June 2005
43 posts
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the seat with the clearest view →
People who didn’t grow up playing games often don’t really understand the nostalgia that surrounds them for us. This piece gives a good view of it.
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Legislators Move to Blunt Eminent Domain Ruling →
My initial reaction to this is that I don’t think it’s the right way to go about solving the problem. I don’t think cities should be able to take land to and give it to private corporations, but the power of the purse shouldn’t be the band-aid. People see
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I Hate Horses →
Well, I’m not sure I hate horses, but this guy sure does. (Caution: contains foul language.)
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The real Batmobile →
Cool CNN article about the Batmobile from Batman Begins. It’s not just another car with a new body, they made an actual Batmobile so they woulndn’t have to use as many special effects.
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Nike Apologizes for 'Major Threat' Poster →
This whole thing is pretty interesting to me. Nike created a poster for their summer skateboarding thingamajig based on Minor Threat’s album cover. Minor Threat’s label got upset because of the big mean corporation using their image. But really, big corpo
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Apple - iTunes - Podcasting →
Wow, suddenly I have three options that let me download radio, and all of them are good.
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Whatever: Cracking the Flag-Burning Amendment →
Of all the stupid things people get worked up about, this is still one of them? Anyway, here’s a good take on why it’s all stupid. Real Americans don’t take away the freedoms of other Americans.
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Retrocrush Reviews Land of the Dead →
With bonus review by Gene Siskel.
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Knight of the Living Dead →
Piece about George Romero and his upcoming Land of the Dead, about which I’m getting more excited by the hour. Also, I love that there’s a debate about how zombies in newer movies like 28 Days Later and the Dawn of the Dead Remake run, while old-school zo
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AFI's Top 100 Movie Quotes →
I love this sort of stuff. Half the fun is debating whether things should be on the list and what was left off.
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Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes →
This is pretty messed up. So now any big company can pay off the city council and to demolish your home? From Sanda Day O’Connor’s dissent: Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not
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Playlist: Interview: Odeo founder, Evan Williams →
It looks like a neat service. I like that the interview has screenshots.
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Odeo Launches →
I got my invitation last night. Not sure if you can start using it if you sign in now. Anyway, it looks neat and I intend to play with it tonight.
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Sarah Michelle Geller to Star in American McGee's... →
That game is super creepy, so hopefully the movie will be, too. I think Sarah Michelle Geller could really pull it off.
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Census Data Over Google Maps →
Zoom into any street in the country and see its population.
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Fox preps 'Family Guy' movie for Sept. 27 DVD... →
I like it when things I like do well. Also, it looks like Yahoo! has finally gotten rid of that damned ampersand in their URLs.
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How does Leia remember Padme? →
I don’t buy it. It seems bizzare that Lucas would make the movie, surrounded by Star Wars geeks who would have seen this plot hole coming, but it’s in the movie and it’s not explained. Unless he himself provides an explanation, this is just a careless plo
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Jim Lee's Thoughts on Batman Begins →
Jim Lee, artist on All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder, shares his thoughts on the movie. (He liked it.)
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Individuals who appear to be talking to themselves... →
I get fooled by “ear piece headphone people” every single time.
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Interview with Billy West →
Interview with Billy West, voice of Ren, Stimpy, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Zap Brannigan…
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LiveJournal Adds Tag Feature →
Nice, handy way to let you categorize posts. You have to comma-delineate tags, which is different than how Flickr and del.icio.us do it.
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Corner Bodo's Opens! →
Well, in a season when Apple is switching to Intel chips, who thought there’d be something even less likely to happen? To explain, Bodo’s Bagels is this fantastic store in Charlottesville, VA that has two open locations, and a third at UVa that’s been “co
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Futurame Title Taglines →
Screenshots of all the Futurama taglines from seasons 1-4.
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Most Earth-like exoplanet yet is discovered →
15 light-years from Earth and a few times its size.
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A Harrowing War Video →
I nominate this for the “awesomest video of teh week award.
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Top Three Things Q*bert Is Pissed About Today →
Ah jokes. I get jokes.
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del.icio.us: casting the net wider →
del.icio.us adds automatic tagging for music and video files, plus auto-generated podcasts.
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Seed of extinct date palm sprouts after 2,000... →
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A seven year old who has seen all the Star Wars... →
“In Ben’s hut: ‘Where is Qui-Gon? I thought Obi-Wan was supposed to be training with him?’”
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To cut a long story short →
Neat Guardian article about movie trailers.
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I Love You Susan (Who's Susan? Who's "I"?) →
Giant writing in the Utah desert spells out “I love you Susan. Will you?”
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Free Beethoven from the BBC →
The BBC is offering mp3s of all nine symphonies. Five are up now, the other four more will be performed and recorded this weekend.
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Batman 608 Giveaway in Monday's NY Post →
In a suprisingly clever move for in industry typically terrible about cross-promoting its products, a free copy of Batman 608, the first issue of the Hush storyline, will come with every copy of the New York Post.
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Rolling Stone interview with George Lucas from... →
Reading this, combined with the bonus stuff on the DVDs, it’s so evident that he just didn’t know what he was doing, but somehow it managed to turn out right.
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Video Game Sprites →
Sprites from lots of classic games.
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Two Companies to Release Porn Movies for PSP →
Two Japanese companies are going to release adult films in the UMD format used in the Playstation Portable.
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How to Make Your Own Totally Sweet Mario Question... →
What the title says.
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The Simpsons Movie is in Pre-Production Now →
Quoth Bart voice Nancy Cartwright, “I don’t know the name of it, and I can’t go into details about it, and we’ll just have to see how it goes, but I think it’s going to be great and the fans are going to dig it.”
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The Tags Power Tool for Movable Type →
Movable Type plug-In to replace keywords with tags. I’ll probably install this when I have a chance.
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Fossils Explained →
Boy on a Stick and Slither explains the creationist’s view of fossils.
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Tackboard - Making the design process easy again →
I like the design of this site a lot.
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Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips | CNET... →
Holy shit. First Microsoft announces they’re switching to an open standard file format for Word, and now this.
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Unmasking Deep Throat - An archive of Slate... →
An archive of articles on the matter from Slate.