November 2003
8 posts
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Tofurky Day
Waiting for the elevator today to take me upstairs to buy stamps for my rent check, a random lady asked if I was getting ready to stuff myself on “Turkey Day.” I hesitated for a second before just saying, “yeah.” Then I realized that I had found the statement mildly offensive, and then I realized that that’s a ridiculous thing for me to find offensive. For one, it’s...
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Setting Up a Sideblog in TypePad
I’ve added a new feature to daveXtreme.com, called eXtremities. During my web surfing I come across lots of interesting sites that seem worth a link, but don’t need an entire post devoted to them. The main page will always show the five most-recent links, and every link will be available in a separate archive page. An RSS feed of the links is also available. (Note: if you came here via a direct...
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Holy moly is The Postal Service good! I’m usually on the edge of liking whatever Indie’s buzzing about, but… it’s just so darn good. Actually, they’re so good that the U. S. Postal Service actually sent them a cease-and-desist letter for being so good. No, really, they did.
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Comment Spam is becoming a problem for webloggers. Adam Kalsey has written a Comment Spam Manifesto declaring war on people who want to use our pages as advertisement and abuse our hard-earned Google rankings. While I haven’t yet been a victim of this problem, I sympathize with those who’re getting hundreds of fake comments a day. We run our websites because we enjoy them, and getting preyed on...
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Matrix: Thought Strands
The more I think about The Matrix Revolutions, the better I think it was. Disappointing, yes, but I’m not sure that has to do with quality or events of the film itself, but more with it not being the movie I wanted it to be. (Spoilers ahead.)
I enjoyed watching it while it was on, but by the time it ended I just felt like I wanted the Wachowskis to start over and try again. Kenji attributes it...
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Clone Wars Shorts
Star Wars: Clone Wars, by director Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter’s Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack), debuted Friday night. It’s a very strange concept: 20 5-minute short films that take place during the Clone Wars between episodes II and III. The bad news is that each short is only five minutes long. Worse news is that they air on Cartoon Network weeknights at 8 o’clock, so...
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Interpreting Friendster Photos
Funny: The Buttafly Guide to Interpreting Friendster Photos.
Also funny: An Ode to Friendster.
[…] more important than the prose of my acquaintances bios
were their pictures. One of the things that you will
quickly realize is that a picture really is worth a thousand
words, and this is never more true than on Friendster. Many
of the users need not even waste their efforts...
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Instant Messenger Etiquette
Visiting college this weekend indirectly got me thinking about AIM etiquette. Our parents never taught us good cell phone or chatroom manners. It isn’t really their fault. After all, these things didn’t exist when their parents were teaching them etiquette. If you sat most people down and quizzed them on cell phone manners, they’d probably get most of the questions right, even if in practice...