http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://dashes.com/anil/2011/07/animated-gifs-triumphant.html The facts about animated GIFs are stark. They only support a palette of 256 colors. No current browser lists support for animated GIF as a codec for the HTML5 <video> tag. That omission is understandable, as GIF compression of animation isn't particularly efficient. They even lived under an unfashionable cloud of patent uncertainty during the web's formative years. And those are just some of the traits I love about the format.

GIF's origins are modest. The Graphics Interchange Format was introduced by Compuserve in 1987 with a specification published by the late Larry Wood. By just two… ]]> Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:41:34 -0700 http://dashes.com/anil/2011/07/animated-gifs-triumphant.html http://www.kingcosmonaut.de/lmb/#73 It is an internet radio, a cyberspace shuttle, and a kind of archive. LMB takes you on a journey through an almost forgotten web that is loud, colorful, often "personal", and doesn't care about standards. Though it might be forgotten by many, some parts of it are still there, waiting to be explored. And maybe we can learn something along the way. What? LMB plays a continous stream of MIDI music. However these aren't just random tunes, instead the songs are taken from websites where they are being played as background music. While playing a song the LMB cyberspace shuttle… ]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:04:00 -0700 http://www.kingcosmonaut.de/lmb/#73 http://fletchowns.net/ WARNING! THIS LINK HAS BRIGHT FLASHING COLORS. DO NOT CLICK IF YOU ARE PRONE TO SEIZURES ]]> Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:59:00 -0700 http://fletchowns.net/