November 2006
113 posts
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NBC 29: Count on Us - Letter from Mike Stark →
Letter from the man who was assaulted by George Allen’s staff today.
October 2006
120 posts
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MAKE: Blog: Zieak's Halloween party... ewwww →
That guacamole bowl!
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Reports of voting machines in Texas changing... →
And so it begins!
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H is for Halloween →
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Game Master →
New Yorker profile on Will Wright.
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Popular Adult Costume Choices →
“Witch” is an astounding winner, I’m guessing that’s always the case, then this year it’s pirates and vampires.
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Walking Dead
It happens every year or so that there’s a show, movie, book, band, or whatever that I’ve heard enough good things about that I know it’s going to be great, yet still never get around to picking up. Over the weekend I checked one of those off my list with the purchase of The Walking Dead Book One. There are five trade paperbacks out collecting the first two years or so of its...
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The Walking Dead, Book One →
Finally got around to reading this over the weekend. It gets my highest recommendation for Halloween reading.
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Every Woman Wants a Harley Quinn Costume For... →
Apparently Harley costumes sell out before Supergirl and Wonder Woman in some stores.
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300 comic to screen comparison →
I always like seeing these, but really, if you’re a filmmaker, why wouldn’t you use the comic as a storyboard reference? Seems like it just saves you work.
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Seven Soldiers Annotations →
The series finally ended this week. Here’s a set of annotations to help you figure it out.
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Next Generation
Good, well thought-out piece by John Siracusa about the Wii. As he admits, Nintendo may and probably does have something going with its approach to the console, but it’s a shame they didn’t try harder to match the competition’s processor power. Sure, gaming needs to be about fun, but looks do matter. My hope is that creators will flex their muscles to make things look cool rather...
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Daring Fireball: Can I Get an "Hallelujah" for... →
I never knew about this. Quite handy, but sadly on for Cocoa apps.
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Love it or hate it movies →
People are starting to make some neat finds in Netflix’s data.
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Strange statues around the world →
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The Year Of Playing Dirtier: Negative Ads Get... →
Washington Post piece on this year’s crop of negative ads.
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iPod Etiquette →
“Remove your earbuds to interact” is one I see broken often. Whenever — whenever — you’re talking to someone, you should take off your headphones.
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First look at 2007's Marvel stamps →
I was impressed at how cool and colorful the DC stamps were when I saw them in person. The Marvel ones look nice, but I’m surprised to see Spider-Woman there instead of perhaps Invisible Woman.
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Artificial Diamonds Starting to Go On Sale
A piece on Slashdot today says that a company called Adia Diamonds is finally getting some lab-grown diamonds out and into people’s hands. My hope is that in a few years you’ll be able to get man-made diamonds much more easily than you can today and we don’t have to depend on DeBeers’s monopoly for our shiny stuff. I’ll spare the lecture on why DeBeers is one of the...
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Stuart Immonen confirmed as new Ultimate... →
He’ll be taking over when Mark Bagley leaves after a record 110 issues on the same book.
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How to steal an election by hacking the vote →
I can’t stress enough how scary it is that our democratic process has been ruined by these voting machines.
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Happy Vox Launch Day! →
I’ve been testing Vox for a few months, and it really is a great service. If you don’t have a blog, or want a fresh start on one, this is the place to do it.
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13 Greatest Horror Movies. Ever! →
The top of the list is dead on.
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Firefox 2
Hot on the heels of IE7, Mozilla released a new version of Firefox today. Ars Technica wrote a review of one of the betas which is mostly still relevant, if you want to know about what’s new in this version. Mostly it’s just polish, with some performance fixes and a new phishing detector to protect you from sites pretending to be your bank. All the polish adds up to a nice browser, but...
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New Jersey court rules same-sex couples must have... →
[this is good]
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Some Voting Machines Chop Off Candidates' Names →
Let the games begin! I cannot believe how much money we’re paying these incompetent companies to run our elections as poorly as they do.
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10-Percent Tip Teaches Waitress Valuable Lesson →
Man oh man do I hate the entire tip system. Having been a waiter, I’ve yet to hear a single good reason why the food shouldn’t just cost more and you should simply expect good service. A bad tip just makes me think you’re cheap, not that I gave you poor s
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J.G. Jones on 52 Week 25's cover →
Great cover this week. He did a great job of making them look like store bought costumes.
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Very Short Stories →
The print edition really does these much better justice, and none of them measure up to Hemmingway’s, but I nonetheless adore these.
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Why do coins smell like they do? →
They don’t. Touching metal causes a reaction in your skin that has a smell. Blood causes a similar reaction and smell.
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Wii Launch Guide →
IGN’s one-stop shop for Wii info.
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Free home run tacos, several strings attached... →
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Flickr Comment Notifications
Unless I’m missing something, Flickr doesn’t notify you when people leave comments on your photos. If you have your own account, you do have a recent activity page, which has its own feed, but I’d still like to be able to get emails.
So, sorry if you left a comment on a photo of mine and I never responded. I probably didn’t even see it until today.
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7 reasons why Threadless rules →
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Threadless T-Shirts - Wait, why is everything... →
T-shirt sale for the next two days.
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Happy birthday, universe →
If you believe that God created the universe in 4000 B. C., today it its birthday.
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List of Starfleet starships ordered by class →
Many classes have full entries with photos.
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Zombie Library
Acquired Shaun of the Dead last week completing, I think, the perfect A-list zombie movie collection:
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
28 Days Later
Shaun of the Dead
With that lot I’m properly equipped for Halloween, but there’s always the question of when to break out The Nightmare Before Christmas. You don’t want to watch it too early, or you’ll find...
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Red Eye on Flickr - Photo Sharing! →
How to carve a Cylon pumpkin.
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At CHS, band doesn't take back seat to sports →
I, too, played a varsity sport and marched in the band. It’s hard to explain to people the culture of Charlottesville High School, where a tenth of the school is in the band and no one really cares about the football.
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YouTube - bjork - bachelorette →
I’m not much of a bjork fan, but this video is quite cool. (via waxy)
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IGN and KFC Snacker Present Readers' Top 99 Games →
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Bowling + Rollercoaster = Fun! →
There has never been a sim made that didn’t invite bloodbaths and carnage. No good sim, at least.
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What would CNN's website look like if you removed... →
I don’t totally agree here. Entertainment news is pretty important to our culture, as are sports, but yeah, I’d love to see real stories.
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Voltage Self-Illuminating Hair Gel →
Colored hair gel that gives off light!
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Technorati Weblog: Blog Claiming with OpenId →
I don’t have much use for Technorati, but it’s good to see another big name supporting OpenID.
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The G.O.P.’s Bad Bet →
Good editorial on why the government shouldn’t have banned online gambling.
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The Architecture of Security →
From castles to concrete barriers, threats have often changed architecture for the worse, only to disappear and leave ungainly buildings still standing.
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The Top Ten Best GHOST PHOTOGRAPHS Ever Taken →
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NBC refuses to pay writers for Battlestar... →