July 2007
54 posts
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Yay Capitalism
When I worked at the movie theater in high school, we had a special procedure for the openings of the really big movies. It wasn’t just about adding extra staff for the weekend–it was also about knowing how the whole operation was going to run. When did the various theaters let out? Where are people who show up early going to stand? How are we going to direct traffic as people exit when...
June 2007
64 posts
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Quick iPhone review (kottke.org) →
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Daring Fireball: iPhone First Impressions →
Posting this in lieu of writing up my own. =)
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Geoff Johns on Sinestro Corps (spoilers) →
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Ratatouille (2007): Reviews →
From early reviews it’s at a 94. That’ll come down, but it looks like Pixar has another winner here.
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TiVo says Comcast accepts software for DVRs →
Not much of a story, but good to hear the plan is moving along.
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Awesome new Google Maps feature: Draggable Routes... →
This is nice. I also like the feature they added a few months ago to make custom, annotated maps. Great for giving people directions if your place is hard to find based on the default directions.
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Heart of the Corps →
Interview from January with Sinestro Corps artist Ethan Van Scriver
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First Look: 'Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen' →
“It’s a fictional character based on a fictional Tek Jansen book, which is supposedly written by Stephen Colbert, who is actually Stephen Colbert playing a character named Stephen Colbert.”
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Best Shots Extra: Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps... →
This was the only comic book I read that came out this week, and man the trip was worth it. I realize that “event fatigue” is setting on, but this is one to pick up.
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Plastic duck armada is heading for Britain after... →
“For the past 15 years Curtis Ebbesmeyer has been tracking nearly 30,000 plastic bath toys that were released into the Pacific Ocean when a container was washed off a cargo ship.”
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.mac iPhone RSS Reader →
The page sniffs away and non-iPhone browser. No telling how it’ll work or if it will be for .mac users only.
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A short history of movie theater concession stands →
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xkcd - Organic Fuel →
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Apple - iPhone - Rate Plans for iPhone →
Looks much better than I expected, as cell phone contracts go.
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Viewing American class divisions through Facebook... →
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A Long Line for a Shorter Wait at the Supermarket →
Wholefoods has started using one long checkout line that feeds to all the registers in New York. It’s much faster and, I’ve always thought, a much fairer way to handle lines.
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Annotations - Justice League of America #10 →
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Who is Playing Nick Fury in Iron Man?! →
If you’ve read The Ultimates, you can guess the answer. What a bizarre way for that to all come about.
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EA: Spore Delay “Misinformation” →
It *is* delayed, but “2009” meant “fiscal 2009”, which just means sometime after April.
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Spore Slip Sliding Away →
“Delayed indefinitely.” I wonder if the demos were more mock-ups than they appeared? It seemed like they had so much working a year ago. Maybe they built the whole engine and the game wasn’t any fun, just the technology?
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Warhammer Goes Portable With 40K: Squad Command -... →
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"Amazing, Amazing, Amazing"
As announced in Philadelphia this weekend, Amazing Spider-Man will move to a three-a-month shipping schedule in the fall. Currently there are three Spider-Man titles: Amazing Spider-Man, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and Sensational Spider-Man (née the “Marvel Knights” Spider-Man). As with Superman and Action Comics and with Batman and Detective Comics, each title usually tells its...
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Differences in the Infinite Crisis hardcover and... →
Another older link. DC rushed the monthly issues and the final hardcover contains new pages, fixes editing and coloring mistakes, and changes some dialogue.
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,... →
“…an off-brand superhero movie, the cinematic equivalent of one of those generic breakfast cereals with a badly drawn squirrel for a mascot.” Right. It’s like getting a FF movie out was more important than making it good.
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Apple - Trailers - WALL•E →
Teaser for Pixar’s next movie (after Ratatouille), due out summer 2008.
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"Amazing, amazing, amazing." →
Amazing Spider-Man to ship three times a month, Friendly and Spectacular to end.
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Flash, the Fastest Man Alive cancelled after only... →
Mark Waid to return to writing a new Flash series in the fall. This is like when they cancel a TV show after only 2 episodes.
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Temporal Anomalies in Popular Time Travel Movies →
I disagree with some of the analysis here (it puts too much thought into “original timelines”), but it’s a fun look at a lot of different movies.
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Behind the Page: Ethan Van Scriver →
This is an older one. Long interview with Green Lantern: Rebirth artist Ethan Van Scriver.
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Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot →
Be afraid!
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Ms. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
The plural of “Ms.”, when referring to more than one woman, is “Mses.”, as in “Mses. Doe, Roe, and Woe.”
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Quiz: What American accent do you have? →
I’m a “Midland.”
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A Rat With a Whisk and a Dream - New York Times →
Piece about animating all the food in Pixar’s new film. Interesting that they ran into uncanny valley problems.
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iPhone FAQ
Maybe you’ve experienced this horror yourself. You pull your phone out of your pocket, and the web browser is open. OMG. How long has it been open? It is online? How much are they going to charge me for all that data my pocket presses invoked?
So here’s my big worry about the iPhone: how is the data stuff going to work? It has support for wireless internet access, so if you’re...
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If you were wondering why Apple would bother releasing Safari for Windows, the answer is actually pretty simple: money. Sure, it contributes to the “iPod halo effect,” and it gets WebKit out there as a more prominent rendering engine, but the big reason is probably just cash. Every time you use the built-in Google search bar in a web browser, Google gives a small cut of the proceeds to...
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Macworld: Opinion: Watch different →
What YouTube needs is an editor, or a very smart robot editor. I agree with this notion that there’s lot of good stuff out there waiting to be discovered, but it needs to be discoverable.
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Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel... →
About the differences in how Microsoft and Apple handle fonts, as shown in the new Safari for Windows.
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Twin Peaks FAQ: TV Episode Questions →
Lots of info on the show. (spoilers galore)
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How the presidents stack up →
Graph of presidential approval ratings back to President Truman.
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WWDC 2007
Safari on Windows is weird. It’s like you’re almost to the Mac experience, but you’re not quite there yet. I guess this is what using iTunes is like on Windows, but I don’t use iTunes at work. At home I use Safari and at work I use Firefox. I don’t like having to get used to two browsers, but at least it reminds me where I am. Now that I can use Safari on a Windows...
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Wait Until Dark
It says something about how good a movie is when you found it by reading a spoiler on a list called The Top 50 Movie Endings of all Time, and you’re still on the edge of your seat.
Audrey Hepburn was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her portrayal here of Susy Hendrix, a blind woman whose husband accidentally comes into possession of a doll filled with heroin. As three...
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Steve Jobs live from WWDC 2007 - Engadget →
For tomorrow. I usually depend on Mac Rumors Live and use this as a backup.
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The truth about recycling | Economist.com →
Lots of information about how recycling works.
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The AfterEllen.com Hot 100 List →
Provides an interesting contrast to Maxim’s Hot 100.
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Scientific American: Ask the Experts:... →
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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : E-mail is not a... →
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THE TEN →
You had me at “from the creators of The State.”
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How Big Will the iPhone Be? →
Businessweek says two sources have told them they’ll have 3 million units on sale on June 29.
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A few days ago I rode in one of the Metro cars with the new experimental, more New York-like seat configurations. On alternating sides of the train car they’ve removed one set of forward-/rear-facing seats and replaced them with inward-facing seats next to the two that are normally there, and removed the glass barrier. It gives some more room to stand and let people pass by as they leave the...