the duchy of hetkettle trophish

— dahr jamail

ps. that’s why the bushies are keeping it as a pet — there are so precious few others at barrel’s bottom

pps. a good civil war is all about making friends

mar 20. regional opinion cross-section.

i said last year. now: hear this. if there is a depression, and you want it short,

• you have to detoxify and de-stress the fucking ecosystems.
• you have to plan resource use like those resources are finite and fragile.
• you have to build, repair, and discard infrastructure and logistics systems accordingly.

problems with the planet last longer.

ps. everybody else already knew you were pie-in-the-sky assholes. spare us the indignity of having our futures stolen along with our retirement money.

pps. because it’s humiliating to the entire species.

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“we need a works green administration.” —dennis kucinich

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and some fucking plans

i’m not, i’m just another fucking piece of track, ride me

i had no idea how you were suffering with such bad color in your web browsers. trust me when i tell you that safari shows photos prettier beyond pretty.

for example: these would look a lot alike.

if you are not using a mac, i need to add, “if your monitor is calibrated.” i don’t know why your monitor and your operating system and your web browser aren’t already fixing the colors you see on your screen — there are many things i don’t understand about how the richest-ish company in the world chooses what services to provide in its operating system.

for instance, who needs power-user scripting in their email program so much that they’d risk unknowingly becoming a porn server to get it? i don’t know. the world has so many mysteries.

ICC color support has been a longstanding feature request in Mozilla; the bug listing for the project initially was filed in 1999.

i just, really, don’t understand. wasn’t there some kind of “digital photography revolution”?

did i dream that?

ps. ick — i hate 2.2 gamma — but — ok — i can be friendly.

pps. and, now, i know, why, the windows world didn’t do color management! if most computers are set to 2.2/D65, still, then you can assume that into all the software and all the peripherals and the only folks who get mad are the ones trying to match colors for real! and they can buy macs or expensive extra software.

you know, i really thought after ten years this shit would be working. it’s fucking software. you can make it do anything!

if you care.

ppps. under the circumstances you’ll excuse for getting upset about undone tasks that were promised a decade ago. we are like bowling pins.

pppps. also my important comment.

ah. i see. i stopped paying attention right before microsoft released its system, but because its system relies on devices converting their color space to sRGB (changing to guessing in 3… 2… 1…) it encouraged everyone to assume sRGB for everything and meant there was no incentive to develop browsers or any software that could handle color information. this probably enshrined the windows gamma and color temp values because those also had to be assumed, to make the sRGB assumption work.

windows vista has a real system so maybe now it will really go.

it’s impractical to require embedded profiles in web documents or media. to me, a color aware browser would not only interpret image and page profiles; it would also default to converting from the OS color space to sRGB 2.2/D65, the de facto web standard, with an option to turn that off.

wiki.

This specification allows sRGB to be directly displayed by non-ICC-aware applications on typical monitors, a factor which greatly aided its acceptance. Nearly all software was and is designed with the assumption that an 8-bit/channel image file placed unchanged onto an 8-bit/channel display will appear much as the sRGB specification dictates.

microsoft and HP’s assumption that nobody really wanted to do anytink remotely like manage color was correct. incorrect was shoehorning everything so it looked good on television. particularly because CRTs are seeing their last days.

oh! even more helpful instructions! with great comments.

ppppps. in summary, for mac users who want their computer to look like every other internet computer,

1. download and unzip this color profile.
2. copy or move the file to /Library/ColorSync/Profiles.
3. go to Apple>System Preferences>Displays>Color and pick sRGB IEC61966-2.1.

if you manage images for print, you don’t want to do this.

per my comment about correcting whole pages, i thought it was impractical and so do the safari people.

Because Flash’s drawing isn’t correcting to sRGB, if we did it in Safari, there would be color mismatches all over the place. These mismatches look far worse than if we just don’t correct at all.

now’s my chance to point out that flash is bound for history because it’s too processor hungry to run on near-internet phones. seriously. you can render 3D with less juice.

ppppps. BOBW: internet color with correct display of other color.

pppppps. OTOH—

I don’t see why Mac users should compromise a better product now just to mitigate a support issue….

—hurray! i just made my gorgeous 20″ broad-color LCD into a 1998 teevee.

ppppppps. i would say the actual answer here lies in both OS and application. the OS should allow applications to spoof embedded objects into following the application’s target space. in other words, the application registers — as needed — with the OS as a virtual color manager; uses the OS’s color management info as a guide, taking account of the real monitor; and is then sent all color info requests from embedded objects. this would give you full sRGB in any interested app, with monitor-correct color on images and video encoded otherwise.

mar 19. in the end, after trying and not liking the downloaded sRGB space, i went back to the original monitor profile, did very small adjustments based on “typical” room light, and turned the gamma and color temperature to “native” (2.16 and 6500-ish). with this minimal software adjustment things look much better.