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Month: May 2009

  • The Art of Penguin Science Fiction

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    [A historical guide to the book jacket designs of Penguin’s Sci-Fi line][link]. [link]: http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/ “The Art of Penguin Science Fiction”

  • Age-Based App Restrictions In iPhone OS 3.0

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    Phil Nelson
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    [I’m all for it if it means “adult” apps will be allowed in the store][link]. Aside from how much censorship pisses me off, the other main problem is, as Gruber notes: who is going to do the rating? Ratings systems tend to discourage mature content rather than encourage it. Will this Apple-sponsored ratings body be…

  • MetaFilter’s Global 10th Anniversary Party

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Can’t believe it’s been 10 years][link]. I’ve been reading the site for about 8 of those. I remember when they finally re-opened user signups. I salute you, [Mathowie][mathowie]. [link]: http://ten.metafilter.com/ “MetaFilter 10th Anniversary | Community Weblog” [mathowie]: http://www.metafilter.com/user/1 “Matt Haughey”

  • MPAA shows how to Video Record a TV set

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    Phil Nelson
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    [This is, apparently, not a joke][link]. What it is, is 4 minutes of some poor hired goon trying to pretend like this isn’t the biggest pain in the ass of thing to attempt. The video summary says: >At the DMCA 1201 hearings at the Copyright Office at the Library of Congress, representatives from the MPAA…

  • Konami Code Sites

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    Phil Nelson
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    [↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A][link] via [John Gruber][via] [link]: http://konamicodesites.com/ “Konami Code Sites” [via]: http://daringfireball.net “Daring Fireball”

  • Hypercritical

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    Phil Nelson
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    [John Siracusa on his childhood art career, mechagodzilla, Steve Jobs and what criticism really means to design][link]. [link]: http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits/2009/05/hypercritical.ars “Hypercritical – Ars Technica”

  • AUTO-MEME

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Like it says on the tin][link]. It even has [an API][api]. Now give me a few minutes to mash this up with Flickr… [link]: http://meme.boxofjunk.ws/ “AUTO-MEME” [api]: http://meme.boxofjunk.ws/api.html “AUTO-MEME API”

  • ClickTale Scrolling Research Report V2.0

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Metrics relating to page length, views of the bottom of pages, and more][link]. These statistics are a kind of pornography to a lot of people I know: >91% of the page views were long enough to contain scroll-bar. Of those, 76% were scrolled to some extent. 22% of the page views with a scroll-bar were…

  • H. sadistica

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    Phil Nelson
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    Normally to inseminate a female you have to have some sex with that. You know, male and female sex organs doing their thing. Well: >[Milan Rezic, an entomologist at the Crop Research Institute in Prague, has spotted a spider circumventing this problem by delivering sperm directly to the ovaries via holes that the males bore…

  • Hausu (1977) “Killer Lampshade”

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Stick with this clip][link]. I think by friday it may still be high in the running for most batshit thing I’ve seen all week. [link]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOBCMoDGGZU “YouTube – Hausu (1977) Killer Lampshade”

  • Twitter’s Admin Interface

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Screenshots from a hack of their admin section][link]. It makes me feel a lot better about some of the admin UIs I’ve shipped. [link]: http://www.korben.info/twitter-vu-de-linterieur-interface-admin-piratee.html “Twitter vu de l’intérieur – Interface admin piratée !”