The Hooters Gates
Well if Christo and Jeanne-Claude aren't going to make any money off The Gates, I guess someone else should.
(via Matt)
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BTK killer president of his church
The man who allegedly confessed to killing at least six people was the predident of his Lutheran church in Kansas.
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Awkward Office Moments
Nice list. Almost all of these happen to me at the office weekly.
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Maurice Clarett is fat and slow
Wow, I could run a 4.82 in high school. That's embarrassing. Last year the courts kept him out of the draft, this year it's his slow ass.
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UT football's first Spring practice
Nice to have football back. Too bad we only have two scholarship QB's and two scholarship RB's on the team.
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The Super Friends act out Office Space scenes
Superman as Peter Gibbons, Batman is Michael Bolton, Robin as Samir.
It's sure is funny seeing Aquaman showing us his oh face.
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The Somerville Gates slideshow
Hargo had to take down all the photos on his site because of bandwidth concerns (four million hits will do that to ya), so I set up a slideshow of all the images I could find. I think I may have gotten all of them.
They'll be up as long as my bandwidth can take it. (Flash 7 required)
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Google movie searches
Search by zip code, movies, actors, directors. Very cool.
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Why would Apple even want TiVo?
Good article on what's in it for Apple to buy TiVo. Seems like a logical move for both companies, especially if Apple really is serious about moving into the living room and/or a future video iPod. Recorded television shows are one of the few remotely legal methods to get video onto one of these new PMP's that are popping up all over the place.
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Randy Moss to the Raiders?
Minnesota is reportedly trading Randy Moss to the Oakland Raiders for linebacker Napoleon Harris, the seventh overall pick in the upcoming draft and a late-round pick.
The Raiders overpaid.
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Apple to acquire TiVo??
Well that sure would be interesting and good news.
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Quit Your Job to Blog, Blog, Blog
Yesterday Kottke announced he had quit his job to blog full time, today Wired ran a story on it. That should help with the contributions.
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How Paris Hilton got hacked
Umm... duh.
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iPod mini get two more gigs
So no color screen, not too big of a deal. It is getting a two gigabyte upgrade and longer battery life. Will check on replacing mine eventually.
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More Xbox 360 details
In what I think is another bad move (not including a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD optical drive being the other), it seems the next Xbox will come in two flavors, with and without a harddrive. It'll make it next to impossible for game developers to make games that take advantage of it, since a good portion of owners won't have one.
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Broadcast flag could be on thin ice
Sounds like there could be at least some discussion in courts and legislature before the FCC is allowed to enforce the broadcast flag.
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Mark Cuban on the broadcast flag
I'm almost a Mavericks fan solely based on my sincere respect for Mark Cuban. Almost everything he writes on his weblog is intelligent, well thought out, and in line with my views.
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The Evolution of Mario
Nice history of how Nintendo's Mario has looked over the years.
(via Airbag)
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Stock footage laziness
An update to my exposé on lazy companies using the exact same girl from the exact same photoset in different ads. First was Dell and Gateway, then Vivarin, then Samsung, and just now I saw her in an ad for H&R Block.
If I saw her this many times, how many other ads must she be in?
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Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide
Hunter S. Thompson fatally shot himself last night.
I knew him best for his ESPN.com Page 2 articles (which he was still writing as of February 15th.) I tried watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with Christina one time, but we both couldn't stand it.
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No free WiFi for you!
There is a proposed Texas bill that would outlaw municipal WiFi (cities providing free wireless Internet access.) Nice to see our government is once again working with it's citizens in mind. Didn't I mention before how much I hated politicians?
(via jkOTR)
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Blink, Lies, and Videotape
Analyzing Jose Canseco's 60 Minutes interview from earlier this week. Just by watching the two clips with the sound off, I'm guessing Canseco is telling the truth in the first one and fibbing in the second.
What do you think?
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Best WNBA comment ever
The ESPN.com Page 2 mailbag includes the best WNBA comment ever:
I came up with a fullproof idea for disproving that the WNBA is a real sport. You choose a person from a city that has a WNBA team and ask them the following question,
Would you rather your WNBA team win the championship or be walking along and find a $5 bill on the ground.So far I haven't found anyone that will choose the championship.
Also includes the following non-sports related observation:
The OC's biggest mistake was the way they raced through plots and relied too heavily on the
tune in next week!factor, which is a pretty dangerous way to go -- we weren't even midway through the second season when they were playing the lesbian card. At the rate they're going, by Season 4, we'll see Ryan kidnapped by a UFO or something.
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iPod mini updates!
Up the hard drive size to five or possibly even six gig capacity and give it a color scree. Sweet!
