November 2008
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Dinosaur Comics is also SUPER GREAT today! →
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Gifting Bliss, on the Drabblecast →
Gifting Bliss is the latest episode from the Drabblecast, Norm Sherman’s story podcast. It’s a Behind the Music style story about a band that uses magic to make their music amazing, and the fallout with the fans from doing so. It’s amazingly well-produced, not unusual for the Drabblecast, but this episode in particular is especially well done. I enjoyed every minute of it,...
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I don’t know what the best thing about this game is:
that it’s Jezzball for the iPhone?
that your character’s name is Dr. Awesome?
that you perform surgery on your friends (from your contacts)?
the ridiculously dramatic character poses?
Dr. Awesome’s mustache?
There’s too much to love!
via Offworld
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The internet == MAGIC. This explains everything! (Well, everything except why the word magic sounds wrong after they say it over and over and over again.)
via BoingBoing
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Dear Mr. President-Elect,
It may surprise you to learn that among the issues...
– Michael Pollan, in a fantastic article about U.S. food policy in the New York Times
via O’Reilly Radar
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Recipes are not out to get you
There’s an interesting little post over at eggbeater about recipes that resonated with me.
Rule #1: Recipes are guides.
Rule #2: A recipe is not out to get you.
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Rule #6: If a recipe does not work for you, you are allowed to give up on it and blame no one.
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Rule #8: See Rule #1.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! Needless to say, I agree with both these, as well as most...
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The Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator →
This is absolutely spectacular: “Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Spider-man and the National Hockey League. The story should use a haunted house as a plot device!”
via Gamespite
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Students Quarantined in University As Epidemic... →
“For the past few days, university students in the Southern Chinese resort town of Hainan have been quarantined on the grounds of the Hainan University campus with little food or water. Apparently there’s been an outbreak of cholera, and the local officials dealt with it Resident Evil style: Lock everybody in, give them no information, and see if they survive. But one woman student has...
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Where their pointy-toothed cousins are all about sex and bestial savagery, the...
– Simon Pegg, in a rather intellectual essay on why slow zombies are better than fast zombies.
via twitter/wilw
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