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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.

by Zach 1 year ago | Link »

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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!

by Zach 1 year ago | Link »

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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 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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This summer I used Ubuntu Linux as a development environment for my coding escapades. I’ve long had a subliminal fear of the command line. I don’t trust things that I don’t understand. However, once I was finally thrown into the operating system out of necessity, I discovered that I actually like it quite a […]

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Time Friday Jul 21 2006 7:37am

Permalink for '' Narbacular Drop: The Origins of Portal

Author by Sean Tags under , , Comments with 0 comments

So, in my previous post I wrote about Valve’s insanely cool looking new game called “Portal”. Well, in the comments, designerheadache pointed out that Valve actually bought the company that created this concept so they could build a full game in the Steam Engine.
It turns out that the company was actually Nuclear Monkey Software, […]

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