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4/22/2005

He wishes for the cloths of heaven

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

— William Butler Yeats

I want to say that I knew this poem, that I passed across it in my years as an English Literature major. But actually, I got it from Equilibrium and I remember it mostly because Boromir said it. Well-referenced is the new well-read.

4/11/2005

The Shat at the top of the mountain

it hasn’t happened yet
(more…)

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4/8/2005

Autoerotic innuendo not intended.

This is comforting news after the “Behind Blue Eyes” debacle. Mitch Hedberg beats the pope.

BW: Not surprising, really. Can Catholics even use the internet?
SB: They have to use the rhythm method search page.
BW: That thing never works.
SB: I know. Hit “search”…NOW. Oh bluddy hell, look at this mess.

Google Press Center: Zeitgeist

3/11/2005

If you’ve got the stomach…

For players of World of Warcraft, a list of fun items and easter eggs only adds to the addiction. I’ll be taking my time to narrow the list to some of the best ones. For you, the Steelbuddha reader.

After all, no one wants to wade through the numerouds bitchy and double/triple/hundredple posts, least of all you, the Steelbuddha reader.

For the literary mind:

  • The 1 Ring. Also, humans give a bit of a long-winded satire of Tolkien’s work as one of their /silly responses.
  • Hemet Nesingwary (an anagram of Ernest Hemingway) and his expedition ask you to prove your worthiness as a hunter of wild beasts and to return pages of Hemet’s manuscript, The Green Hills of Stranglethorn

Historical myth and fact exploited:

  • Nessy [.jpg] can be found in the aquatic section of the Deeprun Tram if you like dodging trains.
  • Blizzard found Jimmy Hoffa.

Numerous Shrek-like pop culture movie references, though funnier, geekier and better masked:

  • Scooty and Sprok stand in front of transporters in Gnomeregan and Stranglethorn Vale.
  • You can find the Six Demon Bag, without having to deal with Egg Chen.
  • There is a goblin racing machine crashed into the side of a cliff. No word as to Buckaroo Banzai’s whereabouts.
  • One goblin racing machine is clearly modeled after the podracer from the ill-received “Phantom Menace.”
  • Woo Ping [.jpg] is selling two games at once, baby. He’s that fast.

Some people make their own fun (or is that pwn fun?):

That’s all the ones I’m going to filter. There are several more worth knowing, but you’d have to deal with the same idiocy on the boards that I did. And you, the Steelbuddha reader, are obviously above all that. Should you change your mind and want to read through them: WoW General Discussion –

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3/4/2005

Ajax: Warrior, cleanser, code engine.

This article is a nice little primer on Ajax, the in-place technology Google is using in its new apps, and likely the new way the web will work.

adaptive path » ajax: a new approach to web applications

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3/3/2005

Irrationally appealing

For those of you who played the first Freedom Force and loved the cartoony feel and the classic Silver Age characters, Irrational Games put forth its own money making another episode guaranteed to thrill and chill.

Other draws of this game include improved multiplayer, the feeling of joy that your money goes directly to the developers who clearly love putting these games out, the complete lack of kill-stealing lollerskates and run-by roflcopters from CoH people who never even try to keep the atmosphere in place, and a fun, engaging storyline.

Buy it now, for America!

Freedom Force vs The Third Reich

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3/1/2005

Follicle Fun.

I am doing this for charity. Organize one at your workplace today!

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2/25/2005

The Shopping Cart ain’t just a dance…

MetaFilter, home of the gods, pointed me towards this incredibly obvious and under-utilized eCommerce idea. Check it.

PanicGoods – Nice T-Shirts For The Panic Family.

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Stoners don’t even make bongs out of that. Wait…yeah they do.

“The resonant frequency of the Tortilla-Board™ is a harmonic of the clock frequency. This caused a feedback loop in the oscillator that increase the clock frequency of the 68HC11 by a factor of almost 2. That means that programs written for 68HC11 circuits using the Tortilla-Board™ run twice as fast. That was an exciting and unexpected development.”

Link snack-caked from Angst Technology.

Tortilla-Board: A New Breadboard Technique

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2/23/2005

The web is free, isn’t it?

This is what I deal with EVERY DAMN DAY with my clients (and friends who want websites.) The web is actually not anything like a building, despite the term “Information Architecture.” That descriptor, information, changes quite a bit about what to expect.

Software is too expensive to build cheaply…: If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers…

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