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Page 3 has an interesting digression on Valve’s “flat” production style (e.g. no official titles, cross-disciplinary teams, etc. etc. etc.)
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Old-school rotary phone that works with your cellular SIM card. Runs on a 5 day battery & has a real bell!
Monthly Archive for November, 2007
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Been happily using Adblock Plus & CustomizeGoogle to filter the visual noise out of my web browsing for the last few months, and for the most part I hadn’t been too overwhelmed by the experience. Not saying that they don’t do a great job (pretty much perfect, in fact). It’s just that I didn’t really notice a huge difference in the way pages looked, with or without ads!
Until today, that is….
I was looking into some AdWords stuff at work & figured I’d better turn off the blockers to see how things “really” looked. Everything was pretty much as I expected in that department, but Holy Good Goddamn!! I had forgotten just how much crazy-ass ad clutter shows up on some of the sites I visit! It makes me wish there was some way to just block that stuff out so I could concentrate on the damn website itself for a change, and… Heeeey wait a minute. Phew… I feel much better now. Seriously though people… Can we cool it with the ads just a little bit? I mean, I’m not opposed to online advertising in general, but is this checkerboard of banners & animated GIFs and (ugh) Flash on every page of your site really effective? And if so, then how come my TV doesn’t switch into a 5 x 5 grid with 25 ads running simultaneously every time there’s a commercial break? (And incidentally if that ever does happen, can this count as prior art?) Now if you’ll excuse me I need to go wash out my eyeballs…
[editor's note: Not like I don't just read the RSS feeds for most of the sites I visit in the first place, but still!! (and while we're on the subject, WTF is with these enormous "Can't see the video? Click here" ad blocks that BoingBoing is injecting into their RSS lately? Enough!)]
Via some Wired blog:
Facebook has caved into popular demand and will make the “is” in status updates optional, effective tonight, according to allfacebook.com… Many people ignore it, choosing instead to commit grammatical atrocities such as “Sarah is likes to dance.”
I dunno if I’d call that an atrocity, but I will admit to giving this issue some thought each time I post a status update. That being said, I kind of enjoy working inside an arbitrary grammatical construct (sometimes)!
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Your site had a traffic spike in August. What kind of impact has Yahtzee (aka Zero Punctuation) had on your readership levels?
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Creative, Web + Design Professionals Advertising Network
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Aside from writing the most recent draft of “Halo,” Weiss recently adapted the William Gibson novel “Pattern Recognition” for WB and director Peter Weir.
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Princess is a $4 billion business that’s on its way to becoming the most successful marketing venture ever.
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“Best of” list for Book Cover Designs from 2007
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“The reason is that the speed of the consolidation process isn’t constrained by the real world physical laws that regulate activity in time and space.” I know… I know!! Time & space are such a pain in the ass, right?
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Lots of cool stuff about SimCity Open Source & OLPC. I need to get one of those!
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Sweeet…
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a Nintendo DS game about playing retro games, based on a Japanese TV show about playing retro games
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FUCK YOU!! (FRIDAY)
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Hey Now… Crowded House named themselves after a crowded house! (which, apparently, was located at 1902 W. Sycamore in LA)
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Damn, this is pretty definitive!
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Cool 3D feature for navigating multi-lane interchanges, plus optional traffic-based re-routing
Pro: Holy ****ing moly…this is the finest “3-D” experience I’ve ever witnessed!
Con: Again with the Uncanny Valley
Regardless, Crispin Glover plays (the voice & “actions” of) Grendel so basically all these arguments are moot.
I’ve been using this “Daily Links” script from del.icio.us for the last several days, in an attempt to keep things from getting too stagnant around here. Still got some kinks in terms of formatting and all that, but it seems like it’s working OK for the most part. Anyway, hope everybody is enjoying the unfiltered del.icio.us.ness!
