Extra Future

Day: January 3, 2011

  • The Huawei U8100 and Mac OS X, “Upgrade Failed”

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    Phil Nelson
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    If you have a Huawei U8100 phone and you use Mac OS X and you’d like to update the firmware, don’t bother. After a full day of fighting with the thing, I’ve found you have to use Windows to load an SD card with the necessary files, or it simply won’t work. I’ve created this…

  • Todd Alcott’s 7-Part Review of The Shining

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    Readers of my [Twitter feed][twitter] may know Todd from [his great reviews of The Venture Bros][vb]. [This mammoth essay on The Shining][link] shows every bit of the insight of those articles and more. (via [Daring Fireball][df]) [link]: http://toddalcott.livejournal.com/tag/kubrick “Todd Alcott” [vb]: http://toddalcott.livejournal.com/tag/venture%20bros “Todd Alcott’s Venture Bros posts” [twitter]: http://twitter.com/philnelson “Me on Twitter” [df]: http://daringfireball.net “Daring…

  • Extra Future 2010 Retrospective: Kreskin

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    Phil Nelson
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    I made a bunch of weird stuff in 2010, and I’m going to spend the new few days or weeks telling you about them with short posts about each one. Up first is [Kreskin][kreskin], a project it took about 12 hours to spit out and another 12 to make usable. [kreskin]: http://kreskin.extrafuture.com “Kreskin” ##Kreskin (Cat.…

  • Bruce Sterling on Wikileaks

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    [New Zealand conference Webstock asks Bruce for his opinion and thoughts, and the result is a great, long, essay which you should read.][link] It goes well with a massive morning dose of coffee. [link]: http://www.webstock.org.nz/blog/2010/the-blast-shack/ “The Blast Shack”