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Online viewer for your local fonts?
links for 2009-07-31
links for 2009-07-30
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'Recently I took a few months of my free time and decided to recreate Arnold Schoenberg's 1909 op. 11 Drei Klavierstücke (aka Three Piano Pieces) by editing together videos of cats playing pianos downloaded from Youtube.'
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'I couldn't just sit here and let this "Microhoo" mess continue. As an interested third party, I had to act. I made a list.'
links for 2009-07-29
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'The main syntactic problem is to determine whether the fuck is being used as an pleonastic (semantically empty) direct object of shut or as a pre-head modifier of the preposition phrase (PP) headed by up.'
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This one actually makes me a little sad. Give them something other than the Disney Channel!
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'What you really need is enthusiasm about your product – honest interest in using it and the right message to the right group. If your product targets developers this can not be achieved with marketing or PR.'
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'When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in. Plus you have to remember to go to the meeting. That's no problem for someone on the manager's schedule. '
links for 2009-07-28
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'The men and women who performed best in the Army’s I.E.D. detection study had the sort of knowledge gained through experience, according to a preliminary analysis of the results; but many also had superb depth perception and a keen ability to sustain intense focus for long periods. The ability to pick odd shapes masked in complex backgrounds — a “Where’s Waldo” type of skill that some call anomaly detection — also predicted performance on some of the roadside bomb simulations.'
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Everyone's doing it.
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'Unlike most otaku, though, they have real romantic feelings for their toys. The less extreme might have a hidden collection of figurines based on anime characters that they go on “dates” with during off hours. A more serious 2-D lover, like Nisan, actually believes that a lumpy pillow with a drawing of a prepubescent anime character on it is his girlfriend.'
links for 2009-07-26
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'Twagnetic Poetry munges the text of a person's Twitter posts and turns it into "magnetic" poetry, which you can shuffle and rearrange as if your browser were a refrigerator door.'
links for 2009-07-25
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'At Comic Con, if you commit "an act of lust" with an EA booth babe and take a picture, you could win dinner with said babes, as well as a great big pile of prizes related to the upcoming Dante's Inferno.' Stay classy, EA.
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2D/3D line drawing program?
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:O
links for 2009-07-23
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Four angles on last weekend's Muni crash, for those who love to not be able to turn away.
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Collada export, holy moly.
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Zappos now wholly owned by Amazon, promises to 'run Zappos the way we have always run Zappos.'
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"Games have always been played by broad audiences. Games were for men and women, young and old…. About one fifth of the Internet population plays both hardcore and casual games. In our quest for the demographic of soccer moms we miss out on this potentially lucrative demographic," Very true — and I suspect that we'll all be sick of hearing the term "crossover game" in a couple of years.
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'Makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers.'
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'Our goal is to show you as much information as possible, just as fast as we can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words known.'
Twagnetic Poetry.
Twagnetic Poetry munges the text of a person’s Twitter posts and turns them into “magnetic” poetry, which you can shuffle and rearrange as if your browser were a refrigerator door.
links for 2009-07-22
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Asymmetric creatures (and vehicles?) in Spore. Wow!