http://sillybean.net reading, writing, web design, and the intersections thereof Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:16:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There have been jokes for years about Michael Jackson’s plastic surgery, and how he’d never be as pretty as Diana Ross. I just found him painful to look at since he’d so drastically altered his face. Now, of course, the images are hard to escape, and I’m thinking it wasn’t ... http://sillybean.net/2009/07/trying-to-be-v/ New college-educated NY street food vendors are doing Sharks vs. Jets with the old hot dog guys. “The owners of Street Sweets both left six-figure jobs to build their business, and the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck is driven by Doug Quint, a doctoral candidate in bassoon performance at CUNY. ... http://sillybean.net/2009/07/free-market-food-fight/ Why does Flash hog memory and crash your browser a lot? Because Adobe doesn’t care, and thinks you should be using a Flash blocker in browsers other than IE, although admittedly it “Will still crash, but slower cycle.” I have to agree with Mr. Welch: “Where the FUCK does Adobe ... http://sillybean.net/2009/06/try-a-flash-blocker/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Outlook 2000 vs. 2010, courtesy of Freshview"][/caption] Email design is one of the most annoying aspects of my profession because design standards implemented by most web browsers in 1996 are still not supported in email clients. In Office 2000, Outlook actually did pretty well, but in Office ... http://sillybean.net/2009/06/fix-outlook/ ‘You’re not a director. You’re a girl.’ http://sillybean.net/2009/06/ela-thiel/ I’m having lots more fun reading reviews of Transformers 2 than I possibly could by watching the damn thing. And then there’s the “id” part, which is the part where stuff blows up real good, and huge machines smash each other up. And every single performance is so ridiculous that it ... http://sillybean.net/2009/06/transformers-2-reviews/ Buffy vs. Edward — sublimely brilliant mashup video. http://sillybean.net/2009/06/buffy-vs-edward/ I’ve been making a lot of ice cream lately. Thanks to my friend Shaima, I’ve become a fan of David Lebovitz’s blog, and when the weather turned hot I finally broke down and bought his ice cream cookbook. Holy crap, y’all. This man knows how to make ice cream. So far ... http://sillybean.net/2009/06/ice-cream/ Mythbusting the Canadian healthcare system — compare this view to ours in light of the delightful practice of recission, as described by insurance CEOs in Washington this week. http://sillybean.net/2009/06/mythbusting-the-canadian-healthcare-system/ equality isn’t actually a subject for debate http://sillybean.net/2009/06/equality-isnt-actually-a-subject-for-debate/