February 2007
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This article about networks retooling TV shows reminded me of a great sequence in a recent How I Met Your Mother. Robin, one of the main characters, is a TV news anchor. She also happens to be Canadian. The entire episode centered around a secret tape that she wanted no one to ever see, which the other characters assume to be something dirty. At the end of the episode the secret gets revealed: she...
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Official Google Blog: Stuck in traffic? →
Google Maps now shows traffic data for some major cities (DC included).
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Advetising and propaganda in Children of Men →
Montage of all the ads that appear throughout the film.
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Whedon Revives Serenity Comic →
Dark Horse will publish a comic in the fall that he’ll write.
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Rhymes with raining →
Interview with Matt Groening about The Simpsons, The Simpsons Movie, and Futurama.
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The Black Donnellys: Television doesn't get more... →
I agree mostly with this review. Could be a good show. Takes a lot from The Godfather, but knows as much.
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Early man 'couldn't stomach milk' →
Europeans tend to be able to digest milk better because they’ve had the gene longer.
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Steve Jobs v. Underwear Gnomes →
“Look, the computer industry is not holding out on you […] We’ve been fighting piracy of our wares for thirty-five years, now, and we’ve lost every round. […] Why do you think we can do better for the recording industry?”
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Mark Millar's Civil War Post-Game Show →
This could possibly be the last link to a story about Marvel’s Civil War comic.
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Oscar-nominated short films in iTunes Store →
$1.99 each. Link goes to story about them, with link to iTunes.
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13 sidekicks who are cooler than their heroes →
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Japan's top thirty emoticons →
It’s funny how involved some of these are compared to English emoticons.
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Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The... →
Neat article arguing that the thing with kids these days is not that they know how to use technology, it’s their willingness to let everything be public.
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Joss' input into the end of Marvel's Civil War →
Joss Whedon, unanimously credited with writing the ending of Civil War, explains just what he contributed.
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Netflix delivers 1 billionth DVD →
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VW Beetle mods →
Lots of pictures of neat custom bugs.
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Apple Says "Hello"
During the Academy Awards telecast tonight, after Wes Anderson’s wonderfully quirky American Express ad, Apple showed a commercial for the iPhone:
The ad revolves around the word “hello,” which, in addition to obviously having a lot to do with telephones, has a history at Apple. Here’s an image of the very first Macintosh:
The unveiling of that Mac is a sight...
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I took the plunge today and picked up a strategy guide for Twilight Princess. I’m not categorically opposed to using cheats, but I generally prefer, and find it more fun, to play a game without them and figure things out for myself. For Zelda games, though, that just isn’t possible. You can get through the story and the dungeons on your own, but if you want to come anywhere near...
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Why TV Is Better Than Movies →
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Wii bowling knocks over retirement home | Chicago... →
“They come in after dinner and play. Sometimes, on Saturday afternoons, their grandkids come play with them.”
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An article I read today got me thinking about something. There are lots of very good web services that are free. Enough, in fact, that they can often adequately replace similar paid products, depending on how many features you need of course. Gmail would be the prime example here. I used to pay for an email address, but now Gmail’s free and offers most everything I could want out of an email...
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The Onion's weekly fake magazine cover speaks to... →
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Official Google Blog: Google Apps grows up →
Google Docs rolled into Google Apps, which gets a paid version for businesses.
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Teens kill homeless guy for fun. One of them remarks that it was like a violent video game, which the media has lots of fun with.
Penny Arcade publishes a little editorial saying that, as any reasonable person knows, violent video games didn’t lead the kids to murder, and blames it on bad parenting.
The step-mother of one of the kids writes into Penny Arcade and explains that the kid...
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Civil War Room #7 →
Interview with the editor about the last issue.
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Counting Down: Dan Didio and Mike Marts on DC's... →
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The Old Black: Looking Back at Spider-Man's Black... →
History of Spidey’s black costume.
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iTunes Tip: sort by Album is smarter than you... →
I did not know this. Sort by album year would be neat, except that so many of the release dates from CDDB and iTunes are the release of that edition of the album, not its original release.
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How statistics and surveys can be misleading... →
Recent study finds British women have biggest breasts in Europe. Look further, and you’ll also find that Britain has lots of fatties.
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The Noises of Nature →
Article about Bernie Krause, a scientist working on how animals’ vocalizations change depending on their habitats.
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Flickr will finally email you when someone... →
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Countdown →
DC officially confirms the rumored “Countdown” weekly series, to debut once 52 concludes.
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Google Maps now showing Metro stations →
Doesn’t show alternate exits at the moment, but this is a nice little change.
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Australia to ban incandescent light bulbs →
CFLs use way less energy, but I wonder if rather than a ban it would be better to just get the major stores to stop selling them but still have them available for certain uses.
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Eight Women Who Look Better Bald Than Britney →
Winona Ryder should also be on this list.
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Slaying Alive: Whedon talks “Buffy the Vampire... →
About the new comic series starting in two weeks.
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Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to... →
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MAKE: Blog: Egg Drop - Make: Video Podcast →
MAKE does the old egg drop.
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Customer service gone shockingly right - Fiendish... →
Great story about Nintendo fixing a Wii for free.
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George Washington graces first in new series of $1... →
New dollar coins hit the streets today.
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Grindhouse →
Trailer for the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino double feature.
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YouTube - One - Space Odyssey →
2001 done in Lego in one minute.
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Wii Sports DVD Cover Art →
Wii Sports comes in a little envelope. If you have a spare DVD case and a color printer, here’s the art you can use as the cover insert.
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Things I've Learned Playing with My Wii
Though the whole interface is very well designed, there are a few things that took me a while to figure out.
The address book is hard to find. You have to go to the “new message” page in the message center to get to it. Assuming this is going to be the main way that you sign up friends, which needs to be done in order to play online with people (once there are online games), the...
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The "Hoohaa" Monologues →
Florida theater changes name of play on its marquee.
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The Complete Guide to Marvel Legends →
Pics of all the toys in this line.
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Wii Sports Boxing Gloves - Kotaku →
“Another candidate for the useless peripheral hall of fame, the Wii Boxing Gloves actually transcend my usual criteria of being only useful in one game by being useful in only one fraction of one game.”
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Mii Station →
For $5 you can send in a photo and this company will make a Mii for you.
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Reading Between the Lines of Steve Jobs’s... →
“The music industry wants a magical DRM format that gives them—not Apple, not Microsoft—complete control over all digital music. And a unicorn and a rainbow.”
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Reading Between the Lines of Steve Jobs’s... →
“The music industry wants a magical DRM format that gives them—not Apple, not Microsoft—complete control over all digital music. And a unicorn and a rainbow.”