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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 in something [...] -
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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.
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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 like Chrome [...] -
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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.
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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 algorithm [...] -
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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 vote for blinking [...] -
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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 will [...] -
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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 are [...] -
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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 Off.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }
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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 images, [...] -
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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 itself, at least [...] -
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The XBox 360 Marketplace is Over
05.22.08 | Permalink | Comments OffMicrosoft on upcoming changes to Marketplace:
While the service has had a lot of success and now boasts over 130 titles, we think it is time to continue our focus on quality over quantity. … we will be delisting older underperforming titles in order to keep the service focused on a section of high quality games. [...] -
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Vlog TV Denver
05.19.08 | Permalink | Comments OffThere’s this public access television show in Denver called Vlog TV.
It’s basically a call-in request-a-youtube-video show. Viewers call in and drop the names of their favorite YouTube or other videos and the VJs play them over the air. If the video contains any profanity, such as when they showed Shoes (below), the VJs mute the [...]
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Why You Gotta Love The Internet
A sampling of why you gotta love the internet:
Gotta love the internet for making the world a whole lot smaller.
Gotta love the Internet for making it all possible!
Gotta love the internet for all it’s shopping opportunities!!!
You’ve gotta’ love the internet for its ability to help solve problems other than CSS or programming .
You gotta’ [...] -
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GTA IV is not About You, Sorry
05.05.08 | Permalink | Comments OffWhy isn’t Niko from GTA IV black / a woman / etc.? (We have this argument again.)
Because, as many forget and others just do not know, GTA is supposed to tell a story, dammit!
As did GTA SA, for example.
I’m actually enough of a fanboy to believe that Rockstar said with GTA SA, “Hey, with black [...] -
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Quality Control
It’s always weird that when eating this “industrialized food” we eat – meaning food formed in a factory, extruded from machines, cooked on conveyor belts – you still can come across some minor defect, such as a burnt cracker or misformed fold of packaging.
It’s rare, but it happens. It happens despite the likely ridiculous amounts [...] -
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Pointing a Video Camera At Your Head
I recently got a video camera.
When you point a video camera at people, it’s very different than pointing a regular camera at them. With a regular camera, it seems everyone strikes a pose, knows what to do. With a video camera not so much.
A video camera is scarier. Perhaps its thanks to the proliferation [...] -
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Me Zombified by Rob Sacchetto
04.15.08 | Permalink | Comments Off.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }
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