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December 2006
- Help Your Users With Feeds
- Together with Les and Paul of pMachine, I have created a site that you can use to help your users understand what feeds are and help them to subscribe to your feed: Feed Quick Start. We skip all of the technical blather and get right... full entry
February 2006
- I won!
- After only about a week of using it for 10 or so searches each day, I won a free ticket to the movies from Blingo, the Google search sweepstakes wrapper. Their privacy policy looks good, and they gather no information from you unless you win.... full entry
September 2005
- Pete’s Pond
- Pete’s Pond is a new project that National Geographic has embarked on, that is incredibly cool. A private game reserve was established nearly 20 years ago, to help save certain populations of African wildlife from poachers. There was no river, so through massive irrigation, the... full entry
July 2005
- A Wiki For Firefly
- Like the title says. There I was combing the internet at a leisurely speed heading nowhere in particular, when all of the sudden the ruttin’ links I clicked led me to a Firefly wiki. It’s all you need to know about the Firefly ‘verse, characters,... full entry
June 2005
- Stephenson on Star Wars
- Neal Stephenson is one of my favorite authors. He wrote the fantastic cyberpunk novel “Snow Crash”, the techno-history-thriller “Cryptonomicon” and many others. In this New York Times editorial he talks about the recent Star Wars prequel movies, the originals, how they differ, and what they... full entry
- Your mind reads like a children’s novel!
- Blah! Two depressio posts in a row from yours truly. So, even though Chris showed this to me, I’ma post it, because I want to post something more lighthearted. We all know that the Force gives you power to sense things in other people, right?... full entry
May 2005
- Travel Corridor
- You’d never know which sites you browse before you realize that the site’s administrator is an old friend from school. A year ahead of me in school, Jim Wong has created the site Travel Corridor that was “conceived to provide quality articles to all irregardless... full entry
April 2005
- Which File Extension Are You?
- Find out what file extension you are by trying out this quiz on BBSpot. You know the drill: they ask you some multiple choice questions, some with quite entertaining choices I might add, and then they give you an image file that says what you... full entry
- HL2-based Comic
- Found via Boing Boing, “Brashfink” has created a great comic by taking screenshots from the game “Half-Life 2” and then adding word balloons. Apostasy, Issue 1 looks very good and is entertaining to boot. Gamics.com is a site dedicated to this sort of idea: making... full entry
March 2005
- Homestar Runner Wiki!
- Hot on the tail of recent entry regarding Wikipedia, is a semi-related quick link. While I was downloading the entire H*R site for my brother, I found some filenames hard to discover, since the entire site is built in Flash. Well, while googling for the... full entry
- Free SXSW Music MP3s
- Want some free music? How about more than 750, high-quality, full-length MP3s? Sounds pretty good, huh? That’s what you can get because SXSW (that’s “South by Southwest”, a massive music, movie, tech festival held every year here in Austin) is making these songs by scheduled... full entry
- Wikipedia
- Wired has a nice article up about Wikipedia, a sort of user-contributed encyclopedia. If you haven’t ever checked Wikipedia out, you need to do so. It’s simply amazing what’s covered—the number of articles puts Encyclopedia Britannica to shame. Wired’s article goes over some of the... full entry
February 2005
- Gasp! Maps by Google
- If you haven’t seen it yet, make sure you check out Google’s new beta map search. It is très cool, with slick-looking maps that make Mapquest and Yahoo’s look like grade school art projects. And courtesy of macOSXhints, if you are fortunate enough to be... full entry
- AllofMP3.com - Legal?
- Boing Boing points to some discussion going on regarding the russian site AllofMP3.com, an online music store that sells music, a la iTunes, Napster, etc. The difference is that instead of around $0.99 per song you can get them for 10-20 cents per song. Obviously,... full entry
- ATOM Tracking for Amazon
- Sometimes you find things in the strangest ways… A little while back I installed BetterSearch, a Firefox extension for enhancing search results. I finally got around to restarting Firefox, so the extension got loaded. I haven’t really had a chance to try it out yet,... full entry
- Push Patterns
- Jay Campbell wrote this great short story Push Pattern for Futurismic. It’s a sci-fi story about a new source of “free energy” and the effect it has on the world. It’s a pretty quick read and I found it rather enjoyable. (via Boing Boing)
December 2004
- Google ‘Suggest’
- Yet again, Google has come up with a really cool idea. This time from the minds over at Google Labs is Google Suggest. Go there, start typing, and you’ll see possible results get shown as you type. That’s pretty damned slick, I think. Joel Spolsky... full entry
October 2004
- Backpacking Bargains goes live
- After months of planning, arranging, design, and entry, BackpackingBargains.com has gone live! I’d be happy to entertain any comments about design, price, or products. And of course, feel free to take advantage of any of the deals on the site. I’m having a hard time... full entry
September 2004
- ‘CheTrooper’ T-shirt
- Got this link from BoingBoing. A limited-edition t-shirt print of a stormtrooper (yeah, from Star Wars) wearing a beret. The CheTrooper. I think it looks pretty cool, myself. I may have to order one.
June 2004
- Cory Doctorow’s DRM talk
- Last week, Cory Doctorow (sci-fi author, constant Boing Boing author, and :EFF: coordinator) gave a talk to Microsoft’s Research Group about :DRM:. Basically, it was about how DRM doesn’t work. His main points: That DRM systems don’t work That DRM systems are bad for society... full entry
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