Fun senseless violence (rated R).
One of actor David August's previous blogs. Please go to stuff.davidaugust.com; I'm not maintaining this one anymore.
As of 2025, please go to stuff.davidaugust.com, my newer blog. See you there!
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Eagle Squadron Plane
flew these 1940-1942 for Britian in World War II.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Twitter With Full URLs
When twittering, or otherwise posting a URL online, putting the http://www prefix on the web address will automatically be recognized as a URL and be made a link by various systems (e.g., Google's spiders, twitter's web interface, tweetie, etc.).
Facebook, for instance, automatically recognizes a full URL and makes it a link almost everywhere, and includes the page description and image in messages and wall posts. You can customize the default image, title and description that Facebook sharing uses too.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Do Not Autoplay Video and Audio
Let the user start the video or audio on a page, or risk losing visitors. A notable exception is if the page in question exists solely to let people watch the video, like YouTube's pages for individual videos. The are other places to use autoplay well, but use it carefully. Taumata's twitter sums up the why:
If your site has music or video that autoplays (especially when it's way at the bottom or otherwise hidden) I will never come back.

