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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 Wednesday Oct 25 2006 10:59am

Permalink for '' Passwords Are Just Keys

Author by Zach Tags under , Comments with 3 comments

I was doing my usual browsing of random crap on the internet today when I came across an article rebutting an article, and I felt the need to rebut that. Confusing? Yeah, a little, in fact I think this my first counter-counter-post. The original article tells people that writing down your […]

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Time Tuesday Sep 26 2006 7:07am

Permalink for '' Real Life is Becoming Science Fiction

Author by Sean Tags under , Comments with 3 comments

Recently, I read a great sci-fi book: Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, author of the famous Neuromancer and coiner of the word “cyberspace“.

In the novel, main character Cayce Pollard works as a human trend barometer, traveling the world and essentially trading her gut instincts about products and services for cash. In her spare time, […]

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Time Thursday Sep 21 2006 11:23am

Permalink for '' Exploiting is not Cheating

Author by Brendan Tags under , , Comments with 6 comments

Let’s say you’re wandering around your favorite virtual bloodbath zone, be it Halo 2, Counter-Strike, or Battlefield, and BAM! - out of nowhere you get head-shotted and dropped like a first born girl in China. Now, you’re thinking to yourself, “Where’s that noob? I’ll rock his world this next round!” But you don’t. Time […]

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Time Wednesday Sep 20 2006 10:20am

Permalink for '' Hop Onto the Tourb.us

Author by Grant Tags under , , , Comments with 5 comments

If you’re anything like me, you enjoy going to concerts. But you just hate it when you miss the concert from that group you listen to all the time. Sure they post their tour dates, but you never seem to check until two weeks too late.
And even though you could use Myspace to keep […]

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Time Tuesday Sep 12 2006 7:48am

Permalink for '' Street Harassment

Author by Brendan Tags under , , Comments with 7 comments

Five years ago today I reflected on the events of a clear yesterday in September. I wrote seven pages and entitled the piece “Tomorrow.” It was a personal, introspective piece raw with emotion. I’ve never let anyone read the whole thing, and probably never will, but there’s one passage that stuck out to me […]

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