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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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Date Archive: August, 2007

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Time Tuesday Aug 28 2007 7:42am

Permalink for '' Single Player Gaming Prevails

Author by Brendan Tags under No Tags Comments with 5 comments

Drew sent me a link to Raph Koster’s Are single-player games doomed? “just to rile me up” and it did just that. Although his original post is from a year and a half ago, he made some ridiculous claims with such faulty logic that I still feel the need to respond to it here.
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Time Monday Aug 27 2007 7:27am

Permalink for '' The Tale of the Mechanical Virus

Author by Sean Tags under No Tags Comments with 43 comments

At my work, it’s very common for people to share things at meetings by connecting their laptops up to the meeting room projectors. The typical meeting room has one or two projectors, with handy VGA cords that come out of the conference tables. For the Mac users, there are DVI to VGA adapters, since […]

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Time Wednesday Aug 22 2007 4:04pm

Permalink for '' API Abuse or Why Information Should Be Free

Author by Zach Tags under , Comments with 3 comments

One of the wonderful things about the web these days are all the APIs that are available. APIs are like the public telephones of the internet. Most people probably don’t use them, but when you need one you’re really glad its there. So keeping in mind how thankful we all are […]

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Our guest author today is Frances Haugen: Product manager @ Google, Olin graduate, and mischief aficionado. She likes to ponder ideas, work on products for education, and try to fix her mutant foot (help welcomed!). Her words, not mine.
A few days ago I spent some time at BarCampBlock in Palo Alto and attended a […]

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Time Monday Aug 20 2007 7:57am

Permalink for '' Announcing pxPipe: Upload Photos to Facebook via Email

Author by Sean Tags under No Tags Comments with 18 comments

We’d like to announce a new service that us aB folks and a few friends have been working on over the past week. The service is called pxPipe, and it allows you to upload photos to Facebook via email from any device that supports sending email with image attachments.
pxPipe came about because of my […]

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