njr 3.0

Scoop's new dynamic modes for comment reading let you expand messages in place, just like a Radio outline which links to other outlines. This lets you explore a discussion asynchronously: while you wait for the message(s) you've requested to download, you can read the rest of the discussion in the page you're already on, instead of seeing partial Web pages load and losing your place in the new page. In Mozilla, I use tabbed browsing in very much the same way, Command-clicking links to load pages in new tabs while reading the page in the frontmost tab. Scoop's version is very nicely implemented, and extremely responsive. It's really sad that it's taken us this long to get Web browsers that will handle this kind of basic interface feature reasonably, though.

1:37 AM | Radio
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About 90% of the Internet radio stations I listen to are participating in a blackout today. For me, the advent of Internet radio has made my work, and life, so much more tolerable and enjoyable, introducing me to so many wonderful sounds. I listen around 10-12 hours a day, every day. If you listen, perhaps even if you don't, help to save Internet radio in the US from misguided and wrongheaded regulation.

8:53 AM | Radio
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DSBRTuner (an open source OS X control app for D-Link's DSB-R100 FM radio) looks like a viable replacement for my La Cie ADB FM radio, except it seems that it doesn't act as a USB microphone, meaning I'd tie up the port on my iMic with it. The radio is $20 from here (or here).

7:15 AM | Radio
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Weird, someone pointed to my weblog from a now-deleted message on the Radio discussion group. I didn't post that message, and I have no idea what writing of mine they linked to, but if it was construed as being critical of Radio, uh… that was not my intention.

The work I did this weekend made me realize further how incredibly cool Radio is, seamless rendering and upstreaming, and the largely unused work from Radio 7 in which outlines became media for interaction. Sure, there are some bugs in there, but it is tremendously nice to be able to see much of the code that makes Radio work.

8:21 PM | Radio
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Apple always seems to "accidentally" leave a code name unfixed somewhere in their CPU dev notes (in a few cases, such as the 101 PowerBooks, it was even left behind in the filenames on the Web site). Regarding the eMac: "The Uni-N 1.5 IC used in the Northen Lights G4 computer [sic]..." In the PowerBook G4 DVI note: "With the Hydra adapter, available separately, the PowerBook G4 computer can be used with any digital Apple monitor that has an ADC connector."

3:31 PM | Radio
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