Archive for March, 2007
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31 Mar 2007
It calls out on a phone line a couple times a day and checks an email account for new photos. The mailbox is controlled with a whitelist of senders. A really great idea for those with no desire for a computer. -
30 Mar 2007
Amazing research into three-dimensional photography. The best part is at the end.
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29 Mar 2007
Final update: Because of head trauma that resembled a gunshot wound, a 2000 alum's suicide lead to SWAT evacuation of the building, and the cancellation of classes yesterday.
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29 Mar 2007
When M and I were recently visiting Denver, we ended up walking into Savory Spice Shop in downtown Littleton. Walking in the door, I was thinking it would be dull and quick. But they pounced on us.
“Feel free to open any jar and smell it. Next to the jars are tasteable sample bottles. Put whatever you want in your hands and taste it. If you think it’s gross, just throw it on the floor.”
And then we started smelling and sampling, and we were almost instantly won over. They had like ten types of cinnamon (and the cassia was labeled accurately!), six or seven different whole chilies, all kinds of rubs and pickling seasonings and mustards and whole dried herbs and extracts and some special salt-free blends. And several different sizes of garlic powder, including High Bulk Index, which is more densely flavorful and integrates in much faster. We ended up buying unbelievable Saigon cinnamon, smoked hot paprika (man, hot paprika is hard to find), and peppercorns. And thank god they sell everything online, because I can guarantee we’ll be buying more.
I can also guarantee we would have been in and out in like 20 seconds if it wasn’t for their brilliant tasting policy.
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27 Mar 2007mè and she= whee
she's hanging out in the basement until skinny and the gang are done with the bathroom, so they don't make eyes at her while i'm gone. -m
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20 Mar 2007
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19 Mar 2007
I linked to Khoi's Yahoo Redesigns last week, but here's his SXSW presentation on his design techniques. I've heard this called the best presentation of the show, and I believe it.
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19 Mar 2007
The hilarious Overheard empire expands again!
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19 Mar 2007
Coding Horror is quickly becoming one of my favorite "running a website" blogs.
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18 Mar 2007Bathroom renovation work (before)
It starts tomorrow morning! Exciting!
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17 Mar 2007
Teaser trailer and first game footage for Penny Arcade's "On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One".
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15 Mar 2007
Cooperative fiction writing. Excellent fun along the lines of my long-abandoned "Meta-Stories" idea. (via Rob Kalajian)
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14 Mar 2007
It seems like they could have done this by expanding the set functionality, instead of creating a new metaphor.
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14 Mar 2007
Famed Physicist Richard Feynman once joked that he wanted to memorize π up to the 762nd digit. Why? Because that’s where pareidolia kicks in, and the digits appear to briefly coalesce into rationality:
3.1415926535 8979323846 … [727 digits] … 9605187072 1134999999 …He would end a hypothetical recitation at that point, the implication being that from there on the decimal repeats. Virtually everyone, obviously including Feynman, knows π is both irrational and transcendental, and thus such a fact is impossible. The so-called “Feynman Point” is the first incidence of six consecutive identical digits in π and it also happens to be the first incidence of four and five consecutive digits.
Happy Pi Day.
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12 Mar 2007
Sickening, yet enticing.
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8 Mar 2007
Hilarious.
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7 Mar 2007
Apparently Admiral Odama's emotional outburst in the last scene of this week's BSG was an extremely expensive improvisation.
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6 Mar 2007
Wow, he reads Fark, Engadget, and Reddit. And he says they just finished shooting the MetaFilter assisted Wild West episode.
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6 Mar 2007
Foo? Test items? Man, their database is a mess.
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3 Mar 2007
In November, I participated in National Novel Writing Month. Sadly, I only made it about 2500 words in before getting wrapped up in, whaddyacallit, you know, life. I’m glad I gave it a brief whirl, but I hope to give it a better thrashing in 2007. Here’s the dull introduction to my half-plotted story, Assuming Perfection:
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3 Mar 2007
Wow. I decided to upgrade yesterday, and noticed that downloads were disabled. Guess this is why. (Glad I didn't decide one day sooner.)
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3 Mar 2007
Now that's some vandalism that we can all enjoy.
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3 Mar 2007
An old, but interesting, look into what happens when the manager of the software team gets to design your office space. It ends up being awesome.
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1 Mar 2007
Tons of cities are supported, absolutely including Boston, New York, and Philly.