If you’re a web developer who’s in charge of creating content management systems, there’s a great control you’ve got to check out – TinyMCE. TinyMCE is a free, open source WYSIWIG text editor. The beauty of it is that it’s feature-rich, it’s platform independent (being written entirely in JavaScript), and it’s extremely easy to configure [...]
Well, before we get started here, why would we want to boycott the RIAA? Well, as I’ve pointed out before, they are using their intellectual property rights in a way that’s pretty close to extortion. They don’t pay fair wages to their artists (if they pay at all). They use illegal and quasi-legal tactics against [...]
I’ve been playing around with a few freely available Javascript libraries as of late, and I’ve been so very impressed at the quality and ease of use of what’s out there. I’m sure that most web developers are fairly well versed in the art, but since my career took a slightly different path until late, [...]
I can certainly appreciate a particularly compelling new turn of phrase, which is why I found it particularly amusing when someone got the bright idea to describe movies like Saw and Hostel as ‘torture-porn.’ Those two simple words really drive home the idea that said movies are going to be real gore-fests. So, as an unapologetic ‘borrower,’ [...]
This news is probably getting out a lot on the inter-tubes just now, but it’s still noteworthy enough for me to write about, in any case. Nine Inch Nails has decided to release a set of four albums worth of brand new instrumental music, Ghosts I-IV, using the internet as the distribution method. They’re giving one album [...]
