October 2008
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Barack Obama Has Read Harry Potter
In last night’s Barack Obama Variety Half-Hour, Michelle Obama mentioned that her husband read all seven Harry Potter books with their daughter.
Has John McCain read Harry Potter?
Whom do you trust to protect America from dark wizards?
We need to know the full extent of the relationship between John McCain and Tom Riddle. Frankly I just don’t think he has the experience to lead...
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Diction Choices when Discussing Interactive Media
Here’s a headline from GameSpot yesterday: Beatles rocking original IP in Q4 2009. It’s a story about a game from Harmonix (who make Rock Band) that will feature Beatles music. So why does the headline read like a stock ticker? Games “journalism” has a lot of these bad habits. I guess the writers use “IP in Q4” instead of “new game late next...
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War and Social Upheaval Cause Spikes in Zombie... →
I’d like to see a set of charts that correct for the number of movies released that year, or even the number of horror movies released per year. It’d also be interesting to know how the release of horror movies in general correlate to social trends. Torture Porn (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Saw) coincides well with Vietnam and Iraq, for example, times when Americans felt helpless in a...
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Are You Evil? Profiling That Which Is Truly... →
Or, When scientists set out to specifically create the premise of a horror movie.
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I vant to suck your broccoli: 23 unusual vampire... →
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The Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator →
“Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Teen Titans and Harry Potter. The story should use love triangles as a plot device!”
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Study squashes myth of gamer as antisocial Comic... →
Now we just need a study quashing the “antisocial Comic Book Guy” myths and I’m home free!
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In Twin Peaks →
If there internet is good at anything, it’s providing a venue for niche stuff like this: photos of the locations where Twin Peaks was shot, 20 years later.
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Sexy Halloween
It used to be that women were limited to a few choices for Halloween costumes: sexy nurse, sexy cheerleader, sexy kitty cat. Nowadays, there are lots of options for the discerning woman-about-town to slut it up. See Sexy Halloween for some ideas, Mena Trott’s list for actual costumes you can buy, and, of course, the Sexy Judge (via Katherine).
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Applescript to toggle F1-F11 keys as function keys... →
Very useful. For some games you need the F1-F12 keys to be function keys, but normally I want them to control volume, show Dashboard, etc. Save this script as an application, put it in your Dock, and it will open System Preferences and toggle the checkbox.
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McCain on Letterman →
I liked John McCain a lot more before he was a presidential candidate. On Letterman last night he was much more of the McCain you used to see. He was funny at times and genuine at others and didn’t slip too much into his rehearsed campaign lines.
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McCain at Alfred E. Smith dinner →
Also very funny.
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Barack Obama does stand-up at Alfred E. Smith... →
Funny speech. I wish the camera didn’t feel they had to cut to McCain for every reaction shot though.
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Tech Terms to Avoid →
David Pogue on all the jargon he tries not to use when he writes about technology. I try to avoid “wi-fi” for “wireless” and “DRM” for “copy protection” especially. “Content” for “episode” or “song” bugs me, too.
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Why I Don't Think Apple Will Ever Release a Tiny...
Whenever Apple has a big product event coming up, rumors inevitably swell about the company releasing a tablet computer or, more recently, a “netbook”. People want Apple to put out a tiny laptop that costs well under $1000. I don’t see them ever doing this. At least, not the form the PC-minded tend to expect. Why not? Keyboards.
Steve Jobs’s Apple will never release a...
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Scott Bakula Jumps Into McCain's Body Just Before... →
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Nailing Your Wife - SPIKE →
First in a series of “PG Porn” movies by James Gunn. This one stars Nathan Fillion and Aria Giovanni. The premise here is that the movies aren’t explicit at all, they’re just set in situations that make you think they’re going to be.
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Where Fish Sticks Swim Free and Chicken Nuggets... →
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Banksy's Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill -... →
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New ad starring Hillary Duff about not calling... →
This is actually something that bothers me.
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“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition...”
– Andy Warhol (via Daring Fireball)
I read an article recently (which I can’t seem to find now) about how class in America is becoming harder to define because their aren’t any key products that most people can’t afford. You used to be able to separate lower from middle class by...
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Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay... →
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Bob Truby's Brand Name Pencils →
Hundreds of pictures of pencils. (via rfj)
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Can the Product Pitches -- Viewers Like Their... →
Fox has tried a daring experiment during Fringe that seems to be working: show fewer ads and people actually watch a few of them instead of fast-forwarding, changing the channel, or getting up.
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Stan Bush Wants "The Touch" In Guitar Hero, Rock... →
Hear, hear.
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Comic Book Fans: Then And Now →
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Meet the Gang →
Today, October 2, marks the 58th anniversary of Peanuts. Link includes a few of the notable “first” Charlie Brown strips.
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