July 2007
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Bejeweled comes to iPhone →
Free iPhone-optimized version. Just go to popcap.com on an iPhone.
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The Hello Experiment →
How well could you sculpt Lionel Ritchie’s head while blindfolded?
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Bad Gods | MMBRPG →
Buddhist MMO.
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Car Talk - A Great New Way to Set Your Car's... →
Align your mirrors to eliminate blind spots. (via Whitehead)
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Apple - Trailers - The Darjeeling Limited →
New Wed Anderson picture.
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How to Take Halfway Decent Photos with an iPhone →
I’ve been happy with it as a snapshot camera. Not great photos, but good enough.
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I’ve written up some of my Deathly Hallows thoughts here. I’ll probably add to them as I think of more stuff about the book.
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“Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like...”
– Love Advice for Wizards, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, page 415
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Recipe: Confit Byaldi - New York Times →
Recipe for the ratatouille made in the Pixar movie.
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Chore Wars :: Earning Experience Points for... →
Does a Roomba count as an NPC?
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Twitter Blog: Friends, Followers, and... →
This is a nice little change. Why have two types of friends when one will do?
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
We saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix last night, and it totally lived up to the hype. I had just a few minor gripes (why did they establish that Ron, Hermione, et al couldn’t see the thestrals and then not play that up for humor when they were flying on them?), but I think it’s my favorite of the movies to date. They mostly cut out the right things to cut to let the story...
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A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site →
I have no use for Plaxo, but it’s neat to see them using OpenID, as they’ve been untrustworthy in the past and OpenID means you don’t have to give them a password.
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Playlist: Sync different →
Solution to a problem of trying to sync TV seasons to your iPhone when there are more than a few unwatched episodes.
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the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats - a photoset on Flickr →
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IGN: Geoff Johns Interview: Round Two →
On Green Lantern and Justice Society.
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Open Library →
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SCI FI Announces More Battlestar Galactica... →
Shorts will be aired and will be on the scifi.com website and will precede the two-hour special in the fall.
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Happy iCal Day →
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Leaflets: iPhone apps that grow on you. →
The outbreak of iPhone apps is interesting. It’ll show you real web pages, so you wouldn’t think that mobile versions would be needed, yet many of them just strip out the crap on the normal webpages.
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Bags and Boards: Lindelof: Ultimate Wolverine vs.... →
“They have scripts all the way through issue four and I’m about to turn in issue five in about a week.”
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YouTube - Will It Blend? - iPhone →
Oh the humanity!
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A Cold Inclusive Primer « The Cold Inclusive →
“If you are interested in our series of investigative reports about the ways in which noted actress Jennifer Love Hewitt shaped the early days of the internet, and how she continues to influence its A-list movers and shakers, here’s what we’ve learned
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Daring Fireball: On Top →
I hadn’t really given much thought until recently about top- vs. bottom-posting. “Does it take more time to edit the portions of quoted text included in your reply? Yes. So does spell-checking and proofreading.”
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Apple Releases QuickTime 7.2 and iTunes 7.3.1 →
“QuickTime 7.2 finally includes full-screen movie playback in the free version of QuickTime player. That previous versions didn’t was arguably the biggest nickel-and-dime move in Apple history.”
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Daring Fireball: Non-Top-Posting Reply Scripts for... →
“My first must-fix annoyance is that Mail’s Reply feature is hard-wired to encourage top-posting, an uncouth and illiterate practice.”
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Super Mario Galaxy dated: Nov. 12, 2007 - Joystiq →
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Nintendo announces online Wii Mario Kart, Wii... →
Due out in early ‘08.
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WiiFit gonna make you sweat - Joystiq →
New Wii game based on building physical fitness. Man, the screenshot that has a meter reading “overweight” is pretty harshly motivating.
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Digg iPhone version →
Mostly I think Digg’s overrated and poorly edited, but this stylesheet is nice.
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Harry Potter and the Sinister Spoilers - Harry... →
How Scholastic keeps the secrets.
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A Q&A with Conan O'Brien: Entertainment & Culture:... →
About writing for The Simpsons.
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Transformers
Transformers is a straight action movie, and in being an action movie it succeeds wonderfully. Certainly the script could have benefited from some more work. Hot computer hacker girl and her wise-cracking black friend eat up too much screen time while not advancing the story whatsoever. John Turturro’s government agent character is simply lame. There are too many cheesy lines. They say...
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Interview with Peter Cullen about voicing Optimus... →
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Pardon me for a moment of design criticism. Kotaku, along with the rest of the Gawker webring, redesigned its website recently, and it’s pretty messy. Footer information now sits to the right of the main article, but it’s not lined up in any way with the other column. Headlines extend past the main content article, hanging off to the right awkwardly over the new column. If a post has a...
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Charlie's Diary: Unpacking the Zeitgeist →
Great stuff. How would you explain gold farming spamming in World of Warcraft to someone thirty years ago? Really does sound like a lame science fiction novel.
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Replicating iPhone Buttons the ‘-webkit’ way! →
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Cable companies blame CableCARD for coming rate... →
This kind of crap makes me want to just start using iTunes for all my TV and avoid the cable companies.
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Kitchen Confidential
Part of the great tradition of great shows that Fox canceled, Kitchen Confidential is now out on DVD. Here’s a link to its page in Netflix for easy queueing. I’ve watched disc one over the last few days, and it really was a funny show that just didn’t get a shot. It got hit with the Arrested Development reverse halo effect. Both were broadcast on the same night, in an hour-long...
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Fake Steve Jobs on the music industry →
Wonderfully astute rant.
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Lifted →
Pixar’s new short film that’s attached to Ratatouille. (Link opens iTunes)
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missingmanual.com -- Pogue's Awesome iPhone... →
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A Few iPhone Observations
Some cheers and jeers:
First and foremost, the reason that the thing is so cool is because it doesn’t feel like technology that should exist quite yet. It’s like holding a sci-fi movie prop that actually works.
Rich text fields (like the compose fields in Vox and Gmail) don’t work in iPhone’s Safari. Vox lets you email in posts, and of course there’s the Mail app...
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Ta-da List for iPhone →
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Phantom Hourglass Dated for the US →
Comes out October 1. Sweet.
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Ta-da List for iPhone - (37signals) →
To fill the lack of a to-do list feature on the iPhone.
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Taste Visualization FX Designs and Animation for... →
“In the Fall of 2006, I was contacted by Brad Bird to create a series of animated vignettes for his movie Ratatouille. The concept was to design and animate abstract representations of what the character was tasting.”
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Kwik-E-Mart →
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iPhone Not Quite the Cash Cow eBay Sellers Were... →
Supplies were fine, so all the speculators who tried to sell them on eBay are going to have to take them back to the store.