August 2007
44 posts
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Blog@Newsarama » Everyone’s A Critic: An interview... →
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Blog@Newsarama » Everyone’s A Critic: An interview... →
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Putting your Facebook Friends' Updates into...
I linked to a method for doing this yesterday, and wanted to share my
experience with it so far. If you have friends on Facebook who regularly
update their status messages on that service, and you’re a Twitter user, it’s
possible to get those updates out of Facebook and into Twitter using
Twitterfeed. The big question of course, is why, and it’s a bit hard to
answer, as every...
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iPhone Screen Aspect Ratio
This is my daring expose revealing the aspect ratio of the iPhone. After
writing it, I realize it’s incredibly boring.
I’ve watched a few episodes of Weeds on my iPhone. The iTunes downloads of
season one were sold in the standard TV aspect ratio of 4:3, while season
two’s downloads are widescreen (16:9). I noticed that when watched episodes
from each season that there were...
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BBspot - Wil Wheaton Indicted for Role in Robot... →
What really worries me is the gambling.
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Talking Faith & Buffy with Brian K Vaughan →
Wow, the setup for his Faith arc sounds awesome.
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YouTube - Andy Kaufman Does his "Mighty Mouse"... →
Thought of this today, YouTube provided. Great moment in Comedy.
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VGChartz says the Wii has now outsold the XBOX... →
So much for being the underdog.
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Macworld: Mac Gems: HandBrake 0.9.0 →
How to rip your DVDs to a Mac for watching in iTunes, AppleTV, an iPod, or an iPhone.
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Netflix: Army of Darkness →
For some reason, this was unavailable from Netflix until recently. Enqueue!
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Halo 3: How Microsoft Labs Invented a New Science... →
Neat article about how much work Bungie puts into testing games so that players get a good experience out of the game.
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Official Google Blog: An update on Google Video... →
Google offers some more reasonable options for people who had bought videos from them.
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"Maybe" is one option too many →
Every time I go to rate a movie from Netflix I think about this argument in favor of using 4-star systems instead of 5-star systems.
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"Daily Show" comics venture to Iraq - Yahoo! News →
The palpable unease in reporting this story is interesting. It’s okay for the Daily Show to make fun of the news at home, but everyone’s a little too nervous that they’re going to upset anyone over there. The troops are real people with senses of humor, t
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Rasika Restaurant →
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Facebook Messaging just got better... →
Do they really want me to use their little message program instead of email? Maybe the kids already do.
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A Variation on the DVR, Without Ad Skipping - New... →
Funny how they’re trying to turn in the ability to fast forward, present in every VCR since the 70s, as a feature that you might want to pay for. This is typical of the big media approach to DRM, conflating it with actual features.
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Brad's Thoughts on the Social Graph →
Start of a project to let sites talk to one a other so that, for example, Facebook could figure out who your LiveJournal friends are so you don’t have to re-add them.
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Rename an iPod via iTunes →
A solution so simple I didn’t think of trying it. (Works with iPhones, too.)
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DrawerBoxes
Problem: it’s hard to store comic books. You can put them in boxes, but when you stack the boxes you have to constantly move the top ones to get to the bottom ones, which discourages one to file them, leading to big stacks of comics lying around because you’re too lazy to unstack the boxes.
Solution: DrawerBoxes. Each box pulls out like a filing cabinet, so you can stack them up and...
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Facebook for iPhone →
Nifty little view. Mostly I don’t log into Facebook except to approve friend requests, but from a quick glance they did a nice job with the page.
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Has Facebook opened up? (Scripting News) →
Nice. RSS feed of your notifications in Facebook. Now I’ll know how many zombie invitations I can ignore without even having to load their website!
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Dinosaurs with Jetpacks. at Shots Ring Out (on... →
“By refusing to sell DRM free on iTunes Universal allows[them] to ensure that DRM-free tracks sell horribly.”
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YouTube - Dick Cheney '94: Invading Baghdad Would... →
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Boing Boing: Google Video robs customers of the... →
A case in which the doomsaying about DRM was totally right.
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Bull City Headquarters is a hangout... →
My friend Chaz helps run this concert space in Durham, NC. (registration required)
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The Road to Clarity - New York Times →
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Millar & Hitch talk Fantastic Four →
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Dark Horse recently announced Dark Horse Presents, an initiative to produce short serialized comic books for MySpace. The first, Sugarshock, written by Joss Whedon no less, appeared yesterday. It’s good, but the computer screen just isn’t the right format. Newsarama syndicates one page of Powers each day. It’s one of my all time favorite comic books, but it wasn’t designed...
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Google News Blog: Perspectives about the news from... →
Intriguing idea. It occurs to me that Google could use OpenID to make sure the people are who they say they are.
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Interview with Joss Whedon at The A.V. Club →
I wouldn’t link to every interview he gives if they weren’t all so good.
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Joss Whedon and Fabio Moon's Sugershock #1 →
Free online comic.
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~stevenf: The HD Format War →
I agree. Buying music on disc is already the old way. Movies soon.
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The Seven Wonders of the Totalitarian World -... →
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Inde Bleu →
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Vegetate →
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Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social... →
It annoys me that I can’t link to my Facebook profile without making people log in to see it. You should be able to expose simple biographical data at least.
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Twitter Identity Transference Syndrome (TwITS) →
How the Twitterific icon become associated as the brand for Twitter itself.
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COMIC URBAN LEGEND: Disney once had a series of... →
STATUS: True. Check out the strips.
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Plans, Fans, and Tygers →
How DC should and shouldn’t do its crossovers.
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Cronin Theory of Comics - “Why Should I Change,... →
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A timeline of TV censorship - CNN.com →
Neat list, but why the lazy jump from 1979 to 2004? (via rfj)
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Final Harry Potter Book Blasted For Containing... →
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Activision Reports Sluggish Sales For Sousaphone... →
“If they hit enough correct notes in a row, the on-screen crowd yells ‘huzzah’ and ‘bully.’”