Ask MetaFilter: What happened to the cyberpunk movement?
january 2006 by markpasc
"The weird have turned pro. How many of the 80s hackers are now in managerial positions at software firms?"
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january 2006 by markpasc
Robot Co-op: Should Lists
january 2006 by markpasc
suggest media for someone on All Consuming by adding it to their world-writable wishlist
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january 2006 by markpasc
Kickstart my heart: Flickr! のアカウントをMTのコメント認証で使うプラグイン
december 2005 by markpasc
Sign in to comment on this MT blog with your Flickr account. Neat!
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december 2005 by markpasc
Odyssey 5 coming to DVD spring 2006
december 2005 by markpasc
woohoo! though I wish they'd actually finished the show; via Simon Carless
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december 2005 by markpasc
dottocomu: First look at the Sony EBR-1000 Librie eBook reader
october 2005 by markpasc
Sounds like a great prototype with horrible usability and DRM
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october 2005 by markpasc
Habbo Islands for Nokia N-Gage
october 2005 by markpasc
"Single player adventure world" with integrated Habbo Hotel chat
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october 2005 by markpasc
MTAmazon: Calling for Feature Requests
october 2005 by markpasc
Byrne requests new features for the next version of Movable Type's Amazon integration plugin
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october 2005 by markpasc
Dynamic content and clean urls with perl and apache? | Ask MetaFilter
october 2005 by markpasc
CGI::path_info or Catalyst
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threads
october 2005 by markpasc
Roam
october 2005 by markpasc
Search Second Life places from the web, presumably powered by WetIkon's Roam in-world transport device
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october 2005 by markpasc
New World Notes: Laying Down the Law
october 2005 by markpasc
Second Life notary signs documents with public key crypto
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october 2005 by markpasc
Six Apart ProNet: Packaging a Movable Type plugin with ExtUtils::MakeMaker
september 2005 by markpasc
Yesterday's article on a different site
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september 2005 by markpasc
Beginning Cocoa advice from Ask MetaFilter
september 2005 by markpasc
Recommendations for Python and PyObjC over real Objective-C; best advice: "Just code. It's the only way to learn."
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september 2005 by markpasc
NetJam Quoth demo
september 2005 by markpasc
Screencast of the music tracker Infocom would make
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september 2005 by markpasc
E Ink: Electronic paper prototype developer kit
september 2005 by markpasc
Six inch electronic paper display, Gumstix Linux box, and source code for $3000
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september 2005 by markpasc
Kermit Software Assists in Hurricane Tracking
september 2005 by markpasc
From thiswhen last year: "E-Kermit is the product of more than 20 years' experience with design and real-world implementation of file-transfer protocols that are resilient under harsh conditions, yet can go fast when sailing is smooth;" via Sean Burke
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september 2005 by markpasc
Graves & MacGuffin graphic novel preview
september 2005 by markpasc
"Graves & MacGuffin is a noir-ish murder mystery series set in the world of video game development. It features Graves, a video game tester, who rather falls into solving a cornucopia of gruesome or bizarre games industry crimes... with the help of MacGuf
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september 2005 by markpasc
Dav: blank white server
september 2005 by markpasc
"Users of the system can use the API to add functionality to server;" this is the difference between virtual worlds and the current web, but I'm not sure it's so different from having your own web server in the mesh (that is--we're going that way already)
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september 2005 by markpasc
Apple Developer Connection: iPod
september 2005 by markpasc
Nick wondered where those specs actually were; good question! I looked and found them here
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september 2005 by markpasc
bynkii.com's Mac Matters: iDevelopers! iDevelopers! iDevelopers!
september 2005 by markpasc
"The iPod's [not] a player, it's a *platform;*" I didn't know you could get hardware specs for the iPod for free from Apple
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september 2005 by markpasc
bit-tech.net: Court WoWs with Battle.net bypass ruling
september 2005 by markpasc
bnetd illegal under EULA/DMCA
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september 2005 by markpasc
Zap2it Blog: Kudos for Cooper Candor
september 2005 by markpasc
Anderson Cooper is the closest I have to a Cronkite or Rather; he was always the Channel One in-school infotainment news program's war correspondent
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september 2005 by markpasc
Phil Windley at ZDNet: How GTalk plays into Google's identity strategy
august 2005 by markpasc
Google Talk is open to other clients because it's about giving Google your buddy list?
