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Month: September 2009

  • Music Publishers Want Royalties For 30 Second Song Samples

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Not a story from the Onion][link]. I don’t know where to start on this, I really don’t. [link]: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10355448-93.html “Music publishers: iTunes not paying fair share | Digital Media – CNET News”

  • Philadelphia is Closing It’s Libraries

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    [Yes, all of them][link]. These are the public libraries in Philadelphia. I feel that Ben Franklin would personally beat the shit out of whoever let this happen. It’s a travesty. [link]: http://libwww.freelibrary.org/closing/ “FLP – Closing”

  • Preview of WebKit’s WebGL

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    [3D gaming in-browser without plugins][link]. Playable TODAY with a [nightly build of Webkit][nightly] on your Mac. Wow. [link]: http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/09/preview-of-webkits-webgl-canvas3d/ “Wolfire Blog – Preview of WebKit’s WebGL / Canvas 3D” [nightly]: http://nightly.webkit.org/ “Nightly Webkit builds”

  • Winner of the Infinite Mario AI Contest Posts Source Code

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    [All of the java components][link] that won [the contest][contest]. Watch the slow-mo video if you want to weep for humanity’s eventual end. [link]: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rb1006/projects:marioai “Robins Pages! :: projects:marioai” [contest]: http://julian.togelius.com/mariocompetition2009/index.php “Mario Competition 2009”

  • The Worst Super Mario Player Ever

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    [An experiment in beating the original Super Mario Bros. for the NES while getting the lowest possible score][link]. This guy managed to do it while only getting 700 points. Just getting one power-up mushroom gives the player 1,000 points, so this is no mean feat. [link]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0E2SCGKtLI “YouTube – Worst Super Mario Player Ever”

  • Acorn 2.0

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    [Flying Meat Software][meat] release [a super update to their image editor, Acorn][link]. It sports an all-new UI designed (mostly) by [Brandon Walkin][walkin]. [Gus’ blog post sums up many of the changes][blog]. It is, interestingly to me, 64-bit and only runs on 10.6. [meat]: http://flyingmeat.com/acorn “Flying Meat Software” [link]: http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/ “Acorn, the image editor for humans.”…

  • Bulletproof @font-face syntax

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    [Paul Irish’s guide][link] to the best @font-face syntax for all compatible browsers. [link]: http://paulirish.com/2009/bulletproof-font-face-implementation-syntax/ “Bulletproof @font-face syntax « Paul Irish”

  • Preliminary Notes on Apple’s Recent “It’s Only Rock and Roll” Music Event

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    In no particular order: * **App recommendations**: Wholly necessary, but we aren’t out of the woods yet regarding App Store curation. I bet there’s a good deal of money to be made just doing that: Curating collections of apps. Boing Boing got huge during the blog boom for curating other blogs, why wouldn’t it work…

  • Warner Bros. Creates DC ENTERTAINMENT

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    [DC is now it’s own company, again, but still owned by Warner][link]. I wonder if this is a response to the Disney/Marvel deal or if it was in motion before that went down? **Update**: [Warren Ellis says][warren], no, in fact, neither company knew what the other was doing. [link]: http://vertigo.blog.dccomics.com/2009/09/09/warner-bros-creates-dc-entertainment/ “Vertigo: Graphic Content » Blog…

  • Apple Pulls Commodore 64 Emulator from App Store

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    [Anybody surprised?][link] [link]: http://www.macworld.com/article/142668/2009/09/commodore_iphone.html?lsrc=rss_main “Commodore 64 iPhone app approved, then pulled | Software | iPhone Central | Macworld”

  • Froot Loops: Now A “Smart Choice”

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    [The New York Times reporting on a new pip][link] appearing on cereals and other glop made by General Mills, Kellogg’s, etc. Here’s a great example of WHY we’re all so fucking fat: >She said the program was also influenced by research into consumer behavior. That research showed that, while shoppers wanted more information, they did…

  • The 15 Largest ExpressionEngine sites

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    [A list of large EE-powered sites][link]. ExpressionEngine is the big brother of my PHP framework of choice, [CodeIgniter][ci]. via [Shawn Medero][shawn] [link]: http://www.hopstudios.com/blog/the_10_largest_expressionengine_sites/ “The 15 Largest ExpressionEngine sites (updated) – Blog – Hop Studios” [shawn]: http://twitter.com/soypunk/status/3740284594 “Original Twitter message” [ci]: http://codeigniter.com/ “Code Igniter”