June 2006
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The "Snakes on a Plane" Effect - Wizbang Pop! →
May 2006
79 posts
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SixApart To Launch Comet, Renamed Vox, on June 1 →
This oddly looks like it’ll compete with LiveJournal, which they also own.
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Jobs' glass elevator locks in group customers -... →
I think all elevators should do this at random intervals whenever non-crippled young people are taking them up one floor.
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The Morning News - The Weathermen, by Clay Risen →
Top 10 best real weatherman names.
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Nintendo Puts $250 Price Tag on Wii - Yahoo! News →
As expected. This won’t affect the 25+ market as much, but will help a lot considering the price of the alternatives for poorer and younger gamers.
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Collective Nouns
Dre’s pictures of a bale of turtles got me thinking about collective nouns. There’s a snotty charm in knowing the proper pluralization of a pride of lions or a pod of dolphins, but once the subject hit the internet a few years ago the linguistic nerds got ahold of the idea and went a little bit crazy with it. Sure, it’s great to know that someone decided that a group of pupils...
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Mr. Jefferson, meet Mr. Jefferson. By Akhil Reed... →
“What the framers would say about raids on congressional offices.”
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Mr. Jefferson, meet Mr. Jefferson. By Akhil Reed... →
“What the framers would say about raids on congressional offices.”
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Surprise move: NBC reshuffles fall schedule →
I link to this because it shows that not all TV executives are idiots. Putting a new show against CSI was dumb, but putting it against CSI plus Grey’s Anatomy would have killed it. I’ll totally watch Studio 60 on Monday nights.
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Surprise move: NBC reshuffles fall schedule →
I link to this because it shows that not all TV executives are idiots. Putting a new show against CSI was dumb, but putting it against CSI plus Grey’s Anatomy would have killed it. I’ll totally watch Studio 60 on Monday nights.
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Ars Technica - The PC Enthusiast's Resource →
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Ars Technica - The PC Enthusiast's Resource →
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House Judiciary passes Internet access measure →
20-13 vote preserves net neutrality, preventing service providers from being able to intentionally slow down or block access to sites.
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House Judiciary passes Internet access measure →
20-13 vote preserves net neutrality, preventing service providers from being able to intentionally slow down or block access to sites.
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Yahoo! News today picks up a story called Philosopher, scientist, farmer crack chicken-egg question. According to University of Nottingham Professor John Brookfield, the answer of the “what came first: the chicken or the egg?” question lies in simple evolutionary theory. At some point there was an animal that was just one mutation from being what we now call a chicken. This animal laid...
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Wired 14.06: The Myth of Superman →
Neil Gaiman on Superman.
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FACTBOX-Hayden would be fourth "active-duty" CIA... →
I was wondering about this this morning.
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Chron.com | Hate Lost repeats? ABC's solution is... →
ABC is moving to a move British style schedule for Lost: run a shorter series, then another show, then the rest of the season, so there are no repeats in between new ones.
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Macworld: First Look: Apple's new MacBook →
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Innovation
Despite lots of rhetoric, the next-generation video game landscape is lining up basically like the last one did: one system comes in early (this time Microsoft instead of Sony), two go for power (Sony and Microsoft), one tries to be different (Nintendo both times). The current generation will take all of that to the next level: the graphics will be sharper, and Nintendo will be even more...
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Curmudgeon Gamer: History of Console Prices (or:... →
The bottom chard is the inflation-adjusted price. NES was expensive, but it still doesn’t compare to the PS3.
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Apple - MacBook →
New iBook.
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Timeline of CGI in film and television -... →
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The New Verb →
The Wii will require the creation or adaption of new verbs to describe gameplay.
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How to Bypass Most Phone Menus and Get to a Live... →
I usually just mash a combination of # and *.
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panopticist: There Is Something Weird Going on... →
This must be part of a conspiracy.
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Last Will and President (washingtonpost.com) →
Washington Post talks to the cast of the West Wing. Richard Schiff: “No matter what those &%$! scriptwriters make him say, Toby would never, ever have been the one to leak classified information.”
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The West Wing
The West Wing ends tonight after seven seasons, two of which were amazing television, plus a few more that ranged from “good” to “less than amazing” to “out of ideas” to “dumbed down to try to appeal to more people”. Still, this season has been one of the best, and so far it’s done a wonderful job of ending the series with good character...
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Wii impressions: the E3 experience - Joystiq →
Good piece on how Nintendo doesn’t need to go all Wiimote all the time. IMO they should have made the specs a little bit hardier and encouraged companies to 3-way port their games, anyway, if they don’t want to develop special Wii versions.
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IGN: Superman Returns: Daily Planet Details →
About designing the newsroom of the Planet.
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Telephone Companies Could Be Liable For Tens of... →
Good luck trying to demonstrate you were harmed by this.
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the cool hunter - VOLKSWAGEN's NEW CAR EXPERIENCE →
20-story vertical stacking of VWs. Wow.
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steven berlin johnson responds to the serendipity... →
I think TiVo’s bad for letting you find new stuff, but I agree that the internet is great for it.
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Perspective: The endangered joy of serendipity →
I tend to agree with this, but I’m not about to waste all the trees needed to get a daily newspaper, either.
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Overheard at E3: Japanese don't accept... →
Do cultural differences really play this big a difference in gaming preferences? I believe it.
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IGN: Spore Trailer, Videos and Movies →
I haven’t found Spore info I didn’t link to yet…
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Bad Break Ups and a Kangaroo: Bendis Talks "New... →
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Comics Continuum: Saturday, May 6 -- Superman... →
Interview with the Superman Returns costume desiners.
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Sequels to Certain Sequels
I’m pretty excited about the upcoming Superman Returns. Bryan Singer did a great job with the first two X-Men films, and all signs point to Superman living up to the hype. Of interest to me is the premise of the film itself. Everyone knows that Superman III and IV come after Superman II. What this film presupposes is: what if they didn’t?
Superman, released in 1978 and directed by...
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade -> Draenei →
New Alliance race confirmed, and not as lame as expected.
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Interview: Jeff Kaplan on World of Warcraft... →
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hollowindigo: Page A7 mysteriously goes missing... →
The Hanso Foundation took out an ad in the Washington Post today. I really need to start looking into Lost’s alternate reality game.
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The Official Spore Trailer →
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Nintendo Wii →
Official website.
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Kotaku, the Gamer’s Guide →
this is site specific.
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Joystiq →
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IGN.com: Games, Cheats, Movies and More →
IGN is the ultimate gaming and entertainment resource featuring award winning coverage of video games, cheats, movies, music, cars, sports, babes, comics and gear.
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Kotaku: E306 Clips: Playstation 3 Controller First... →
Motion sensing is a good idea, but, like with Wii, implementation will be what matters.
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Wiishlist
One thing I’d love to see on the Wii (and all the next-gen gaming platforms): a global setting for invert mouse (where relevant, not sure how it’ll be with the Wiimote). There’s no reason why every game needs to have its own setting for things like this.
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A Game For All Ages →
TIME magazine gets a first look at the Wii.