July 2008
31 posts
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Google Calendar CalDAV support →
Need to try this when I get home. I’d love to be able to sync my home calendar with Google’s.
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Watchmen Stuff
Watchmen was a comic book series in the 80s that’s widely regarded as the greatest graphic novel of all time and often appears on lists of the great novels of the 20th century. Zack Snyder is directing a movie coming out next spring, which is getting great buzz. Some links:
The trailer released last week.
A writeup of the Comic-Con panel.
A set of six teaser posters.
The original...
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The Terrific, Tragic Origin of Dr. Horrible
I know, I know, I can’t stop talking about Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Bear with me for a minute.
Star Wars started in the middle of its tale, and did it brilliantly. Did you really need to know how Darth Vader became a bad guy? No, the movies were perfect just as they were, starting with part four. Certainly the prequels could have been better, but no matter what story they...
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Peter's Evil Overlord List →
A classic. (via DrOct)
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Requiem for a cheeky 'Batman' →
Neat piece by the man who wrote the pilot for the 60s Batman series, which, despite the harm it did to comics for years to come, I adore.
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Final Fantasy XIII is going to come out for both the PlayStation 3 and the XBOX 360, and some people are furious. My feeling is that what system a consenting adult plays a game on in the privacy of his own home is no one else’s business. That someone else is playing the game on a different console does not affect your ability to enjoy it on the console of your choice.
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Dr. Horrible →
Act I is out today. II and III will be Thursday and Saturday.
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Geotagging Photos in Flickr from your iPhone
The iPhone now has the ability to add the location a photo was taken to its metadata. Flickr’s been able to handle this for a while, but you had to map the photos manually. To enable it to understand the location data, first you have to authorize it to “Import EXIF location data” in your Privacy & Permissions settings. Unfortunately, according to Macworld, this data...
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Sweet: Pandora's Streaming Radio App for iPhone |... →
Sounds like it’s worth checking out, but sadly I don’t have much occasion to listen to these sorts of things as it won’t work on the Metro.
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The Real Price Difference Between the Old and New... →
Since you’re dividing the true cost of the new iPhone over time, if you invest the money it’s actually cheaper than the old ones.
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The Jefferson Bible →
Thomas Jefferson created his own version of the Bible, editing it down to just the moral codes and laws.
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Mike's Amazing World of DC Comics →
Huge index.
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The letters of Stanley Kubrick - Telegraph →
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In Popular Culture
For no reason whatsoever today the phrase “elephant graveyard” popped into my head, which of course meant I had to look up the Magic: The Gathering card of the same name because I couldn’t remember what it did.1 Naturally the first place I look is Google, which leads me to Wikipedia, I kid you fucking not:
In popular culture
In the collectible card game Magic: the...
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“This isn’t going to be one of those love stories, is it?” Bran asked
suspiciously. “Hodor doesn’t like those so much. […] He likes the
stories where the knights fight monsters.”
“Sometimes the knights are the monsters, Bran.”
From A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin. I’m about halfway through, with the next sitting...
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Previous/Next and Back/Next pagination links... →
This is something that trips me up, too. “Newer”/”Older” is much better.
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YouTube - Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma →
Neat long take video, but it totally steals from Wes Anderson down to the choice of type. (via Coudal)
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Kubrick Questions Finally Answered - An In Depth... →
Good stuff about the big aspect ratio question.
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kubrickonia: Orange Times Vol. 2 No. 001 1972 →
Tabloid format program that was distributed when A Clockwork Orange came out.
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Coudal Partners's Stuff About Stanley Kubrick →
Going to be reposting a bunch of stuff from here for posterity.
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Superman 2000
Tim Callahan and Chat Nevett over the past month took a look at a pitch that Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, Mark Waid, and Tom Peyer did called Superman 2000 that never ended up being published. They had lots of great ideas—and some that weren’t as great—but it’s a fascinating read. Much of it eventually turned into Morrison’s All Star Superman masterpiece, Geoff Johns...
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2001: A Space Odyssey Program →
Amazing printed program that was distributed to the attendees of the premier of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Citizen Kubrick | Features | guardian.co.uk Film →
Great piece on the obsessive research Stanley Kubrick would do for his films.
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Channel 4 recreates The Shining to promote its... →
What if all advertisements were this artfully done? I guess you’d still get sick of them and want to fast forward.
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Magical negro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
A black character, often a janitor or prisoner, who appears out of nowhere to offer wisdom to a white character.
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scans_daily: Batman 113: Zur! En! Arrh! →
This week’s Batman references another old story. I get that it’s like a game for Morrison to bring in strange obscure things, but it’s be nice to see a footnote or something on the back page.
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Captain Hammer: Be Like Me! Nemesis of Dr.... →
By Zack Whedon, a tie-in to Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.
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The Umbrella Academy: Anywhere But Here →
New short from Dark Horse Presents.
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I don’t intend to go see Hancock, but my prediction is that it’s going to suffer from the same problem Heroes does: its creators wanted to play with the superhero genre but don’t know much about it. Most of this stuff has been done before, probably better, but since they don’t know that they can’t add much of a new spin on it. As Heidi McDonald puts it:
The plot...
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Presto →
Short film that accompanies Wall-E. (link opens iTunes)
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A Clever Trick for Automatically Finding Deals You... →
How to create an RSS feed that filters Amazon’s Gold Box for specified search terms.