Extra action marching band
This Saturday (Feb 10) The Extra Action Marching band is playing at 12 Galaxies. The cost is $10 at the door. Directions are available online.
The last time I saw them was a couple years ago at burning man. For more information on their ship La Contessa, you might want to read Eric Davis' recent article on it.
The object above is from the Extra Action Marching band's very own website. YOu may also want to read my article on Frank Chu. You can also visit the non-flash section of their site. Here are just some of their videos on youtube.com.
This is a really cool video from burning man 2007.
This is a cool film showing what you can do with silhouettes.
Jeff Han and Multitouch
Did you watch the iPhone demo? This is the same technology used in the phone. So if your friend next to you was tripping out when they introduced the technology, this is why. For more information, visit Jeff Han's website.
UPDATE: It looks like Jeff is marketing this technology through perceptive pixel and there's another video available.
Saudi Arabs road skating
I found this film some time back but have been surprised that more people haven't seen it. These guys are skating on asphalt, on the freeway, with other cars around. If they make one wrong move, it's over. There are several copies of this floating around but most of them don't have any sound (except for the annoying squawk at the beginning).
Another version has "Forgot About Dre" as the audio.
IE inline-block for Firefox
The inline-block value for display works in IE. In firefox, not so much. You could use two styles together, one for Firefox and one for IE but that would generate an error in Firefox. Instead, use CSS conditional comments to limit the IE specific style.
<style type="text/css">
.selector { display:table; }
</style>
<!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css">
.selector { display: inline-block; }
</style>
<![endif]-->