The Red Frog Blog

My love affair with JQuery continues with my new article about using JQuery for easy Ajax pagination at the CakePHP Bakery.  Go ahead and check it out, it’s pretty slick.

People may call us a crunchy, liberal folk, but my heart leapt with pride to be an Ithacan at the annual Earth Day celebration at the Ithaca Farmers’ Market this Sunday.  It’s not what you might expect.  Sure, there’s the bellydancing vegans, the solar powered folk band performance, and the ubiquitous drum circle (all admittedly a bit granola), but you’ll also find some of coolest people you’ll have a chance to meet doing some pretty awesome things!  Like Marlo of Garden Gate Delivery who was doing a blind milk taste test (Evan’s non-homogenized milk vs. Wegman’s organic milk) Benj and Julie of Dovetail Builders who were showing off all of the beautiful, sustainable carpentry work they do, or Jennifer Dotson, the brain behind Ithaca CarShare, who was taking her very first enrollments!  Not to mention all the cool stuff I learned about the composting with worms, humanure, the Locavore project, compact fluorescents, etc.  And to top it all off, I had the pleasure of witnessing the 4-H rubber ducky race down Fall Creek on my way down to the event.  Nothing like seeing kids jumping into the creek after those little yellow guys and seeing real ducks get very, very confused by a swarm of rubber ones.  There’s no place like Ithaca.

So I’ve been keeping my eye (and ears) on Portishead’s new upcoming album for a while now, and I’m beyond excited. Giddy, would be the best word to describe it.

All Things Considered had a super interview with Geoff and Adrian (and amazing clips from the album) over the weekend. It was so fascinating while I was driving home that when I finally got home, I stayed in the car to listen to the whole thing.

Last night I was all over YouTube looking for clips from last weekend’s Coachella, which would have been pretty nice to attend. I found a lot of other stuff, and Casey chatted Prince’s version of “Creep” over to me this morning, which was in my opinion, alright.

But the new Portishead album is already giving me the chills. I don’t care if it sounds completely new, or if it is re-hashing the same old (which, doesn’t seem to be the case). Sadly, their only US show this year happened on Saturday, but who knows, maybe they’ll hit Roseland again sometime. Get that video if you are even remotely familiar with them. I still have my VHS copy from 8 years ago. Yeah, they’re that good.

Later this week we’re going to launch a new web store that we’ve been working on for some time. It utilizes our WebTree™ Content Management System, a powerful store interface and some pretty slick Flash. You’ll be seeing it soon, but we thought we’d share this product image that was shot with Molly’s Awesome Canon DSLR. Yahoo.

We consider ourselves pretty audio savy, but we’ve never seen (heard!) anything like this.

This may take some of the fun out of those slightly off-pitch moments and natural imperfections, but the fact that this exists at all is pretty amazing.

via: Evan