Author: Phil Nelson
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F*****M From Porn
[WFMU’s Benjamen Walker on Apple’s terrible text auto-censorship][link] in iTunes. [link]: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/06/fm-from-porn.html “F•••••M From Porn – WFMU’s Beware of the Blog”
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Ars Technia on Indie Filmmakers’ P2P Lawsuits
[It’s not just for the MPAA anymore.][link] Lots of these films probably made more from the lawsuits than they did in the theater. [link]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/06/the-riaa-amateurs-heres-how-you-sue-p2p-users.ars “The RIAA? Amateurs. Heres how you sue 14,000+ P2P users”
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Proper Fucking Booming
[A diary from a Daily Kos user and boomer][link], the basics of one of the myriad things that BP fucked up on the Gulf spill. [link]: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/5/11/11558/1890 “Daily Kos: State of the Nation”
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Smokescreen: a Flash player in JavaScript
[Very impressive.][link] If I were Adobe I’d be contributing to this project right now. [link]: http://simonwillison.net/2010/May/29/smokescreen/ “Smokescreen demo: a Flash player in JavaScript”
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Wikipedia Is Broken In Dictionary.app
I’m not sure if this is due to [Wikipedia’s new skin][skin] (with the “usability” enhancements), some other MediaWiki update, or if the problem is on Apple’s end (*Update*: [It is a problem with Wikipedia’s new skin][fix]), but this is another good example of why Apple doesn’t want to rely on third-party vendors for anything. [skin]:…
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100 Rogues
[A great-looking roguelike developed from the ground-up for the iPhone][link]. [link]: http://www.100rogues.com/ “100 Rogues | An Arcade-Style Role Playing Game for iPhone & iPod Touch”
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Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks
[John Gruber provides a helpful method for blocking those super-annoying copy/paste shenanigans][link] that append the “Read More” links to everything you copy from sites like The New Yorker and TechCrunch. [link]: http://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks “Daring Fireball: Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks”
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OpenPandora: “The most powerful gaming handheld there is.”
[I’m sure your specs are great, but what a pooch][link]. Looks extremely unwieldy and chunky. It looks like it was designed by the same group as [the WarMouse (formerly known as OpenOffice Mouse)][mouse]. [link]: http://www.open-pandora.org/index.php “OpenPandora” [mouse]: http://warmouse.com/ “WarMouse”
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Warner Bros. Sued for Pirating Anti-Piracy Technology
[From the Do-As-I-Say Department][link]: >Warner Bros. has been sued by a German technology firm which claims the movie and television production company pirated its anti-piracy technology. I can only assume that anyone at Warner Bros HQ will be no longer allowed to connect to the internet for any purpose, right? That’s what they want to…
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Pabst Brewing Co. Purchased For $250 Million
[By investor C. Dean Metropoulos][link], famous in food-circles for managing Chef Boyardee, Duncan Hines and Ghirardelli Chocolates. Here’s to hoping he doesn’t fuck it up. [link]: http://www.chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/05/woodridge-based-pabst-brewing-to-get-new-owner.html “Woodridge-based Pabst Brewing to get new owner – Chicago Breaking Business”
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A Collection of Bowling Alley Scoreboards
[I can smell the shoe-refresher and Miller Lite from here][link]. Smells like home. via [Andy Baio][andy], and I noticed that the site uses [la petite url][la] for short urls. Sold! [link]: http://worldfamousdesignjunkies.com/bad-taste/1000-screens-1000-dreams/ “World Famous Design Junkies » 1,000 Screens, 1,000 Dreams” [la]: http://extrafuture.com/la-petite-url “la petite url” [andy]: http://waxy.org “Waxy dot org”
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Web Development Thought For The Day
It is 2010. If you have a mailing list and every message does not include a one-click unsubscribe link, you are either lazy or an asshole.