Chris Mason

3 color process print, CMYK (no cyan).  12″x16″ image.

Signed and numbered edition of 25.

$15 + $5 Shipping

CMYK process screen print, 12″x16″, edition of 20.

$15 + $5 Shipping

2 color screenprint on Red Hot Pop-Tone French paper, 12″x18″, edition of 25.

This artwork is from the 1995 Faith No More album “King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime”.  Once upon a time, Jeff and I were digging through his collection of tapes and noticed that this artwork would be fun to try to screen print.  So I scanned his battered tape, cleaned it up and attempted to print it.

This artwork was not created by me, and it may not be legal for me to be displaying it here on our site.

6 color screen print, glows in the dark, edition of 50.  Image is 12″x10″.

$15 each + $5 shipping

The man who fights too long against dragons, becomes a dragon himself.

Welcome to our brand new site.  We’re still getting things put together, so hopefully we’ll have more artwork by more artists soon.

Thanks for visiting.

I’m an SVN user, and for the most part, it makes sense.  Seems that developers lately are all-about Git because Linus Torvalds himself designed and developed it for his own use in Linux, and it’s the best thing ever.

This article by Ted Dziuba is a great read for nerds who have ever used SVN and tried to wrap their heads around Git.

“The problem isn’t that Git is to hard, it’s that smart developers are impatient and have exactly zero tolerance for unexpected behavior in their tools. While Git is the trendy thing right now, perhaps some day you will come across a grizzled developer who is using SVN, and when you ask him why, his answer won’t make sense, because it’s a Zen thing.”

(This is my second time linking to Ted Dziuba, seems a smart guy who isn’t afraid to be honest and funny.)

Beautiful!

THANK YOU! 

I can’t believe how many people out there are making a living and running successful businesses by ripping people off with fake knowledge.  Seriously, if you are an “SEO Expert” and you offer “SEO Services” without a background in web development or web design - then you are a HACK.

We received a 6-pound bag of PHONEBOOKS the other day.  Such a waste of energy/paper/man hours/everything.  Get with the times phone companies, the internet has replaced you.  You are now obsolete.

I’ve been using Pandora for years, and when they announced in 2009 that they would be offering a pay-service for a standalone Adobe Air app, I was ecstatic.  For $36/year you get 192kbps streaming audio, no commercials, and uninterrupted listening for 5 hours.  The unpaid version requires some interaction to make sure that you are still listening, but as a member I can just turn it on and let it play.

The standalone Adobe Air application is nice too.  It’s small (in size and in memory usage), nicely skinned, and allows quick access to the basic controls very easily. Since I’m a web developer, occasionally I’ll have dozens of tabs open at the same time - which eats up system resources.  With the web-based Pandora player, that means additional browser resources just to play music.  The Pandora Air app doesn’t run in the browser, so my music is safe from browser crashes.

I use Pandora every single day, it exposes me to great new artists, and it’s ridiculously cheap at just $36/year.  For that cost, and as much as I use it, I figure I’m paying just about 1.5 cents per hour of music.

In my opinion, it’s worth every penny.

No more status updates or  application messages from people I’ve hardly ever talked to in real life.  No more worries about what Facebook is going to do next with my personal information.

It’s amazing how annoyed I get at people that I genuinely love, just based on their Facebook habits.  So, now I have 14 days until Facebook REALLY deletes my account.

Good bye Facebook.  It’s been pretty awful to tell you the truth.

This article spells it out pretty much exactly as I see it.  Shady CEO has access to millions of users’ private data, is making a ton of money on your naivete, is potentially breaking the law with their uncouth privacy practices, etc.

And here’s a nice little followup on the original post:

Even More Reasons to Quit Using Facebook.

If you use AdBlock, then blocking the universal Facebook “Like” button is a simple task.  

1. Open AdBlock preferences.
2. From Filters menu, click Add Filter.
3. Paste this URL into the text field:
   
   http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?*
4. Apply Changes and click OK.

Note:
Also, If you want to block the Facebook “Connect” boxes that hundreds of websites use, enter this additional URL as a filter in AdBlock: 

http://www.facebook.com/connect/connect.php?*

Results:
The Facebook website itself will continue to work just fine, but no longer will you need to put up with the extra loading and rendering times caused by the universal “Like” button or the Facebook Connect boxes.

It may also help regain some of your privacy back from Facebook, since AdBlock stops the Javascripts from ever being loaded, thereby hindering any possible attempts Facebook has made to track it’s users around the web. 

From a technical standpoint, why I dislike the Facebook “Like” buttons.

As if it wasn’t already obnoxious enough to have to load half a dozen embed codes (such as YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Google Maps, Google Analytics, etc) on every single website or blog I go to, now I have to endure the Facebook “Like” button. 

My dislike for Facebook has been growing ever since the CEO openly declared that he’d rather drink a warm glass of his own piss than protect your privacy, and this new universal “Like” button is not helping his cause.

A blog that I read everyday called Ajaxian adopted the Facebook “Like” button from day-one, so I got to experience the annoyances right away.  I did a quick inspection using Firebug to take a peek at what was going on. 

For every “Like” button on a webpage, Facebook uses an IFRAME to make a GET request to facebook.com.  Note that they don’t use one of their many content distribution networks (CDN’s), but the same facebook.com we all use.  The GET response is 2.6kb which calls for the loading of 5 dependents worth 18.6kb.  That’s 21kb for the first button, and 2.6kb again for every button thereafter.  Take into account that on the first page of Ajaxian, the “Like” button loads 16 times.

That’s 60.2kb of GET responses from facebook.com on each page load, through 21 separate requests.  That many requests is killer on page load times, especially when it’s alongside the loading of other scripts and media. 

I then looked at the actual HTML response for each of those IFRAMEs and I was appalled.  Each IFRAME has long strings of useless META data.  Each IFRAME loads two CSS files (combine them!) and one javascript file, but somehow manages to load another IFRAME inside the first and loads yet another javascript file.  Then seven (7!!) script tags are scattered through the body of the frame.

I’ve noticed blogs taking significantly longer to load since they adopted the Facebook buttons, due in part to the rendering engine of my browser is probably having an aneurysm. 

I used to think Facebook was a slick application, especially in comparison to MySpace.  But these days I dislike Facebook more and more, and wish I had a simple, one-click-button I could press to show it.