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Google Base is Live
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Author: ryanvis
Quick note for today, Google Base is live. (Insert obilgatory “All Your Base” joke.) Link
Month: November 2005
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Collaborative Novels
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Author: ryanvis
Got a novel in you? How about a chapter? What about that great character? Toss any of them into the mix a Glypho, what appears to be an online, collaborative novel-writing site. I wonder if this would help NaNoWriMo participants gets over the hump.
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Lemur Named after John Cleese
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Author: ryanvis
A Zurich University team has named a newly-discovered species of lemur after comedian John Cleese. Cleese has been a long time spokesman and campaigner for the endangered animals. The new species, avahi cleesei, declined comment, but did hit Michael Palin in the head with a halibut. Link
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Flame of the Week
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Author: ryanvis
Via Boing Boing, a link to a flame against the developers of Sony’s rootkit. (NSFW) MY GOD MAN!!! Do you realize what you’re doing? DO you? What kind of HONEY BITCH TOOL have you become? Have you no shame? None at all? Look at you. Look at yourself. Look at what you’ve BECOME. Your job […]
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And the counter attack begins
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Author: ryanvis
Huzzah to the New York Times for jumping on the latest trend from the Fourth Estate; Blogs aren’t just annoying; they’re actually bad for society. Just a few, brief years ago, flash mobs were the source of all those riots at G8 and Seattle. Now, the French riots are the fault of evil 14-year old […]
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Christmas comes early, thanks to Amazon
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Author: ryanvis
My Christmas came early this year, courtesy of Amazon’s kick-ass Amazon Prime service ($79 for unlimited two-day shipping). I got a new set of cookware from J–, who, despite the unintentional gifting, has accepted that I love my gift and will count it as a gift when the appropriate day arrives. (UPS left it on […]
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Un-Effing-Believable
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Author: ryanvis
Detroit deserves everything it has coming to it after re-electing Kwame Kilpatrick. The thug mentality and corruption in Detroit will run wild right up until the whole city goes into receivership. The fallout will be felt statewide. Detroit is facing a projected deficit of $200 million in its $1.4-billion general fund budget, and Kilpatrick has […]
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Honoring Rosa Parks
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Author: ryanvis
I know quoting The Onion is low-level slogging, but this is so damn funny, I laughed out loud. Alabama State Senator Hank Erwin, one of the hundreds of emotional guests at Bush’s $5,000-a-plate dinner, proposed a toast, saying, “If I may paraphrase the words of Dr. Martin Luther King… ‘I am free at last, free […]
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How It Should Have Ended
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Author: ryanvis
These guys make alternate endings to blockbuster movies. What should Han have done at the end of Episode 4? Why do all the Smith’s just stand there in Matrix Revolutions? Just what the hell is going on in Blair Witch? Download the movies and find out. (Help the site out and use BitTorrent; I highly […]
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CVS camera: Hacked
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Author: ryanvis
I hacked the CVS disposable camera tonight. It was kind of fun, aside from the fact that I totally suck at soldering. I used the instructions at Make and Hack a Day. Instructions are all over the place to hack this camera, so it’s not like I was doing any actual exploration, but I’ve never […]