David
Brussat: “But, curiously, in recent decades, second- and
third-generation crudscape has increasingly nodded, however slightly,
toward the past.”
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Archive for November, 2005
South Kingstown’s thankful remains
Friday, November 25th, 2005Convergence Oceania ‘05
Friday, November 25th, 2005gnat: “Apparently the infrastructure whose costs they’re
recouping is entirely built out of fibre spun from the eyelashes of
Indonesian princesses and each packet is transmitted in a 24 karat solid
gold envelope.”
No RSS, No Horse, No Moustache
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005Scripting
News: “Cori Schlegel notes that only four of the companies presenting at Under
The Radar have RSS feeds.”
When I see something like this, and when someone
has been kind enough to provide a nice set of links to all the offending
sites, I think there’s a moral obligation to click through on them all.
If enough of us do it, it will register in their referer logs, and maybe
they’ll do something about this. I was going to tell you how easy it is
to do this in a tabbed browser with control/command-click: just open
them up real fast and close all the tabs at once when you’re done, but
there’s another exercise you can do while you’re at it: can you figure
out what any of these companies do? Is it any coincidence that the ones
with RSS feeds also have simple web sites with clear explanations of
what the company is all about?
Badger Badger Flashlight Flashlight
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
I just received my copy of the Japanese edition of Don’t Click on
the Blue E, and I really like the cover.
On the BBS, Nobody Knows You’re Not a Wolf
Sunday, November 13th, 2005RedWolf:
“Online, I would be Red Wolf, a confident 32 year old computer
professional — the kind of guy no power-tripping teenage BBSers
would dare mess with.”
I Am Selling This Card To See My Way Through
Saturday, November 5th, 2005I’ve created a new photoset
showcasing some of Josh’s work.
Books in the Twilight Zone
Friday, November 4th, 2005Tim O’Reilly: “Making intermediate electronic copies in
order to create derived works that are themselves fair use is one of
those technological changes that requires us to rethink the narrow
interpretation of copyright law that old-line companies would have us
hold onto.”
Halo 2 Modding Considered Harmful?
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005Stephen Cawood, author of Halo 2 Hacks (which I had the honor and pleasure of editing): “modding is not the same as cheating.”