Category Archives: Long Attention Span

on software patent absurdity

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Christopher Blizzard

A set of people have put together a really wonderful set of interviews and footage about the patent system and its effects on the software industry in the US. Most of the story centers around The Bilski case, recently heard … Continue reading →

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mark bittman on food

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Christopher Blizzard

Yet another post on my series on Food. This time it’s a video by Mark Bittman who talks about our food system, what we’ve lost and what we should be doing. (I love his focus on real food – not … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Long Attention Span, Video | 2 Comments

artificial sweeteners

Posted on February 13, 2010 by Christopher Blizzard

Recently, I’ve been doing some posts on food. This is another one. A friend of mine recently posted a link to a pretty interesting article about an animal model meant to observe the effects of artificial sweeteners on rats. Here’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Long Attention Span | 9 Comments

HTML5 video and H.264 – what history tells us and why we’re standing with the web

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Christopher Blizzard

For background on the free software angle on this story please check out Robert O’Callahan’s post on this topic. Also check out Mike Shaver’s shorter background post as well. This post differs from theirs in that I want to talk … Continue reading →

Posted in Long Attention Span, Standards, Video | 180 Comments

sugar

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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

food on thanksgiving

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Today is Thanksgiving in the United States. A day where we say thanks for all of the good things that we’ve been lucky enough to be graced with over the last year. It’s also a day that we eat a … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Long Attention Span, Video | 1 Comment

patents as part of the american experience

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Ahh, 2006. It seems like such a long time ago! Back then I was working at Red Hat on OLPC and Microsoft had just accused free software of being Unamerican and communist. It was a good time, honestly, to know … Continue reading →

Posted in Freedom, Long Attention Span, Regulations, Storytelling, Video | 3 Comments

understanding climate change on earth day

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

It’s earth day so I thought today might be a good day to post this.  I’ve been sitting on a set of tabs in my browser for a long time now – months I think – and I think that … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Long Attention Span | 18 Comments

five writing resources

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

I’m going to list five little writing resources that I’ve found to be useful over the last few months. Many of you have probably seen many of them, but I thought it would be useful to put them all in … Continue reading →

Posted in Long Attention Span, Writing | 4 Comments

why open video?

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

[ Note: Mike Shaver gives the short version of this post.  I have done a great job of burying the lead here. There's a post from the Wikimedia Foundation on the topic and a post in the Mozilla Blog as … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Long Attention Span, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 108 Comments