Extra Future

Month: January 2010

  • EXCLUSIVE First Extra Future Shirt Pictures

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    [Do you believe in miracles?][link] Extra Future’s first product is out in the wild, and being shipped to those who purchased one starting Monday. [link]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zerolives/4295321013/ “Extra Future Shirts”

  • Ed Bott: It’s time to stop using IE6

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    [The idea that anyone doesn’t know what this guy is saying][link] makes me wonder why the US financial system doesn’t collapse more often due to the fucking insane IT systems in place at it’s major corporations. In other words: [I hear next week he’s going to say it’s time to stop using floppy disks.][df] [link]:…

  • Detailed Longplay Annotation of Gimmick! For The NES

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    [Great use of YouTube’s annotations system][link] for a skillfully-crafted NES game. Could this be the start of a new longplay genre? See also: [Gimmick!][gim] on Wikipedia. The ROM is available on the web using a simple Google search. I’ll leave you to that. [gim]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimmick! “Gimmick!” [link]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYcf2yUgblc “YouTube – Mr. Gimmick – Annotated NES…

  • Shoehorns and fossils

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    Jesper on [two of the main problems][link] with current implementations of, and discussions surrounding, email clients. From [Brent Simmons email-init mailing list][brent]. [link]: http://lists.ranchero.com/pipermail/email-init-ranchero.com/2010-January/000034.html “Shoehorns and fossils” [brent]: http://inessential.com/2010/01/16/email_init “Brent Simmons’ blog post, announcing the list”

  • The Details Are Everything

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    A new tumblr created by Me, available from now: [The Details Are Everything][link], sifting the user interfaces and experiences I come into contact with in daily life. It is A) An excuse to write more about semi-work-involved things and B) something I’ve been threatening to do for long enough that I needed to either start…

  • Gordon, A Flash Runtime Written in JavaScript

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    [The demos are pretty impressive][link], for what it is. Works on iPhone. [link]: http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos/ “Gordon”

  • “Quit trying to make pigs out of sausage.”

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    [This way of thinking about writing][link] jibes with a lot of how I think about web development. Especially: > When you’re ready, dive into a blank page and start making a big mess in order to find out what you really think [link]: http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/332714224/don-murray “kung fu grippe : Appreciating Donald Murray a/k/a, Quit trying…”

  • Conan O’Brien Says He Won’t Host ‘Tonight Show’ At 12:05

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    [It’s good to see that Conan can still write like this][link]. He says, among other things, that moving the Tonight Show to 12:05 will result in what “[He] honestly believe is its destruction. ” [link]: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/conan-obrien-says-he-wont-do-tonight-show-following-leno/ “Conan O’Brien Says He Won’t Host ‘Tonight Show’ Following Leno – Media Decoder Blog – NYTimes.com”

  • Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter Home After Being Freed From A German POW Camp

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    [His detention in which would later become integral to the plot of in Slaughterhouse-Five.][link] [link]: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/11/slaughterhouse-five.html “Letters of Note: Slaughterhouse Five”

  • Maddux joins Cubs as assistant to GM

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    [Good news for Cubs fans][link]. I’ve always through Maddux would be a great teacher. Now we’ll all find out how right I was. [link]: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100111&content_id=7900712&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc&partnerId=rss_chc “Maddux joins Cubs as assistant to GM | cubs.com: News”

  • Orson Welles on Privacy, the Passport and Personal Rights

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    [A transcript taken from one of Welles’ Sketchbook shows for the BBC][link]. 1955’s passport gestapo seems like a cakewalk compared to 2010’s passport gestapo, yet the more things change… [link]: http://www.thejanuarist.com/orson-welles-on-privacy-the-passport-and-personal-rights/ “Orson Welles on Privacy, the Passport and Personal Rights | The Januarist”

  • 2009 Tecmo Bowl NFL Player Awards

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    [If I didn’t know better I’d think this was written just to get me to link to it][link]. Though it is obviously missing a Bo Jackson award for “most unstoppable motherfucker.” [link]: http://thepigskindoctors.com/2010/01/2009-10-tecmo-bowl-nfl-player-awards/ “2009 Tecmo Bowl NFL Player Awards | The Pigskin Doctors”