Archive for September, 2009

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Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile

Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo. Ladies and gentlemen, your President is a robot. Or a wax sculpture. Maybe a cardboard cutout. All I know is no human being has a photo smile this amazingly consistent. via Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile on Vimeo.

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IE 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer zips through JavaScript nearly ten times faster than usual when Google’s new Chrome Frame plug-in is partnered with the browser, benchmark tests show. According to tests run by Computerworld , Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) was 9.6 times faster than IE8 on its own. Computerworld ran the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite three times [...]

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Shuttleworth: Don’t Give Up the Linux Desktop

From a user-experience perspective, for instance, he said that Linux’s design has been lacking. To that end, Shuttleworth noted that Ubuntu has its own user-experience team that conducts testing with regular people to see how they use software. But Shuttleworth would like to see the user-experience effort extend beyond Ubuntu. During his keynote, he extended [...]

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Balrog Boogie – Diablo Swing Orchestra

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