August 2003
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Nerdiness
I beat The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker on Sunday. I’ll be looking to start a new game some time in the next month. Suggestions?
I am wicked excited about my comic haul on Wednesday. There’s always one week a month where almost all the titles I read seem to come out at once. Due:
Batman #618: Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee’s amazing year working on this book is almost over. The...
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According to Slashdot, New Line Cinema has announced that they will be releasing The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers into theaters two weeks before the December 17 release of The Return of the King. And, to my delight, they’ll be the extended versions previously only available on the special edition DVDs.
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Inner Demons
Via asterisk*: for your nine to five amusement, The Office Space Game.
New direction…
Every once in a while an idea will creep its way into my brain and latch itself onto the gray matter. A few weeks’ time usually suffices to shake the thought from my consciousness, but in the meantime it nibbles away at me as if it were a tiny devil whispering in my ear. The nature of this...
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Google Toolbar
My company uses Windows. I deal. Yesterday I got very annoyed because Outlook refused to let me make some text green isntead of red. Outlook doesn’t usually bother me, but Internet Explorer does. Once you’ve gotten used to tabbed browsing, auto-fill, integrated searching, and pop-up blocking, it’s hard to go back.
Two days ago day I finally looked below the search bar on Google...
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Palm Splits in Two
Palm, the maker of handheld PDAs, just announcede that they will be splitting into two companies. One, PalmOne, will be solely a hardware company while the other, PalmSource, will make software. In some of the worst writing I’ve ever read, C|Net’s Ina Fried says: “Where the biblical King Solomon only threatened to divide a disputed baby in two, Palm has undertaken to actually...
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Katherine has these hanging on her cubicle wall, and she found the webpage they came from: Demotivators from Despair.com. I think my favorite’s Irresonsibility. Do you have a favorite?
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Play Safe
Via dangerousmeta via Antipixel: the Play Safe Thong. I think that this might actually succeed in making carrying a condom sexy enough to not be intimidating for girls.
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MOSe Use: Generating Amazon and IMDb Favicons
I’ve added a little bit of MOSe to my site. Any links to Amazon or IMDb will automatically have a little favicon after them - unless you’re using Internet Explorer, which can’t keep up with the CSS. This will save me a little bit of coding (and having to remember to code in the img tags after the links). I’ve also done away with the concept of linking the name of a book to...
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Manmade Diamonds
Wired is running an excellent article about manufactured diamonds. There are two labs, one in Florida and one in Boston, that can now make diamonds that are indistinguishable from nature-made ones. And they can make them perfect, every time, for under a hundred dollars. These aren’t artificial - they’re real diamonds - they’re just made in a lab in a few days instead of...
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I think that this is pretty funny. Someone took a picture that this guy Dan Hon took and made it into the background of their page. They haven’t attributed it to him and are linking from the copy on his server instead of copying it to their own site (so every time someone goes to their page, they use up some of his bandwidth). He’s mad and has asked the person to stop with no response,...
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Templating MFop2
When I bought my new cell phone last month, the store had a bundle deal for an attachable camera at 50% off. Half-off is a good deal, but that would have still meant spending $50 for the camera. And while having a camera-phone would be cool, I wasn’t sure that it would be $50 cool when I already own a camera.
A few days ago I realized that eBay might be able to hook me up, so I did a quick...
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Sometimes being a vegetarian is about eating fast enough so that you fill up before getting too bored with your meal.
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TypePad ToS
I’ve been playing around with TypePad off and on all day, and so far I give it a shiny gold star. The interface for posting entries and designing pages is clean and simple and quite WYSIWYG. I love that you can preview what your page will look like before you post it. The photo album feature is wonderful as well and produces similarly beautiful pages.
Of note are the Terms of Service which...
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Today marks one year since I moved to the DC area. The next day, as I was still unpacking my toy chest and discovering that I’d have to live without high speed internet for a while, the sniper attacks started. It wasn’t the best welcome for me, nervous about getting a job and about starting my adult life. It was the first time that a current event had directly affected my safety and worried me....