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[08 Nov 2009|03:40pm] |
Having an older Mac that positively freaks out when I try to watch videos or do anything else rather CPU intensive, and even having a relatively brand new one that gets pretty hot doing the same, I was excited to find in my Twitters this morning a YouTube HTML5 Viewer that takes a given YouTube link and renders it using the new(ish) HTML5 video tag. Common sense and the blog post that introduced it claimed to use less CPU than Flash on Mac and Linux. Here were my quick and unscientific findings.
| Flash | Video | | Safari | 30-60% | 80-100% | | Chrome | | 10-30% |
Needless to say, I was shocked to find the video embed to perform so horribly in Safari and so well in Chrome (Chrome numbers were with a single tab open, all procs combined, for those wondering). I don't know the internals of how the video in rendered in the browser, but it is either not a part of the core Webkit, or it is something the Google folks have already improved upon despite its dearth of use.
I will perhaps spend more time testing this across different OS's (and OS versions--above was Leopard) and browsers, but would be curious what your findings were, were you to do a quick comparison.
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| About |
[26 Oct 2009|10:31pm] |
When pressed for a new "about me" for my Google Profile, which I was setting up now just so I could test drive their new social search:Too much a designer for the developers and too much a developer for the designers.
Too much a heathen for the Christians and too religious for the heathen.
Too much a lycra-wearer for the hipster fixie crowd and not hardcore enough for the racing scene.
Too much a fan of pop music for the indie scene and not glamorous enough for pop music.
Too opinionated about art for the local art scene but too into outsider art for the art academy.
Too much a meritocrat for socialism but too humanist for capitalism.
I live on the edge, in the sense of the word that involves lots of paper cuts.
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| Music |
[15 Oct 2009|12:46am] |
Presteign, randomly found site, love the overall aesthetic. Music-group-as-corporate-entity is not new (see dfg corporation #) but I also like the music-group-as-cultural-ministry, and the above-linked site pulls it off with a nice, subtle European flair.
Been thinking a lot about what I want/need to do in regards to my artistic pursuits, having done virtually nothing since the release of the last record last March.
Then there's this attitude, equally popular:Call it God, magic, fortune or simply the sum of the variables you cannot understand or control, but know that your very best work cannot be scheduled of produced on-demand. You’ve got to be patient, you’ve got to try and try again and you’ve got to let God in. -- from Let God In.
Coincidentally, I got a new temp site up for johnnycitizen.com, just conglomerated all the different iterations and content across four different sites. Still not sure what I'm going to do with it, but since it (and every site on my server) was hacked earlier in the summer it'd just been empty.
I have a bookmark folder around here somewhere full of great tunes I've found over the last 6 months, all free for the download. I might be posting another music post here soon.
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| Brunch |
[11 Sep 2009|06:00pm] |
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I've had a ton of blog entries stuck in my head and unable to make their way into any of my various publishing systems...something about having a baby and working for a startup. And getting old. But Carissa's take on our brunch last weekend was perfect: This is time frame in most of my friend's lives where we're all settling into this world we created. We're settling in to our ideas and our beliefs and how it's all panning out. We're settling into our mates or what we want out of a mate and understanding more about what was so totally wrong with that last boy/girl friend. We're nestled in with sticky-faced children. We pride ourselves more on our practical functionality and less on our storebought fronts. We're not so swept away by the masses, trends or media and can focus on the big and small pictures individually. When we gather around food and beverage we can connect things from all over and we suddenly need to take care of one another.
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| Hello World |
[30 Jul 2009|01:53pm] |
Yeah, so we had a baby, in case you don't follow the twitters, facebooks, or even my boring old website.
Her name is Margot Rose Miller. She arrived promptly on her due date, July 23rd. Since then, we have been even more unable to be on time for anything.
Also, you should download all the mp3s here if you haven't already. Then you have to track down all those artists and buy their new records in full. Because they are all totally worth it.
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[18 Apr 2009|11:43am] |
 The king of Twitter isn’t amused. Urlesque
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| QotD |
[15 Apr 2009|08:35am] |
Pacing The Panic Room:It was so 13 year old angst and the tears and the shaky voice just leapt up and out, and the grown ass man hiding inside my brain was like, "Holy shit, you are losing it crybaby."
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| mp3 of the day |
[13 Apr 2009|10:54pm] |
Robert Gomez - On This Day
NPR:Notably, Pine Sticks and Phosphorous is the first of Gomez's LPs to be recorded almost entirely in a professional studio. Though Gomez is technically a "solo artist" and writes the songs, parts, and arrangements on his own, a number of talented musicians join him on the record, including Sarah Jaffe, and members of The Polyphonic Spree, Midlake, and Postmarks, giving Pine Sticks and Phosphorous an impressive, full band sound.
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| Our Weekend |
[08 Apr 2009|04:14pm] |
Our Weekend, April 4-5, 2009 from Daniel Miller on Vimeo.
First on Saturday we trained it downtown for our customary bacon and pancakes at Cindi's.
Then on Sunday we had french toast at home, then drove down to Deep Ellum with friends for the arts festival there.
Thanks to everyone who hung out and had so much fun with us!
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| Google search features: Didn't know these two |
[03 Apr 2009|09:48am] |
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Search Features Synonym Search: If you want to search not only for your search term but also for its synonyms, place the tilde sign (~) immediately in front of your search term.
Fill in the Blank: Sometimes the best way to ask a question is to get Google to ‘fill in the blank’ by adding an asterisk (*) at the part of the sentence or question that you want finished into the Google search box.
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| mp3 of the day |
[01 Apr 2009|02:19pm] |
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In case you missed my tweet about it, new mp3 posted by St. Vincent. Thanks to @geoffroper for the heads up.
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| mp3s of the day |
[29 Mar 2009|09:24am] |
lenses
Because it's arabic indie rock. Think Neutral Milk Hotel but in a language you can't understand. And free.
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