October 2008
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WatchVery cool looking game planned for the XNA platform. Reminds me of Sin City near the end.
via MAKE
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What Sarah Palin Is Saying - Anil Dash →
Very interesting post about language, the strategic use of dialects and the culture of hate in the Republican campaign.
via BoingBoing
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WatchDoing a song completely in acapella, from synth bass to lead vocals to the sound effects, is already pretty sweet. Doing it so that you can see M. Macré’s face as he records each of the 64 parts and samples them together is a cherry on top. A tasty, tasty cherry.
via the Coverville Podcast
Also, The French Vincent Price would be a great band name.
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“[PAX has] a ridiculous amount of thunder and honestly if [E3] were to steal some...”
– Mike Krahulik, on E3 vs. the Penny Arcade Expo
via 1up
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Scott Brown on Facebook Friendonomics - Wired →
Poignant.
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Woman jailed after 'killing' virtual husband -... →
Whaaaaa? I guess there’s some grounds for charges based on “hacking”, maybe. I think this case really just needs a sense of perspective.
via Ze Frank
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“My daughter is now 13. You can tell this by the way she presents herself for...”
– Warren Ellis, on parenting and blogging. It’s very sweet, in a cranky kind of way (everything Warren Ellis does is somewhat cranky). I like it how he finishes off by acknowledging that his daughter and her friends will inevitably find the blog post.
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WatchJohn Hodgman is awesome. I can’t wait to read his new book.
John Hodgman’s brief digression | Video on TED.com
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WatchThe Blender Defender is an engine that feeds on fear. My cat would hate this thing. (Pretend the blender is making a really loud noise.)
via MAKE
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The masses need to know
You: So Andy, can I call you Andy?
Me: No.
You: So Andrew, the world needs to know: why so long to join Facebook?
Me: Well, it's complicated. For a start, Facebook exploded into my social scene, splattering pretty much everyone I knew at the time over a period of two weeks. It amounted to "durrr what's an Inter-Net?" one week and "OMG like you totally gotta get on Facebook! Everybody's there!" the next. That sort of fad irritates me, and that's what started my initial rejection of the network. It's taken about two years for the momentum of that to wear off.
You: But surely, someone as smart and handsome as yourself isn't swayed by petty fads! There has to be more to it.
Me: Obviously. For one, there's something to be said about giving something a proper test drive before dumping vitriol and hate onto it. For another, a couple of friends of mine just moved away, and they're both Facebook superstars, so the easiest way for me to keep in touch is to enter the hive.
You: Anything else?
Me: I'm in an upswing as far as blogging and putting things up on the internet. I've been twittering for a while now, and there's already an app to pipe my updates there directly into Facebook; soon there will be one for my Tumblr page. I've recontextualized the whole "we are the Facebook zombie mob: JOIN US JOIN US" argument into "Hey, this is just another way I can annoy people". I'm also turning into somewhat of an attention whore as far as making music goes, and there are way more people on Facebook that will hear what I make and tell me what they think.
You: So what's your impression of Facebook so far?
Me: It's neat. I like that all my friends are on it, and the photo sharing aspect is nice, even if I have to de-tag myself over and over and over and over again. I like the way Facebook is layed out, although it's only good after the AdBlock filters are finished with it. Mostly, I just like that I can funnel many of the things that I do elsewhere on the internet into Facebook with relative ease, and since that's where all my friends are, it means that people wind up seeing it, and isn't that the point?
You: Anything you don't like?
Me: The semantics.
You: What do you mean?
Me: Every relationship in Facebook is a friendship. That doesn't really sit well with me, since I consider friendship to be more than "hey, I used to go to elementary school with you, and even though we have nothing in common, haven't spoken in twenty years and don't even live in the same country, we're certainly friends". I much prefer the Twitter style of labelling in which you follow rather than friend (yes, friend is a verb now). I find follow much more palatable because if we're friends on Facebook, that doesn't mean we share a relationship that is friendship. It means that your updates will show up in my news feed and you can see my profile and I am following up on what you do in the network. Follow doesn't presume a relationship that isn't there.
You: So we're not friends?
Me: That works for Twitter because everything is basically public, whereas Facebook is a mostly private network (well, not at all, but you know what I mean). You typically can't see anything about someone else unless you have mutual consent to share profiles, and I suppose needing this mutual okay-ness is where the friend verb comes from in the first place. I've been fiddling with the privacy settings in Facebook to get a best of both worlds situation, where there's a private short list of people who are my friends (y'know, we hang out in real life) and these folks get to write on my wall and such, while there's another, larger set of friends that get to see my profile and follow my updates, but that's about it. It's all about being able to play by my rules.
You: That's stupid. You're stupid.
Me: No, you're stupid. This interview is over.
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Seriously people you have no idea. I think...
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BBC NEWS - Banjo used in brain surgery →
This is totally surreal. It’s almost like a Verizon “Can you hear me now?” sort of thing, except they’re adjusting a dude’s brain. And he plays the banjo throughout. Seriously.
via Waxy
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Kongregate Labs →
Very cool initiative. Kongregate is a flash game site with lots of community features, and it’s really nice to see that they’re taking a proactive role in getting people to make more games. I’m tempted to put something together myself…
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AskMen.com - Jedi workout →
Basically just a regular old workout routine, but jazzed up to be all Star Wars. It’s mostly interesting as a) a marketing exercise and b) an indicator of just how many people fall into the “Star Wars demographic”. Hey, it might even get a nerd or two into the gym.
via io9
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WatchSomeday I’m going to get a banjo.
via BoingBoing
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“Barack Osama” absentee ballot sent to voters in... →
*blink* *blink*
Really? Really!?
via twitter/uglyhill
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WatchWhy? ROI! Why!? ROI!!
Gary Vaynerchuk is a smart dude. Also: asking your uStream viewers in real-time, getting instant feedback? Very cool.
via Waxy
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Alaskan Independence Party sponsored By Iran -... →
Yeah… so this is a bit crazy.
via twitter/uglyhill
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WatchThis guy has chops. (Also a knack for surprise.)
via LJ/lrt512
Playboy's Hugh Hefner, girlfriend call it quits -... →
This leaves him with only two girlfriends now. Poor guy…
via twitter/dcorsetto
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I have discovered a remarkable ease in producing...
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This is what I read on Twitter all day, people....
dcorsetto: Waiting to meet up with my old roommie who I haven't seen in like 3 years, her new boyfriend, and our German visitor!
Shortpacked: @dcorsetto I don't know why, but "our German visitor" demands to be a euphemism for something.
jephjacques: @dcorsetto @Shortpacked menstruation that invades Poland?
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WatchJames Gunn’s PG Porn: It’s safe for work, really…
via twitter/lartist
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Homosexuals should carry warning tattoos, says... →
Two back-to-back crazy news posts on BoingBoing for the price of one!
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Naked man from Spain jumps into Japan's Imperial... →
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Perhaps a bit rushed in the production, since I...
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Collection of feel good videos →
A great collection of YouTube clips for when everything sucks except bacon.