Monthly Archives: April 2010

Experiments with audio, part IX

By david.humphrey | Published: April 30, 2010
I’m working with an ever growing group of web, audio, and Mozilla developers on a project to expose audio spectrum data to JavaScript from Firefox’s audio and video elements. Today we show what we did at www2010. I’m in Raleigh, North Carolina, with Al MacDonald for the www2010 conference.  We’re here to present [...]
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“Tomorrow will be like today, only more so”

By david.humphrey | Published: April 21, 2010
While I waited for my car at the mechanics’, I sat with a family who also waited.  Their conversation has stayed with me for the rest of the day, and I find it sad even now to type it out: Child, pointing to the Catholic Church down the street: “Mom, that looks like a castle!” Mother: “I’ve [...]
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We make stuff

By david.humphrey | Published: April 20, 2010
I had dinner last week with a few friends, and one of the things we discussed was cognitive surplus.  I commented on the recent explosion of tweets and blog posts about the iPad, and how it will usher in the end of tinkering as we know and love it.  It’s a sentiment I share, but [...]
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On Lying

By david.humphrey | Published: April 18, 2010
Lying is one of these terms and ideas that compels me to think, since it is so well understood that we no longer give it any thought.  In particular, I’ve been trying to situate the lie as such, and understand not only where it exists, but how. First, let me draw your attention [...]
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One for the road

By david.humphrey | Published: April 16, 2010
Every year at about this time, our girls start telling us that it’s time to go clean-up the garbage along the road in front of our property.  It’s a fairly long stretch of busy road, and being out in the middle of nowhere, drivers tend to be on their worst behaviour.  We’ve found all manner [...]
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By david.humphrey | Published: April 5, 2010
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Thoughts on the death notice

By david.humphrey | Published: April 3, 2010
On its page for Obituary, Wikipedia states: An obituary is a death notice which often includes an attempt by an author, publication, or news organization to give an account of the life of someone considered significant who has recently died. It can, however, be simply a death notice (also known as a funeral [...]
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Rereading Girard on Good Friday

By david.humphrey | Published: April 2, 2010
I’ve written about Girard before, and always glossed over some of his ideas that mean the most to me.  Today is Good Friday, and as I ponder the meaning of it for my own faith, I decided to post an old lecture I gave as part of a lecture series Luke organized many years ago. This [...]
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