Dynamit office in the early morning

Redbull + Aeroshot = Work

Eliminate DRM. Stop SOPA/Protect IP.

Google produced a video a while back that really resinated with me. I think we as digitals (designers, developers, ux, etc.) all fail to look at the bigger picture sometimes. I’ve had all of the described actions in the video happen to me during past checkouts.

The answer to this requires us to retain the reasons why we’ve made the current system (security, accuracy), and apply them against a low barrier, pleasant experience. Here’s a few things that I’d like to see happen:

• No timeouts for non e-commerce actions. Example: Browse through the Verizon site. Viewing new phones? It times out if you leave it open.
• No usernames. Solution: email and passwords for authentication.
• No CAPTACHAs. We’ve discussed this extensively at DYNAMIT. They’re a burden to users and they don’t stop spam.

I recently watched an interview of Brian Klein, manager of Fitz & the Tantrums on This Week in Music. He discusses the touring schedule for Fitz – Morning shows, record shop appearances, and and additional radio promo spot – all before the show most days. I have to wonder just how many bands do the same. Surely some, but I’m not sure that the majority would go to such great lengths. I’m thoroughly impressed by what they’ve been able to do, most of it without much outside assistance.

This Week in Music: Ep 15. w/ Brian Klein

Fitz & the Tantrums-MoneyGrabber Live ft Daryl Hall

Can’t add much, just watch it.

Dave Grohl – Exclusive Studio Tour video

An interesting look into backing up technology wise, and getting the sound you desire.

As with most other developers/designers, I’m constantly bookmarking sites for reference and inspiration. Here’s a short list of those I’ve run across in the last few months that are great at telling stories:

• benthebodyguard.com
• lostworldsfairs.com/atlantis/
• bountybev.com
• acceptjoel.com

Are there any sites that you believe tell a great story? Post them for all to see…

I recently came across CoffeeScript and thought I’d quickly share a backround video from Future of Web Apps. Thanks to my dynamit coworker John for the link.

FOWA London 2010 – Interview with Ryan Singer

Project Page/Read More: http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/

Perhaps I’m confused or misread the text. At least I hope I did.

When reading the Cnet article “Microsoft modernizes Web ambitions with IE9” something dumbfounded me. As of today, the preview version of Internet Explorer 9 scores a “55″ on the Acid 3 test and (more importantly) this is something Microsoft is happy with. For a frame of reference- older versions of IE scored in the 20′s and other modern browsers (Firefox, Safari, Opera) currently score in the 90′s. Last time I checked a “55″ is still a horrible failure regardless of your last score. Is the bar really so low at Microsoft? We can only hope (and sadly dream?) that Microsoft can make it into the range of the competition by the final release.

On behalf of all internet users- Microsoft/IE please get your stuff together and raise your standards.