http://www.timtoon.com Lookout honey, 'cuz I'm using technology. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:45:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Seriously, Gorillaz/Sony/whoever, if you want me to pay $25 for your CD, just price it at $25. And stop this $19 for the cheap version, $26 for the "experience" (or $13 for a similar experience, or $50 for exclusive online access) nonsense. Check out the sticker on the cover ... http://www.timtoon.com/2010/03/09/and-the-upselling-continues/ Screenshot from Gorillaz's "Rockit" video from D-Sides 2006: Purchasing options for 2010's Plastic Beach: Full (though hardly complete) album Album with two extra bonus tracks and DRM (works only in iTunes) CD with making-of DVD for twice as much as the album (without bonus tracks) A modestly-priced Japanese version with one of those aforementioned extra ... http://www.timtoon.com/2010/03/07/embrace-false-icons/ My first exposure to hardcore 12-year Apple employee Jim Reekes was when he stole the show as the jaded, contrarian voice in the ultra low-budget documentary Welcome to Macintosh. Listening to him recall his sound engineer work at Apple, he is one part Dwight Shrute and one part Bill Hicks. ... http://www.timtoon.com/2010/02/26/jim-reekes-doesnt-care-who-you-are-or-where-you-came-from/ I took a look at io9's Space Ships, Aliens And Comics To Watch At SXSW's Film Fest and yikes. So far we have: an Alien remake an animated Dark Star a topical documentary that can be good if it can get past its indulgent, utterly twee, cutesy-poo blogger idea of "humor" a movie that got ... http://www.timtoon.com/2010/02/22/these-all-look-terrible/ C'mon, it's 2010. Favicons have been in style for about a decade now. And yet Photoshop can't make them. (If you like owning a second image editing app) GraphicConverter can sorta do them if you know what you're doing. Favicons are 16x16 icons that, for some ... http://www.timtoon.com/2010/02/21/an-easy-way-to-make-favicon-ico-icons/ At work, our web site code is becoming a morass of nested <div>, <p>, and <span> tags. Our CSS file alone is nearly 3,000 lines long. Since the CSS is so byzantine to begin with, whenever a redesign comes along, frequently us poor developers -- rather than untangle this ... http://www.timtoon.com/2010/02/17/start-with-html/ Nothing wrong with the Windows Phone 7 Phone Something Something OS, but I think they may have designed the titles for a bigger device. http://www.timtoon.com/2010/02/16/were-gonna-need-a-bigger-phone/ Freeman recently wrote A wakeup call for the Drupal community and I wish I could have put the failings of the Drupal CMS as well as he has: This is a common theme in the community. You can kludge your way to victory with just about any feature set you can ... http://www.timtoon.com/2010/02/14/a-wakeup-call-for-the-drupal-community/ On The Guardian's review of Tom Ford's A Single Man: If it's the case that anyone can direct a film, then it's also the case that anyone can not direct a film. "I know stories about very well-known figures who are revered for directing films and who basically do nothing," [Nick ... http://www.timtoon.com/2010/02/11/anyone-can-not-direct-a-film/ io9 has The Complete List Of Sources Avatar's Accused Of Ripping Off. Maybe it isn't that Avatar is ripping anyone off, but that it's just another grab bag of obvious science fiction-meets-environmentalism tropes. http://www.timtoon.com/2010/02/11/its-because-avatar-is-hopelessly-generic/