Monthly Archives: December 2009

sugar

I’ve been posting recently about food and nutrition and I feel like the information in this video was a huge piece that I was missing. In this video, Dr. Robert Lustig goes through the science behind how sugar and its … Continue reading

Posted in Food, Long Attention Span, Video | 10 Comments

“skid mark”

A new phrase that I learned yesterday. Probably something that’s been around computers for a long time, but it was my first exposure to it. Basically a “skid mark” is something you leave in code as a signature so that … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, Programming | 6 Comments

focus

Posted in Evangelism | 2 Comments

two cool open video notes

Today at the Mozilla all hands I saw two cool things: 1. A decent sized (600×400 or so) Theora video playing on a Nokia N900, decoding on the DSP with the main CPU kept at around 50%. (Pulseaudio is about … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, OGG, Video | 10 Comments

guidelines in MacNeil/Lehrer journalism

Original Video with full context.

Posted in Journalism, Video | 1 Comment

we are all connected

More at the Symphony of Science.

Posted in Space, Video | 5 Comments

mobile sunspider performance

A few weeks ago Vlad had the chance to do performance tests across a variety of different devices. He’s picked up a Droid as part of his Android work, also has access to an N900, and I also know he’s … Continue reading

Posted in Mobile, Performance, TraceMonkey | 4 Comments