I'll be returning mine to Best Buy soon after it's released.
(via Gizmodo)
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CMS Do's and Don'ts
Article on how to make your Content Management System work for you instead of the other way around.
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Women will get sterile just looking at you
Holy cow this is funny.
(via Airbag)
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I don't get the point of 'The Gates'
Kottke and many of the other weblogs I read have linked to them over and over, but I just don't understand the purpose of The Gates
. They appear to be orange fabric suspended from an orange set of poles, times a seven and a half thousand. They seem to really overwhelm Central Park.
Is it art? A statement? Neither? How did it cost $20 million? I'm not the only one wondering.
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NHL officially done
Darn. Maybe they'll find someway to combine hockey and soccer, and then maybe Americans will watch it.
Why do we even have a hockey league that (almost) completely resides within the U.S.? There's more fans and more players in Europe, so I'm guessing it is because American owners were dumb enough to pay by far the highest salaries.
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Amazon.com - A9 Instant Reward
Amazon.com is now giving a small discount (1.57% off) to anyone who uses their A9 search engine. Not too bad for doing nothing. All you have to do is search approximately once a week, and their block view
is very cool.
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La Russa knew about Canseco's steroid use
The most overrated manager in baseball knew about Jose Canseco's steroid use and did nothing about it.
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Mac mini A/V dock (concept)
Now this is pretty cool. A nice concept for a Mac mini A/V dock that would add additional harddrive space, component video out, port replicator, flash card reader, IR port for a remote, and a front-panel display. Plus it would be quick and easy to pull the Mac mini out of the dock when you wanted to take it somewhere.
This would be great to go along with the Mac Media Center Project.
(via Gizmodo)
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IE7 beta this summer
They're developing a new version of Internet Explorer finally, IE7 should be beta released this summer. Interestingly, it will only be available to people using Windows XP Service Pack 2. Hopefully it will finally have support for a transparent alpha channel in PNG's. And you know, fix everything else that makes it a POS.
In equally awesome news, MS Windows AntiSpyware will remain free. Mucho bueno.
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Political bloggers - the new paparazzi
Mark Cuban on effects of bloggers on media, politics, etc.
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Texas gets first 2006 commitment
Wimberley High School offensive lineman Buck Burnette is the Horns' first member of the 2006 class. No one knows much about him (yet), but if the staff offered this early they must be pretty impressed with him.
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McCombs officially selling Vikings
Red McCombs is selling the Minnesota Vikings to Arizona businessman Reggie Fowler for approximately $625 million. Fowler will be the first minority to be a majority owner in the NFL.
McCombs bought the team in 1998 for $246 million, which by my estimates means he now has about $379 million to donate to the business school.
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SlideShowPro
Wow. Check out the demo of the new SlideShowPro from Todd Dominey. I am really impressed. Looks and works great. Hover over the image numbers down at the bottom, the little thumbnails that pop up are infinitely cool. You can even pull in Flickr feeds!
I will definitely be purchasing SlideShowPro and implementing it here and probably over at the KUHigherEd site.
Very good work and something I'll be able to use over and over again for only $20.
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Improvised iPod Placement on The Apprentice?
More reality TV bullcrap.
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Partly frozen Lake Ontario
Some very cool photos of a partly frozen Lake Ontario in Toronto. Nice orange and purple skies.
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ESPN needs Flash developers
Damnit I want to work there!
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Xbox 360 this October??
That's way too soon. There's still enough life in this generation to milk it for more money. Plus by coming out too early they're going to have to skip the HD-DVD or Blu-Ray and put good old fashioned DVD player in the thing.
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Questions Frequently Asked About TiVo, Answered by Someone Who Loves TiVo Too Much
Pretty funny Q&A about TiVo.
(via PVRblog)
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National Lampoon tests simultaneous release, almost
National Lampoon's new movie Blackball
will be released in theaters and to DVD within a week of each other. Very interesting to see if bigger movies start doing this. Would I rather pay $16 to see a movie in the theater or $4 to rent it or at most $20 to own the DVD?
I can't see people with good home theater set-ups going to the real movie theater much anymore if this takes off.
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Another teacher charged with having sex with student
What kind of thirteen year-old is still in elementary school?
She looks pretty hot, by the way.
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Top 7 Myths of the New Cell Processor
Dispelling some myths about Sony, Toshiba, and IBM's new processor.
(via Gizmodo)
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Automation will kill us all
Why should we hire designers when we can just use automated programs to make our own logos?
Because the stuff they make blows.
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Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding 'Napster To Go'
Pretty funny and pretty on the mark about Napster's new Napster To Go
subscription service. Key point: It's gonna bomb.
