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“In general, we noticed the Doctor is more likely to overthrow the government on alien planets, or in the distant future. When he visits present-day Earth or our history, he’s an arch-conservative.”
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“The good news is, Flickr reached photo number 2147483647 yesterday. Go Flickr! The bad news is that number 2147483647 is the limit for signed integer data type.”
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“for all the evidence to the contrary I’ve observed since I’ve been an adult myself, it’s hard to entirely shake the old Dad Knows Best hangover.” Great writing from Alec Meer about explaining games to our parents – and the hell of twin-stick contro
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“Zenphoto is an answer to lots of calls for an online gallery solution that just makes sense. After years of bloated software that does everything and your dishes, zenphoto just shows your photos, simply.” Looks rather good. Thinking about this.
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Dashlicious is a dashboard widget for posting to delicious. It seems pretty good so far, and has nice browser integration.
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“This notion, that the Web GUI is insufficiently interactive and we need something richer, is widely held among developers and almost never among actual users of computers, and it’s entirely wrong.” Bray shares similar views to me on RIAs.
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Quite remarkable, if only for its density and level of detail.
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“The inclusion of Fire and the Flames in Guitar Hero 3 always struck me as something of a cruel joke.” A lovely tale of Guitar Heroism.
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“Originally, I started a generic post on the business or marketing books I’ve read this year. But there’s only really one book I want to write about, because I think the ideas in it are incredibly important to anyone in marketing or product design. “
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These rust and scratch stickers are designed to make your beautiful bike/car look rusted and scratched so that passing thieves assume it’s not worth stealing due to its apparent shabbyness.
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“In the spirit of the New Year, perhaps it’s time to make a change? Perhaps it’s time to, I dunno, stop arguing with strangers on the internet about games you haven’t played yet.” Dave McCarthy’s New Year resolutions are very good.
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“Shoes is a minimalistic Graphical User Interface toolkit for the Ruby programming language, which runs on OS X, Windows, and Linux.” Good how-to guide for getting it up and running on OSX, too. Looks nice.
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“When we call something a scripting language, we’re primarily making a linguistic and cultural judgment, not a technical judgment. I see scripting as one of the humanities. It’s our linguistic roots showing through.” Larry Wall ++
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Drivers for 360 joypads under OSX. Works well with my wired example, haven’t tried with a wireless, and doesn’t work (yet) with my Hori EX2 stick. I’m hoping we can fix the latter…
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“…why aren’t more game creators using filters, dirt, and chaos – even on more abstract games – to create more sinister and emotion-provoking kinds of ambience?” Untrue is a fabulous album, too.
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Katy is blogging again. Hurrah! It looks good, so far.
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“Use this website to create a PDF file which can be printed and folded to create a paper CD case.” Lovely – and even has a lookup database, to save on typing…