Internalized racism is defined as acceptance by members of the stigmatized races of negative messages about their own abilities and intrinsic worth. It is characterized by their not believing in others who look like them, and not believing in themselves. It involves accepting limitations to one’s own full humanity, including one’s spectrum of dreams, one’s [...] [Posted: 30 Jun 2010]
We need to do more than just point the browser at a video file like the image tag does – there’s a lot more to it than just retrieving and displaying a video. The <video> tag certainly addresses the basic requirements and is making good progress on meeting others, but the <video> tag does not [...] [Posted: 30 Jun 2010]
I’ve been tinkering with the HTML5 video element quite a bit lately. However, it’s not the best-documented thing in the world. There are very useful properties in the video element’s events that aren’t so clearly explained in the spec. Developing a media player means you have to uncover these properties using a little bit of [...] [Posted: 29 Jun 2010]
Or the black bartender who said to me: “A black American and a white American … you all are the same to me.” It was another awkward compliment, but from his viewpoint, he equates the lifestyles of black Americans with white people, both in America and in South Africa. I suppose in a way that’s [...] [Posted: 21 Jun 2010]
If I could put my finger on it, I’d bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity guys and had never seen anything like it — the climate, the smells. It’s the cradle of music; it just flipped me. Someone suggested that there’s an incomplete part of [...] [Posted: 18 Jun 2010]
I created this example of the increment (++) and decrement (--) operators in action because I needed to see how they work in combination. I tested this example in Firefox, Safari, and later versions of Internet Explorer, but it probably works in Opera and Chrome as well. [Posted: 18 Jun 2010]
I am trying to slim down and simplify my possessions, starting with some of the books on my bookshelf. Here’s the deal: if you want one or more of these books and live or work in Decatur, GA or Atlanta, GA, we can arrange a meeting place and I will give you the book(s) of [...] [Posted: 15 Jun 2010]
The first rule for evaluating views of the Israel-Palestine conflict: never take anyone seriously who doesn’t grasp the simple truth that both Israelis and Palestinians have various and competing claims — historical, cultural and legal — to the same chunk of sun-baked earth. To suggest otherwise is not only historic revisionism, it’s also a serious [...] [Posted: 15 Jun 2010]
If audience measurement, ad support, and rights management are part of your business requirements, stick to Flash exclusively. HTML5 video does not yet have the ecosystem of services for ad serving, analytics, or streaming that Flash video does. That’s what I said in my latest post “The Mess and Magic of HTML5 Video,” on the [...] [Posted: 15 Jun 2010]
Photo by Ranoush. Found on Flickr. “No matter how smart I was, I wasn’t getting the respect I wanted. They still hit on me, made crude remarks and even smacked me on the butt a couple times. [With the niqab,] they have to deal with my brain because I don’t give them any other choice.” [...] [Posted: 13 Jun 2010]