Extra Future

Year: 2009

  • Rob Matthews’s Hardback Copy of Wikipedia Features Articles

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Neat. Looks to be several feet high][link]. [link]: http://www.rob-matthews.com/index.php?/project/wikipedia/ “Wikipedia : Rob Matthews”

  • The Radioactive Wasps of Hanford

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Not from a movie or script, but real life][link]: >The contractor handling the clean-up, Washington Closure, says the nests were all built in 2003 when water was used to dampen dust during demolition of an H Reactor basin. That attracted the wasps that used the mud to make tube-shaped nests for eggs. [link]: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009327345_webnukedwasps11m.html “Local…

  • Last.fm’s Founders Leaving

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Cannot say I’m surprised][link]. It’ll be two-years after their acquisition, which is probably the earliest they were *allowed* to leave. [link]: http://blog.last.fm/2009/06/10/message-from-the-lastfm-founders-felix-rj-and-martin “Last.fm – the Blog · Message from the Last.fm founders, Felix, RJ and Martin”

  • iHeartRate by Endloop

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    Phil Nelson
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    [My friend Ken Seto’s iPhone/iPod Touch app, recently updated to version 1.1][link]. It’s one of the best-looking and friendliest health-related iPhone apps I’ve seen. [link]: http://endloop.ca/ “endloop inc.- fun, elegant iPhone apps and games”

  • How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Relevant to my interests, and somehow I hadn’t read it before][link]. PKD knew a thing or two about this. [link]: http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm “How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later”

  • Venture Family For The Sims 3

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Rusty, Hank, Dean, Brock, Dr. Orpheus and Triana][link]. This is pretty great. [link]: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=48492# “Venture Family by Neverent – The Exchange – Community – The Sims 3”

  • Futurama Picked Up for 26 New Episodes

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Thank you, Comedy Central][link]. >A spokesperson for 20th Century Fox Television confirms that the cable net has ordered 26 new episodes of Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s late, great animated series to air beginning in 2010. [link]: http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/06/its-official-futurama-returns.html “It’s official: ‘Futurama’ is reborn! | News | Ausiello Files | EW.com”

  • Mole-Man Name Generator

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Created by yours truly over the last 24 hours][link], in honor of [John Hodgman’s live recitation of 700 Mole-Man names][hodg]. I hope you enjoy it. My own Mole-Manic name is “Ernest Silverjaw”. [link]: http://molemen.extrafuture.com/ “Mole-Man Name Generator” [hodg]: http://www.areasofmyexpertise.com/2009/06/seven-hundred-mole-man-names/ “Hodg-man”

  • Google Releases “Page Speed”, A Web Page Performance Tool

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    Phil Nelson
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    [It looks like Google’s version of YSlow][link], but apparently it’s used in-house at Google. At a company where Engineers Rule, I’d bet it’s pretty precise. [link]: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/ “Page Speed Home”

  • Introducing PNGPress, a PNG Optimizer for Mac OS X

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    Phil Nelson
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    [You can download and read all about PNGPress at it’s homepage][link]. It’s essentially a Applescript front-end for [OptiPNG][opti], the command line application. *Update:* The download link for PNGPress is now fixed. Whoops. [link]: http://extrafuture.com/code/pngpress/ “PNGPress” [opti]: http://optipng.sourceforge.net/ “OptiPNG”

  • Bing Refuses Search Term “Sex” In India

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Searching for “sex” returns the phrase “the search sex may return sexually explicit content. To get results, change your search terms.”][link] Meanwhile, [according to Google Trends, nobody searches for “sex” more than India][google]. [link]: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/06/2338233/Microsofts-Bing-Refuses-Search-Term-Sex-In-India?from=rss “Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Microsofts Bing Refuses Search Term “Sex” In India” [google]: http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex “Google Trends: Sex”

  • Renaming an XCode Project from Command Line

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    Phil Nelson
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    [A handy little shell script to handle the (tedius) task of renaming XCode project files][link]. [link]: http://mohrt.blogspot.com/2009/01/renaming-xcode-project-from-command.html “Fifty Outs: Renaming an XCode Project from Command Line”