July 2006
61 posts
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Perchance to Dream →
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The Unofficial Guide to Grant Morrison's New X-Men →
“Ultimately, NEW X-MEN is a deconstruction story of the X-Men because it’s telling the readers that it’s time to grow up.”
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Why Grant Morrison's Magneto Sucks →
Good piece, though the opinions expressed therein do not necessarily reflect those of this author.
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Friends list [Scribbling.net] →
“No one updates their LJ anymore. Vox is for, you know, grown-ups.”
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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut - Wikipedia,... →
In November, Warner Bros. will fnally release the cut of Superman II featuring Richard Donner’s original footage.
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New Joe Fridays - Week 7 →
Interivew with Joe Quesada, Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics, about his appearance on The Colbert Report.
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The Top 50 Movie Endings of All Time →
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Lake Peigneur →
Wow. “In 1980, an oil company drilled through the bottom of Lake Peigneur and into a salt mine, draining a large portion of the lake into the mine.”
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Cite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Wikipedia adds a page about citations, with information on how to cite entries in different style guides. Click “cite this article” on the left of any page.
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Flip4Mac - Digital Media Tools for the Mac →
Free plugin to let Quicktime play Windows Media files on the Mac now has official universal version for Intel Macs.
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Office Space in 30 Seconds, with Bunnies →
I guess these should be getting old by about now?
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What If Civil War Happened In the Real World? →
Funny, and sad.
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The biggest hole in the world →
Just what it says. A giant hole in the ground where they mine non-rare, overpriced gems.
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IGN: Battle of the Comic-Book Babes '06 →
Down to the Exotic Eight. I’m guessing it’ll be Emma Frost, Psylocke, Lara Croft, and Supergirl in the Fiesty Four.
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Erase permanent marker from your dry erase board →
Draw over the marker with a dry erase marker, then erase.
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Green Wonders of the World →
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The Titles of The Ultimates →
If only there weren’t between two and infinity more months until the last issue.
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WWDC keynote bingo →
I love the idea of someone playing this in the audience and yelling out if they win.
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Slashdot | Peter Cullen Chosen to Voice Optimus... →
This, I’m ashamed to say, is a giant relief.
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Miyamoto Is Left-Handed
From an interview with IGN about the Wii:
The dialogue turned at one point to, of all things,
left-handed and right-handed gaming. Miyamoto is
left-handed, and he said that he’s recently been trying to
get used to using the remote/nunchuck pair in the “reverse”
way — that is, the remote in the left and the nunchuck in
the right hand. While he’s been...
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Gavyn Davies does the maths →
How a study of serial numbers helped stop the Germans in World War II.
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IMDb Now Shows Thumbnails of Actors in the Credit... →
This is a nice little touch.
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In defense of M. Night Shyamalan →
After the disappointment of The Village and with a general dislike of the director despite liking most of his films, I’m not sure I’ll go see A Lady in the Water right away, but I am a little curious about it.
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TMNT →
Trailer for new animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles flick.
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A Porch and Flowering Meadow, 6 Floors Up - New... →
Cool story about a green roof in New York City.
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Sensational
I usually get comics every 3 weeks or so. Always when there’s a new issue of whatever the current hot series is. At the moment that means Civil War. Supposedly it’s selling more issues than anything has in a decade, which I believe if the number of people in my store yesterday is any indication.
I haven’t had time to read through my whole stack from yesterday but, aside from...
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Civil War Room #3 →
Discussion of Civil War 3 with editor Tom Brevort. Spoilers.
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Powers & Kabuki to be Reprinted Free/Faily at... →
Powers is honestly one of the best things out there right now. Starting Monday, you can go back and read it from the beginning, one page a day.
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Silicon Valley & The iTunes Ripple Effect →
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Warner Bros. Animation's Guide to "Cute" →
Cuteness is based on the basic proportions of a baby PLUS expressions of shyness or coyness.
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Screen on the Green →
I wish they didn’t do this in the part of the summer when the weather’s the lest pleasant of the entire year.
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Stop-Motion Human Space Invaders →
Good stuff.
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The top 10 unintentionally worst company URLs →
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The Pig and the Box →
Peculiar little parable about copy protection.
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Netflix Guilt →
“City of God, the award-winning 2002 Miramax film about the slums of Rio de Janeiro, is the most expensive film I’ve never watched. By my calculation, it cost me $66. I hear it’s great.”
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Flavored U.K. KitKats leave Nestle with bad taste →
When Nestle introduced flavored KitKats in the UK, sales dropped 18%. Sometimes people just want the classics.
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McDonald's new sundial billboard →
Very clever billboard. Amazing how 5000 year old technology can still be super cool.
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The Superman Code →
Recent readings paint Superman as Jesus, though he should probably be looked at as a Moses figure instead.
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Sinistrals
Brain Age, for the Nintendo DS, has two remarkable features that don’t get a lot of press:
Before any puzzle that requies voice recognition, the game first asks if you’re in an environment where it’s appropriate to be talking to your handheld video game system, lest you look like a crazy person on the bus.
When you set up your profile, it asks if you’re left- or...
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Solve Sudoku (Without even thinking!) →
This method not recommended when trying to improve one’s Brain Age.
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best-of-craigslist →
How did I not know Best of Craig’s List had an RSS feed?
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The Awful Forums - Zidane's headbutt... →
I love the Mario one on page 8 and the kitty one on page 9.
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IGN: Battle of the Comic-Book Babes '06 →
I apologize, dear reader, for not linking to this when I first saw it in round one, so you’ll have to pick up with round two, though you can go back and view the winners for r1 if you want.
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25 Great Calvin & Hobbes Strips →
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Shadowcat, Wolverine, Batman, Buffy →
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10 Worst Jobs to have in the Action film Universe →
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How much would Pepsi pay to get Coke's secret... →
Steven Levitt argues that, if such a thing as the secret formula still exists/is relevant, Pepsi shouldn’t care.
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Making Castoff →
How a book is designed.
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Building the Ultimate Bookshelf →
IGN makes a giant list of graphic novels and comic collections. Too large to be a “must have”, but a great reference.
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Building the Ultimate Bookshelf →
IGN makes a giant list of graphic novels and comic collections. Too large to be a “must have”, but a great reference.