August 2006
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Pictures I Like For A Variety Of Reasons - I Give... →
I should have linked to this a year ago when I first saw it. Try to figure out what’s going on in this photo.
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Hedgehogs humble McDonalds - Yahoo! News UK →
McDonalds has redesigned their McFlurry cups so that they’re small enough that hedgehogs don’t get their snouts caught in them. Is this real?
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Booms and Busts →
Mark Millar, on how Hollywood’s going to ruin comics. The thing is, there’s no shortage of people in the world who can draw well. Sure, the superstars may get sucked up movie deals, but you just need to cultivate the ability for talented people to make go
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SimCity announced for the DS in Japan - Joystiq →
Just in the event you’re not totally sick of SimCity!
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davextreme’s Recent Activity →
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TheFourthRail.com - Two in One →
After five years of reviewing comics online, The Fourth Rail is shutting down.
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bwtf.com: Ben's World of Transformers (Generation... →
Pics of just about every classic Transformer ever released.
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Upcoming.org: News: Undiscovered Events, Flickr... →
Upcoming adds integration with Flickr and Yahoo! Local.
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Great shot - where'd you take that? →
Neat map interface to designate where a given photo was taken.
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Google Apps for Your Domain →
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Web Guitar Wizard Revealed at Last →
New York Times tracks down the Pachelbel’s Canon in D guitar virtuoso.
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2006 Hugo Award Winners →
Serenity wins best long form dramatic work.
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HOV Traffic Waits for No Man, Even the President →
President Bush asked to have 395 closed during rush hour so he could attend a fundraiser for George Allen. The request was denied. If it hadn’t been, the traffic jam would have lasted until 10 PM.
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Annotations: Justice League of America 1 →
I thoroughly enjoyed this issue, but was mad they split the cover into two covers instead of presenting it as a fold-out page.
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Schneier on Security: What the Terrorists Want →
“Our job is to remain steadfast in the face of terror, to refuse to be terrorized.”
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Pluto loses status as a planet →
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Morrison in the Cave: Grant Mossiton Talks Batman →
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Google Music Trends →
Aggregated from the “show current music track” status setting in the standalone Google Talk app. Should be skewed toward techie interests, as most everyone else uses AIM or chats within Gmail.
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50 Common Interview Questions →
These sorts of things are always useful.
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collision detection: Grand Theft Coca Cola →
Good little piece on the parody ad.
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Ricky Gervais For Microsoft UK →
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USGS Astrogeology: Gazetteer of Planetary... →
Recently discovered a new small satellite of Uranus? It must be named after a Shakepeare or Pope heroine.
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Google Notifier for Mac →
New app connects to Google Calendar as well as Gmail.
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YouTube - Jerryl (?) Canon in D Rock →
\m/
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War is Hell →
The Fourth Rail on the Civil War delay.
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Bill Watterson's RAREST! →
Some of the Calvin & Hobbes stuff that was never collected.
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Tom Brevoort Talks Civil War Delays →
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Bagley to Leave Ultimate Spider-Man →
He’ll move on after issue 110. After 103, he and Bendis will break the record for the longest time a creative team has worked on one title.
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Huis claws →
Information on the strangest (and only good) Garfield strips you’ll ever see.
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And now, here is your complete list of Fall 2006... →
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Delays
In the same week that I find out that the Battlestar Galactica season 2 DVD actually only contains the first half of the season, meaning that once I finish watching the discs Netflix sent me I have to wait for Sci-Fi to re-air the rest, I find out that Marvel has had to delay Civil War 4 by over a month. One might think this is bad news, but it’s not. The reason for the delay is that the...
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Marvel's Civil War Delayed →
It actually is awesome that Marvel’s willing to delay the book rather than rush through a fill-in artist. In 10 years, no one will care that it was late, but it’ll still be selling in trade paperback. This way, it’ll be preserved at a high quality.
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Top 10 Video Game Industry Facts →
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The Video Game Industry Has an Image Problem and... →
Even if the Wii doesn’t succeed in mainstreaming gaming, I can see this just changing as more and more gamers get older. The average gamer is 33 now, meaning more and more of the workforce each year are gamers.
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As of today, the US has been in Iraq for longer... →
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The DS Lite effect →
Crazy sales of the DS Lite as compared to the PSP.
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“Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.”
– C. P. Scott
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Tales Of The Black Freighter →
Wow. What would happen if you took the pirate story out of the rest of The Watchmen? Here it is.
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Wipes
I’ve mentioned this in conversation a few times, often to the horror of those listening in. You may be familiar with the star wipe, immortalized by The Simpsons. The Star Wipe serves well whenever you want to transition from one scene to another, and do it with style. George Lucas uses a number of different wipes in Star Wars, though none so fancy as the Star Wipe. Generally, if you use one...
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International Lefthanders Day
It fell on a Sunday so naturally I never checked my calendar and didn’t realize it, but yesterday was International Lefthanders Day. How did I (unknowlingly) celebrate? I bought a copy of Metroid Prime: Hunters for the Nintendo DS, and got frustrated enough learning the controls that I almost returned it. In fairness, this isn’t a left-handed/right-handed issue, as the game designers...
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GameSpy: World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade... →
Major changes to the raid game in the expansion revealed, including the announcement that all new raids will be 25-mans.
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YouTube - The original ending for THE DESCENT →
Saw this today. The American version cuts out the last minute or so. Here it is.
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NPR : Pluto: Is It a Planet? →
Pluta will be voted to official be a planet, but a dwarf planet along with a number of other small bodies floating way out there.
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Feed Icon Guidelines →
Mozilla’s official document on the use of feed icons, with an accompanying FAQs.
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After the Crisis, Summer ends Early →
Funny piece on DC’s 52 website. How hard it would be to teach history when the space-time continuum keeps changing!
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Tales of the telegraph (kottke.org) →
Great piece about a part of history that’s now officially dead.
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Time Machine
So Time Machine. Brief summary: the next version of the Macintosh operating system will include software that automatically backs up all of your files, and lets you easily (using the cheesiest interface since Dashboard’s) restore lost files with a few clicks. Every single document you create will be versioned daily, so if you accidentally deleted a bunch of stuff a month ago and need it...
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lilrivkah: Paneling, Pacing, and Layout in Comics... →
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lilrivkah: Paneling, Pacing, and Layout in Comics... →
Really great read. Lots of stuff you didn’t realize people had to think about.
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The myth of the living-room PC →
As I’ve said before, the future of the media PC lies in stripping away everything computer-like about it and just letting us watch TV on it.