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Month November 2005

Looking for development help: Familiar with the Photon plugin?

I’m working on a few projects at the moment, and for one of them I’d like to use the Photon plugin for iTunes, which I have used on a recent project, but I need to customize it a bit.

Would you, or would someone you know, like a little Christmas cash for making some updates to this (open-source) plugin for me?

Drop me a line (watch for the whitelist reply).

YES! It’s UP!!1! Seedmagazine.com Lives!

So, this is what we’ve been working on for the last few months:

» Seed: Science is Culture

Mike designed it and did all the flash bits, I did the front end and some major Movable Type wrangling.

Yeah — we used a blogging tool for a news site. MT is da bomb, don’tyouknow.

I’ll have more later, but, for now, it’s Miller time.

Choosy developers choose… Gif?

In the spirit of other grammatical musings, I point you to another worthy question:

Gif of Jif?

You know those .gif files. How do you pronounce “gif”?

It’s an interesting debate. The acronym stands for Graphical Interface Format, so the correct answer would seem to be a hard G — “gif”.

However, someone in the conversation mentions that the original branding campaign for the format (yes, technical standards need branding — see WiFi) included the slogan “Choosy developers choose GIF,” a play on the classic Jif Peanut Butter slogan.

So, the original developers (or at least the marketers) of the format declared it to be “jif”. But most people prefer “gif” — it makes more sense, seeing as “graphical” is pronounced with a hard G.

Plus “jif” is creepy to a surprising number of people. Weird.

(hat tip: Greg)