2007 Oct 31, 4:41ONN piece on ninja parade.
humor onion news video ninja 2007 Oct 31, 4:41ONN has a piece on how the government can help paranoid schizophrenics.
onion privacy humor video satire government 2007 Oct 31, 10:41Upload your data and visualize it in various interesting ways using Java applets from IBM.
visualization java applet ibm analysis graph 2007 Oct 31, 10:30Artists create humorous superheros that can defeat the currently reigning superhero.
humor art blog comic superhero via:swannman 2007 Oct 30, 2:44Google has new views of search data: graphed over time and over a map.
google ui view time timeline 2007 Oct 30, 12:29DisneyLand is updating the Small World ride to support fatter passengers. That is so sad.
humor health article disney obesity 2007 Oct 30, 12:09Map of photos uploaded to flickr.
ajax map yahoo visualization flickr photo photos 2007 Oct 30, 12:07A map displaying who is editing what and from where in real-time on Wikipedia.
wikipedia ajax mashup google map visualization real-time 2007 Oct 29, 1:48FTA: "Ben Goldacre is a medical doctor who writes the Bad Science column in the Guardian, examining the claims of scaremongering journalists, quack remedy peddlers, pseudoscientific cosmetics
adverts, and evil multinational pharmaceutical corporations. Th
monthly blog science politics religion media news healthy research humor 2007 Oct 29, 1:01FTA: "A prop to accompany my Halloween 2007 costume, which was a 19th century time traveler."
humor flickr photos photo steampunk time-travel bttf flux-capacitor 2007 Oct 29, 7:07Two brief updates to previous posts:
- I noted that I had a new entry on the IE blog. Some comments on the IE blog have recently been rude in their request for information
on future versions of IE. For example see the first two comments responding to my post. Feeling bad about that
I looked at my posts entry on delicious and saw the following:
"This is the first blog from the IE team that I have found rigorous and informative. I skipped to the bottom to find it was written by one of the TA's from my first class at Cal
Poly."
That made me feel a bit better and I was able to catch up with someone from college. Thanks Kris!
- I previously had my GPS set with an Australian accent. When it encountered 'WA', as in the abbreviation for Washington in freeway
exits, it pronounced it 'Western Australia'. Now I've got it with a British accent and WA is just 'W.A.' but when I tell it to drive to 'MS', the name of my saved location for work, it pronounces
it 'Manuscript'.
microsoft blog gps personal nontechnical 2007 Oct 26, 12:00I don't know why I find this song so humorous.
music video youtube the-chemical-brothers salmon the-salmon-dance humor 2007 Oct 24, 10:12Without realizing it this was the page I was looking for three weeks ago.
via:kris.kowal web chart graph ajax .net flash programming visualization statistics reference 2007 Oct 24, 3:26Convert HTML into RSS with some predefined strings to look for.
feed rss tool free html convert 2007 Oct 24, 1:19My blog post on unmanaged Win32 URI comparison functions.
ie blog me uri microsoft win32 windows 2007 Oct 22, 2:36How to create good headlines and subjects for webpages and email.
blog article design email howto usability tutorial language internet writing web 2007 Oct 22, 4:47
I purchased the
Orange Box off of Steam a bit ago and like
others before me who have
discussed elsewhere, I already owned two of the five games that come from the Orange Box. However, the combined price of
HL2E2 and Portal, the two games I actually wanted was supposedly equivalent to the price of the Orange Box bundle. Incidentally, if anyone would like HL2 or HL2E1 I can
gift them to you.
HL2E2 was excellent of course but the big surprise for me was Portal. (Mild spoilers follow) It has a sort of zen simplicity: there are a few simple game-play mechanics, a handful of textures and
objects, and a deceptively simple story all used well and tied together to produce an entertaining and polished game. It seems a bit short but its probably better to end with the gamer demanding
more. The humor and the sort of
play within a play aspect of the game is what really sold me though. It has the funniest
ending theme I've heard (also
blogged by the creator). The voices of the automated turrets are so adorable I would feel compelled to hug them if they weren't
always trying to kill me. Additionally the
weighted companion cube seems like an experiment in understanding gamers'
attachment to NPCs. In this case the NPC is a box and yet I still felt awful incinerating it. The whole time I was vaguely reminded of
Solitary the reality show
that sticks contestants alone in small rooms forcing them to endure various tests all the while being watched by a humorous computer with a female voice. Someone should sue...
RPS has articles on Portal including
a Portal review, a page
suggesting Portal is a tale of
lesbianism, and
others.
hl2e2 game hl2 solitary valve portal nontechnical 2007 Oct 21, 10:28Sarah's restaurant reviews on urbanspon. The site provides feeds of user's reviews too.
review people sarah-moffatt restaurant
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