April 2006
49 posts
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Stopdesign | Google Calendar tips →
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In Defense of Wii →
I’m in about the same camp. The name didn’t inspire me initially, but I don’t really hate it, and I can see its advantages.
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Revolution has a new name! →
System now officially “Nintendo Wii”.
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sekrit's User Page - Last.fm →
last.fm page for every song played on BB6 Radio, secretly tracked by them for a year now.
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Beyond "D'oh!": Simpsons Quotes For Everyday Use |... →
Do I get points for already using a lot of these frequently?
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WSJ.com - Philips and Time Inc. Agree to Keep It... →
Crazy reversal of practices here in the name of advertising.
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Final Girl Theory →
Those of you who are as sick as I am of the not-so-clever “if I’m going to look at my character’s backside all the time, it might as well be a hot chick’s” explanation of why guys play girls in video games might want to look in the “Final Girl” theory described in this piece about Lara Croft.
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Business 2.0: Netflix Mailers →
How Netflix envelopes have changed over the years.
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The Worst President in History? →
One of America’s leading historians assesses George W. Bush, Rolling Stone cover story.
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Wired News: Last Piece of the Puzzle? →
The sculptor of the famous puzzle Kryptos on the CIA headquarters grounds has revelead a mistake in the puzzle that could lead to someone finally solving it.
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Daring Fireball: Initiative →
John Gruber’s going full time to write Daring Fireball.
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USATODAY.com - CEOs say how you treat a waiter can... →
“A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person.”
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tecznotes →
Watch the tectonic plates move to form North America over half a billion years.
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Baseball's war on the upper deck. By Tommy Craggs →
Stadiums are roping off the cheap seats in an effort to make the game more “intimate.”
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Official Google Blog: Can you crack the code? →
12,358 logic puzzles.
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HeiDeas: Beyond embiggens and cromulent →
Further linguistic studies of The Simpsons.
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Dungeon Escape! →
Lots of fun.
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Mac Rumors: Beatles Songs on iTunes? [Updated] →
Remastered Beatles songs will finally be sold.
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Evolutionary Timeline →
Hint: scroll waaaay right.
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Left
I’m a little worried about being at a strong disadvantage on the Nintendo Revolution, being left-handed. Picture a high tech Duck Hunt, where you use the main controller as a gun and the nunchaku attachment containing ancillary controls needed to move your character. We’re all used to using control sticks in our left hands from twenty years of muscle memory. Presumably you’ll...
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The Universe of Discourse : Robert Recorde invents... →
Copy of the first appearance of the equals sign (“=”).
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cadbury egg cake →
“Experiment: Replace ordinary eggs in cake recipe with Cadbury Creme Eggs and observe results. Hypothesis: THIS IS GOING TO BE SO AWESOME”
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Pop culture references in Warcraft - Wikipedia,... →
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PistolWimp - Incredible Machines →
Fun series of Rube Goldberg machines.
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Civil War & Peace of Mind with Mark Millar (Part... →
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Civil War & Peace of Mind with Mark Millar (Part... →
Long, personal article about Mark Millar and what he has coming up for Marvel.
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Sam's Mailbox Pictures →
Pictures of mailboxes (cooler than that sounds).
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The Office April Fool's Day PSAs →
I had only seen one of these (the one about being short).
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Google Local - 4.815 162.342 →
Just for fun.
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DC Comics and the Hand of Creation
Comic books don’t always like to talk about religion in a direct way. Even in the DC universe, where God explicitly exists and where there are characters who are literal angels, God is rarely talked about and never intervenes, even when villains are trying to undo Creation. It was thus surprising to me when I discovered that DC has had its own creation imagery for forty years. It’s...
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Yahoo! Answers - I read recently that DC Comics'... →
I’m putting this question out there for anyone who knows the answer: I’m looking for creation myths in the DC Comics universe.
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Game Developers Unleash A Storm On 'World Of... →
A look into the new weather in WoW, and what considerations went into it.
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Daring Fireball: Windows: The New Classic →
“The Boot Camp logo [is] a bastardized variant of Microsoft’s Windows logo, sans color, and with the whitespace between the four panels forming a hidden ‘X’, a la the hidden arrow in FedEx’s logo.” Great observation.
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The Straight Dope Mailbag: Why do people say,... →
Good to know.
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First Look: PC World Installs Windows XP on a... →
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First Blue Screen of Death on a Mac →
It’s beautiful.
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Death to User-Generated Content →
I agree, it’s a terrible term.
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Study: Maryland county's red light cameras net... →
Accidents increased by 40% over a five-year period.
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DS Lite engineers speak - News at GameSpot →
Short article on the design of the Nintendo DS Lite. (It’s not called “Gameboy, is it?)
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Boot Camp
I actually didn’t expect this to come right from Apple, but it makes a huge amount of sense for them to release it officially, and it was inevitable someone would do it: Boot Camp lets dual boot your Mac into Windows or MacOS, in beta now. The program is free, but you’ll still need a copy of Windows XP SP2. It basically solves the problem of people who are hesitant to switch to a Mac...
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Graphic Novel Reviews →
I found this site years ago. A great source for reviews of tons of stuff, and a good resource for the “why is thie book important” questions I have sometimes.
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"Do It, Already!" →
Why do TV couples take so long to finally hook up? Contains spoilers for The West Wing and Alias.
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TheFourthRail.com - Snap Judgments →
Great compare/contrast between V for Vendetta the movie and the comic.
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30 Boxes Adds Webcal Subscriptions →
Handy for holidays.
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NEWSARAMA - COLORING JIM LEE'S INFINITE CRISIS #6... →
Another good look into the process, if a bit short.
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Tiny Ohio town freaked out by Mario prank -... →
I have to think this whole story is a prank.
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Marvel Vs. DC →
Pretty funny. I actually think some of those matchups aren’t right, but whatever. Regardless, I think DC has more strong individual heavy-hitters, while Marvel has more team players.
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How to Cook Rice Perfectly →
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Anil Dash: Your April Fool's Joke Sucks. →