VOOM To Cease Operations?
Wow, that would suck big time for a lot of people. I have been thinking of getting Voom on and off for a while now, and I'd probably have it already if they didn't require a land-line phone.
According to online reports, VOOM has about 26,000 subscribers, creating in the neighborhood of $5,900,000 in revenue. Total operating expenses will top out at over $75,000,000 this year creating a virtual black hole of profitability, even for the deep-pocketed Cablevision.
That blows.
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Tsunami Adds to Belief in Animals' Sixth Sense
Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast seemingly missed wild beasts, with no dead animals found.
I guess next time Reesey is going freaking nuts for no apparent reason, I should worry.
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Business sucks sale
Truth in advertising.
(via Kottke)
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Texas brings WiFi to rest stops
The Texas Department of Transportation has signed a deal with Coach Connect to provide WiFi at highway rest stops. Now I never have to go more than fifty miles without checking my email.
Cost for 20 minutes will be $1.99, followed by $3.99 for 24 hours, $7.99 for a week, or $29.99 per month. Coach Connect hopes also to support this network of hotspots with the help of sponsors.
That's not really bad, but having to pay and deal with advertisers is just a little much.
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How and when to use sIFR
Great article on scalable Inman Flash Replacement.
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Longhorns visit Disneyland
The Rose Bowl is only a couple of days away. I can't wait. I love bowl season!
Update: Wanna know mroe about Texas Longhorn football? Check out BevoSports.com!
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Pay raise for Mack Brown
I'm wondering if Texas making a BCS bowl triggered some automatic increase in his salary.
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Google AdSense
I'm sure you've noticed the ads here on this site, they're powered by Google's AdSense. It's a simple and unobtrusive way for me to earn enough money to pay to maintain this site. Even with my limited readership, I've earned about $50 in the last three months, more than enough to pay the entire year's costs. Wonderful tool for webmasters, I can't imagine how much more popular sites bring in.
Simple request for Google's team though, how bout coming up with an actual logo so I don't have to make my own?
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Dooce bought a Boohbah
These are the ugliest/creepiest things I've ever seen. I saw them in Toys R Us and felt compelled to point that out to everyone within ear shot. Dooce thinks they're retarded too, but bought Leta one anyways.
What is wrong with kids these days? Why can't they just play with sock monkeys. Those things ruled.
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Make Firefox faster
Sweet, this actually appears to work really well. Pages are loading lightning fast.
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So you got a PVR for Christmas...
Some helpful links to anyone who got a PVR for Christmas.
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Democratic leadership rethinking abortion
Abortion sis probably the issue I feel most strongly about and is one of the main reasons I consider myself a Republican, looks like the Democratic party is rethinking their stance.
(via Airbag)
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Testing cell phones ties up 911
Wow I had no idea people were this stupid. They get a new cell phone and want to test it out
so they call 911. Hopefully this is only an issue with California and their liberal inhabitants. Morons.
(via Engadget)
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Online dating job auction site
Pretty funny Dilbert.
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Blockbuster cuts online rental service price
Blockbuster has dropped the price for their Netflix-competing online rental service again. This time from $17.49 to $14.99, and the price is guaranteed through January 2006. Intriguing.
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Flamingo Drive
From the makers of the penguin chucking Yeti comes Flamingo Drive. Your yeti uses a flamingo golf club to whack the penguin as far as possible. Be sure to use the giraffe and snake assistance as often as possible.
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TLU to honor Berkman, mentions my dad
TLU is honoring Lance Berkman at the Front Row Gala
in February. The press release mentions my pop.
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Grand Theft Auto 2 for free
Rockstar is giving away GTA 2 for free. Merry Christmas to me.
(via Joystiq)
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stock.xchng
Instead of paying for stock photography (some sites charge hundreds of dollars for a photo), stock.xchng lets you upload and download photos for free. Pretty damn useful and cool.
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The Guy Game = kiddie porn
I understand why they're taking the game off shelves. What I don't understand is how you can lie about your age, take your clothes off, and then sue the people you lied to. Where's the logic in that?
She's even suing Sony and Microsoft, just because the game appeared on their consoles.
According to the lawsuit:
The plaintiff is still a teenager and wishes to attend college, develop her career and be active in her community and church.
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Real World Austin
MTV's Real World is coming to Austin. The show will shoot next month and air in June. It'll be the first season I've watched in probably five years.
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AP pulls out of BCS
The AP has told the BCS to stop using it's poll as a factor. Hopefully this send the entire system toppling down.
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Zeldman goes postal
I've never had issues with the USPS site, probably because I've never tried to actually purchase anything.
