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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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Time Thursday Aug 16 2007 10:19pm

Permalink for '' I’ll Track You Back In Bangladesh

Author by Zach Tags under , , Comments with 3 comments

If you noticed Grant’s post yesterday you may have also seen that it has two trackbacks on it. Two trackbacks from the same site. I was wondering why someone would be so interested in the post to trackback it twice until I looked at the URL we were getting linked from.
http://www.a-s-i-a.net/blog/Bangladesh/index.php/2007/08/16/i’ll-pick-you-up-at-6-in-bangladesh/
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Time Saturday Jul 21 2007 1:35pm

Permalink for '' Wordcamp 2007: Comments and Blogs

Author by Brian Tags under Comments with 0 comments

Brendan, Sean, and I are hanging out at Wordcamp 2007 right now listening to Dvorak and Om Malik talk about blogging versus journalism. The discussion has turned to commenting on blogs, and how it differentiates blogs from mainstream media. Om thinks that commenting is what separates blogs from MSM and that it’s the blog […]

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Time Tuesday May 29 2007 6:15am

Permalink for '' I Can Has Hilarious Internet Website?

Author by Zach Tags under , Comments with 4 comments

Brian mentioned this briefly in an earlier post, but I thought the curiously amusing I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? deserved a real mention. The site is basically a blog of what are known as LOLCats, a strange subset of image macros. They’re all pretty much made up of a cute picture of an […]

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Time Wednesday Aug 2 2006 10:59pm

Permalink for '' Writing For alwaysBETA

Author by Brian Tags under , , Comments with 3 comments

Mike recently asked me how I think of what to write on alwaysBETA. It’s never a trivial task to sit down and write a post, even though power-bloggers appear to churn out oodles of posts each day without reprieve. It takes a surprising amount of dedication to keep writing both regularly and well.
Writing on […]

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Time Monday Jul 24 2006 10:49pm

Permalink for '' Newshutch: Deliver Us From Evil

Author by Brian Tags under , , , Comments with 13 comments

I’m a sucker for usable products. But then, most of us should be - putting up with terribly designed and implemented software is a “necessary evil” that none of us should really have to face. But before launching straight into the juicy bits, a little background. Back when I used to maintain that other […]

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