The local lake has a small patch of woods nearby. To say we took Beau for a walk in the woods might be stretching the definition of “walk”; it looked more like Family Circus map than a straight line. I sometimes wish I could “see” the woods the way he does, like if the entire woods were dark and I could wear blacklight glasses and see all the spots where other dogs had left their mark. Beau seems to ramble until he catches wind of another dog’s scent, then pisses all over it. Until I got a male dog, I’d only ever seen that figuratively.
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Ah, the joys of the ADD dog. I own a basset hound and good lord does he get distracted easily. On the upside, when you get his attention back a few moments later, he comes trotting right on over for another fifty feet or so. It can be frustrating, but it’s also gratifying. I think it would be fun to have the nose sensitivity of a dog, if only for a day just to “see” what it’s like.
— Ian 
This is a comment on your recent Theora link postings on delicious, rather than on the cute dog photos:
1. the first two of your links are broken
b. Some related links you might also have missed:
I didn’t notice a direct link from Monty’s demo2.html, but there is a 3,4 and 5 in that series already
http://web.mit.edu/xiphmont/Public/theora/demo5.html
The Cortado applet’s been a bit unloved/abandoned. I believe Wikimedia had been patching it for use with MV_Embed but recently it’s been updated to support part of the spec that Thusnelda is going to use:
http://maikmerten.livejournal.com/tag/java
And off at a slight tangent: vorbis playback in Flash (10)
http://barelyfocused.net/blog/2008/10/03/flash-vorbis-player/
And finally, reading the Thusnelda readme, I noticed it took png as an input format, which reminded me that the Dirac folks were encoding Big Buck Bunny from png as a high-quality test source, you can find the files here:
http://media.xiph.org/BBB/
— dave
@dave: that is all quite cool. Is there an mv_embed for the [audio] element, i.e. a script that can take [audio src="foo.ogg"] and replace it with a Flash object containing an FVorbis wrapper?
— Mark
Not that I’m aware of, and I have been looking.
Overall the audio tag seems the red-headed stepchild compared with video in HTML5. Wikimedia is working on online collaborative video editing (http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki) yet simple audio playback with a pleasant HTML/Javascript interface seems either unwanted or out-of-reach for no obvious reason. [Further ranting deleted after I got it out of my system]
Most likely way forward at the moment appears to be SoundManager2:
http://schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/
The author of that is aware of the Flash 10 Vorbis thing and seems cautiously positive about supporting it:
http://getsatisfaction.com/schillmania/topics/can_you_add_support_for_ogg_wav_au_and_aiff_files_please
— dave
Maybe I spoke too soon, an HTML/Javascript audio player with a focus on accessibility that plays Vorbis via audio tags and falls back to flash for mp3:
http://richardhulse.blogspot.com/2008/11/free-and-open-source-audio-player.html
Early days but looks promising.
— dave
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