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Michael Sippey on the creation of episode-based micro-communities for people who consume TV episodes after-the-fact…
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“Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey, 45, has been signed up to play Lex Luthor in the Superman sequel, due out in 2006”(categories: film kevinspacey briansinger superman superheroes comicbooks adaptations cinema movies)
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“BBC2 controller Roly Keating, his wife and their three young children were driven out of their £1million house after a Christian group posted his private address and telephone number on its website.”
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“I can feel the moral fibre within me shrivelling as I type. In fact, I am sure now, more than ever before, that Jesus is a nappy-wearing gay baby. I had my suspicions before…”
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How depressing. Comment spammers are – I think – even more reprehensibly bottom-feeding than the human charity spam on the streets that harrass you on the way to work…(categories: commentspam weblog weblogs blog blogs comments spam spammers gamingsystem arseholes bottomfeeders vile)
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Includes stories like, “A Tetra Pak subsidiary has found a dipping and coating solution for novelty ice creams, which it hopes will eliminate sub-standard ice cream coatings ‚Äì welcome news for ice cream manufacturers…”
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I’ve already linked to it in the main weblog, but I want to keep it for later, cos it’s a neat fake…
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Most interesting one: “Googlets – People cash out and leave Google, creating a startup frenzy in SF”(categories: google prediction davidgalbraith 2005 future expectations business technology IPO microsoft)
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This is an old one but really interesting. Lots of questions here that are worth asking
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“It’s not hard to imagine that first-day reaction to the Mini would have been better had rumors not set the false expectation that they were going to sell for $100-150…”
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Thanks to the 2lmc-ers for mentioning this. Key quote: “This new book is an entry-level history of the Underground, and it becomes clear from reading it that the faults of the system were built into it from the moment the first sod was turned.”
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I was sure I’d posted this before, but I can’t find it anywhere on delicious or on the main weblog, so I guess I didn’t. Stunning pictures – like something from Quake…
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(1) I’ve not read it, but it’s sat in my to read pile forever so I’m giving up and sticking it in delicious for later. (2) I’m only ploughing through that pile because I’m trying to avoid doing the Apple piece… No joke. I’m a disaster…
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“What are you doing up so late, staring at the computer screen reading this? For that matter, what am I doing up late writing this at 11pm? Are we all nuts?”
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Bloc Party vs. George Michael… The dynamics of a thousand upcoming familial battles…(categories: airportexpress airtunes music audio technology newmusicalfunctionality apple osx itunes ipod)
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“One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior.” The US Army are – bluntly – sick fucking fuck fucks…(categories: freaky funny sick homophobic vile gay homosexuality chemicalweapons morale army usarmy usa america americans)
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Mooted a lot last year, very interesting stuff, windows-only which kind of sucks, apparently no better than the RSS plug-in for Azureus…(categories: rss bittorrent downloads tv television ondemand pvr download windows azureus feed feeds programmes)
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And I quote: In some ways, now is a better time than ever to quit. “If you’ve been at one company for too long, corporate America figures that you are a dud,” says Barbara Sher…
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Dumb old link. I shouldn’t have posted it, but I did because tabbed browsing is awesome and non-tabbed browsing sucks…(categories: humour homersimpson webbrowsers browsers browser tab tabbedbrowsing tabs userinterface funny cartoon tv television)
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“Each side stood to gain from the strengths of the other. One thing is for sure, Tamborello and Gibbard wouldn’t have received the same cooperation if they chose the name ‘Outlook Express.'”(categories: postalservice mail post uspostalservice band music litigation law conflict trademark copyright name)
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I feel like I should do something to celebrate it, or educate. I wish I could do something with work. I’ll have to think more about this…(categories: gay history gayhistory gayhistorymonth lesbian transgender politics campaign campaigning education)
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Weblogs where comment spam is left untended appears to attract even more comment spam. Which would suggest that it should be quite easy for Google or whoever to start redressing the page rank (if they’re not doing it already)…(categories: google pagerank commentspam movabletype weblog weblogs blog blogs comments spammers scum searchengines scripts automation)
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I can’t even begin to put into words how terrifying I find this.(categories: evolution religion propaganda christianity bunk creationism intelligentdesign parody caricature)
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3 replies on “Links for 2005-01-10”
I would rather you not identify this crackpot with Christianity as a whole. He is a loon, and not indicative of those of us who are a bit more informed.
He is an extremist, not the norm.
There’s Engineering, and then
… there’s ENGINEERING. According to a blurb at Plastic Bag.org the following link shows photos from Tokyo’s massive underground flood and water system. And it’s a place I’d pay to take a tour of, if the pictures are at all…
Yeah, Chick is to Christianity as boiling acid is to a nice cup of tea. Though once you get over the stunned horror his comics are endlessly amusing, in a really facinatingly horrified kind of way.