September 2006
63 posts
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Zoom Using Scroll Wheel
Okay, I linked to this yesterday, but I didn’t realize how cool it was going to be until I had the update installed. If you’re using a Mac, run Software Update (go to the Apple Menu if it hasn’t popped up already), then hold control and use your scroll wheel (or use two-finger scrolling if you’re using a MacBook or MacBook Pro).
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Daring Fireball: New in 10.4.8: Zoom Using Scroll... →
Cool new feature. (You could do this via the keyboard before, now you can use the mouse.) Very useful for blowing up small YouTube movies.
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New Google Reader
Google has released a new version of Google Reader that’s worth checking out. It sports an interface that should be easy to get a hang of if you’re already used to Gmail. Interestingly, Google makes no mention of RSS anywhere on their site, even though the job of Google Reader is to let you read RSS feeds. This isn’t a bad call on their part. RSS is a tricky technology to explain...
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Official Google Reader Blog: Something looks...... →
Google launches new version of their RSS reader. Funny, I had just decided today to play around with Google Reader for a little bit.
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On Apple's cease-and-desist letters →
Short Daring Fireball post about the real reason for Apple’s “podcast” nastygram. (They don’t want to stop the word “podcast”, just stop people from trying to trademark it.)
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They're not fonts! →
On the difference between “font” and “typeface”. (You probably mean typeface whenever you say font.)
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Border Volleyball →
Great story about playing volleyball over a fence seperating the US from Mexico.
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Iwata Asks
Nintendo is running a very nicely done series of interviews between Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, and the developers of the Wii. Each piece is long enough to cover information you probably didn’t already know and gives a nice look at the thought behind designing the device. So far they’ve covered the Wii hardware, the controller, and the software web channels.
The sense I get...
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Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far →
Recap of the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica, free from iTunes. (Link opens iTunes.)
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Official Google Blog: Our approach to content →
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TBS Once Again Leads All Networks In Leslie... →
I don’t know why I find this so funny, but I do.
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Joe Mathlete Explains Today's Marmaduke →
Awesome.
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Star Trek Technobabble →
Very comprehensive list.
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Anatomy
Wedding planning is a frustrating experience. No, I’m not referring to making lots of phone calls or fretting about making the wrong decisions about music. I’m talking about all the bad jokes. Being a guy, you have to put up with a lot of crap. Everyone assumes you’ve done nothing other than pick a color for your vest and try some cake. Everyone makes terrible, terrible jokes...
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The Sausage Factory and the Sausage Fest →
What happens when someone uploads explicit photos to Wikipedia that are relevant to the explicit topics being covered? (Warning: NSFW. Seriously. Explicit photos.)
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OpenID Server
Very cool: OpenID Server for Movable Type. Just drop it in your Movable Type plugins directory, add one line to your main page’s header, and you can log into any OpenID-enabled site using your own identity, if you don’t have or want to use a TypeKey, LiveJournal, or Vox account.
I’m now accepting comment logins using OpenID, so if you are running your own OpenID server, or have...
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iColours.ca - Customize Your Laptop! →
Instructions on how to modify the look of the white Apple on your Apple laptop.
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So there goes my warranty... on Flickr - Photo... →
Great PowerBook mod.
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Wii Calculator →
How much will you be spending on November 19?
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Link Only Right-Handed on Wii
Wow, this is strange. Twilight Princess was designed with Link being properly left-handed. Late in the development cycle, they realized that they wanted to make him right-handed to accomodate the poor righties who couldn’t possibly be expected to hold the remote in their left hands, so they mirrored the entire game. If you buy the GameCube version, Link’s a lefty. If you buy the Wii...
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Users want video downloads on the TV →
Ars Technica reports on a study by Accenture.
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The Office, Around the World →
Great piece on how four different versions of The Office all reflect their own countries, even while being basically the same show.
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Civil War Room 4: Mark Millar & Tom Brevoort Talk... →
Spoilers included at no extra charge.
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Super Priest Can Turn Anything Into Body, Blood Of... →
When preparing for a Catholic wedding, one tends to find extra joy in Catholic humor.
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High Resolution Footage of Super Mario Galaxy →
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Link, Left-Handed Hero No More
Outrage! So I’m, to say the least, excited about the Wii, and there’s little chance I won’t be playing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess as soon as I can. However, I read something today that upset me verily.