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august 2005 by markpasc
More Google Talk-compatible Jabber plugin for Trillian Pro
august 2005 by markpasc
Official, but prerelease
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august 2005 by markpasc
Jeffrey McManus: Reward for the Duck-Mangler
august 2005 by markpasc
Posted "August 19, 2005 in That's Pretty Messed Up Right There" :/
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august 2005 by markpasc
Jonathan McPherson: GNU Screen
august 2005 by markpasc
"You can access the scrollback buffer by entering 'copy mode,' which is accomplished by typing C-a [." Omg screen is so much less broken now
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august 2005 by markpasc
Geek on Stun: Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! Shut Up!
august 2005 by markpasc
My copy should be coming soon ♥ ♥
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august 2005 by markpasc
Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)
august 2005 by markpasc
Roommate has it and I never played it, gasp
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enjoying
august 2005 by markpasc
Wired Mag article on aSmallWorld
august 2005 by markpasc
Nice eyeball kick: "If I'm trying to find someone to look after my purebred Samoyeds while I'm in St. Tropez, I'm not going to ask some naked Burning Man hula-hooper on Tribe.net."
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august 2005 by markpasc
Microsoft "PlaysForAlmostSure"
august 2005 by markpasc
"From an article in the Seattle Times... '[PlaysForSure] hasn't helped because not all devices with the logo actually work with the promised services.'"
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august 2005 by markpasc
Cafe Hayek: The Sky Isn't Falling
august 2005 by markpasc
Melanoma detection is up, but the death rate isn't
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august 2005 by markpasc
Disquiet field notes: No Merzbow in iTunes Japan
august 2005 by markpasc
"There's no Merzbow at all in the Japanese iTunes store, but at least three U.S. iTunes catalog items feature that legendary Japanese noise act. Of course, these are just cursory searches, and it's quite possible that some of the Japanese acts are filed u
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august 2005 by markpasc
The Escapist: Architecture and Vice: Fantasy in the Magic Kingdom of Second Life
august 2005 by markpasc
"SL goes down as the greatest public freak fest on the Internet."
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august 2005 by markpasc
Asa Dotzler on about:config versus "hard decisions:" not a versus
july 2005 by markpasc
"Second, just because Linux can offer a feature or a service or a config option doesn't mean it deserves a position on the main menus. The things that most people don't need most of the time shouldn't be mingling on the menus with the things that most peo
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july 2005 by markpasc
Tim Rogers review of We Love Katamari
july 2005 by markpasc
"Japanese hip-hop tends to come from men who hear hip-hop and like it, whereas the mythic origins of real, American hip-hop is that it was born from the very historical anger directed toward The Man. There is no anger in Japanese hip-hop, and consequently
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july 2005 by markpasc
Joe Gregorio: Secure syndication with Greasemonkey
july 2005 by markpasc
That is pretty hardcore
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july 2005 by markpasc
ONLamp.com: Apache's eXtended Server Side Includes
july 2005 by markpasc
Pagination with SSI
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july 2005 by markpasc
Voting for expansion to Dai Gassou! Band Brothers music-playing game for the Nintendo DS
july 2005 by markpasc
You should totally put "Counting Down the Hours" and "Ted Leo + Pharmacists" in the first two form fields and click the button kthx!
