Extra Future

Month: April 2009

  • “The Wire” Series Bible

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Found by Kottke, and presented for download along with 3 scripts from Season 1][link]. [link]: http://www.kottke.org/09/04/the-wire-bible “The Wire Bible”

  • Track 4chan’s Attempt To Beat Ashton Kutcher and CNN to 1M Twitter Followers

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Currently adding new followers to @basementdad at a rate of about 700 per minute][link]. See also: [the 4chan thread][thread]. both (via [Waxy][waxy]) [link]: http://85.14.217.35/tr/ “” [thread]: http://www.webcitation.org/5g4VLBvYu “Cache of the 4chan thread” [waxy]: http://waxy.org “Waxy”

  • Free as in “Me”

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    Phil Nelson
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    [I cannot think of a recent read more essential than this lengthy polemic by Merlin Mann][link]. I’d post an excerpt, but it wouldn’t do justice to the thing. Just read it. [link]: http://www.43folders.com/2009/04/10/free-me “Free as in ‘Me’ | 43 Folders”

  • Digg Dropping The DiggBar For All Non-Digg Users

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Finally doing the right thing, though it took them long enough][link]. [link]: http://blog.digg.com/?p=664 “Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » (Yet) Another DiggBar Update”

  • Matt Zoller Seitz’s “The Substance of Style”, Exploring the Influences of Wes Anderson

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    Phil Nelson
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    An essay with video annotation in five parts: [Schulz, Welles, Truffaut][1], [Martin Scorsese, Richard Lester, and Mike Nichols][2], [Hal Ashby][3], [J.D. Salinger][4] and an [Annotated video of the opening][5] to The Royal Tenenbaums. See also: [The House Next Door][hnd]. (via [Kottke][kottke]) [1]: http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/the-substance-of-style-pt-1-20090330 “The Substance of Style, Pt 1 by Matt Zoller Seitz – Moving…

  • Keith Starky Explains Twitter

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    Phil Nelson
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    [A sample][link]: >1. Twain often disparaged James Fenimore Cooper, who is referred to by many as “History’s First SEO Blogger” [link]: http://explainingtwitter.tumblr.com/ “Keith Starky Explains Twitter”

  • My Brute

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Flashed-based fighting game where you generate a character that automatically fights][link]. Weird little game. [link]: http://philnelson.mybrute.com/ “PhilNelson My Brute”

  • [Sponsor] Threadless

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Threadless][link] doesn’t just print some of the coolest-looking shirts in the world, they also make the most comfortable ones. If you buy something from them [using my affiliate link][link], I get a small kickback. They’ve constantly got stuff on sale, like this [selection of $9 shirts][nine]. My current favorite: [The Gaming Revolution][gaming]. [link]: http://www.threadless.com/?from=philnelson “Threadless…

  • Warren Ellis on Shitgaze, and Novum

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Things like this just fall off of Warren when he’s taking his monthly bath][link], and it’s the most interesting thing I’ve read today. [link]: http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7178 “Warren Ellis » Shitgaze”

  • Sonic The Hedgehog Series Bible

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    Phil Nelson
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    >[The Sonic Bible was an internal document created by SOA][link] to provide a localised history and overall philosophy for Sonic and the Sonic universe. It is apparently not based on the Japanese history. The [series bible][bible] for Sonic The Hedgehog from Sega’s launch of the first Sonic game in the US. [link]: http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?s=9faa55e2cd1380a4a6a27ef7e01a4f8a&showtopic=14100&st=0&p=280663&#entry280663 “Sonic The…

  • Sam Ruby on Rev Canonical

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    Phil Nelson
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    [The short list of grievances][link]: Twitter doesn’t support it, and may never. HTML5 omits `rev` entirely. Atom uses the `self` attribute for the very purposes that `rev=”canonical”` might be used for. [link]: http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/04/14/Canonical-Reverse-Or-Wisdom-Defying-Shorturl “Sam Ruby: Canonical Reverse Or Wisdom Defying Shorturl?”

  • 4chan’s Precision Hack of the Time 100

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Not only is moot #1 with 12 times the votes of anyone else][link], but they spelled out a message with the first letter of each person’s name. [link]: http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/13/hacking-recommenders/ “Hacking recommenders « Music Machinery”