March 2007
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Of the 63 different shirts on sale at Snorg Tees, I count 9 10 with jokes referencing movies in which Will Ferrell has appeared, meaning that 14% 16% of their stock is based around his oeuvre. Now, without counting I’m certain I own at least a half dozen DVDs of his, so clearly I think the guy’s done some funny stuff, but I think it’s bizarre that a funny t-shirt company...
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YouTube - WiigoBot: The Perfect Game →
Lego robot designed to play Wii Sports Bowling
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All (known) Bodies in the Solar System Larger than... →
With pictures!
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Q&A with Battlestar Galactica season finale writer... →
Chock full of major, major spoilers.
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Interview with Allan Heinberg about Young Avengers →
I only just read this series, and it’s one of my favorites new books of the past few years. Heinberg was a writer on Sex and the City and The O.C.
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Kutaragi "insisted" on Spider-Man font for PS3 →
I’ve always felt the logotype gives the console a very cheap look to it. It’s so recognizable as “the Spider-Man font” that it just looks like they were too lazy to come up with something unique.
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"Complete My Album" now on iTunes, credit for... →
This seems like an important feature for record labels that are upset at the a la cart purchasing of singles. Really, why *not* offer an incentive to buy the rest of the album after you’ve sampled a few songs?
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I linked to this in October, and wrote about the covers in June, but I’m going to make a plug for a weekly weblog called J.G. Jones 52 Covers Blog. It’s hosted on Wizard Magazine’s website and doesn’t feature and RSS feed, but it’s worth manually loading up once a week. For the past year, DC Comics has been publishing a weekly comic called 52. J.G. Jones has drawn all...
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How to Import All Your Archive Email Into Gmail →
Gmail recently added the ability to check POP mail, and just dropped the restriction that the feature wouldn’t work with other Gmail accounts, so you can now import your old non-Gmail mail. It’s not quite simple, but it works nicely.
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New UPS feature lets you redirect packages over... →
Neat. You can go onto UPS’s website and change where a package is going. Would be nice for Christmas when something doesn’t arrive on time.
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New Zip for the Old Strip →
Despite the lame headline, a nice Time article about web comics.
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Stripe Generator - diagonal stripes background... →
Could be a useful little tool if you’re too lazy to fire up Photoshop. Is the design and pitch of the site a joke on “Web 2.0” though?
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Futurespective: Grant Morrison #6: _Animal Man_:... →
I’m re-reading Animal Man now. Here’s some commentary on it.
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IGN: Battlestar Galactica: Defending Baltar →
Interview with Mark Sheppard, who played Romo Lampkin, Baltar’s lawyer, on the last few episodes of Battlestar Galactica.
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The man behind "Battlestar Galactica" →
Interview with executive producer Ronald Moore. Contains spoilers for tonight’s episode.
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scans_daily: Tales of the GL Corps! "Mogo Doesn't... →
Two great Green Lantern stories by Alan Moore.
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Sci-Fi from page to screen →
Article about why sci-fi isn’t respected as a serious genre by most of America. Not sure I’m with the author here, but it’s a good read. In a similar vein, I took a class in college about how Russian sci-fi never developed that stigma.
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New Dairy Queen logo →
swishes! Italics! Bold!
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Google Talk, SRV records, and GoDaddy →
How to set up your domain to be able to use Google Talk and Jabber.
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10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World →
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The failure of Gødland, the death of the... →
The other side of this coin, naturally, is that right now the good superhero comics are very damn good.
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Plurals and Possessives of Compound Nouns
Current events drove me to a need to look something up today.
Plural: Attorneys General, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Brothers-in-Law, Editors-in-Chief
Possessive: Attorney General’s, Chief of Staff’s, Brother-in-Law’s, Editor-in-Chief’s
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McDonald's Has Beef with the Oxford English... →
I know the term, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard a single person use it. Seems like McDonald’s is just bringing the connotations to the foreground here.
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Ambigram doormat →
Reads “come in” one way and “go away” if turned the other way.
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Final Potter book: 784 'green' pages →
Publisher Scholastic is making an effort to use more recycled paper.
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Twitter (kottke.org) →
“Maybe that’s when you know how you’ve got a winner: when people use it like mad but can’t fully explain the appeal of it to others.”
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Themes for Google Personalized Homepage →
If you go to your personalized homepage for Google (click the link at the top of google.com once you’re logged in), you can now pick from a few nice little themes from a link on the right side.
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Tumblr →
Clever service. If use lots of different services, you can roll them all onto one page, somewhat like FeedBurner but for the web.
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Twitterrific →
Nifty little Mac OS app. Saw it ages ago but I only just got around to setting it up to play around with it.
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Threadless Kids - Designer Kids & Baby Clothing -... →
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Sort Fields in iTunes 7.1 →
The new version adds the ability for you to specify how songs are sorted (Lennon, John for example instead of John Lennon), but the implementation is a bit sticky.
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Carey, Schmidt Talk X-Men: Endangered Species →
It occurs to me that the back up stories would be the perfect thing for Marvel to play with putting online. The short format would read well on the screen and it’d give people a chance to get excited about the book they’ll be leading into.
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'Jeopardy!' has historic game →
First ever 3-way tie, though it seemed like the champion bet to match his opponents on purpose.
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Friends Swap Twitters, and Frustration - WSJ.com →
Twitter is a bizarre service. I have no idea if I like it or not but all the cool kids seem to be using it.
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Friends Swap Twitters, and Frustration - WSJ.com →
Twitter is a bizarre service. I have no idea if I like it or not but all the cool kids seem to be using it.
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The Long Way Home
So Buffy’s back. I find it feels wrong to be reading a TV show in comic book form, but I convince myself that it’s not a comic about a TV show, it’s a new, unfilmed season, which is how it’s been billed, anyway. It picks up the plot from the finale of the show, and Joss Whedon wrote it. Regardless, the “season premier” is good. If you know and like the...
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The three rules of effective cut scenes, as taught... →
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The three rules of effective cut scenes, as taught... →
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Giant Pool of Water Ice at Mars' South Pole →
Holds enough water to cover the entire planet in 30 feet of water.
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Giant Pool of Water Ice at Mars' South Pole →
Holds enough water to cover the entire planet in 30 feet of water.
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It's time to get rid of the dollar bill →
I haven’t seen the new dollar coin yet, but I’m pro coin.
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List of characters in the Spider-Ham Universe →
Marvel’s parody of its own characters is just so funny to me.
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List of characters in the Spider-Ham Universe →
Marvel’s parody of its own characters is just so funny to me.
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FlickrBlog: Collections! →
Flickr now lets you make sets of sets, and lets you choose the layout of your photo page.
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FlickrBlog: Collections! →
Flickr now lets you make sets of sets, and lets you choose the layout of your photo page.
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WILLIAM FUCKING SHATNER, Part II →
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WILLIAM FUCKING SHATNER, Part II →
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The Future of OpenID (a slidecast) →
A little tech-y at times depending on your level of interest, but a great presentation.
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The Future of OpenID (a slidecast) →
A little tech-y at times depending on your level of interest, but a great presentation.
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A List Apart: Articles: The Trouble With EM ’n EN... →