29 October 2009
Salient chunks from Blowing the Whistle, by disgraced former NBA ref Tim Donaghy. The guy obviously has an axe to grind, but the detail and name-dropping extent he goes to is pretty remarkable. This is gonna cause some serious shitstorms in the NBA. UPDATE: As I was writing this, the book was dropped by the […]
28 October 2009
Interesting news from the world of creating video games: The Unity engine is becoming even more affordable to independent and hobbyist developers, as Unity Technologies has retired the $200 “Unity Indie” offering and replaced it with a free license, simply called Unity. Sounds like a great deal for the price.
28 October 2009
Inspired by Jason Kottke’s Apollo 11 broadcast, the team behind Me and Orson Welles is presenting a broadcast of the Mercury Theater’s infamous War of the Worlds, 71 years to-the-minute from it’s first airing in 1938. The impatient can find the . : http://www.archive.org/details/OrsonWellesMrBruns “War of the World’s MP3 on Archive.org”
27 October 2009
Eliza Gauger: The nose is all wrong, but this graceful creature is nonetheless my friend Lorraine, who has just suffered a grievous accident in which she fractured her spine. She is a dancer and a model and is now bedridden, totally unable to support herself. Tomorrow I will be running a tipjar marathon in which […]
27 October 2009
Amazon’s new MySQL cloud service.
26 October 2009
Warren and his filthy assistant Adriana are doing a t-shirt a week, and selling via Cafepress. First up: “LOVE means never having to tell the authorities where I buried you.”
26 October 2009
You were responsible or many of the most retch-inducing websites on the internet, and you only got worse with time. We’ll miss you. xkcd is GeoCities-ified (saved image).
22 October 2009
Great tip from Guillermo Esteves. Worked a charm on this very site.
22 October 2009
Amy and John Gruber. Say goodnight, Gracie.
22 October 2009
So you met someone new and the next time you see them they’re dressing exactly like you and they like all of your favorite bands now and you try to be nice about it and not get creeped out but it’s fucking CREEPY and a couple months later you wake up and they’ve stolen your […]
20 October 2009
Peter Serafinowicz reveals the truth behind this classic Beatles song.
20 October 2009
Great detail and some analysis from 2d boy. Points of interest: A not-insignificant portion of purchases were for less than 30 cents, which PayPal took all of. There are a lot of charts and stuff in the post, I love them for the amount of detail they’ve gone into and shared with the rest of […]
20 October 2009
It’s Tuesday: This is where the robot head of Jack Kirby has been taking you too, all this time. This is a universe that abuts our own, a vast space of cometary ideoplasm and speaking atomic structure.
19 October 2009
Premiered last night at midnight. I grabbed my copy from iTunes (for some strange reason, there are no torrents), but you can watch it the legal way on adultswim.com. That is an order. Things of note based upon my first viewing: Spoilers follow No Monarch in the season opener. Feels weird. I have a feeling […]
17 October 2009
For the first time in a long time, the comments are turned on here at Extra Future HQ. You can comment on any post, I imagine I’ll turn comments off on older posts, but we shall see. Don’t make me regret this.
16 October 2009
As it says on the tin. Enjoy your weekend.
16 October 2009
Looks great, supports every major browser including iPhone’s WebKit, and: Raphaël uses the SVG W3C Recommendation and VML as a base for creating graphics. This means every graphical object you create is also a DOM object, so you can attach JavaScript event handlers or modify them later. Raphaël’s goal is to provide an adapter that […]
16 October 2009
Mark Pilgrim dives in to HTML5 video, and swims around. This is essential reading for web developers.
15 October 2009
For World of Goo’s 1st birthday, 2d Boy are having a “pay whatever you want” sale, for the PC, Mac and Linux versions of the game. There is no excuse not to buy this.
15 October 2009
Since I introduced the ability to us a different domain for your shortened URLs in la petite url 1.5, I’ve had several email inquiries about how to set it up. With that in mind, I’ve put together the following tutorial, which I hope will help those of you who need a push in the right […]
My name is Phil Nelson and I make beautiful things for a troubled world. I'm a designer / developer / writer / director / editor / narrator at Occipital.
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