With the most ironic move of the year, Netflix brings watch on demand to the Mac thanks to Microsoft’s Silverlight. I must say this implementation of their player is fantastic. The quality is excellent, sometimes resembling 720p HD. Not quite getting there but close, close enough for streaming. The player has had no problems playing a few movies. I had more problems on the windows side even a few weeks ago. Having to upgrade to Windows Media Player 11 and getting the Netflix player plugin and lets not even talk about the auto licensing issues that can occur. Also if you have the wrong monitor the movies won’t play properly some times because of the DRM solution. Lets just say it takes some trouble shooting to get the windows version of the player working properly in some cases. I actually hope they adopt the Silverlight player on the windows side as well as it was completely painless.

Link: Netflix Mac Beta

My new favorite webseries is Big Book of Lies. It’s a quirky comedy about a compulsive liar or is he? The series is acted well enough for a web series and is shot better than most. There is nothing spectacular about the filming but the lead Andrew Leads has some really good delivery and great reaction shots. He quickly gets himself into a mess and thankfully he has some friends that are as uniquely screwed up as him. One of which is the fictional twin of a famous scholar and the other is delightfully smarmy but charming buff type. I’m really enjoying the absurdity and maybe you will as well.

I’ve always thought these videos were really beautiful.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

I miss Ze. *sigh*

I’ve downloaded the new Firefox 3 beta and I must say I like it quite a bit. Certain plugins don’t work but hey it’s a beta. My only serious beef with it is where the favicons show up now. Designers have been used to the favicons being at the beginning of the address bar and design accordingly. Now it seems we are all going to have to design with transparency in mind and break the box format somewhat, as it looks terrible in the new firefox. It seems unbalanced and odd to have a square favicon in this new address bar.

I’ll see what I can come up with in the coming days. I needed to change my favicon anyway. :-p