Joseph Schmitt

Google is saying that they don’t plan on making any changes to the way Motorola was enforcing their patent pool. This presumably means, among other things, they’ll now be suing Apple and trying to block the iPhone from being sold in certain countries.

This also presumably means they’ll be suing Microsoft and trying to bring down the H.264 video codec — which, by the way, Google created a competitor to (WebM) out of fear that someone would come along one day and try to enforce patents that would kill the H.264 video codec. >

How’s that for a mind fuck?

It’s easy to not be “evil” when you’re not under threat, but I think Google’s true colors are coming to light now that all of their major business have major, threatening, competitors.

I’m trying to remember a time when a new Chrome release didn’t break something of ours. It’s been a while.

craigiam:

With Chrome 17 release Google broke its own +1 button when you have “Block third-party cookies and site data” enabled.

http://cl.ly/3Z2T1P2t17070F2F360B

Awesome.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=113401

Thanks, Google!

“Remember kids, ALWAYS shoot first!”

Vacation, continued. (Taken with instagram)

Vacation (Taken with Instagram at Jolly Roger Hotel)

Happy Groundhog Day.

laughingsquid:

Groundhog Day Explained

Just lost myself watching Asian Cinema’s 20 Greatest Fight Scenes:

Jackie Chan really is the master of staging wonderfully inventive fight scenes, and this one from Drunken Master II (a.k.a. The Legend of the Drunken Master) is especially outstanding. Jackie spends the first half the fight completely sober and getting kicked into oblivion. But then, he stumbles onto some industrial-strength spirits and turns the tables entirely. This is the very best depiction of Zui Quan (a.k.a. Drunken Boxing) ever caught on film. The fight involves incredibly acrobatic choreography and perfectly-timed humour. This might not be the most brutal fight scene ever filmed, or the most complex, but you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn’t find it joyously entertaining.

Jackie’s final scene from Drunken Master and the scene in Ip Man with the 10 black belt students are two of the greatest things ever captured on film (and they’re #1 and #2 on this list to boot).

Still in effect

vimeo:

Today is a big day - one of the biggest in the short-ish history of our small-ish company. For the past year (37 years in Internet time), we’ve been working nonstop on a project that we’ve desperately wanted to tell you about. Because, frankly, it’s all about you. Our willpower muscles are pretty much at the breaking point right now, and so we are doubly ecstatic to finally let the tiger out of the satchel and make this officially official announcement: We built you a new Vimeo.

To learn more about these new big things in more detail, head over to vimeo.com/new. It’s also the place where members can sign up to try the new Vimeo as we roll it out over the next few weeks. Go ahead - you know you want to check it out!

Can’t believe it’s finally public, so proud of everyone. Go check out New Vimeo!!

pile:

THIS FOOTAGE WAS ASSEMBLED FROM SOURCES OPERATING UNDERCOVER AT GREAT RISK.

Big, BIG announcement tomorrow. And here’s the mandatory blurry-cam photo to prove it.

If you search Google for Jamie Oliver directly, his Twitter profile is the first social result that appears. His abandoned Google profile doesn’t even appear on the first page of results. When Google’s engineers are allowed to focus purely on relevancy, they get it right.

So that’s what our “bookmarklet” does. It looks at the three places where Google only shows Google results and then automatically googles Google to see if Google finds a result more relevant than Google .

The best part?

This proof of concept was built by some engineers at Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, in consultation with several other social networking companies.

Brb, gonna go get some popcorn.

This is one of the best logo designs I’ve ever seen. And I thought the FedEx hidden arrow was clever!

PIPA and SOPA are dead. Long live ACTA!

Shit New Yorkers Say.

I’ve said more of these than I’m comfortable admitting.

newsweek:

Behold! What the Stop SOPA blackout managed to accomplish in 24 hours.

It’s January 14th and I’m at the beach.

I love California.

The @Vimeo Pepcom booth (Taken with Instagram at MGM Grand Conference Center)