Category: The Internet
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Schadenfreudr© (beta)
When I was in the shower this morning afternoon today, I thought of a sure-fire idea for a new Web 2.0 service that is guaranteed to make billions. I’m giving it out for free on the internets so some enterprising young web developer can take it and make his fortune on paper until the next…
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Get ready for some fun, it’s question number 1
I heard about this a while ago, but just got around to checking it out tonight: The Jellyvision guys have started putting daily questions from You Don’t Know Jack on their website. The series always was the best-written of any videogame, and it’s cool to hear topical material again. They’ve tried the online thing before,…
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Not even on crutches!
On her blog, Rain says that this video audition for Stanley Kubrick is the funniest thing ever, and she may be right. People in the comments keep going back and forth about whether it’s fake, which is missing the point. Either way, it’s awesome. (My vote goes for “fake,” which somehow makes it even cooler).
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Bad-touching the Internets
If you missed last Sunday’s “Venture Brothers,” like I did, because DirecTV sucks, and they broke their deal with TiVo to reinvent the wheel and release a buggy-as-hell crippled DVR that you have to use if you want HDTV but it breaks just a few days after you get it and so you have to…
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Little Superstar
It came to my attention last night that there are still people on the internets who haven’t seen the “Little Superstar” video. There’s more details about it online, including the name of the movie and actors, and even the complete movie (which isn’t nearly as good as that one awesome scene). Do a Google search…
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Hoboes
I mentioned a while back how much I like the work of Adam Koford, but that was before I’d seen his entries for the 700 Hoboes Project. There’s a ton of really clever entries in there. What impresses me the most is how he used the project as an excuse to experiment. He’s a kick-ass…
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Dance Like the Internet is Watching
Where the Hell is Matt? has apparently been making the rounds on the internets for a while now. It’s a guy traveling around the world and dancing like an idiot. And it’s surprisingly cool.
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Network Neutrality
I’d been reading bits and pieces about Network Neutrality for a while now, but for whatever reason I was never struck with how it’s A Really Big Deal. It took a post on Wil Wheaton’s blog to clue me in. Thanks, Wesley! This is a pretty messed-up situation. This post on the Huffington Post by…
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I Should Know Better
I sold my old PowerBook on eBay, and I was so paranoid about getting shafted that I apparently turned off all higher brain functioning. Somebody’s running a scam where they send spam messages to eBay sellers. It’s done as a question from another eBay user, so it’s within the eBay messaging system with all the…
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They should’ve sent a poet.
I already admitted to tearing up reading The Catcher in the Rye and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, but that was because they were sad. But there are times that a piece of language can be so beautiful and perfect in its construction alone that it can move the reader to tears no…
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You know, for adults!
Pretty much every single one of my hobbies, and for that matter most of my professional career, has the taint of arrested development around it. I like videogames and theme parks enough to get jobs working for them, at least half of my TiVo season passes are on Cartoon Network and the Disney Channel, and…
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Hey! BOB SAPP Please!!
Man, I’ve got to stop reading the internets. There’s no way in hell I’ve got enough time to make it through TV In Japan. It’s like being on a commuter train and the passenger before you left a box full of candy and Star Wars toys under the seat and you don’t find it until…