Archive for March, 2008

Best site you’ll see all month

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Thanks to SeƱor los Pantalones for the link… Culturegraph is the best site I’ve seen in a long, long time. Maybe since LOLCats.

Remember when

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

This HBO intro was the shiznit 25 years ago. It took them 3 months to build the model. No CGI animation. Nowadays I bet a 17 year old could hack it together in 20 minutes.

P.S. Get off my lawn.

Majestic Postmortem

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

This is mostly to keep myself from going crazy in 2 years when I’m looking for this link again.
Postmortem of Majestic by one of its designers.
Also, I turned off the Twitter digest posting for now, although there will still be some over in the sidebar. It was just too creepy to have it automatically [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-03-17

Monday, March 17th, 2008

I hate computers. #
After what I have just been through, The Witcher had better be one hell of a game. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-03-16

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

360 on the HDTV - Me: "Oooh, shiny!" Hub: "Oh, God, that’s sexy." #
@baconator How was Moby? #
@campfiremike Awwww, that sucks. Chicken soup and lots of Advil! #
The elms in the back yard have erupted into a riot of fragile green. #

Why We Write

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Damon Lindelof on why he writes. Via.

Uncanny

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

I do doubletakes every time I see Rushmore and come away with the feeling that I just visited my father. The resemblance is really uncanny.

Tweet tweet

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

I’m playing around with integrating my Twitter stream and my blog. Technically, this plugin should create a daily digest of my tweets and post it here on the blog. It should also take blog posts and Twitter them. Hopefully it doesn’t get caught up in an endless loop.
For those wondering, Twitter is [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-03-15

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Finally convinced the hubby to get the HDTV. #
Dilemma: 95 degrees. Puppy in a car in the parking lot, some windows half down. Already a note under the wiper. What do you do? #
Well, next time I’ll know what to do… was too migrained-out today to do much more than make sure [...]

WWO wins!

Monday, March 10th, 2008

World Without Oil won the SXSW Web Award in the Activism category. There’s a pic on Wired with those of us who were at the conference on stage accepting the award. Many thanks to Ken, Jane, Cathy, Michelle, Marie, and Krystyn for helping make the world’s most awesome game - but especially to [...]