cuddling with us on the couch with a book. It's pretty darned cute.

lazy day of reading
lazy day of reading

tumblelog

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we make muffins go

Pitch

I implemented a version of the card game 'Pitch', also known as 'Setback' for the Palm OS.  The game (like the platform), has stagnated over the years, but was always reasonably popular, and I am very happy with it.  I might release the code at some point, and I've thought about porting it to other platforms as well.  For now, you can download Pitch for the Palm OS, and the rules for the game are listed below.

Pitch can be bought via PalmGear.

 

Projects

Here are some projects I have worked on.

Processing in JavaScript

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I've been wanting to play with Processing for some time, although time has been in short supply for awhile now. Anyway, maybe now that it's been ported to JavaScript I can find a way to play around with it. From Wired:

John Resig, JavaScript Evangelist for Mozilla and creator of the JQuery library, has ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript. We cover a lot of language and software developments here at Compiler, but this might be the most impressive thing we've ever seen.

If, like me, you’ve never head of the Processing language until today, here’s a quick overview: Processing is an open source programming language for people who want to work with images, animation, and interactions.

Processing has three components, the language, the drawing API and the implementation (typically through Java). Resig’s port uses regular expressions to convert the Processing language to JavaScript for display in your browser. The second part of his project handles the full 2D Processing API.

The result enables you to take advantage of the Processing language without ever needing to write a line of code in it, which is pretty amazing (and you can pass in Processing commands directly if you want to).