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Fake text generator
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Author: ryanvis
No more lorem ipsum for those test layouts. Link [via TinyApps]
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SpaceShipOne Captures the X Prize!
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It has begun… Awesome for the team and a real tribute to ingenuity and good ole elbow greese. I can’t wait for the announcement that they’ve achieved orbit.Link to Slashdot Link to CNN
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X Prize Launch – SpaceShipOne
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Author: ryanvis
SpaceShipOne started its pursuit of the X-Prize today by launching from the Mojave Spaceport today. While the flight appeared to have some issues (the rolling post ignition reared its ugly head once more), the flight was successful. Rutan and Co. have two weeks from today at 11:34 AM EDT to make a second flight to […]
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The interrobang‽
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Author: ryanvis
We need to bring this back! In 1962, the interrobang (‽), was introduced by the New York publishing establishment as “a twentieth century punctuation mark”. The interrobang combined the functions of a question mark and an exclamation point. It received some attention at first, but never caught on, although for a brief period during the […]
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Oh please, oh please, oh please
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Author: ryanvis
How bloody cool would this be? A (Virgin-themed) space hotel. Sure, Richard Branson is a loud, arrogant, blowhard, but he’s got the track record and accumen to, if not pull something like this off, at least give it a good gooes in the right direction. It’s getting closer to reality. Sounds like Branson is going […]
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Bashing the McMasses
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Another great article from what is becoming one of my favorite sites, Spiked. In her article/critique “Bashing the McMasses”, Josie Appleton takes filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who made the “docu-blockbuster-cum-human-experiment Super Size Me,” to task. It’s good to see people who watch movies for the techniques used to sway your opinion and not get caught up […]
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – The Adventure Game
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Author: ryanvis
This is SWEET! BBC Radio 4 has re-released the Infrogames Hitchikers Game as a Flash game. I want to hug the program director over there.Link
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It's the END! Again…
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Author: ryanvis
If someone writes in a paranoid manner about paranoia, do they get a hat or sticker or button? One easily can imagine a tyrant with worldwide ambitions and high-tech capabilities scheming even now to pull off the greatest hoax of all time, after years of conditioning the public to anticipate precisely such a crisis. This […]
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List item: Bust eBay cherry; check
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Author: ryanvis
Slowly, I start to get this internet thing. I sold my first thing on eBay (well, things actually, but. one’s a little different). I still haven’t got paid or shipped, so the process isn’t complete, but it was very fun to watch my item get bid on at the last minute… knowing that somewhere, someone […]
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Foreign Policy: Hating America
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Author: ryanvis
You read statements like this, and you suddenly realize that no one person is worthy of leading this country. There are many issues on which the United States is the crucial organizer of collective goods. Someone has to be concerned about terrorism and nuclear and biological proliferation. Other countries might bristle at certain U.S. policies, […]