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Mark Cuban tells Chad Pennington to get a blog
The NYC media pissed Chad Pennington off and rather than trying to explain why to that very same group of people, Mark Cuban suggests he should start his own weblog. Not a bad idea.
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Norwegian dude proposes via iPod engraving
Best part is that some day this guy’s kids are going to ask him about how he proposed to their mother, and their going to be totally incredulous at the thought of an iPod that can only hold 20GB.
Zing.
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TAMU's Listeater garners national headlines
Old news, but this is the first story I've seen from a reputable place. Fat ugly girl cuts in line, eats list. Best quote?
As she's up there talking, people started throwing doughnuts at her.
Good old Aggies.
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MovableType 3.14 released
Six Apart has reacted quickly and gotten an update out to fix the server loads caused by comment spam. MT 3.14 (what happened to 3.13?) fixes a major issue for sites out there getting hit by large and frequent comment spam attacks. Previously, if a spammer hit the site and attempted to post tons of comments, each attempt would cause a rebuild even if the comment did not get through MT-Blacklist. Looks like another new version of that is coming soon too.
The main changes in version 3.14:
- No more unnecessary rebuilds upon comment moderation.
- Generation of internal bookkeeping data for dynamic pages is not performed when using static pages.
- New weblogs default to having comment moderation enabled.
Good job guys, I'm sure we all appreciate the swift response.
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Hardeman had cocaine and $4,000 cash
There's really no way around this one. Twenty grams of cocaine and $3,774 in cash on him.
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Leaked Royale theme for WinXP
Nice looking theme supposedly released by Microsoft themselves. Looks real good.
(via Anil Dash)
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PCMag reviews MSN Spaces
I've lost all respect for PC Magazine. God, MSN Spaces freaking blows and they gave it a four out of five. Everyone has said it's horribly difficult to set up and it looks absolutely fugly. If you want a free blogging service, use LiveJournal.
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Suprnova.org shut down
This sucks. SuprNova.org was a great source of BitTorrent files. Damn.
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Texas Tech on drugs?
Looks like coaches Bobby Knight and Mike Leach approved purchase of some products containing Ephedra, which is banned in this country. They could be in big trouble if they knew what they were doing, although I'm guessing they had no idea what the products actually contained.
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Texas vs. Auburn for the national title!
Well on the ESPN SportsNation poll at least. Go vote!
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Gammons on the Hudson deal
Peter Gammons calls the Atlanta and Oakland deal a win for both teams.
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Apple iPhone
After tons of speculation, Apple officially let slip that they were partnering with Motorola to release a cellphone that would be an accessory
to the iPod.
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Braves acquire Hudson
The Braves traded three players to the A's for Tim Hudson today. Very good pick up for the Braves. Didn't have to give up much to get him either. John Smoltz and Hudson will be a very nice one-two punch at the front of the rotation.
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Free TiVo in Bay Area
If you live in the Bay Area and are a Comcast customer, go get a free TiVo!
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Firefox in the NY Times
THe Mozilla Foundation has places a two page ad in the New York Times featuring Firefox and all the names of people who donated to the cause. I should've donated, I could've been famous!
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Comment spam load issue
Jay Allen from MT and of MT-Blacklist lore comments on the escalating comment spam issues. He discusses a couple of major bugs that cause excess server loads even on set ups with proper comment spam prevention measures in place. Sounds like a patch should be available soon.
Update: Looks like a new pre-beta version of MT-Blacklist is available that fixes a major bug and some minor ones.
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Structured procrastination
The list of tasks one has in mind will be ordered by importance. Tasks that seem most urgent and important are on top. But there are also worthwhile tasks to perform lower down on the list. Doing these tasks becomes a way of not doing the things higher up on the list.
Shows how come my apartment would get so organized during finals time in college.
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Christmas virus makes the rounds
Just FYI.
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The copyright year dance
It's that time of year again. Last minute Christmas shopping? No, no. Time to update the copyright notice on all your webpages. Blake includes several different functions to automate the damn process. This is just my first year change since I've been using MovableType, but I can't believe I never thought to put <$MTDate format="%Y"$> in my footers. Must do it now. Bye...
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The NCAA is a joke
Um, so how is beating up your friend and almost killing him a medical issue? This is retarded. I'm at a loss for words.
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Teen couple gives up parental rights to infant
Wow, a whole ten years of probation for attempting to kill your baby? The New Braunfels courts sure are tough.
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Photo Fade-ins, vol. II
Update to the javascript photo slideshow, no flash required.
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NFL helmet prototypes
Some pretty cool looking stuff here, unfortunately on a lot of them he doesn't know if they were actual prototypes considered by the teams. Still cool. (via Authentic Boredome - Linkage)
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Homemade iPod mini ad
Pretty sweet iPod mini ad made by a high school teacher from California. I bet the dude is going to have real jobs thrown at him now. I saw it a few days ago, but was too lazy to post it.
