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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…
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“We’re all under pressure and obviously since I was promoted I paid attention to the things that mattered.” Well, if the claims of the former colleague are true, it doesn’t sound like that’s the case…
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How I’ve not seen has_finder before I don’t know. Looks very handy, and nice and succinct, too.
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“Pulse is a web-based cash flow management tool that allows you to easily monitor the heartbeat of your small business – your cash.” Has Basecamp integration, too.
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Lots of interesting numbers here…
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Exhaust data is, I think, a clear case of “phatic communication.” This is communication with little hard, informational content, but lots of emotional and social content. [It] doesn’t get much said, but it has social effects so powerful, it gets lots done
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“The main thing you don’t learn with a CS degree is how to develop software, although you will probably build up certain muscles in your brain that may help you later if you decide that developing software is what you want to do.”
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“in the ‘sentences we never thought we’d be writing at the start of the campaign” category comes “Make the Japanese Fisheries Agency promise not to harpoon Mister Splashy Pants.” Very thoughtful responses from Greenpeace.
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SlideShowPro is now available for Lightroom. Looks very impressive, especially at the level of its integration.
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‘Apparently, Mailer built “a vast Lego city, incorporating some 15,000 pieces, known as the city of the future, seeming to take as much pride in it as in any of his other creations.”’
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“From where I stand, the only sane response is to keep our conceptions of friendship and affinity from being polluted by technical metaphors and constraints to begin with.” Superb post by Adam Greenfield. Makes me question a lot of my recent design.
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“I’ve been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I’ve been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here’s a first attempt at defining that.” Evan Williams on product.
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“We started when we were children – we met at school. We started writing enjoy eternal bliss when we were around 17 years old, and finished it when we had just turned 20.” Yndi Halda’s “Enjoy Eternal Bliss” is, frankly, stunning.
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Nice looking site for perhaps the more grown-up gamer looking to connect and share with others; the focus on sharing the spaces you play in is a really interesting touch. Can’t wait to try this.