February 2009
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Paul's Boutique →
…is 20 years old.
This is the best Pitchfork hip-hop record review I’ve ever read.
A ten-ski for the Boys.
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Andrew Stanton interview.
The creator of WALL-E and Finding Nemo.
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Over 80 billion ISK embezzled from player-run bank... →
MMOs have gotten completely insane.
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Everyone is putting .45 in their calculator and pointing it at things… its...
– Mikey Campola on gchat.
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WikiTrivia →
Another Wikipedia-based game in the vein of the previously posted WikiPaths.
Pick a category and fill in the missing article name.
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How to Save the Suburbs →
What we’re learning about the DC area is that there are 30 of these walkable communities here. I’m only talking about regionally significant places, not individual neighborhoods. So, for instance, downtown DC, Reston, Bethesda and so on. Of these places, 90 percent are on the metro system and most of the rest will be linked into it in the next five years. So that’s a pretty obvious correlation...
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WikiPaths →
…A game built with Greasemonkey in which you must navigate from any starting wiki article to a randomly selected second article using only the links in the page.
I knew someone would come up with something like this one day. Incredible.
My first victory was browsing from the London Zoo to the Pesceana River (a tributary in Romania). Strategically browsing through the pages really makes...
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This is why you're fat →
A new instant-follow tumblelog that should inspire everyone to eat less.
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How Tweet It Is →
Sure, the Twitter guys still have no idea how to make money off their fabulous invention. But for now they are living in a dreamworld of infinite possibilities, maybe the last one on Earth.
Dreamworld is a great way to describe it.
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The Hardest Job in Football →
Mark Bowden goes behind the scenes with CBS’s football broadcast crew and showcases the incredible talent and energy it takes to assemble the stories told on Sundays.
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Gmail Label Autocompletion →
I’ve been using a Greasemonkey script to do this for a couple years now. It’s good to see them integrate a similar method of tagging messages.
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Paul's Boutique 20th Anniversary →
The Beastie Boys’ masterpiece, Paul’s Boutique, has been reissued as a remastered 20th Anniversary edition.
There’s a website for the reissue, which includes a full album commentary track by the three Beasties. Includes reminiscing about the real Johnny Ryall as well as a story about the “vocal booth closet” in Matt Dike’s house in which both Tone Loc and...
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IMCO
Zac: seriously
Zac: I think they did it so they could sell everyone the $30 remote
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Zac: in my cocky opinion