Addendum: I hate URI's with freaking commas in them. What's the deal with that?
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Moron Mets offer Pedro 4 years
I love the way the Mets throw money at all the wrong people. It's as important to the Braves streak of division titles as Bobby Cox and Leo Mazzone.
Now they're offering Pedro Martinez $50 million over four years, in other words two too many years and thirty million too many dollars.
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SMT 5600 vs. MPx220
A nice comparison review of the SMT 5600 I've been wanting and the MPx220. They don't really declare either phone the winner, just compare the two and tell you to choose the one that best fits your usage.
The SMT 5600 is more my style and preference, plus it has better battery life and they complain about the MPx's call quality
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Blockbuster sorta drops late fees
Blockbuster rentals will still have due dates, but now you have a one week grace period after that to get the video in before they sell the movie to you. Pretty cool, but not really a complete abolishment of late fees like they're claiming. It will at least let me avoid those damn times when I have to wake up early and drive the wrong direction to return a video before work. (via Gizmodo)
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2004 AP All-American team
The Associated Press has released their 2004 All-America team. Derrick Johnson makes the first team and Cedric Benson while Jonathan Scott make the second.
Who the hell is the third team tight end? Texas Tech's Trey Haverty? It's not a good sign if you're on an in-state in-conference team and I've never heard of you.
Update: The 2005 AP All-Americans are posted over at Bevo Sports.
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Float layouts
Great article on floating elements with CSS. Covers basic concepts all the way to advanced usage issues.
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Braves acquire Kolb, move Smoltz into rotation
The moving John Smoltz thing was expected, with the other losses in the rotation and his desire to be a starter again it was inevitable. I'm not a big fan of trading their best pitching prospect for a 29 year old closer with one good year and without dominating stuff.
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UT football banquet weekend
It's an important weekend for Longhorn football recruiting. They need to make a big impression to keep Ryan Perrilloux and make an impression on Roy Miller, Patrick Turner, and RJ Jackson.
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Gmail spam
Apparently I'm not the only one who has noticed the appearance of spam in my Gmail account the last couple of weeks. All of us seem to be having the same issue.
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Google Suggest beta
Start typing, it offers suggestions. Very cool. Wonder if this will go through a 2 year beta like Gmail is.
I can't tell if it's basing the suggestion off of the number of results, or the popularity of the search strings. Probably both. (via Anil Dash)
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What is FedEx? (PDF!)
Funny ad from FedEx capitalizing on Ken Jennings' incorrect answer that cost him his record winning streak. (via Authentic Boredom)
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Referrer Spam is the New Amway
Luckily my site sucks enough that it's not an issue, though comment spam is still on the rise.
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Dvoracek rejected in bid for medical hardship
You mean I can't get a medical redshirt for putting someone else in the hospital? Damnit!
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Your laptop might make you infertile
Yikes. Um. Crap.
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TiVoToGo finally coming?
Wooohooo!!! It looks like TiVoToGo may be about to be released. If you have TiVo, check out this Media Access Page
.
Update: PVRblog and even Gizmodo are now guessing the same thing. Keep your fingers crossed.
Update Dos: The http://www.tivo.com/togo/ link that wasn't working before is working now. It essentialy says it's coming soon.
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ESPNU coming March 4, 2005
ESPN is launching a multi-media college sports television network on March 4th, 2005. The very first week will include men's and women's NCAA tournament games. I better get DirecTV and ditch crappy Grande by then.
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The alt and title attributes
Discussion of the ways the alt and title attributes should be used and how browsers should display them.
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Michigan DE likes to show his peepee
Turns out that Michigan's starting defensive end is a serial flasher that Ann Arbor Police have been looking for since the summer.
Update: Yikes, it's actually much worse than the first article. I've updated the link to a new article stating that he was doing a lot more than just exposing himself.
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When you gotta go, you gotta go
Another Michigan player is in trouble with the law, this time for peing on the floor in the middle of a club.
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Secret BCS ballots
Another opinion on the whole poll conspiracy. The people at Cal sure aren't very intelligent. Some of them actually tried to blame it on Bush.
Wow.
Update: Want more info on the BCS? Check out BevoSports.com!
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PSP hands-on impressions
Damn this thing is hot. I'll take two please.
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Derrick Johnson wins the Nagurski Trophy
Texas senior linebacker Derrick Johnson was named the winner of the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, awarded every year to the best defensive player in college football.
