Extra Future

Year: 2010

  • The Case Against COICA

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    Phil Nelson
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    [The Combatting Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) is bad mojo][link] that will not only limit creativity but stifle business. It will unconstitutionally restrict freedom of speech, raise the cost of doing business on the internet in a time when the economy is already in the toilet, and **create an internet blacklist in America**. [The…

  • Less IMDb

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    Phil Nelson
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    [A Safari extension which gets rid of most of the bullshit on IMDb.][link] [link]: http://quoteunquoteapps.com/less-imdb “Less IMDb – The wonder of IMDb, with less clutter. | Quote-Unquote Apps”

  • Aspyr Thinks This Is A Totally Reasonable Way To Treat Paying Customers

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    Phil Nelson
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    Aspyr, who are publishing the Mac OS X port of Civilization 5, [have a page linked in their primary navigation for their store entitled “About DRM”. The contents are remarkable for how not-a-big-deal it is written][link]: >Customers may download the game up to 10 times. This includes if you mess up and “re-download.” If you…

  • Flying Meat, Inc. T-Shirts

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    Phil Nelson
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    Flying Meat, makers of fine Macintosh softwares such as [Acron (the image editor for humans)][acorn], [are selling t-shirts][link]. A Flying Meat t-shirt is your ticket to me buying you a beer. [link]: http://www.buyolympia.com/q/Item=flying-meat-shirt “buyolympia.com: Flying Meat – Flying Meat” [acorn]: http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/ “Acorn – The Image Editor for Humans”

  • The Road Printer

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    Phil Nelson
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    [BLDGBLOG:][link] >A new street-printing device—unfurling a geological substrate known as Tiger Stone, as orderly and as easy “as laying laminate flooring”—can neatly place brick roads where there weren’t roads before. [link]: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/road-printer.html “BLDGBLOG: The Road Printer”

  • Rapportive

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    Phil Nelson
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    [A Gmail extension that grabs useful information from the public domain on people who send you email.][link] Works for Safari, Chrome, Firefox. [link]: http://rapportive.com/ “Rapportive”

  • The Globe And Mail’s Coverage of GamerCamp

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Being a 2-day event run by two friends of mine, which has been, thus far, absolutely wonderful.][link] The level of games talent in Toronto is exciting. [link]: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/torontos-indie-gaming-scene-levels-up/article1797629/ “Toronto’s indie gaming scene levels up – The Globe and Mail”

  • Regularly Scheduled

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    Phil Nelson
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    After many months of being inactive, I’ve turned the Extra Future twitter bot, @extrafuture back on. It will now post each time I update this very website. Adjust your *entire lifestyle* as you see fit.

  • BlackSheep, the Firesheep countermeasure tool

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    Phil Nelson
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    Like the thing it acts against, [it is a Firefox plugin][link]. Were Firesheep a serious malicious tool, the race between BlackSheep countermeasures and Firesheep countercountermeasures would be endless, and Firesheep would always “win”. You can’t develop countermeasures until an attack has been successful. This was and is the message of Firesheep to begin with: The…

  • HTML5 Audio Safari Extension

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Another in the recent line of “replace Flash whenever possible” Safari plugins,][link] which replaces popular Flash-based audio players with the HTML5 <audio> element. See also: [The YouTube5 extension][yt5], which does the same for YouTube embeds. [link]: http://shauninman.com/archive/2010/11/05/html5audio_safari_extension “HTML5 Audio Safari Extension // ShaunInman.com” [yt5]: http://www.verticalforest.com/2010/10/27/youtube5-version-2/ “Youtube 5”

  • “Copyright Infringement and Me”

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    Phil Nelson
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    The Editor of the magazine Cooks Source prints the entirety of an author’s article without clearing it with her. [The author asks why this happened, and the editor tells her that she should be glad it got printed at all][link]. The editor’s response is batshit, and actually contains this sentence: >But honestly Monica, the web…

  • Jasoco’s Adventure Game Engine

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    Phil Nelson
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    [A promising project for the open source game framework Löve for developing Zelda-style 2d adventure games.][link] [link]: http://github.com/Jasoco/LOVE-Adventure-Game-Engine “Jasoco’s LOVE-Adventure-Game-Engine at master – GitHub”