July 2005
38 posts
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Accomplishments come in all sorts of forms. Tonight Wanderers were the first on our server to kill the new Ragnaros. Wee!
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Cool optical illusions →
You may have seen these before, but they’re really cool.
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The Aristocrats - What's funny about one joke told... →
Slate weighs in on The Aristocrats.
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Backstroke of the West →
Hilarious translations of Star Wars from Japanese to English.
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Salon.com review of The Aristocrats →
I’ve never wanted to see a movie consisting purely of the same joke told dozens of times more.
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What Every Game Developer Needs to Know about... →
Video games are still finding their place as a narrative art form. I’m very curious to see where they’ll be in ten years.
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Bouncy Ball Waterfall →
Thousands of bouncy balls!
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Voltron movie in the works →
More giant robots! More I say!
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Shoe Lacing Methods →
I usually use Over Under Lacing or Straight European Lacing.
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Holy Factimony →
Statistics show that educated couples have lower divorce rate, yet the Bush administration that’s so in love with the “institution of marriage” is cutting Pell Grants.
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Police to Search Bags on NYC Subways →
This is pretty disturbing, and might start in DC. Wonder what happens if one refuses.
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On Being and Deliciousness, with Wil Shipley →
Interview with Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster, maker of the great Delicious Library.
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Campus Squirrel Listings →
Rating of colleges based on their squirrel populations.
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War of the Words - Steven Spielberg has earned the... →
I agree with most here, but from now on won’t any movie in which there’s a large disaster be given this treatment?
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Top 10 Web fads →
Ah Hamsterdance, I remember you before you sold out and ruined what you once had.
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SparkNotes: Harry Potter and The Order of the... →
Over the weekend Andru and I realized we didn’t really remember what happened in this book. (via kwc, who apparently had the same problem and came to the same solution)
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Daring Fireball: About the Footnotes →
Footnotes on the web are someting I have a bizzare fascination with.
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Bendy Straw Art →
Cool pictures of artwork made from plastic straws.
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Pulp Fiction in 30 seconds with bunnies →
Oh AngryAlien, how do you do it?
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My FeedBurner Feed →
Your aggregator should figure this out automatically, but my feed’s located here now.
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Night of the Living Dead @ Internet Archive →
For a number of reasons, the original film is now public domain and thus free to download.
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HumaneText.service →
New version of this great little MacOS service. I just can’t write plan HTML anymore, and this helps a lot.
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History According to Harry →
Neat piece on Harry Potter as an allegory for 1930s Europe.
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History According to Harry →
Neat piece on Harry Potter as an allegory for 1930s Europe.
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WWVD
I’m a whole chapter into the new one and I’m wondering, what all did Voldemort do the first time around? Maybe this book will tell us more, but all 9 billion pages of the first five books I don’t think anyone’s ever really rattled off a list of what happened during his first reign. We know he killed some people and stuff, but beyond that no one ever wants to talk about it. Did Voldemort try to...
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Optimus keyboard →
Every key on this keyboard is a little screen that can be programmed to show whatever you want.
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Atom 1.0 →
Atom feed format hits 1.0.
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Independence Day for Transformers →
Release date for Michael Bay-directed live action picture set for fewer than two years from now.
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Frank Miller Talks 'All-Star Batman and Robin, the... →
Wow, it’s coming out really soon… and then begins the six week waiting period between issues.
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Quicktime Movies of Live 8 Performances →
Lots of stuff here.
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Free TiVo box with one year of service →
This really should be their standing deal. I can’t say enough good things about TiVo, so if you’re interested, take a look.
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Newsarama Reviews Fantastic Four →
Sounds like it might actually be good.
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OpenID →
New authentication system for commenting on LiveJournal that doesn’t require you to trust a specific company (like Six Apart of TypeKey or Microsoft for Passport).
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The new Firefox tag line →
Great anecdote.
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Chinese Coke/World of Warcraft Commercial →
Great stuff.
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iTunesLyrics →
Dashboard widget that shows the lyrics of the song currently
playing in iTunes.
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Female mannequin falling animation →
Strangly fascinating little game of a woman falling through a sky of spheres. The collision animation is just great. If she gets stuck, you can click-drag on her to move her around.
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iTunesLyrics →
Dashboard widget that shows the lyrics of the song currently playing in iTunes.