Posted by hank, Fri Jul 04 00:26:00 UTC 2008
The new July 2nd version of Flash Player 10 for Linux finally fixes the HTML overlay bug that we’ve been seeing for years. You can now see things on top of the flash elements on the page, like so:
After trying it with YouTube and TheSixtyOne, and seeing some lame bugs, I decided to go back to Flash 9 and face the music on overlays.
Posted by hank, Sat Jun 07 10:51:00 UTC 2008
It’s pretty sick when an old man is hit by a driver and they don’t even have the common courtesy to stop.
Originally from here, but they took it down for some reason. It’s disturbing, but I see no reason to stop society from seeing itself.
Posted by hank, Mon May 26 19:52:00 UTC 2008
I decided after reading this article, I decided to try out SWFDec instead of Adobe Flash Player. I shied away from Gnash early on since it didn’t support many newer features of Flash, and it didn’t work with YouTube. But, apparently, SWFDec works with YouTube (I just tried it), and according to the article above, my browser may use less resources now. We’ll see.
Well, it turns out it crashes on my TheSixtyOne player on the right! Time to try Gnash…
Experiment over. The OSS Flash solutions completely fail at playing the flash audio on the right. Once they get just a little more compatible, I’ll try again.
Posted by hank, Wed Dec 05 00:31:00 UTC 2007
Man this is a fun game!
Posted by hank, Sun Dec 02 13:33:00 UTC 2007
I saw a post on Digg that caught my eye, and thought that this might be another way to gauge the amount of hardcore supporters each popular candidate has. I picked the following:
Now, you would think that the number of hardcore supporters should correlate nicely with the number of voters turning out in the primaries since one should think that anyone in a Meetup group would go vote come primary day. But, sadly, by the looks of it very few of the supporters of the “top-tier” Republican candidates are enthusiastic enough to join a Meetup group. I wonder why since this would help their campaigns immensely. Here’s the result:
Maybe they’re all just using a different site? Let me know what you think.
Posted by hank, Sun Nov 25 17:55:00 UTC 2007
I took this test to see which current presidential candidates my views align with, and got some pretty surprising results:
It’s based on this table of the candidates views on popular issues, and how strong your feelings are on each one. A good tool indeed, and it should be publicized as a guideline for voters by our caring media since we all want voters to make informed decisions…
The graph led to this:
I have no explanation for this picture.
Posted by hank, Sat Nov 24 01:38:00 UTC 2007
So, I saw these like a week ago, and then spent about 5 days getting the high-definition versions from the terrible World of Warcraft Bittorrent trackers. Finally, I have them.
Posted by hank, Tue Nov 06 00:15:00 UTC 2007
I decided today that I wanted to track my calories burned per day on a nice line graph. I did it, and I think I will continue. The total is automatically calculated by the PHP data source. This was made using my Mephisto Plugin for Open Flash Charts.
Posted by hank, Sun Oct 21 23:00:00 UTC 2007
I’m testing a flash chart plugin based on this.
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