February 2009
19 posts
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Watchmen: the game →
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Sasha Obama Keeps Seeing Creepy Bush Twins While... →
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Some Post-Oscar Thoughts on Forecasting →
On how his model may have missed two of the awards.
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I scream, you scream, we all scream. Especially... →
I for one love all the merchandising they’ve done for Watchmen. The further from the point it gets, the funnier it is. Hey kids, a Comedian action figure! Find a friend who owns a Sally Jupiter doll and play rape!
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Pepsi Throwback, Mountain Dew Throwback ยป... →
Pepsi is going to start selling cola with sugar instead of corn syrup again. The name makes this sound like an early April Fools joke, though.
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Lincoln's penny gets a new look -- actually four... →
It takes 1.4 cents to make a penny.
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New Avengers 49
If you were looking for justification for both why decompressed storytelling in comics has worn out its welcome and why Marvel’s just ripping you off at this point by increasing their cover price, look no further than New Avengers 49. That’s Brian Michael Bendis trying to recreate a cinematic zoom, and in the process spending three pages to show three panels’ worth of action. It...
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Nate Silver Predicts the Winners of the 2009... →
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GeniusboyFiremelon: superman 2000 →
Discussion of the Superman 2000 proposal and how much of it eventually saw the light of day in other forms.
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superman.nu: SUPERMAN 2000 →
The unmade proposal by Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, Maid Waid, and Tom Peyer.
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Google iPhone Sync
I’ve played around with Google’s new sync services for a few days now, and mostly it works well. Since I use Google Apps instead of regular Gmail I had to go into my administrator panel and turn it on first, then reload the mobile page a few times to get it to work. I’ve found three problems so far, two of which I’ve solved.
Junk contacts from Gmail. When I synced I had...
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Puzzles - XKCD Wiki →
A few logic puzzles.
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Everything TypePad: Domain Mapping Your TypePad... →
Handy for future reference.
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Bunny
The Web certainly doesn’t need another post about how good The Wire is, but here’s a small moment I keep thinking about. Early in season three (Netflix is sending season four today), we meet Major Colvin. He’s chewing out two new police officers for not being able to properly identify their precise location. To do their jobs, they need to be able to radio exactly where they are...
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PADD
(I’ve deleted and started this post over five times now. For some reason I can’t put words together about this topic I’m happy with.)
The Kindle 2 doesn’t appeal to much more than the Kindle did. Though I can see some uses for e-readers, and there are good arguments for their advantages, especially in saving printing and distributions costs for publishers, I really like...
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The Legion of Super-Girlfriends →
I’d like to say we write better female characters now.
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Detective Comics #215 →
Scans of the (now famous) “Batmen of Many Nations” (nee International Club of Heroes) issue. I love Knight and Squire’s horse motorcycles.
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Google turns on Exchange for iPhone and Windows... →
Seems like it only syncs calendars and contacts now, not push mail. I haven’t tested it out yet.
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Groundhog Day
I guess really it could have been any day. Groundhog Day doesn’t have to be about February 2, does it? Yet it works so well, and embiggens an otherwise strange, strange holiday. So, appropos of both the day and the film, we reconsider just how long Phil Conners was stuck repeating the same 2/2 over and over again.
A short article with some words from the filmmakers on the matter.
A...