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Unbelievable article about how Bungie has been calbrating the right amount of “fun” factor into Halo 3 and has learned from the mistakes of their past. Great article from a psychological and a design perspective.
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Neat-o utility that syncs two-way between iCal and Google Calendar. Would be nice to have the cross-platforminess of Google with the nice interface and utilty of iCal.
Tag Archives: Off-Topic
links for 2007-08-22
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Nice little battery of tutorials on how to get the most out of theming WordPress. Covers a range of topics from layout to PHP calls to typography with CSS.
–Arthur Koestler
“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.”
links for 2007-08-21
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You can stop watching after you see Limozeen’s concert rider. It’s all downhill from there.
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Man, what? Please explain to me what kind of sense this makes in any universe.
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More information on one of the weirdest corporate moves in a while coming out of Hollywood. Follow the money, please.
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I’ll have more to say about this for sure, but the whole thing should be seen as a black eye on the NFL and their policies, and more decisive action should be taken by the league and by the Falcons. This is inexcusable.
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I’m surprised I didn’t link to this earlier. Grab an IP or range of IPs, and see what edits have been made to Wikipedia from that location. This is tailor-made for system administrators. (Hint over.)
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Return fire! Fox reveals that it still supports Blu-Ray and plans on releasing a decent grouping of titles before the end of the year.
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Ever wonder why designers repeatedly choose to use Macs instead of PCs for their uses? I doubt this is the primary reason, but it does a good job of demonstrating the basic differences in font rendering and scaling between the two operating systems.
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The response from the currently-winning camp to the Paramount/DreamWorks HD-DVD weirdness. I don’t understand this at all.
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Early basics on how to theme WordPress for your own site. There’s some pointers here that I’m paying very close attention to right now.
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Another tutorial, this time on working with WordPress calls to display posts and basics on how to manage the database query loop.
Is “Confusinger” a Word?
Some of this information will be duplicated in my daily links post from del.icio.us tomorrow morning, but I find it irritating enough that I should say something about it.
What an… interesting day today in the format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Disc. I found out about it via a Twitter post from Microsoft’s Major Nelson , and followed the bread crumb trail to find more information on the situation, because it didn’t make much sense at first. (Major Nelson linked to this Excite News story first).
Ryan Markel 