February 2007
71 posts
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Cutbacks Impede Climate Studies: U.S. Earth... →
My uncle was talking about this weekend. A bunch of satellites have been de-funded which are getting great data on global warming. (via Anne)
Feb 1st
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PvP: The Series →
Today is the last day to subscribe to PvP’s animated series for the reduced rate.
Feb 1st
January 2007
55 posts
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Spanning Sync announces public beta →
Keep Google Calendar synced with iCal.
Jan 31st
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Evaluations →
Georgetown University Law Center
Jan 30th
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Books: Mapped →
Wild. Google has added maps to some of its books pages, so you can see the locations of places mentioned in a book.
Jan 29th
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Twosday // ShaunInman.com →
New version of Mint out. Not sure if I’ll upgrade for $19, but it looks spiffy.
Jan 29th
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How to disable Snap previews →
Turn off the annoying site thumbnails that pop up on some links. I’d like to be able to turn off the link ads on most game sites, too.
Jan 28th
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Pass/Fail Admin - Course Assignment →
Georgetown University Law Center
Jan 26th
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Movies, Screeners, and Piracy
Thinking some more about Waxy’s Pirating the 2007 Oscars, there are tons of interesting conclusions one could begin to draw. It’s apparent from the findings that these movies make it into the pirate channels (arrgh!) very quickly. This is clearly the worst fear of the movie studios, who are trying and failing to do whatever they can to stop it. Amusingly, this is having the result of...
Jan 24th
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Save the Friendly Locals! →
Jan 24th
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Toys
Something the internet has never been very good at is selling toys. If you want a specific action figure, it’s kind of hard to find it. The big stores you’d think of, Amazon, Toys ‘R’ Us, Target, etc. don’t provide very comprehensive selections, or they don’t keep toys in stock very reliably. Usually you have to turn to collector’s sites which charge twice...
Jan 23rd
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TypePad and OpenID
I don’t imagine it’s high on their priority list, but it’d be nice if Six Apart would add OpenID pointers to the default TypePad headers. Every TypePad user automatically gets (I think), a TypeKey identity at http://profile.typekey.com/username, and TypeKey profiles all include OpenID identities. If TypePad pages all had a delegation to TypeKey, they’d join LiveJournal and...
Jan 23rd
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Pirating the 2007 Oscars →
Studios are trying, and failing, to stop piracy of the screeners they send out to Academy members, and often the anti-piracy efforts make it so hard to watch the movie that people don’t bother.
Jan 23rd
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Silent Star Wars →
Fun 1.25 minute silent movie.
Jan 23rd
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Wikipedia Nofollows Links →
Certainly it’s important to stop spam links, but if a site is genuinely the authoritative source on a matter it seems like it has earned and deserves its Google juice.
Jan 22nd
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Google Docs & Spreadsheets →
Jan 22nd
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How to spot Arial →
Good piece I read a long time ago about why Arial is a bad copy of Helvetica.
Jan 21st
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Frank Miller's Complete Sin City Library →
Really great deal from Amazon. $70 for all seven books.
Jan 21st
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Comparison of cell phone internet speeds →
The short bar is EDGE, which is what the iPhone will use. Cellular internet is very expensive, so it’d be nice if it were actually fast.
Jan 19th
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English Sentences without Overt Grammatical... →
What is meant by the sentence, “Fuck you”?
Jan 19th
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You could call iPhone perfect →
Interesting: “iPhone’s virtual keyboard is a huge improvement over the mechanical thumbpads found on […] any other smart phones”.
Jan 19th
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Michael Tsai - Blog - Buy Base Station to Get... →
Bizzare aspect of accounting law says that Apple can’t give away its 802.11n upgrades for free.
Jan 18th
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The iPhone User Eperience: A First Look →
From AskTog.
Jan 17th
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The iPhone User Eperience: A First Look →
From AskTog.
Jan 17th
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Before and after Darwin →
Brian Eno to write music program for Spore that will create background music that is generated by the game and doesn’t repeat.
Jan 16th
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A quick observation comparing two versions of The... →
True, but I’ve never seen the American version as an actual documentary like the BBC one was supposed to be. Gervais said himself that they ended it after 2 seasons b/c no documentary would go on longer than that.
Jan 16th
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A quick observation comparing two versions of The... →
True, but I’ve never seen the American version as an actual documentary like the BBC one was supposed to be. Gervais said himself that they ended it after 2 seasons b/c no documentary would go on longer than that.
Jan 16th
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iPhone and the Dog Ears User Experience Model →
The weight of all the little touches really adds up.
Jan 16th
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iPhone and the Dog Ears User Experience Model →
The weight of all the little touches really adds up.
Jan 16th
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MacRumors.com's Webcast Stats during the Macworld... →
Jan 16th
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MacRumors.com's Webcast Stats during the Macworld... →
Jan 16th
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'Lost' producers in talks about end date →
Funny that, it seems, the studio had to force this.
Jan 15th
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'Lost' producers in talks about end date →
Funny that, it seems, the studio had to force this.
Jan 15th
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Spider-Man 3’s Venom revealed … again →
I miss the white on the costume, but I’m sure it’ll look great in motion on the big screen.
Jan 12th
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Spider-Man 3’s Venom revealed … again →
I miss the white on the costume, but I’m sure it’ll look great in motion on the big screen.
Jan 12th
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Banksy : Shop →
Free art. “Serving suggestion: Prints look best when done on gloss paper using the company printer ink when everyone else is at lunch.”
Jan 11th
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Banksy : Shop →
Free art. “Serving suggestion: Prints look best when done on gloss paper using the company printer ink when everyone else is at lunch.”
Jan 11th
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A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope →
Neat reading of the original films in light of the new ones. I don’t buy all the collaboration between R2 and Chewie—much of the movies are based around fate—but it’s a fun concept.
Jan 11th
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List of inventors killed by their own inventions →
I’m generally not a fan of the Darwin Awards on the ground that you’re making fun of people’s deaths, but here’s a crazy list.
Jan 11th
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List of inventors killed by their own inventions →
I’m generally not a fan of the Darwin Awards on the ground that you’re making fun of people’s deaths, but here’s a crazy list.
Jan 11th
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Apple's New Calling: The iPhone →
Good article on how the iPhone came to be.
Jan 10th
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Apple's New Calling: The iPhone →
Good article on how the iPhone came to be.
Jan 10th
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In addition to the iPhone announced today (which looks peachy), there’s also a new AirPort station, which has a very cool feature: New to AirPort Extreme, AirPort Disk turns almost any external USB hard drive into a shared drive. Simply connect the drive to the USB port on the back of your AirPort Extreme and—voila—all the documents, videos, photos, and other files on the drive instantly...
Jan 9th
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It's official: TiVoToGo for Mac →
Good stuff. Now to get a video iPod…
Jan 8th
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It's official: TiVoToGo for Mac →
Good stuff. Now to get a video iPod…
Jan 8th
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Comcast and TiVo Demonstrate Integrated DVR... →
Excited about this.
Jan 8th
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Comcast and TiVo Demonstrate Integrated DVR... →
Excited about this.
Jan 8th
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Sam Ruby: OpenID for non-SuperUsers →
Some good little tips.
Jan 8th
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The Hivelogic Podcast Is Here →
Interview with Daring Fireball’s John Gruber about what might be coming at Macworld on Tuesday.
Jan 6th
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Civil War Room 6: Talking to Tom Brevoort →
Second-to-last spoiler-filled interview with the editor about the latest issue.
Jan 5th