August 2005
46 posts
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In Other Fake News News
I get my news mainly from five sources:
The Daily Show
The Onion
The Today Show
The Washington Post’s Express
Hearsay from various weblogs
Of those, the first two are “fake news” sources, and the third really only counts as maybe 50% real news. When I read the Express (usually when I’m not reading a novel), I read most of it, but often I’ll do the Su Do Ku first and then not...
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Genie Grants Scalia Strict Constructionist...
Sometimes satire captures one’s feelings on a topic quite nicely:
Genie Grants Scalia Strict Constructionist Interpretation Of
Wish
WASHINGTON, DC—A genie freed from a battered oil lamp by
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia granted the
conservative jurist a strict constructionist interpretation
of his wish for “a hundred billion bucks” Monday. Sim sim
...
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Goovite: Easy Online Invites →
At first I thought that Evite really fit my online invitation needs, but then I saw that the logo was by Sam Brown (explodingdog).
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Reinventing Radio: On Phonetags...... →
Interesting concept for booking marking a song you hear on the radio using text messaging so you can go back later and figure out who it was by, browse by similarly-tagged songs, etc.
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How do I configure iChat for Google Talk? →
Info from the Google Help Center. Really I kind of like this approach better than using their own client (if a Mac version existed). I like having one chat client to rule them all.
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A review of Joss Whedon's "Serenity"...... →
“if you like adventure films, character-driven drama, sci-fi or just have any desire to watch something intelligent, exciting and funny, then I thoroughly recommend that you watch it too. It’s as good a film as the Lord of the Rings films at their best. A
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hamster sudoku →
Play Sudoku using photos from any Flickr tag or user instead of numbers
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Steve Carell stars in "The Case of the Missing... →
Pedantic puncation problems.
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Yesterday's TiVo investor call →
Finally posted a profit. Pairing with cable companies and giving away free boxes are things they should have been doing all along. Good to hear they’re on it now.
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Sin City: Spoilers Podcast →
Amateur commentary for Sin City that you can play alongside the DVD, which has no commentary track because they rush movies into homes too fast nowadays.
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bender casemod →
Casemod looks like Bender and says catchphrases.
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Use Gmail to Send Mail From Other Addresses →
You can now set Gmail up to send out email from another account, if you need to.
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Bones reveal first shoe-wearers →
When humans started wearing shoes, our littler toes got weaker. Looking at a skeleton’s toes tells you then its civilization started wearing shoes.
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Google Blog: "Sign up for Gmail" →
Interesting. Gmail is now open without invitations, but you need a cell phone to sign up as their way of verifying your identity.
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TrackBack: A Tragedy in Three Acts →
Oh the geeky hilarity!
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Beastie Boys Vocal Tracks →
Official a capella tracks of Beastie Boys songs, for your remixing pleasure. A new one each week.
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I seem to be taking in more paperclips than I’m sending out. This bothers me.
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A List Apart →
New design for A List Apart, with some new articles for the web-minded.
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Daily Show Interview with Steve Carell
If you didn’t see it Monday night, The Daily Show’s interview with Steve Carell was hilarious. One of the best uses of the awkward silence I’ve ever seen. (A little backstory: Carell was a correspondent on the show for years before leaving to do movies.)
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It’s been a few weeks now since I’ve moved my page back to TypePad from Movable Type. The 3.2 version of Movable Type seems to be really cool, but I’m kind of glad that I got away when I did lest I suffer even more temtation to tinker. That’s the difference, really, between the two services. Movable Type is customizable to suit almost any need you can find for it. TypePad’s a little more focused....
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Metro Arts and Architecture →
Neat piece on the art and architecture of subway stations.
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Boing Boing: Pornos rot slower than other... →
The need for lots of high gloss pages means that Playboy outlasts Newsweek in the landfill.
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Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New... →
Ah reductio ad absurdum, my old friend.
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Georgetown University Law Center Home Page →
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Green Day’s video for “Wake Me Up When September Ends” is pretty damn powerful. It gives an honest look at how hard the real, actual big decisions and consequences in life can be. It’s not trying to say that the war is right or wrong, or really anything about the war, but about the people in all wars and one slice of what they go through. My feelings about where this country...
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Parents 'ignore game age ratings' →
I have too much to say about this to fit it into a small text field, but you can probably figure it all out. Key thoughts: don’t ruin my games, I’m an adult. Be accountable for your parenting decisions.
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Ebert's Most Hated →
A collection of Ebert’s most hated films.
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Quick thoughts about the Apple 'Mighty Mouse'...... →
I made a comment here you can read for my thoughts on it after a few days of use. (I like it a lot.)
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Sacrifice and OMAC
I’ve been wrestling with whether or not to go back and pick up the Superman Sacrifice arc that ran through the Superman titles and into Wonder Woman. I’ve been interested almost as much by the narrative feat of the Infinite Crisis countdown as I have been by the actual storylines. They’re trying to go big, and it seems like they’re succeeding, but the Sacrifice stunt kind of pisses me off with how...
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Google News Atom and RSS Feeds →
Pretty neat. You can subscribe to a term and get an entry whenever there’s news about it.
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Atari Logo Evolution →
All sorts of Fujis.
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The Pop vs. Soda Page →
Note that the “show all” map doesn’t mix colors, so in areas where more than one term is used, pop appears to win, but it doesn’t really.
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mezzoblue § Mac Zoom Trick →
Handy tip on zooming small video on a Mac.
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mezzoblue § Mac Zoom Trick →
Handy tip on zooming small video on a Mac.
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Lesser-Known Movie Prequels. →
Ha.
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Geoff Johns | The A.V. Club →
The Onion AV Club interview comic writer Geoff Johns
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Brian K. Vaughan | The A.V. Club →
The Onion AV Club interview comic writer Brian K. Vaugn.
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"How are the noodles?" Japan's PM asks astronaut →
Mmmm, space noodles.
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I got to order office supplies for today. I wasn’t happy with the ink flow of the Pilot Precise V5 Rolling Ball pens that I was using, so I’ve put in an order for some Sanford Uni-Ball Deluxe Rollerballs. They feature:
Reservoir feeding system ensures a smooth flow. The innovative cotton reservoir releases the right amount of ink with every stroke for skip-free, mess-free...
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Demystifying Diet Coke(s) →
Hmm, Diet Coke is actually New Coke with aspartme.
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I am possibly moments away from impule-buying Apple’s new Mighty Mouse. Sure, I’m a sucker for their Reality Distortion Field, but at the moment I have no trouble convincing myself that my current input device needs aren’t currently being met, and that this device will certainly bring me closer to enlighenment. Two concerns: I’ve grown used to back/forward mouse buttons,...
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Flickr Interestingness →
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Apple - Mighty Mouse →
Wow! A new mouse from Apple! I can’t stop using exclamation points!
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Disk Averse →
James Surowiecki on how DVD is changing Hollywood.
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Flickr Tag Clusters →
See sets of photos with similar tags. Interesting.
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Flickr: Explore interesting photos from the last... →
Lots of cool stuff here.