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September 15, 2009

Kickstarter ()

by fluffy at 4:53 PM
My good friend Ken just pointed me to Kickstarter, which is sort of a venture capital system for creative talent. If you're a musician, filmmaker, animator, artist, author, etc. who needs funding to get a project off the ground, Kickstarter could be a useful way to go about doing that.

November 10, 2008

OLPC has been a disappointment ()

by fluffy at 11:16 AM
So maybe this project will fare better.

October 21, 2008

Yes ()

by fluffy at 8:28 AM

October 16, 2008

September 16, 2008

It's all making sense now ()

by fluffy at 10:12 AM
From an article about Tina Fey's portrayal of Palin:

Meanwhile, Republican presidential candidate John McCain's adviser Carly Fiorina said she found Fey's portrait "very dismissive" of Palin.

"The portrait was very dismissive of the substance of Sarah Palin, and so in that sense, they were defining Hillary Clinton as very substantive, and Sarah Palin as totally superficial," Fiorina told MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell.

(emphasis mine)

Suddenly it's all making sense. I just hope Fiorina does to McCain what she did to Hewlett-Packard.

July 16, 2008

Yet another gender test ()

by fluffy at 8:00 AM
This one is very easy to take, though: it just analyzes your browser history.

My results: 50% female, 50% male. GO FIGURE.

July 15, 2008

May 19, 2008

YouTube is so passé ()

by fluffy at 1:48 PM
Apparently, the new hotness is making fake video reviews on Amazon.

April 30, 2008

April 18, 2008

While I appreciate good design ()

by fluffy at 8:51 AM
here are several examples of one of the biggest problems we had on Kindle. I'm having especially strong flashbacks for pages 6, 15, 16, 18, 19 (holy crap!), 23, 24 (way to break conventions just for the sake of breaking conventions!), 25, 29, and 30.

Also, I'm sure 10 would have probably broken things in an interesting yet subtle way.

(One might say that seeing this gave me a TOC-tic.)

March 4, 2008

More reasons to abolish DST ()

by fluffy at 4:32 PM
Not only is it jarring and confusing, but it turns out that it doesn't save energy at all.

February 27, 2008

iPhone/iPod Touch SDK: February 35th (, )

by fluffy at 11:05 AM
Yay, maybe my iPod Touch will actually become a useful Internet device soon-ish.

January 10, 2008

January 3, 2008

December 30, 2007

"Skin Horse" by Shaenon Garrity ()

by fluffy at 11:51 PM
I just opened up my feedreader and what do I find, but a new comic by Shaenon Garrity! Woo! (Well, written by Garrity and Wells.)

Only one strip has been posted so far and it's already looking quite awesome. (Hopefully Wells' writing won't get as goofy and "random" as his stories normally are, though.)

December 19, 2007

October 8, 2007

October 3, 2007

What's on Flickr? (, )

by fluffy at 1:44 PM

September 17, 2007

Ryan Estrada is insane ()

by fluffy at 9:47 AM
I can't be the only one who's noticed that like every single comic on the Internet has a guest strip by Ryan Estrada today.

September 7, 2007

K5 reminder ()

by fluffy at 5:07 PM
I was just looking for more information about boost::any_cast and came across this old article by ucblockhead. The comments are pure gold, and not because of any sort of insight they bring.

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