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HOWTO Get a Free Nintendo Wii
02.05.09 | Permalink | Comments OffAs a likely a side effect of the recent worldwide financial instability, I’ve known a lot of people that have decided to be more disciplined about their savings and finances. Good idea! That said, I’m surprised that despite this new movement towards frugality, millions of people continue to participate in the single worst savings plan [...]
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HOWTO Use Amazon EC2 for Bittorrent
01.17.09 | Permalink | 12 CommentsBittorrent, for how brilliant it is, is becoming a problem. You’ve probably heard about how ISPs are choosing to throttle even legitimate usage of the protocol as it slowly eats away at their bandwidth. Additionally, Inter-office VoIP networks can become crippled by just a few employees seeding last week’s episode of Battlestar. For me, at [...]
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Twitter Command Prefix
01.02.09 | Permalink | Comments OffThe saga of dmfail.com is all the proof you need that there should be a command prefix for Twitter. What I mean is Twitter should have some special character that signifies that you would like to ask a special feature of the service. It would have to be something that would be available on mobile [...]
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Linux is the “Slow Food” of Computing
11.15.08 | Permalink | 2 Commentsphoto courtesy of zopeuse For a long time I wasn’t entirely sure why I begin to use Linux as my primary computing platform. The Open Source idea had a lot to do with it, for sure, but I am no Open Source zealot. At most I’m a polite evangelist – when I have the energy. [...]
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Some More Favorite Tweets
As I have nothing to write about. Been making too much internet lately, I guess. Oh and I am negatendo on twitter, of course, if you want to follow me. fireland Well, it’s official: I’m the only person on alt.tv.bosom-buddies.fanfic who still respects the fucking canon. mike_ftw I’m confused as to how the world went [...]
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At Last, The Lasers
10.02.08 | Permalink | Comments OffAt Last, The Lasers, originally uploaded by negatendo. As a child, every year I wanted the cool laser background for my Junior High school photo more than anything in the world. I mean, lasers! Lasers rule. Unfortunately I could never convince my parents to spend the extra $4 to make it happen. However, now with [...]
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Stop Calling Video Games Art
09.28.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsPlease stop calling video games art. Art is a name you give something to keep people from taking it seriously. It’s a name you give something to make it safe. Names in general do that. Think about the good “art” today and you will see how it’s trying not to be “art” – “art” as [...]
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Quote of the Moment
09.25.08 | Permalink | Comments OffI love how all of those ideas you came up with while doing bong rips are suddently monetizable with the Internet. The Triumph of Bullshit
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The Data
09.03.08 | Permalink | Comments OffJust a quick thought on Chrome: it is a response to data, and not necessarily an innovation. With all Google knows about the web, it logically follows that they would see its problems and know its limits – moreso than anyone. It’s quite possible that any other company wouldn’t have risked so much on something [...]
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Coke in the Drinking Fountains
08.28.08 | Permalink | Comments OffThat was the golden ticket to class presidency in elementary school. Whoever said it first, won. Candidate A: I promise less homework! Candidate B: Three words: Coke in the Drinking Fountains. [sic - it was, after all, elementary school] That was it. Candidate B, by a landslide, would become class president.
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I’ve Been Type-Casted
08.26.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsMy friend Brian Wilkens needed to make a video promoting The New Denver Ad Club‘s The Denver 50 – some kind of advertising dick-contest competition held in Denver every year. He wanted to do a sarcastic, mumblecore-style riff on the original video announcing the contest. He asked me to act in it, which I thought [...]
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How You Play Marbles
08.23.08 | Permalink | Comments OffJack: [said as a metaphor for negotiation] It’s like marbles. He’s going to try to grab all the marbles and it’s our job to hide them. Liz: That’s not how you play marbles Jack. Jack: But thats how you keep them. 30 Rock Episode 115
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A Teasing Little Mind Virus
What if Wikipedia could administer a teasing little mind virus which, during your blessed moments of idleness, would say things like “red blood cells are pretty crazy, dude….” in just that way that would make you need to check Wikipedia right now? That’s what Pandora does, and that’s pretty much their business model. Its little [...]
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A Few Favorite Twitters
08.03.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsI want to write an auto-posting script to post my Twitter favorites to del.icio.us (or here), but I don’t know aren’t auomatic-posting things kind of annoying? Anyway…. xenijardin: Finally saw Dark Knight. Wow. Want a LOITER/INTIMIDATE mode for my ride. Also boo on Batman for the warrantless wiretapping. DieLaughing: A vote for McCain is a [...]
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Denial of Death
From Is there a worst way to die? A century ago, a person with cancer would die. A person with access to today’s medical technology has a much better chance to live. In this manner, some have come to see medicine as a way to cheat death, and rather than confront the fact that they [...]
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All About Denver
08.01.08 | Permalink | Comments OffAll you fancy New Yorkers pay close attention, ya-hear?
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We Are In Trouble
07.22.08 | Permalink | Comments OffThis was an email forward I received. I tried to find its source but all I found was about 100 different amalgams instead. Email forwards are like the telephone game. They always change a little bit each time they’re sent. I changed this one too. The population of this country is 300 million. 160 million [...]
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Rewarding Myself
07.19.08 | Permalink | Comments OffI’m supposed to reward myself for upgrading to WordPress 2.6 as per the upgrade instructions. Hmm, this is OK, I guess, but can’t they make an ice-cream cone come out of my CD-ROM drive or something?
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My PokerTH Opponents
07.06.08 | Permalink | Comments OffMy PokerTH Opponents, originally uploaded by negatendo.
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Cop-Out
I have a really cool idea for a blog post, but I don’t know entirely what it’s about yet so I just Twittered the idea. Twittering random something like that is nice to do when you’re feeling lazy because then you don’t have to explain yourself. Huzzah! Here are some roadside Variable Message Sign hack [...]
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Big Things Happen in Linux
I’ve learned something really kooky and important about the Linux culture. Take this Ubuntu forum thread about a configuring a bit of software called Conky. Conky is something utterly, microcosmically configureable. Like a lot of open source software is. Like Vim or KDE or Linux itself. And it’s not that have to “reprogram” the software [...]
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