Extra Future

Month: April 2010

  • Ectomo.com Is Back Online

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    I spent some of last week helping Eliza Gauger get ectomo.com back up and running, [and now it is][link]. Hooray!? [link]: http://www.ectomo.com/ “ECTOPLASMOSIS!”

  • The Devastator – A New Book Series of Comics and Satire

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    [Issue #1 features Extra Future royalty James Urbaniak and David Malki][link]. [link]: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/969059914/the-devastator-a-new-book-series-of-comics-and-sat “The Devastator – A New Book Series of Comics and Satire — Kickstarter”

  • Twitter Acquires Tweetie

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    [It was only a matter of time before Twitter started getting to the app game.][link] Here’s to hoping Twitter doesn’t wreck my favorite client. [link]: http://blog.twitter.com/2010/04/twitter-for-iphone.html “Twitter Blog: Twitter for iPhone”

  • Today’s Dose Of Future

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    >[Inspired by a standard office inkjet printer, U.S. researchers have rigged up a device that can spray skin cells directly onto burn victims, quickly protecting and healing their wounds as an alternative to skin grafts.][link] *Sprays skin cells*. [link]: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100408/science/science_us_wounds_printer “Inkjet-like device ‘prints’ cells right over burns – Yahoo! Canada News”

  • The Digg iFrame Toolbar is Dead

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    [One of new CEO Kevin Rose’s first announced actions][link], and it’s a good one. I guess I’ll have to retire [DiggBarred][diggbarred]. [link]: http://about.digg.com/blog/digg-digg-iframe-toolbar-dead-unbanning-domains “Digg: The Digg iFrame Toolbar is Dead / Unbanning Domains | Digg About” [diggbarred]: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/diggbarred/ “Diggbarred on WordPress.org”

  • Daring Fireball: The iPad

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    [John Gruber’s 7,000-word opus on the new face of modern computing.][link] [link]: http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/the_ipad “Daring Fireball: The iPad”

  • Bill Simmons on Sabermetrics

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    [Sabermetrics turns Baseball into a math nerd’s game.][link] I find nothing wrong with that whatsoever. [link]: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100402 “Bill Simmons: Finally on board the sabermetrics revolution – ESPN”

  • Eat Like A TV Caveman With Mail Order ‘Mammoth Meat’

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    [Sometimes, Japan, you are all right.][link] [link]: http://inventorspot.com/articles/eat_tv_caveman_mail_order_mammoth_meat_34970 “Eat Like A TV Caveman With Mail Order ‘Mammoth Meat'”

  • Apple’s Use Of Private APIs In The App Store, iTunes Music Store

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    [John Gruber notes][john], vis-a-vis [this talk given by Bertrand Serlet][talk] on Apple’s API Lifecycle, that: >Apple doesn’t disallow the use of private APIs out of spite; they disallow it because their private APIs are not fully baked. It should be obvious, but: Apple’s intentions are utterly unimportant in this matter. Using private APIs for system-level…

  • 2d Boy’s Ron Carmel Creating A Game With WarioWare: D.I.Y.

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    [Cool promo video from Nintendo with one of the creators of World of Goo.][link] I love the spirit of the game, it is very “get it done” as opposed to “make it perfect.” [link]: http://www.twitvid.com/OCPNO “Check out this behind-the-scenes look at 2D BOY’s Ron Carmel creating Suck Goo! with WarioWare: D.I.Y. by Nintendo of America…

  • iBooks and ePub

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    [Liza Daly takes a look at how iBooks does and doesn’t adhere to the ePub specification][link]. With actual code samples and examples of “broken” files. [link]: http://blog.threepress.org/2010/04/05/ibooks-and-epub/ “iBooks and ePub : Threepress Consulting blog”

  • Synopsis Quest Deluxe

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    [A series of mini-games based on the tedium of the standard RPG][link]. All of the inflated sense of self worth, none of the hassle. [link]: http://www.skipmore.com/freegames/synopsis/synopsis.html “Free game | Omnibus RPG | Synopsis Quest Deluxe”