July 2008
8 posts
Yahoo! Offers Refunds to Customers Who Bought... →
Get your money back if you bought DRM:
Yahoo has happily chosen to do right by their customers and provide full refunds for any music sold through Yahoo Music that came wrapped in what is soon-to-be obsolete copy protection.
I’ve spent a lot of money on Audible Audiobooks. I have to cross my fingers and knock on wood that they never shut down their DRM servers. That said, I’d...
IE ExternalInterface ActionScript Bug
Microsoft Internet Explorer throws “Object doesn’t support this property or method” when using Flash’s ExternalInterface.addCallback with reserved method names. I don’t know what the reserved names are, but “play” and “stop” cannot be used as callbacks. This behavior functions normally in Firefox et al.
That’s about all the keywords I...
Free Obama ‘08 Buttons →
Thanks to MoveOn.org.
“America only means conservative white male Republican if we leave it or we let...”
– Jon Sands via IndieFeed.
Games Workshop: Worst. Redesign. Ever. →
Games Workshop took a site filled with flavor and interest and redesigned it with all the excitement of e-commerce. It also has to be the first site launched after 2003 that doesn’t have an RSS feed. Replace the logo and the site could be for any online store.
Also, the navigation is awful. Yes, they link to a bunch of topics, but each provides a drab gray-on-white list that gives you no...
Getting Out of Binding Situations in JavaScript |... →
Binding, scope, closures and prototype chains can be the most confusing parts of JavaScript. Knowledge of Porteneuve’s subject is what separates the women from the girls amongst scripters.