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Month: August 2009

  • ChefStack – The Automatic Pancake Machine

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    Phil Nelson
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    [I can imagine my mother wanting one of these desperately][link]. [link]: http://www.chefstack.com/ “Pancakes. Delicious and Fresh – ChefStack – Home”

  • Introducing “descendo”

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    Phil Nelson
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    Extra Future’s new WordPress theme, descendo, went live today. I’m inserting this into the post archives as a personal reminder. Carry on.

  • iPhone Dictionary, Censored by Apple

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    Phil Nelson
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    Apple’s latest incredible move: *[Censoring a fucking dictionary][link]*. Apple’s conduct re: the App Store has long since passed the yardstick of “stupid” and into “utterly inept.” If they cannot be trusted to stick to the rules set forth by human society, then fuck ’em. NOBODY censors dictionaries. Not Wal-Mart, not Borders, nobody. Censoring reference material…

  • Mario AI Competition 2009

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Write a Mario Bros-playing AI in Java][link] and win some money and nerd fame. I can see myself spending a lot of time with this. via [Jesper][jesper] [link]: http://julian.togelius.com/mariocompetition2009/ “Mario AI Competition 2009” [jesper]: http://waffle.wootest.net/ “Waffle”

  • Nickelodeon’s New Logo

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    Phil Nelson
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    [… is not very good][link]. I wonder how many millions it cost them to have someone make their logo worse? I have many fond memories of Nickelodeon properties on my TV (Rocko’s Modern Life, the first series of Rugrats, Invader Zim, the crappy foreign-produced ‘toons they’d show during school hours), and it’s sad to see…

  • Modernizr

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    Phil Nelson
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    [A new Javascript-based kit that tests for browser features, lets you do conditionals in CSS, and other things][link]. Have a look at [the tutorial][tutorial]. [link]: http://www.modernizr.com/ “Modernizr” [tutorial]: http://www.modernizr.com/tutorial/ “Modernizr Tutorial”

  • High speed robotic hands

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Once they make those “fingers” into “blades”][link] mankind will be retired once and for all. [link]: http://www.kottke.org/09/08/high-speed-robotic-hands “High speed robotic hands”

  • Britain To Put CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes

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    Phil Nelson
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    [They’ve gone fully around to using Orwell as an instruction manual][link]. [link]: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/britain-to-put-cctv-cameras-inside-private-homes/ “Britain To Put CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes | Gadget Lab | Wired.com”

  • Radioshack Rebrands Itself as “The Shack”

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    Phil Nelson
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    [It was only a matter of time before Radioshack attempted to make itself hip and failed miserably][link]. I mean, it worked great for Circuit City, right? [link]: http://www.radioshack.com/theshack/ “The Shack Summer Netogether”