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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: August, 2006

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Time Friday Aug 25 2006 3:57pm

Permalink for '' Follow-Up Friday

Author by Brian Tags under , , , Comments with 0 comments

It’s time to play the “things I’ve read since I wrote that article” game. Ready? Here we go.
Caps Off
After my rant on Caps Lock awhile back, Wired recently put up a piece on the new Caps Off campaign. I’m not really sure where this is going (read: probably nowhere), but… huzzah.
New Portal Videos (And […]

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Time Thursday Aug 24 2006 5:18pm

Permalink for '' How To Dual-Boot Your iPod with Rockbox

Author by Sean Tags under No Tags Comments with 47 comments

These instructions are almost assuredly deprecated as they were written before the 5G video iPods came out. I would check elsewhere for updated instructions rather than trying to follow these if you have a new iPod.
So you’ve got an iPod, right? (Who doesn’t these days?) Maybe you’ve been using it for a while, but […]

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Time Thursday Aug 17 2006 7:37am

Permalink for '' Installing the (New!) SparkStats Wordpress Plugin

Author by Sean Tags under No Tags Comments with 7 comments

So, I finally got around to updating my SparkStats Wordpress plugin. The original was a big hit, but over the past five months I’ve heard back from users about one big bug and lots of features that needed fixing and adding. Well, rejoice, because I finally took a break, sat down, and forced myself […]

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Time Tuesday Aug 15 2006 5:42pm

Permalink for '' BRB, Friends

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Many of us are in the process of moving out of our apartment and going back home for 2 weeks. As such, we may disappear for a few days. Fear not, we shall return.

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Time Monday Aug 14 2006 1:09pm

Permalink for '' I GUESS THERE IS A LESSON HERE FOR US ALL

Author by Brian Tags under , , Comments with 1 comment

As I’m writing this, I’m listening to Stevie Ray Vaughan shred his way through the oh-so-glorious song Texas Flood, and I have to stop and ask myself: Damn, why is he so good? More specifically, what makes him so special or different that causes my brain to implode with aural delight? The man himself […]

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