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Archive for February, 2006

Wired’s hollywood affliction

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

What’s the deal with Wired magazine becoming an advertisement for the movies? Over the past 8 months or so, I feel like 4 cover stories have been about the movies or hollywood, and every issue has at least one hollywood-related article. What gives, mateys?

how to make a gazillion in the market

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

It’s easy! This ad makes it plain as day:

20.28% omfg!!! Over 7 years!!! and the last 3 years are way better than that! Since we all know that the past 3 years’ performance is the best indication of future performance, this is a clear buy.
And they use fancy industry terms like “Basis [...]

zillow

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Potentially a neat idea:
http://www.zillow.com/
This site lets you look at home values in your area. It already surprised me to see how prices were in my area.
Needs work on the map interface and the firefox support.
And what a wierd name.. wtf is a zillow?
Ah, here we go:

Why “Zillow”?
Once they hatched their idea, they needed a [...]

cartoons about cartoons

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

The Sketch Guide

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Super geeky, and highly entertaining:

the (final fantasy iii/vi) sketch guide!
This guy makes an entire FAQ devoted to what is basically the worst ability in the game. And he isn’t afraid to admit it. In fact, he talks about it like it’s a red-headed step child.
Here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite:

See, if Blitz [...]

why the cartoons and their reaction are good for america

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

If the world didn’t understand before how screwed up the fundamentalists
are, they should now. The torching of the Danish embassy is so far from a
reasonable reaction that only the truly whacko could have done it.

if you can’t beat ‘em..

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

Enough crappy perl script blog (blosxom). I’m moving on up, to a crappy php script blog!
It’s a shame that the state of web programming is still as bad as it is. Perhaps the problem is that people who are good at/enjoy web development aren’t really good programmers, and vice versa.