July 2008
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Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition) →
The king commented on Hamlet’s play: “What is wrong with you?”
This is genius and oh-so true. (via nostrich)
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Unicode Characters as Named and Numeric HTML... →
If you’ve ever wondered, “Hey, I need to know how to encode this Unicode character in HTML,” this is your site — a big honkin’ list of every Unicode entity encoding in both hex and decimal.
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Telescopic Text →
A cool little bit of JavaScript that shows how much a little copy editing and concision can change a piece of writing. (via matthewb)
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Pocket-sized Australian solar charger →
Looks like a useful little gadget to have, especially when I’m sitting in front of a window all day at work.
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“Too many people put form over function, and that’s what building a Web...”
– Patrick Thornton
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“Until that time … syphilis had been called the “French...”
– From this Wikipedia article while doing research for a press release. I guess we just name it after the people we don’t like? (My internship is teaching me the most fascinating things.)
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“70% of US adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.”
– Jeff Jarvis (via peterwknox)
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“Most annoying Craigslist apartment ad ever” →
Dude, basic HTML: you close tags with a slash. Though it is funny watching the text get progressively larger as the <h1> tags build up. (via getupgetout)
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“When I worked at a paper I maintained the strictest adherence to protecting...”
– Angelle, a commenter on the Whatever
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“Plasma TVs, industry officials say, consume about four times the electricity as...”
– Apartment Therapy Unplugged on the plug-in electric car — which I want.
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A Dog A Day →
Until I start my own dogblog about Ruby, this will have to do: Get Up, Get Out posts photos of her Westie every day. Cute dog AND a nice theme.
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Newspapers are thriving in many developing... →
In places like India and China, newspaper readership has grown along with wealth and literacy rates. People like to know what’s going on in their community and practice their new reading skills — two things a newspaper lets them do.
India’s strong tradition of press freedom means that local papers are largely left alone by government officials. China is an interesting case...
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Paper misspells its name on front page →
(via Pat Thornton)
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The Summer Intern Toolkit →
(via soupsoup)
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They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson →
I was reminded of this brief, funny SF story by an io9 article this morning. At one point in college we put on a stage version of several of Bisson’s stories, including this one. It’s hilarious, but sad.
“They’re made out of meat.”
“Meat?”
“Meat. They’re made out of meat.”
“Meat?”
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Free Hi Resolution Wood Textures →
While working on a poster for an event, I needed a nice woodgrain texture for the background. Here’s a bunch of free ones.
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Newspaper Web sites shouldn't allow comments →
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“Design is first and foremost about pleasure, a point that is easy to lose sight...”
– Mandy Brown
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“What the modern means of reproduction have done is to destroy the authority of...”
– John Berger in Ways of Seeing, written in 1972
My goodness, what does Berger think now? Not only do we have more reproductions than ever — an abundance of reproductions, thanks to sites like FFFFOUND! — but the images themselves are more insubstantial than ever, since they no longer...
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The art of hoisting comments →
(Oh the irony of it all, as my own blog has no comments.)
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The iPhone is More Powerful Than the DS, But Sucks... →
At least, according to a couple of guys at EA.
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“If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault...”
– Muphry’s Law (via jstn)
Browsing the National Enquirer’s Web site. It’s for work. Really.
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“The mass media has been single-mindedly focused on the White House and campaigns...”
– Dick Flannery, writing in Homer Simpson Goes to Washington
I can’t do my taxes right, but I do know the name of the church where Mozart had his first job. Thanks, liberal arts education.
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Touch Arcade →
The greatest thing about the new iPhone is the device’s gaming potential. Here’s a site to keep track of all the games for both it and the iPod touch. Now if I can just get my hands on one…
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The Ridiculousness of Riddick, or, How Not to Make... →
John Scalzi examines the failures of The Chronicles of Riddick. This reminds me — I need to add Pitch Black to my Amazon wish list.
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“My aunt and uncle live in a gracious house in the Garden District and are very...”
– I am reading The Moviegoer again.
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Square has released an RPG for the iPod Classic... →
Too bad I only have the 2G nano. This looks like a lot of fun for $5.
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Online services apply Netflix model to books →
This idea sounds great. Here’s a suggestion for improvement: make the service free and build large buildings to house the books so that members can browse the shelves and pick out books they like. I’m surprised no one’s thought of it before.
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Free Gas Becoming a Prize in State Lotteries →
Yeah, I’m sure prices will be going down soon…
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“For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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The State of the Web - Summer 2008 →
A beautiful and brilliant on what’s happening on the Internet these days. And set in a nice font! (via livejamie)
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Stone tablet rocks biblical circles →
atheistramblings:
A tablet consisting of 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates a number of decades just before the claimed birth of Christ is causing a bit of a stir in biblical circles.
The tablet appears to speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days. If this is the meaning of the text that it will establish that the death and resurrection of a messiah figure was...
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this is a working library →
A beautifully designed and fascinating blog by Mandy Brown. It’s a blog with a literary bent — as she reads her way through books, visitors get to see her reactions to them bit by bit. Highly recommended. (via Big Contrarian)
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Debris →
A manifesto of sorts about removing junk from blogs. Worth a read.
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Walmart won't print my photos
Walmart has a policy of not reprinting photos that “look professional.” So even though our wedding photographer has given Ashley and I all the negatives and told us that we can do whatever we want with them, Walmart doesn’t believe us and wants a signed release before they’ll do anything. Oh, and they kept the CD full of images that we gave them.
Who appointed them the...
Which library web app should I use?
Dear fellow Tumblrs,
I currently have a small collection of books listed in a LibraryThing account, and I pull LibraryThing’s RSS feed into my Tumblr account so new books show up whenever I add them.
However, LibraryThing inserts CSS code into my tumblelog. I don’t like this very much.
I see that Google has its own online library app that’s part of Google Book Search. Has...