Saturday, December 30, 2006
links for 2006-12-30
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Peter Merholz points out this newish city search, with some lovely features.
Friday, December 29, 2006
links for 2006-12-29
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As was prophesied, John Barrowman got hitched to his sweetie today. No surprise, either, that dude looks fine in a kilt.
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Looking for a good way to spend...oh, the rest of your life? This massive, maddening word game might do the trick. (Nice way of sharpening oblique thinking skills too.)
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Worth it for the URL alone.
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I've often said what the web needs is more pictures of cute otters. So, here.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
links for 2006-12-28
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WOO! THREADLESS STORE! THREADLESS STORE! THREADLESS STORE! *faints*
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I heart Chipotle. Come to St. Louis, ya knuckleheads.
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A new web-based invitation program (with a name I'll never remember properly). May be worth a try.
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Quick and dirty web app for making slideshows. Good for MySpace, blogs, etc. Easily integrating sets from Flickr is a nice touch.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
links for 2006-12-26
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Why pick on Saint Nick? It's a very Snarkout Christmas. Yay.
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The funkiest man I know remembers the funkiest man the world will ever know.
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Happy holidays from the Beeb
I have A Charlie Brown Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer on DVD. The holiday-time television I'm most looking forward to? It comes from across the sea.- Christmas Eve: Torchwood, "Combat"
- Christmas Day: Doctor Who, "The Runaway Bride"
- New Year's Eve: Torchwood, "Captain Jack Harkness"
- New Year's Day: The Sarah Jane Adventures premiere
Stuff my stocking with torrents, daddy. I've got a fine port and a pudding to make.
Observation
When all you have is a hammer, the maxim tells us, everything begins to look like a nail.The same thing is essentially true when you buy a new cordless drill.
Or, especially, a label-making machine.
Friday, December 22, 2006
links for 2006-12-22
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This looks handy. Hazel will apply user-defined rules to organize the Desktop or any folder specified. Gonna have to check this out. (How many folks in the target demo you reckon recognize the namesake?)
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Some apt choices by The Onion's A.V. Club, via Rafe who is, I think, a baritone.
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A new online magazine for Expression Engine developers and fans. Brilliant!
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Joe runs down the chart of his favorite Christmas disco hits. I think most of these are already in my iTunes playlist. Go me!
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Jack's coming back. And rightly so. (Last week's episode was the best to date. Owen is beginning to grow on me, but my heart belongs to Ianto.)
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OK, next time this comes up for auction, I'm busting open my piggy bank.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
links for 2006-12-20
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Hello, Anil. We're so glad to have you back where you belong.
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I don't care if it does come with two hours of gay porn pre-loaded. I'm still not buying a Zune.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
links for 2006-12-19
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NYC's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene offers up to 10,000 condoms free via an online ordering system. So all my pals in the city know what they're getting for the holidays this year. Watch the mail for a BIG box.
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That song. You know the one. (Dreamgirls was the first Broadway show I attended on my own. That Act I closer was just one of the many thrilling moments I remember from that production.)
Monday, December 18, 2006
links for 2006-12-18
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This...is Belmont. Opened in 1900 and now being dismantled to be replaced by a modern stationhouse. Tony C. captures some pictures of its last night online. (The stop remains open through a temporary entrance.)
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[This is tasty] The CTA Francisco station, rendered in gingerbread. "Why don't you see a gingerbread el train? Because I wanted to make this as much like a real el station as possible." Zing!
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Patrick's photos from the Santa Speedo Run in Boston.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
links for 2006-12-14
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A nice collection of tiny grayscale icons. Handy!
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Another nice remembrance of Leslie (which quotes a bit of my own) from SFist.
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~Interestingly, Tang, Wamble & Zarf is also the name of my attorney's firm.~
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"The pope wears Prada, a transgender politician sits in Italy’s parliament, and Caesar was a notorious bottom. Michael Joseph Gross undertakes a modern Roman odyssey."
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"One of the animators stood up in the back of the room--he had had a couple of drinks--and he said, 'It’s going to run for a hundred years,' and then fell down. We all thought he was crazy, but he was more right than we were."
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The helpful cutie clerk at World Market recommend this site today. One of my 2007 resolutions is to drink more and better wine. (~Yeah, that'll be a hard one to keep up.~)
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
links for 2006-12-12
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Lance's lovely elegiac remembrance of Leslie.
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A linguistic consideration of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Darmok".
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Not forgetting Raphael Carter's seminal Darmok Dictionary.
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Merlin remembers Leslie's many gifts, tangible and not so much.
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Dan tells about the Great Cane Waving.
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Matt got lost in Michigan with Leslie.
Gonna miss ya…
Last night a friend passed along the news that Leslie Harpold had passed away unexpectedly and I just sat at the computer for a while, stunned and sad.I didn't know Leslie well; we met a couple of times and have a ton of mutual friends. I knew her best from the web, as seems to be the case with so many folks in my life these days. She was the publisher of Smug, one of those wonderfully canny webzines that sprung up on the early personal web and one of the best to boot. And, of course, for the past few years, I had delighted in her annual Advent calendar, mentioned here a few days ago and part of her wonderful personal website.
Sunday as I was preparing for our annual holiday party, I took a few minutes to check e-mail and stopped in to check on the calendar, noting that it hadn't been updated for a few days. I assumed technical difficulties and was devastated to learn worse.
Leslie was one of a pretty small group of people who shaped the early personal web, whose sites and words showed a lot of us what all the Hoopla could be about. I'm thinking about her family and her friends right now, the pain and loss they feel. I'll miss Leslie's voice on the web, and the life she brought to life.
Monday, December 11, 2006
links for 2006-12-11
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I get asked if I know how to do this every couple of months. Now there's a convenient URL I can send folks to. Sweet.
Saturday, December 9, 2006
links for 2006-12-09
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Only 400 cans? That's like, what? A weekend?
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Last week's Christmas episode about the "Christmas episode" of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip featured a beautiful brass rendition of "O Holy Night", now available as a free download from NBC or iTunes.
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
links for 2006-12-06
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Start saving those pennies.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
links for 2006-12-05
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Well, this will come in handy.
Monday, December 4, 2006
links for 2006-12-04
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OK, somebody get this kid an iPod commercial, pronto. (Way to go, Jen!)
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Don't just cast...BLAST!
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Bah! This will not keep me from Vodka and Sushi Hours (and hours and hours) with pals at Sub-Zero on Sundays. It's the swankiest Brad-related happy hour in town and the fish is fine.
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Wee sculpture made from...well, like the title says. [saw it on Boing! Boing!]
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Viewed in the proper context, it's not such a wonderful life after all. (Classic Snarkout.)
Sunday, December 3, 2006
links for 2006-12-03
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A Whovian weblog, with bonus while you view podcasts. Smashing!
Friday, December 1, 2006
links for 2006-12-01
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One of my favorite web traditions! Leslie Harpold's Advent Calendar is back for 2006.
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A detailed consideration of the nine timelines suggested by the three Back to the Future films. Geektastic!
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A Christmas tree for your Mac desktop, including days-till countdown. Nifty.
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