Hi anewuser! I'm not at Mozilla or on IRC anymore. Feel free to email, if you don't have the address should be able to find it on the site listed in my profile.

I guess it's hard to photograph someone at the controls of a cocktail cabinet.

Totally different from anyone else, swears with Playstation face buttons

Written during the W3C conference in Buffalo

To unforgivably confuse metaphors: Descartes may have been wrong about the pineal gland being the point of contact with the soul, but it is associated/developed with the "third eye" in some vertebrates: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parieta...

That was a painful laugh, thanks, and all due respect to the boobery industrial complex

I'm curious if anyone knows why the name was changed; I've seen insinuations of a trademark conflict. It's funny that these earliest 1995 discs didn't even have the "CDPLUS" directory, it might have been standardized only after the branding had changed to "Extra".

This particular disc had several versions, mostly bundled with new PCs, each OEM got unique branding and track lists. I've seen CD Extra versions for IBM, Packard Bell, and Toshiba. This first one might be for Compaq, that name appears in the data.

I'm picturing it scrolling continuously in your hand

1, containing a boot sector that prints the text "Darmok"

I find this especially with any kind of auto complete. Consistency is a lot more important to a regular user than constantly improving on some benchmark.

There's probably some real issues they're fixing, but without knowing enough about uses that break. People adapt to awkwardness in interfaces, if you smooth the cracks people were using to climb it, they'll stand cursing at the bottom of the ladder you've built that no longer reaches their goal.

With that many letters you could make anagrams for many contradictory messages, too.

Dissonant! Discontinuous!

There's only one 16-color CLUT. There is supposedly a command (28) to set transparency, which would allow the graphics to overlay video, but this doc doesn't cover it and I don't know how widely used it is. bhj's cdgraphics implements it quite differently than the spec.

I'm Brood X, but you must be Pooed X

I had supposed Line Graphics might be the original design, meant for small special purpose displays, or simplified for device front panels (like late CD-Text displays), but it seems it was anticipating future use that never materialized.
So far only seen on a test disc: bsky.app/profile/hcs6...

This calls for the National Cheer Colorguard

I haven't checked, so maybe