April 2007
90 posts
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xkcd - Comic Fragment →
Ha.
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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.
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Q&A with Jon Favreau about Iron Man →
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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...
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Why Gambit Sucks →
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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.
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Anil Dash: Cats Can Has Grammar →
Great look at the lolcat phenomenon.
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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Hexadecimal... →
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Useful Voter Guide: Are You A Democrat Or A... →
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New nickels ship →
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CSS Sprites: Image Slicing?s Kiss of Death: A List... →
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50 First Deaths: A Chance to Play (and Pay) Again →
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ABCNEWS.com : Porn Profits: Corporate... →
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Nutrigrain (feel great) →
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Jeph Loeb’s Super Friends →
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How Does Sweeps Week Work? →
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Crazy, Random “Chris Rock Thing” →
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Against my better judgement… →
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Daring Fireball Projects: Markdown →
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Grey Album Producer Danger Mouse Explains How He... →
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Mr. Invisible and the Secret Mission to Hollywood →
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plasticbag.org | weblog | From pirate dwarves to... →
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“Joke” Conversation Thread in which... →
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Astonishing X-Men #1 →
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Motion Induced Blindness →
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Knee Defender →
“Protect against reclining seatbacks on airplanes.
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Daring Fireball: Dive Into Markdown →
On the feel of writing for the web.
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iEatBrainz 1.0b4 - VersionTracker →
MacOS X app to fill in missing ID3 data in your iTunes collection.
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Get Out of My Namespace →
Interesting article on names and cybersquatting.
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Save ‘Angel’ campaign takes flight →
gets around to covering the fan movement to save .
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Holy Automobiles Batman! →
Batmobile voted top movie car.
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Oregon county bans all marriage →
County stops giving marriage licenses until it can determine who’s allowed to get them.
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100 Movies that Deserve More Love →
Some good ones here.
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The Primary Vivid Weblog →
A Better OS X In Just 10 Minutes.
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html2text: THE ASCIINATOR →
Convert HTML files to ASCII-text for easy reading or Markdown fun.
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Green Lantern’s Homecoming Blues →
Ron Marz discusses returning to the character he created.
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Star Wars: Clone Wars on Cartoon Network →
Star Wars: starts tonight at 9:30.
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Justice League Unlimited Update →
JLU director Don Santos teases the new season.
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Mini Dachshund Picture →
Mini d in a hot dog bun.
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The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman →
Web cartoons starring Jerry Seinfeld and Superman.
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A pair of long, well-thought-out essays about The... →
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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.
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iTunes Store Sale: classic albums for $7.99 →
Link opens iTunes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Chicago Tribune on the long tail of video rentals →
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Throw a snowball at Captain America →
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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...