Quick quiz: in the Legend of Zelda games, is Link left-handed or right-handed?
That’s correct, Link is one of the few characters in video games who’s...
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The Lost Experience
The Lost Experience, the alternate reality game that ran this summer, has finally finished, and the secrets of Hurley’s numbers on Lost have been revealed.
[Spoilers…]
Fans of ABC’s hit SF series Lost who played this summer’s
alternate-reality game The Lost Experience got a big payoff
if they stuck with it: the secret to Hurley’s numbers (4, 8,
15, 16, 23,...
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moo | we love to print →
Looks like a very cool service that will pull your photos from Flickr and print them onto the back of business cards.
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Unfinished Tolkien work to be published in '07 →
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Super (Mario) Cake on Flickr - Photo Sharing! →
Hmm…
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Photos of Bankey's Art Show →
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Mighty Mouse Scroll Ball
Quick tip: the scroll ball on my Mighty Mouse started going a little wonky. I found that turning it upside down and rubbing it on a soft cloth (I used an eyeglass cleaning silk cloth) for a minute will clean out all the debris and it works like new now.
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Ethan Van Sciver on Green Lantern
Newsarama just published [a long interview with artist Ethan Van Scriver][1], who drew Green Lantern: Rebirth last year. The interview’s pretty long, but here’s the exciting part, where he talks about Green Lantern:
NRAMA: You did some DC work with books like Impulse and Flash: Iron Heights, as well as a few gigs at Marvel, including New X-Men with Grant Morrison. At what point did...
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Wii.com - Introducing Wii Channels →
Official site.
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IGN: US Wii Price, Launch Date Revealed →
$250, available November 19, Wii Sports included along with one controller and nunchuck.
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Lolita
According to the entry on Lolita in Stanley Kubrick’s Wikipedia page, the difficulty of making Vladimir Nabokov’s book into a movie were so notorious by the time of its release that its posters bore the mocking tagline of, How did they ever make a movie of Lolita? The answer is, sadly, they compromised. Lolita the book is a bizarre, perverted tale of a man and his love for a 12-year...
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How To: Back up your music using iTunes 7 →
New version adds a nice backup feature.
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The iTunes Icon Timeline →
I love that they changed the color of the icon with iTunes 7. They used to do it every version. Here’s the history.
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A Few Thoughts on iTV
Apple, in a rare pre-announcement of a product, said today that they’re working on a little box that lets you stream video, photos, and music from your networked computers to your TV. This is not a DVR. It doesn’t record TV, because that’s not how Apple sees the future of media working. Broadcast media doesn’t fit into their model.
Think about how you use a TiVo. You go...
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DSicons.com | Fresh Nintendo DS Icons →
Too lazy to draw your own icon for yourself on your Nintendo DS? Here you go.
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Very good article from Fast Company about CFL... →
In an impressive move, Wal-Mart plans to sell 100 million CFL bulbs in the next year.
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Kottke's roundup of links about Banksey's Paris... →
Artist Banksey replaced thousand of Paris Hilton’s CDs in stores with fake discs.
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Diane Arbus
We’re doing a Stanley Kubrick Netflix marathon over the next week or two. In poking around Wikipedia, I discovered that the creepy apparition of the two girls in The Shining is inspired by a photograph by Diane Arbus, an artist about whom I’d never heard (which isn’t surprising considering my extremely limited knowledge of art history). Compare the image of the girls in The...
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Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds →
Some guy posted a fake personal ad, then posted all the responses, with photos and email addresses. Waxy looks into what laws might have been broken.
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VG Cats' Spore creatures brought to life - Joystiq →
Awesome. VG Cats made a comic about the game Spore. EA re-made the comic using creatures created in the game, then sent the creator figurines of them.
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Inventory: 8 Musical Artifacts That Capture What... →
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IGN: Top 25 Simpsons Peripheral Characters →
See also their list of best guest appearances, linked in this article.
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A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change →
Great ideas here. It’d be neat to be able to, say, search a map for my address and see all the news happening near home.
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Chris Staros on Lost Girls' Market Performance →
The book sold out its first printing immediately, as well as its second printing, and they’ve ordered a third.