April 2007
90 posts
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xkcd - Comic Fragment →
Ha.
Apr 29th
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Mary Sue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
A term usually used in fan fiction for when the author writes a character who’s a stand-in for herself.
Apr 26th
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Q&A with Jon Favreau about Iron Man →
Apr 26th
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Twin Peaks
Out on DVD for the first time ever, and coming almost six years after the release of the first season, is Twin Peaks Season Two. Previously the only way you could watch it was on a VHS set that had five hours on each tape. I absolutely love this show. It did the “mystery with a supernatural slant” thing 14 years before Lost came around (and also the “OMG the plot is dragging do...
Apr 26th
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Why Gambit Sucks →
Apr 25th
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Ebert: We spend too much time hiding illness →
Robert Ebert on his condition, with a touching warning that when he shows up for his film festival he be missing part of his jaw. Oh how I miss reading his reviews.
Apr 24th
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Anil Dash: Cats Can Has Grammar →
Great look at the lolcat phenomenon.
Apr 24th
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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Hexadecimal... →
Apr 22nd
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Useful Voter Guide: Are You A Democrat Or A... →
Apr 22nd
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New nickels ship →
Apr 22nd
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CSS Sprites: Image Slicing?s Kiss of Death: A List... →
Apr 22nd
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50 First Deaths: A Chance to Play (and Pay) Again →
Apr 22nd
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ABCNEWS.com : Porn Profits: Corporate... →
Apr 22nd
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Nutrigrain (feel great) →
Apr 22nd
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Jeph Loeb’s Super Friends →
Apr 22nd
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How Does Sweeps Week Work? →
Apr 22nd
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Crazy, Random “Chris Rock Thing” →
Apr 22nd
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Against my better judgement… →
Apr 22nd
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Daring Fireball Projects: Markdown →
Apr 22nd
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Grey Album Producer Danger Mouse Explains How He... →
Apr 22nd
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Mr. Invisible and the Secret Mission to Hollywood →
Apr 22nd
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plasticbag.org | weblog | From pirate dwarves to... →
Apr 22nd
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“Joke” Conversation Thread in which... →
Apr 22nd
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Astonishing X-Men #1 →
Apr 22nd
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Motion Induced Blindness →
Apr 22nd
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Knee Defender →
“Protect against reclining seatbacks on airplanes.
Apr 22nd
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Daring Fireball: Dive Into Markdown →
On the feel of writing for the web.
Apr 22nd
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iEatBrainz 1.0b4 - VersionTracker →
MacOS X app to fill in missing ID3 data in your iTunes collection.
Apr 22nd
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Get Out of My Namespace →
Interesting article on names and cybersquatting.
Apr 22nd
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Save ‘Angel’ campaign takes flight →
gets around to covering the fan movement to save .
Apr 22nd
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Holy Automobiles Batman! →
Batmobile voted top movie car.
Apr 22nd
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Oregon county bans all marriage →
County stops giving marriage licenses until it can determine who’s allowed to get them.
Apr 22nd
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100 Movies that Deserve More Love →
Some good ones here.
Apr 22nd
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The Primary Vivid Weblog →
A Better OS X In Just 10 Minutes.
Apr 22nd
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html2text: THE ASCIINATOR →
Convert HTML files to ASCII-text for easy reading or Markdown fun.
Apr 22nd
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Green Lantern’s Homecoming Blues →
Ron Marz discusses returning to the character he created.
Apr 22nd
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Star Wars: Clone Wars on Cartoon Network →
Star Wars: starts tonight at 9:30.
Apr 22nd
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Justice League Unlimited Update →
JLU director Don Santos teases the new season.
Apr 22nd
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Mini Dachshund Picture →
Mini d in a hot dog bun.
Apr 22nd
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The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman →
Web cartoons starring Jerry Seinfeld and Superman.
Apr 22nd
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A pair of long, well-thought-out essays about The... →
Apr 22nd
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Interview: Will Friedwald, Owner Of The World's... →
I’m not surprised that he’s found that iTunes isn’t able to handle very, very large music collections. The suggestion that Apple release a pro version for libraries is an interesting idea.
Apr 22nd
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iTunes Store Sale: classic albums for $7.99 →
Link opens iTunes
Apr 21st
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Were video games to blame for massacre? →
Despite the media’s desire for them to be a boogie man, there’s no evidence the VT shooter played games, nor that people who do play violent games are more likely to be violent.
Apr 20th
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The A.V. Club interviews Ronald D. Moore about... →
Not much new stuff if you’ve kept up with his interviews, but some nice comments here and there.
Apr 20th
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WSJ - Wii and DS Turn Also-Ran Nintendo Into... →
Take a look at the sales chart. The DS is a great system that doesn’t get enough press.
Apr 19th
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Blog@Newsarama » History Channelling: World War... →
I agree with this assessment mostly. Black Adam is treated as an all-powerful macguffin, and the plot reads like a checklist of things they forgot to touch on in 52.
Apr 19th
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Chicago Tribune on the long tail of video rentals →
Apr 18th
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Throw a snowball at Captain America →
Apr 17th
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For Your Consideration
Christopher Guest movies, you may not have realized, are very hit-or-miss. The reason you may not have realized this is that, starting with This is Spinal Tap through A Mighty Wind, they’ve all “hit.” For Your Consideration sadly just doesn’t fit together like the others have. The quirky characters and absurd plot turns are there, but it seems like there’s something...
Apr 17th