Extra Future

Month: April 2009

  • Old Woodworking Machine Logos

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    Phil Nelson
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    [High-quality downloadables, for refurbishing your Old Woodworking Machine][link], or what have you. These are all beautiful. [link]: http://wiki.owwm.com/Default.aspx?Page=Decals&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 “OWWM decals – OWWM Knowledge Base (Wiki)”

  • iPhone Anthology Fiction

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    [Warren Ellis’s][warren] recent postings about [Papernet][papernet] and my always-on interest in Print-On-Demand gave me this idea, which I’m jotting down here in case I never get to do it. [warren]: http://warrenellis.com “Warren Ellis” [papernet]: http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=6670 “Warren Ellis: Papernet” So you’ve got your iPhone, and they sell tons of old books and comics and even new…

  • PBS Video on demand

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    [This is fantastic][link]. PBS, in honor of it’s 40th anniversary, is putting up tons of content onto it’s site, viewable on-demand. Including: American Masters, Frontline, and the biggest draw to me right now: Nova. The problem: Like most video sites, it’s region-locked. Can’t be viewed outside the US. Shame. [link]: http://www.pbs.org/video “PBS Video” by way…

  • Maureen Dowd’s Absurd Interview With Twitter’s Founders

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Biz gives the best answers to her dismissive/hostile questions][link]. A sample: >ME: If you were out with a girl and she started twittering about it in the middle, would that be a deal-breaker or a turn-on? > >BIZ (dryly): In the middle of what? They really turned it around on her, and I love it.…

  • Last Year’s Model

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Their tagline is “Saving the planet through sheer laziness,”][link] but I think “and not having tons of expendable cash” counts, too. via, as it so often is, [Andy Baio][andy] [link]: http://lastyearsmodel.org/ “Get Great Gadgets. And Keep Them. – Last Year’s Model” [andy]: http://waxy.org “Waxy”

  • Amazon.com Now Selling WiiWare Game Codes

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Following the Xbox Live Arcade codes, this is no surprise, but nice to see][link]. Also of interest to me: Amazon does not allow their associates to get commissions on these cards. Profit margin must be close to zero, if not into the red. [link]: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00213JM9O/ “Amazon.com: World of Goo [Online Game Code]: Wii: Video Games”

  • Tal Leming on Embedded Web Fonts

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    Phil Nelson
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    A rare take on embedded web fonts from someone who actually makes fonts and sells them for a living. He suggests a DRM system using a “root table” that says what fonts can be used on what domains, but then says this: >There is nothing that can be done about this. All we can do…

  • Ego 1.3 Now Uses Official Google Analytics API

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    Phil Nelson
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    [So announced Garrett Murray on twitter][link]. The API was [launched by Google today][api]. Glad to see it. [link]: http://twitter.com/garrettmurray/statuses/1578598062 “Twitter / Garrett Murray: I guess I can say now that …” [api]: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2009/04/attention-developers-google-analytics.html “Google Analytics API”

  • Birdfeeder and FETHR

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    Phil Nelson
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    >[Birdfeeder is the prototype implementation of a RESTful, interoperable, Internet-scale microblogging protocol, tentatively called FETHR (Featherweight Entangled Timelines over HTTP Requests)][link].” See also: [Why Twitter in 2009 is like CompuServe Email in 1983][slides]. (via [Waxy][waxy]) [link]: http://brdfdr.com/ “brdfdr.com (Birdfeeder)” [slides]: http://brdfdr.com/pres/iptps-fethr-talk.pdf “FETHR Slides” [waxy]: http://waxy.org “Andy Baio”

  • Windows 7 Starter Edition Only Runs 3 Applications At Once

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    [This seems like a joke, but it is legitimate][link]. Microsoft is not only pushing this incredibly anti-user “functionality”, but they’re selling it specifically to poor, developing nations. I guess their hope is once they need more than 3 applications open, the poor fucks will pony up for Windows 7 Pro Starter Extreme Edition or whatever.…

  • App Store Customers Are Neither Bad Nor Good by Default

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    Phil Nelson
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    Garret Murray’s [most recent post on his blog][link], the land where posts do not have titles, is about what happened last week with his (lovely) application, [Ego][ego]. In it, he basically vents about being a single developer caught between a rock (customers angry that something stopped working) and a hard place (Apple’s arcane approvals process).…

  • Free Star Trek Icon Set From The Iconfactory

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Well-detailed and as beautiful as you’d expect from the Iconfactory][link]. [link]: http://iconfactory.com/startrek/ “The Iconfactory presents Star Trek”