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Decorate Malarkey's studio
Some really funny stuff in the comments.
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Use the Unsharp Mask filter
Good tip that I will now use often. Keeps image detail high when resizing a large image to a smaller size.
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Ignite helps deliver big files
Christina's place of employment.
I finally know exactly WTF she does. Sorta.
Not really.
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I will shoot the next person who says video games have made me violent
Best. Title. Ever. (Okay, of the day.)
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A puppy watching the Puppy Bowl
We watched it a little. Reesey kept barking at it and trying to figure out what was wrong. She would go behind the TV and see if she could find the whimpering puppy back there. So cute.
Poor little Reesey didn't get to see the puppies in HD, Grande sucks.
(via Airbag)
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Google Maps
Google is officially king of the freaking world. New cool stuff is coming out all the time lately.
Simple to use, works well, and quick to boot. Check it out.
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SlideShowPro available 2/14
Although I think I've officially moved to Flickr for forever, this will still be something I'm interested in using for projects.
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Germany rules!
Chocolate, beer, cars, war... You name it, Germany rules at it.
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Duck murdered
Chuck ate Leta's rubber ducky. Poor Chuck must not be getting enough attention.
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Apartment complex sues website over critical posts
This is ridiculous. An apartment complex in New Jersey is suing people who made anonymous comments that they sucked.
They are also asking the court to order the website operators to remove the critical posts — which they characterize as
unlawful— and keep users from posting negative feedback about their properties in the future.
Instead of suing people, why don't you actually address the concerns? Try fixing the problems or practicing quality customer service? Nah, that would be too easy. Best comment in the article:
What many corporations do not realize is that the negative publicity such punitive lawsuits bring them probably outweighs whatever benefit they would get from getting critical comments removed from a forum, or a critical site taken down.
So true.
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All Browsers But IE At Risk To New Spoofing Scheme
I'm sure a fix will be out soon. In the meantime, don't be a complete friggin' moron.
(via DesignTechnica)
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PS3 Power: Details on Cell
More details on Cell processors and how they might affect the Playstation 3.
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How To Write Unmaintainable Code
Now this is funny stuff. Helpful hints like using one letter variable names and lying in the comments. Must read.
(via forevergeek)
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First Cell chip details
Sounds like we'll know a lot more about the Cell
chip by the end of the day.
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Justwatchthesky redesigns/reinvents
One of Christina and mine's favorite sites has redesigned. Not only has Ryan changed the look, but he's also going to turn the site from weblog into portfolio. Sounds like he's still be blogging from somewhere new soon though.
In the meantime, check out this slideshow of his puppy Gabby.
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How To Build a Successful Freelance Web Design Business
Something I'm very interested in. He's got a book on the same subject coming out soon that sounds good too.
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Xbox 360?
Still just rumor, but it looks like the next Xbox may be called the Xbox 360.
Wonder if that is a reference to some technology or just a big number?
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Password protection
Some good ideas from Eric about ways to make hard to crack but easy to remember passwords. More good ones in the comments.
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The rules according to guys
Something every woman should read. My favorites:
- Learn to work the toilet seat.
- Ask for what you want.
- If we ask what is wrong and you say
nothing,
we will act like nothing's wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle. - Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say during commercials.
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Sony PSP to launch March 24th!
Sweet. Looks like I'll be picking up my brand new PSP on March 24th. I hope since I pre-ordered ages ago I'm considered one of the first million and get Spidey 2 for free.
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Some Blockbuster Franchises Bring Back Late Fees
Well that didn't take long. Looks like some Blockbuster franchises are taking advantage of that At participating locations only
loophole in the No More Late Fees
campaign.
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Culpepper takes back necklace from paralyzed kid
The Minnesota Vikings quarterback presented a paralyzed high school football player two diamond necklaces worth about $75,000 during an NFL awards ceremony, but then awkwardly asked for them back after it was finished.
Yeah good PR move there buddy.
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Recruiting gone bad
Wow, kid didn't even bother to tell his mom where he was going. I told you, I hate anyone ages 12 - 19.
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Information Aversion
Dave adds to what Matt brought up the other day. Too many bloggers are rolling their RSS feeds into one monster feed, full of links, photos, random crap, and maybe an actual post once in a while.
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The Biggest Web Design Mistakes of 2004
Lots of crap to avoid in 2005 that unfortunately too many people didn't in 2004.
(via Authentic Boredom)
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Houston Chronicle on Perrilloux and recruiting
Psssssst... Ryan Perrilloux is a piece of crap and everyone in Lousiana and Texas knows it.
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Emmitt Smith to retire
Although there's still a window open for one more season, it looks like Emmitt Smith is going to retire this offseason.
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