Spectre Collie

Category: The Internet

  • Trolling the Web

    If I did have a working links section, then I’d use it to post stuff like the following: Lore Sjoberg started updating his website again, including this comic strip which I’m convinced that my laughing at will somehow result in my eternal damnation. That site is also the first I heard of Twink, the “toy…

  • No, actually, I don’t yahoo.

    I put up another post on SFist about Yahoo’s buying the del.icio.us site. It’s a little bit on the ironic side, since I was just thinking how much better it would be if I just had some kind of URL-sharing thing so I didn’ t feel the need to put up a new blog post…

  • I Feel the Warmth of its Presence

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    Neat! I just found out, from IGN of all places, that the Telltale Games gang has announced their consortium with Steve Purcell to do Sam & Max games. And Steve’s started a new webcomic and an official website (the website just has a teaser image at the moment). I can’t wait to see what they…

  • Wikipedia and Intelligent Design

    My SFist article this week is brought to you by the letter I, for Insomnia. The reason I went on so long is because I’ve been reading about Wikipedia ever since I saw that libel story. And the more I read, the more I had the feeling that there was just something troubling about the…

  • “Fun” with Flickr

    This is kind of neat: I wrote this little web application as a tag browser for Flickr photos. It works kind of like an advent calendar; you click on a tag to see a random picture from that tag pop up. You can click on my name at the top of the page to bring…

  • Procrastination Nation

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    Man, I thought I’d learned everything about procrastination from college and then working at EA, but that was strictly amateur class. Now that I’m working from home, I’ve gone professional in my time-wasting. Before, it was The Sims 2, where I’d do stupid stuff like see an interesting house in the city and then go…

  • Too Much Sisterhood, Not Enough Ya-Ya

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    My favorite review of DOOM is from Statler and Waldorf. The Muppets have a new movie review show online at movies.com, and it’s about the best thing ever. The latest episode talks about DOOM, Elizabethtown, and has a hilarious bit with Animal and Dr. Teeth explaining Shopgirl. I hope they keep doing it; I wonder…

  • 10,000 Pixels In Your Pocket

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    I wrote another article for SFist, this one about Apple’s announcement and the new video iPod. The comments section is pretty funny. As angry and bitter about computers that I am, I’ve got to laugh at being called an Apple-hater, as I’m sitting here using Safari on my Mac mini hooked up to the second…

  • Imaginary Prom Dates

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    I wrote another thing for SFist that’s up now; they’re getting lighter and lighter, I’ve noticed. This week I’m going to some big robot convention in San Jose, hopefully I’ll be able to get something more substantial from that instead of just letting Eve do the research while I add TV references. And it turns…

  • Meet Jack Torrance

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    I first heard about it from Rain’s blog, but some people on the Straight Dope did some digging to find out more about it. Apparently it’s been going around the internets and has made an impression. What it is is a new trailer for The Shining, using clips from the movie (except for one cheat…

  • Eet ees Scieyencia!

    I’ve got yet another post up at SFist, so check it out if you’re so inclined. A lot more interesting is the story about the ski jump on Fillmore Street yesterday. I drove by it on the way to lunch yesterday, and although traffic was backed up on Broadway, it was pretty well-handled. I didn’t…

  • Do you like magic? No. I LOVE it.

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    Haw haw haw! Fooled you! The Terry Pratchett book signing was last week! So here I sit with a still-unsigned copy of Good Omens and apparently the onset of some degenerative brain disease. Hopefully nobody tried to go on the basis of that blog entry. And if you did, hopefully you didn’t drag somebody out…