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Tom Lemming is an ass
ESPN's recruiting expert
is horribly biased, ranking random crappy white Notre Dame losers way higher than anyone else. Well now he's also trying to influence kids to go there.
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The de-Christmasizing of the holidays
Bryan speaks out about the de-Christmasizing (I should patent that) of the holiday season that's going on in society.
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Harry Da Vinci's Rings
Young Harry, a Hogwart's symbologist fights orcs in the hills of New Zealand.
Almost as good as my nerd movie nirvana: Lord of the Jedi Strikes Back: Reloaded.
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Netflix Launches Friends List
Nice to see Netflix is adding features to distinguish itself from other similar services. You can now invite friends (both current Netflix users and people who aren't) to share their movie lists with you. You can see what rating they gave movies and see what movies they've seen.
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Play Nintendo DS Online
Online play should be soon, whether Nintendo ever implements it or not.
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Mike Williams is free at last!
UT basketball freshman Mike Williams will play today against Seton Hall. A four-person panel (not from the NCAA) had decided based on the entire hearing record that he should be eligible. (Back story)
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For Sale: Nintendo DS
I've put one of my two Nintendo DS units up for sale on eBay. I figured I would sell one now and take a little more risk on the other and sell it closer to Christmas. GO BUY IT!
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Accessibility: On a shoe-string
More good ways to use the Web Developer Toolbar from Chris Pedrick. I already use it pretty extensively when working on a site, but I had never thought about using the Disable Colors
or Disable Images
items.
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ADxMenu
Wow, some really cool completely CSS menus. The Netymology one is really nice, too bad IE screws it up.
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Designer Christmas Cards 2004
I didn't think about this, but I guess it makes sense that a lot of designers make their own Christmas cards. Some really cool ones so far. Maybe this would be something I could work on, give me a little practice on something with a mission and obvious themes.
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Society Founder Invited to Join the Gmail Testing Group
I can't decide what this site is, is it serious? Or is it something more akin to The Onion? Or is it a site that links to real but stupid news.
Whatever it is, it's funny. The guy got a Gmail invite and decided it was worthy of a press release. The gracious founder had this to say:
I am thrilled about Google’s invitation to join its Gmail beta testing group. To be selected by fellow beta users to help during the testing period is an honor. The Landist Society is always striving to find and improve the technology services we offer our members. Now we have an excellent channel with which we can express our members' specific needs to Google.
Stupid people are funny. (via Authentic Boredom Linkage)
Update: Oh yeah, I just remembered I have Gmail invites again. Want one? No need for a press release, just contact me and I'll hook you up.
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Reesey is FAMOUS!
She's been featured for the first time on a website other than this one!
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Ricky turns down the NFL for good
Well at least he's sticking to his guns.
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NCAA seeks to rule on M. Williams quickly
The NCAA might be in big trouble by now. I haven't seen any news about it but Texas' Mike Williams (no relation to the other Mike Williamses.) was supposed to have a hearing this morning with the University to decide whether or not he should be eligible. The NCAA has been dragging their feet and dragging Williams through the mud with no proof and no hurry.
Hopefully this will be resolved with the kid's best interest in mind.
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Tattoo'd clothing
I could be so hardcore with one of these tattoo'd t-shirts. Chicks would be all over me.
Or this could be the lamest and strangest fad I've ever seen. Do you think they have a sleeve color light enough to match my pale-ass skin? (via Engadget)
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Nintendo DS supply depleted
Nintendo said DS sales were "moving faster than anticipated" and predicted that initial North American supply will be "depleted within days."
Score!! Buy MINE!
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Web stock
Dave on web designers' stock photography needs versus what stock providers offer. Mentions a couple sources I had never heard of.
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The Graphic Stylings of Ken Jennings
Pretty cool look at all the ways Ken Jennings wrote his name on Jeopardy’s blue player ID screen. I like the phonetic one. (via Authentic Boredom)
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For Sale: MPIO mp3 player
In addition to my Nintendo DS, I now have an old mp3 player for sale on eBay. Cheap, 128 MB, good for working out, used by yours truly. Go buy it too.
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Desk Grab Confab
A bunch of sweet looking workspaces. Mine blows, I hate my desk and it's too small. I think I might look at buying a second simple desk of the same height as my current one. Then I can set them next to each other and be all set. (via Authentic Boredom)
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GoDogGo Automatic Fetch System
Because I'm not lazy enough already, let's automate one more thing in my life.
Of course this won't work for Reesey because she won't chase balls, only her Squeaky. And I'm pretty sure that won't fit in this launcher thing. (via Gizmodo)
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The Latest National Crisis
Uptight and negligent mothers release their list of the top 10 most violent games, and then Penny Arcade attacks them. Hilarity ensues.
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