September 2010
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CopyRanter discusses Goldman Sachs new ad campaign →
Maybe it’s the painkillers or maybe this is really funny
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The Appeal of the Warhammer 40K Universe →
I’ve spent quite a lot of time in the Universe of Warhammer 40K, and it’s not a terribly pleasant place to live. War, disease, anarchy, death, mutation, demonic corruption, nihilism, cultural collapse, and the slow stagnation of human civilisation: these are just some of the aspects of everyday life here in the UK that I am reminded of when I visit the Imperium.
Various Black...
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Wii.com - Iwata Asks: Super Mario Bros. 25th... →
An amazing chat between Shigeru Miyamoto (inventor of Mario / Zelda / nearly every good Nintendo game) and Shigesato Itoi (inventor of Earthbound, and a few others)
Even though I feel the current Nintendo aren’t really putting out anything that interests me, it is a fascinating insight into the mind of a man that I very much respect, creatively. He goes into a lot of detail not about...
Ancient Order of Froth Blowers - Wikipedia, the... →
“A sociable and law abiding fraternity of absorptive Britons who sedately consume and quietly enjoy with commendable regularity and frequention the truly British malted beverage as did their forbears and as Britons ever will, and be damned to all pussyfoot hornswogglers from overseas and including low brows, teetotalers and MPs and not excluding nosey parkers, mock religious busy bodies...
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Steamed Hams →
The aurora borealis. At this time of year. In this part of the country. Localized entirely within your kitchen.
Yes.
May I see it?
No.
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Getting Made The Scorsese Way →
An amazing article about the creation of Goodfellas, one of the best films of all time.
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Konami Code | Labs | Pete Goodman - Web Developer →
Konami Code? In my website?
It’s more likely than you think.
(via the good Mr RDK, who’s also a pretty decent Warthog gunner)
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Biolab Diaster →
sebbo:
Wow, look what HTML5 can do.
Most impressive.
Color Identifier for iPhone →
This is probably the most amazing app I’ve ever seen.
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Air Display « Avatron Software →
An app that lets you use your iPad as a second display. Seems to work really nicely - it’s not full speed or perfect quality, but I’m using it to display a couple of Terminal processes I’m running and it’s certainly good enough for that.
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Colonel Sanders help you in Phantasy Star Portable... →
Makes perfect sense.
No wait, hang on. No it doesn’t. It doesn’t make any sense at all.
It sort of confirms my theory that Sega spend all the money they make selling poor-quality Sonic games on low-grade crack.
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Is Lady Gaga a feminist icon? | Music | The... →
(need to change the name of this place to a gaga related pun)
(tempted to go with Rad Bromance)
Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds | Vanity Fair →
Fascinating article explaining just what exactly went wrong in Greece.
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God Emperor of Dune
Whenever I’m asked what my favourite book is, I usually say 1984, or Dorian Gray. In nerdier company I admit it might be Eisenhorn or the original Rogue Trader rulebook. And yes, those are all definitely the rest of my top 5.
But truthfully, my absolute favourite has to be God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert. Never before (and possibly never since) has an author created such a consistent,...
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Coderspiel — Exchange “remote wipe” is a terrible,... →
This guy is so full of shit that when he cuts himself he reaches for the Andrex.
Yeah, there are “sadistic dolts” in IT. But let’s be frank about it - would you rather see a few whiny stories from people that have had their (unauthorised) devices wiped because they were using services not authorised and blessed by their IT departments (it’s a single email in most cases)?...
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ZumoCast →
ZumoCast is an amazing new app for streaming media and documents to your iPhone or iPad. I haven’t played with it a huge amount, but from what I’ve seen it should more or less completely replace Air Video, and with a bit of work give me full access to all of my music / films / comics from anywhere on the planet.
Which you have to admit is a massively cool idea.
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Chu Chu Rocket coming to iPad
Chu Chu Rocket is one of the top 3 Dreamcast games that never really got enough ettention (I also want to see a proper Crazy Taxi port, and some love for Ecco:DotF)
WatchI leave my old job for a few days and this is what starts happening.
Honestly I can’t leave you people unsupervised for a minute, can I.
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Universal Lands Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’ →
It’s a bloody ambitious plan, alright. But it’s probably the only way to bring something so massive to life.
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deathwank | Tumblr →
To date I am the only person that has tagged something as “deathwank” on Tumblr.
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Gap years: wasted youth? →
Easily the most depressing thing I’ve read in weeks.
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Balls! →
via http://twitter.com/chrismwoods
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WatchCarrot Cake Soup (Festival Cut) (by Max Folkman)
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Phone Phreaking in 1971
This was posted on Kottke.org about a minute ago, but has since disappeared. I’m posting the whole text verbatim from the RSS feed:
From the October 1971 issue of Esquire, Secrets of the Little Blue Box, an early mainstream piece on phone phreaking. Interestingly, a number of the early phone phreaks were blind kids, including Joe Engressia, who could whistle a perfect 2600 hertz tone.
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