Acts of VolitionRecent Posts"Thats one of the great contradictions of white- July 5, 2008 "Thats one of the great contradictions of white people. For the most part, all the worlds ills are based on large, evil corporations -- government corruption, American expansion through the use of corporate contracts, pollution, globalization, every bad thing that's happened. But if it happens with nice design, its acceptable." Christian Lander, the Stuff White People Like guy, in an interview with Salon.http://www.actsofvolition.com/archive/2008/july/thatsoneofthe The Long Road to Firefox 3- July 4, 2008 With the release of Firefox 3 last month, the Mozilla project, corporation, community, and the open-source software world in general have a great achievement on their collective hands. My involvement with Mozilla began with a weblog post in October of 2003, over a year before the initial release of Firefox. During the year that led up to the release of Firefox 1.0, we assembled a team that created the branding and visual identity for Firefox (and later, Thunderbird). As the launch of..http://www.actsofvolition.com/archive/2008/july/thelongroadto Where the Hell is Matt is an oddly- July 1, 2008 Where the Hell is Matt is an oddly heart-warming short-film of a dancing fool dancing all around the world (via BoingBoing).http://www.actsofvolition.com/archive/2008/july/wherethehellis Heres a code-swarm visualization of the Swat- July 1, 2008 Heres a code-swarm visualization of the Swat open-source project I work on.http://www.actsofvolition.com/archive/2008/july/heresacodeswarm |