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Month: August 2010

  • THE INCIDENT

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Now available for iPhone and iPad][link]. One of the most utterly delightful games I’ve ever played, for any console. A little bit of Katamari Damacy, a little bit of Tetris, a whole lot of beautiful faux-16-bit graphics and sound. Every byte of this game was crafted with care. You will not find a better way…

  • There’s Only One Internet

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    Phil Nelson
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    [John Bergmayer for Public Knowledge:][link] >[…] Google CEO Eric Schmidt claims to be crafting rules that will protect “the next Google.” But with weak “rules” like the ones his company has proposed, he can rest assured that the next Google will be…Google. If the Verizon/Google proposal is adopted, the window of openness that allowed companies…

  • Craig Aaron on The Google-Verizon Pact: “It Gets Worse”

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    Phil Nelson
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    [This is really, really, bad stuff][link]. Wonder what the news coverage will be like? Will any mainstream non-blog sources even bother? [link]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-aaron/google-verizon-pact-it-ge_b_676194.html “Craig Aaron: Google-Verizon Pact: It Gets Worse”

  • HTML5 Reset

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    Phil Nelson
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    [A pack containing a rudimentary baseline HTML5 document, with CSS and JS files.][link] It sounds like a does a bit more than it needs to do, but I suppose in this case that’s better than not enough. [link]: http://html5reset.org/ “HTML5 Reset”

  • Google and Verizon Say No To Wireless Net Neutrality

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Read the full policy on Google’s policy blog][link]. Here’s how it reads to me: The “wireline” (read: everything but cell networks) internet, where it helps Google’s business that providers are not allowed to make one site or service load faster than another (Say, Bing gets priority over Google Search) net neutrality is sacrosanct. The “wireless”…

  • Math advice for paranoid aliens

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    Phil Nelson
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    [John August crowd-sources answers to some screenwriting issues][link] in his blog comments. >Far away on a distant planet, an intelligent but very paranoid species is constructing a series of terrestrial watchtowers to scan the heavens, making sure no space-traveling enemies sneak up on them. > >You can think of these watchtowers as observatories, each one…

  • Confessions of a Tea Party Casualty

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    Phil Nelson
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    [A profile from Mother Jones about a right-wing member of the House][link] who lost his re-election bid for being too sane. >”They were upset with me,” Inglis recalls. “They are all Glenn Beck watchers.” About 90 minutes into the meeting, as he remembers it, “They say, ‘Bob, what don’t you get? Barack Obama is a…

  • Auto-tweet from WordPress with Petite URLs

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Patrick at Deferred Procrastination has got la petite url working with a WordPress Twitter updater.][link] This is a much-asked-for feature for [la petite url][la] itself. [link]: https://www.deferredprocrastination.co.uk/blog/2010/auto-tweet-from-wordpress-with-petite-urls/ “Auto-tweet from WordPress with Petite URLs” [la]: http://extrafuture.com/la-petite-url “la petite url”