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Peter Bright, writing for Ars Technica on the integration of Flash into Windows 8:

Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 will include a bundled, integrated version of Adobe Flash, and the Metro-style browser will support the use of Flash on a limited number of sites. This news and corroborating screenshots comes from Within Windows and winunleaked.tk.

In Windows 8, Microsoft’s browser will come in two guises. There will be the traditional desktop browser, with its full support of plug-ins and extensions, and there will be the new Metro-style browser that will be plug-in free. But that’s not quite the whole story. The browser will include an integrated and embedded version of Adobe Flash, and because this will be built-in, it won’t be treated as a plug-in.

The result? Even the Metro-style browser will be able to use Flash.

Microsoft has a hard time letting go of the past, don’t they? Even when it’s with a technology they tried replacing with Silverlight.
Years ago, you could argue Microsoft’s legacy support was one of its strengths – even in 2012 you can open a Microsoft Word doc created in 2002, but each year they don’t cut ties with the past is another year they aren’t able to innovate to their full potential.
Just look at Windows 8 – you’re in Metro-mode most of the time, but every now and then classic Windows rears its head.
Apple did this with it’s operating system too, but not only did they do it better by sandboxing it, but they did it 10 years ago.

First man to jump out of a plane without a parachute and lived to tell the tale.
You might say, “Sure, but he was wearing one of those flying squirrel suits and he landed on foam blocks, that’s why he survived.”
I say he survived because his enormous balls cushioned the fall.
You go try it, pansy.
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The new posters for The Dark Knight Rises remind me of the ones for The Matrix Reloaded:




I’m not sure I would go so far as to put them in my Influencer/Influenced category, but it’s a possibility.
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Microsoft is sharing the bottom of smartphone barrel with RIM, Apple has surpassed it in net worth and now Chrome has taken the top browser spot from Internet Explorer.
Microsoft, what are you going to do?

If you can spare 5 minutes and 21 seconds of your life, go watch this quick film profile on Ken Burns.
The whole piece is quotable, but this is the key (my emphasis):

Jean-Luc Godard said, “The truth is cinema, 24 times a second.” Maybe. It’s lying 24 times a second too. All the time. All story is manipulation.

Is there acceptable manipulation? You bet.

People say, “Oh boy, I was so moved to tears in your film.” That’s a good thing? I manipulated that. That’s part of storytelling. I didn’t do disingeniunely [sic]. I did it sincerely. I am moved by that too.

That’s manipulation.

If you don’t know who Ken Burns is, first off shame on you. Second, you know already know him if you’ve ever seen the Ken Burns Effect in a movie or documentary.
I also think it could be where Seth Godin was inspired for his latest post on story.

Based on my site stats, there looks to be a good chunk of people who read Daily Exhaust via RSS.
While I am also an avid RSS Reader reader (huh?) and have no intention of changing your reading habits, I encourage you to take a peek at the design changes I’ve made to the site.
In short? Cleaner layout. Less clutter. Bigger type for easier reading – particularly on tablets and phones.
My sketches for this redesign have been in the works for a while, and coincide with Jeffrey Zeldman’s great Web Design Manifesto 2012 he posted the other day.

This is what Bryan told me when I called him today to bitch about the discovery (that he revealed over an IM on Words With Friends) that one of my favorite bars in Manhattan, The Lakeside Lounge, has closed.
I lived in Manhattan for 12 years, so I understand the turnaround a city undergoes day-to-day, month-to-month, year-to-year, but some places you expect to always survive. Like cockroaches. Lakeside was one of them. I started going there back in college, around 1998, underage.
If you never went to Lakeside, all you need to know is it had gritty, concrete floors, a photo booth (the real kind that uses emulsion and film) and one of the last (CD) jukeboxes in the city with an amazing inventory of rock ‘n roll and blues. It was raw and real, never trying to prove how cool it was, it was just cool.
We’ve had some great times over the years and I’m going to miss her.

The CP Lounge Chair by Bernhart Design, designed by Charles Pollock
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My wife and I (and our Chihuahua and my turtle) moved to Los Angeles on 1 April and I’ve been time-shifting to accommodate east coast-based projects I’ve been working on for my company.
Working from home has many benefits but getting up between 5 AM and 6 AM can still be painful, even if all I have to do is throw on jeans and walk downstairs to my office. But I’ve noticed the more I condition myself for this new schedule, the more I like it.
How much I like my time-shifted schedule came into sharp focus yesterday when I flew out to Boston to be with my project team to prepare new designs for our client presentation today. When I’m in Los Angeles, I’m used to having my work done by around 3 PM. It’s obvious too – my email and instant message programs go silent. It’s a great feeling.
Under these ‘normal’ hours today in Boston, I still had work to finish at 6 PM last night.
I’m looking forward to going back to my ‘normal’ schedule.

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