update:
Monthly Archives: January 2008
links for 2008-01-31
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there it is…
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a flash-based interpreter for z-machine and inform games.
links for 2008-01-30
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In 2006, he performed another experiment that chilled the blood of trendologists. Trends, it suggested, aren’t merely hard to predict and engineer–they occur essentially at random…
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10 elements
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Elvis stopped, looked at me and said in his beautiful Mississippi drawl: “Son, you have an ob-leek sense of humor.”
links for 2008-01-29
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a good read over lunch
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twitter-like theme for group messaging
links for 2008-01-28
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Spy satellite containing Disney’s brain about to attack the homeworld
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A Utah retailer of family-friendly films with the “dirty parts” cut out of them has been arrested for trading sex with two 14-year-old girls.
links for 2008-01-27
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at Put Together Quickly
links for 2008-01-26
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They think overdoses “encourage” addicts. Why not just go all the way and poison the heroin supply?
links for 2008-01-25
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why is it head to head?
links for 2008-01-24
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Top 100 Lists of Web Development Cheat Sheets
links for 2008-01-22
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“a veal calf’s misery is over in five or six months, whereas Kobe cattle endure these conditions for three years”
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hosted subversion with free basic account
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Two guys trying to compile “common sense” databases to help teach machines end up asphyxiating themselves with gas a few weeks apart. Was their death a clue to the last season of Battlestar Galactica?
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da cuddly wuddly bear wants your birthdate, address and phone number. and a hug! don’t you like hugz?
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Audio clips from online dictionaries sing the hits of yesterday and today
links for 2008-01-20
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The electric vibrator was invented more than a decade before the vacuum cleaner and the electric iron.
links for 2008-01-19
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Mushrooms thrive in the damp ashes of workbooks. Ailanthus altissima, the “ghetto palm” grows in a soil made by thousands of books that have burned, and in the pulp of rotted English Textbooks.
links for 2008-01-15
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Next tools to ban: word processors and calculators. Academia also casting a vary eye at movable type and mechancal printing in general… If you aren’t writing with on sheep skin with a quill, you are simply not a scholar.
links for 2008-01-14
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“PETA raised over $30 million last year, and it’s using that money to kill the only flesh-and-blood animals its employees actually see. The scale of PETA’s hypocrisy is simply staggering.”
links for 2008-01-11
links for 2008-01-08
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Computers are technologies of liberation, but they’re also technologies of control…. If you’re looking to monitor and manipulate people, you couldn’t design a better machine.
links for 2008-01-07
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“It’s such a sadness that you think you’ve seen a film on your fucking telephone.”
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a collection of original sounds uploaded by users, feely available for any re-use
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“there are really awful coffees being offered out there with all the same markings, in the same get-up, as good lots but they are as abyssmal as cheap dreck.”
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green and fresh roasted coffee in Pasadena
perpetual state of alienation
Some blogs exist in a near perpetual state of alienation
links for 2008-01-04
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a complete source of amusement ride accident reports and related news
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Facebook’s “friend finder” is a clear violation of their Terms of Use.
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Jan. 4, 1903: Edison Fries an Elephant to Prove His Point
links for 2008-01-03
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explaining feeds to yo mamma
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Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video – the study is part of a larger Participatory Media project,
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that’s a lot o icons
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What have you changed your mind about?
