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Garfield the cat doesn’t actually speak, so what would Garfield the comic look like if he just wasn’t there? Apparently it would look like Jon is a mental patient.

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A very cool new scooter design from the MIT Media Lab Smart Cities Group.

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The ROFLCon preliminary guest list is up. They’re trying to get every famous internet meme or celebrity to go to Harvard in April for a conference. Must attend!

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In case you actually decided to try Dwarf Fortress: The best how-to guide ever on how to play.

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Date Archive: January, 2006

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I was going to tell you a story that led to me finding this really cool open source LGPL 3D game engine that was written in C++, uses XML as its data structure, runs OpenGL, and can import from Blender. Thereby making all of your initial starting software for making a game totally free! […]

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Time Tuesday Jan 31 2006 3:55pm

Permalink for '' Sell Out, With Me Oh Yeah

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Andy Kessler writes in today’s Wall Street Journal on Google “selling out” for censoring search results in China.

a billion soon-to-be-online Chinese will forever associate Google with lame and censored search results

Wait. Are you serious? […]

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Time Tuesday Jan 31 2006 2:41pm

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I just finished reading the Communist Manifesto for a literature class that I’m currently taking. Now, I don’t pretend to be an expert on communism or Marxist theory, but it seems like communism is one of those “great in theory, not in practice” types of things. Equality and group ownership sounds good, but the […]

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Time Tuesday Jan 31 2006 2:15pm

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As most of the dozen or so of you reading probably know, I’m originally from that sunny and much maligned suburban sprawl called Los Angeles. As a native Angeleno I am a firm believer in not breathing air you can’t see. Because, honestly, if you can’t see it, how do you know […]

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Time Tuesday Jan 31 2006 2:05am

Permalink for '' What Happened to Tab?

Author by Brian Tags under No Tags Comments with 2 comments

Somebody help me out. I was watching Sean edit the credits page in Wordpress earlier today, and he was presented with the following code: […]

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