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july 2005 by markpasc
Popgadget: Seiko e-paper watch
july 2005 by markpasc
Not quite as cool as Citizen's e-ink clock, but definitely cool
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july 2005 by markpasc
brevity.org: Links to essays in Best Software Writing I
june 2005 by markpasc
Links to the previously published, online version of every chapter
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june 2005 by markpasc
cnet: Apple sued over iTunes interface
june 2005 by markpasc
Apparently some guy patented the music library interface
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june 2005 by markpasc
Pump It Up: In The Groove 2 Officially Announced
june 2005 by markpasc
The next episode of the arcade dance game soap opera: Roxor Games takes the sequel to their Stepmania-based dance game, previously installed onto Konami DDR hardware, to the arcade in spite of the Konami suit by partnering with Andamiro, maker of the Kore
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june 2005 by markpasc
since1968.com: Review: The Best Software Writing I
june 2005 by markpasc
Links to some of the essays online
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june 2005 by markpasc
AkuAku: a day in the second life
june 2005 by markpasc
Dav tries to hack image viewing: "So I guess in the end Second Life's crippled pathetic scripting language and slow-ass runtime won, but I like to think I went down swinging." Even the limited Gecko support in 1.7 will make that more possible
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june 2005 by markpasc
Popgadget: e-paper clock from Citizen
june 2005 by markpasc
Google for the press release: "expected to be commercialized in Japan in 2005"
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june 2005 by markpasc
Lucas Gonze on Randy Charles Morin's one-click Universal Subscription Mechanism for podcast feeds
june 2005 by markpasc
"What is the whizzy new 1-click podcast subscription standard? Are you sitting down? You better be sitting down, because this is going to blow. you. away. // RSS2 feeds now have a MIME type, and they have an added element taken from Atom."
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june 2005 by markpasc
Brad Choate: Doing your whole site with MT (2003)
june 2005 by markpasc
I should do this, having misplaced my copy of and source files for POT.py
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june 2005 by markpasc
Nathan D. Bowen on DSA vs HMAC-SHA1 in OpenID
june 2005 by markpasc
"I would go so far as to say that the almost-explicit role of OpenID is to protect college girls' blogs from their bitter ex-boyfriends whose fraternity brothers are the sysadmins on their campus networks."
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june 2005 by markpasc
Matt Haughey reviews Honest Tea at Lifehacker
may 2005 by markpasc
It is indeed awesomes (the mint flavors are entirely too minty for me though)
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may 2005 by markpasc
VGMix.com: Getting Started Guide
may 2005 by markpasc
Game music remixes rated as an MMORPG
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may 2005 by markpasc
foo_pod: iPod plugin for foobar2000
may 2005 by markpasc
Better than the third-party iPod software I *paid* for
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may 2005 by markpasc
G4 repurposes Adbusters' The Product Is You anti-ad in Brandweek
may 2005 by markpasc
Maybe not intentional, but still
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may 2005 by markpasc
Clickable Culture - Virtual Reality-Check: Second Life Reviewed 1 Year Later
may 2005 by markpasc
"The only fault (if any) with the creators of these diversions is that they've tried to make a Lamborghini out of a lemon--you can give the lemon a great paint-job, but at the end of the day it's still bitter and immobile."
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may 2005 by markpasc
Terra Nova: The World in Your Pocket
may 2005 by markpasc
"Why must the MMOG state-of-the-art -- filled with elaborate in-world content rationing and generation systems -- feel like a ponzi scheme, fragile and requiring constant attention and feeding?" has the simple answer "because that's how you maintain subsc
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may 2005 by markpasc
Importing your Blogger weblog to Movable Type (illustrated)
may 2005 by markpasc
This time last week I was converting my old busted importing tutorial to a shiny new 2.5 MB Flash demo with DebugMode Wink
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may 2005 by markpasc
David Chess on Scalian denotationism
may 2005 by markpasc
"To some of us [re-ratifying the word-for-word identical Constitution] might look like a no-op, but to a chronopunctual denotationist it would have a huge effect...."
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may 2005 by markpasc
Lordfly Digeridoo: And then it was dark...
may 2005 by markpasc
On Second Life downtime: "The last 48 hours really shined a big fucking spotlight on some of the morons that play this game."
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may 2005 by markpasc