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links for 2007-09-25
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If you didn't see last season's "How I Met Your Mother", this probably won't make sense, but if you did, this is what strikes fear in Barney's dark heart. ;-)
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For my geek and/or Boston friends to send to John Gruber.
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Amen.
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He may hold the record, but the rest of us don't have to like it.
links for 2007-09-17
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Looking through their inventory, I'm starting to believe Phone Different really might be, as they claim, "The One-Stop Show for all your iPhone needs".
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"[A]n iPhone application that keeps real-time track of your team's games as they fight for a playoff spot. To see it in action, tune in while a game is in progress. You'll see up-to-the-minute plays while following along with friends on Twitter."
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The college football version of Fumbleview.
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The Major League Baseball version of Fumbleview.
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Good round-up by Bill Palmer. Personally, owning an iPhone, I wouldn't buy an iPod Touch until it really was "the iPhone without the phone", but maybe that's just me.
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Established by former Microsoft executive John Wood, Room to Read seeks to establish and grow libraries in developing nations, and to teach anyone willing to read, with the premise that the world can be changed one book and one person at a time.
links for 2007-09-16
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Now running in my Dashboard. I love the look of this calculator widget much better than the Mac OS X standard.
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Hate trying to read web sites with white/light text on black/dark backgrounds? Yeah, me, too. Drag this bookmarklet up in to your browser's toolbar, then click on it when you encounter such sites. Voila! Black text on white background.
links for 2007-09-15
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"Peter Griffin is Han Solo, Lois is Princess Leia, Stewie becomes Darth Vader, Brian plays Chewbacca, and Chris is Luke Skywalker. Cleveland and Quagmire will play the droid duo of R2-D2 and C-3PO, while Herbert is the wise Obi-Wan Kenobi."
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Great. As if a Nintendo Wii wasn't already hard to find...
links for 2007-09-13
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Improve your memory. Read better, faster. Think out loud.
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For those of us who still dream of our green-backlit little friends. (I should probably recharge my MessagePad's battery...)
links for 2007-09-12
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Finally, a source for the world's finest-tipped pen, the Uniball Signo 0.18mm! Also a source for the 0.38mm version of my current favorite pen, the Pilot G-2.
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Shoot like a Marine. Well, at least have the same gear as some of the world's most feared marksmen. S&B's 3-12x50mm PM II Military scope is now standard-issue for USMC sniper rifles.
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A video camera anyone can use. Really. Anyone. Even your grandmother. 1 GB of storage, good for 60 minutes of 640 x 480 video. One-touch recording. About 122 bucks. It's a video camera you can easily carry with you anywhere.
links for 2007-09-11
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I am way impressed.
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The odd-looking but operator-approved Duostock is a must-have for those in close quarters battle situations. Consider a purchase if you have a loved one serving in a combat zone. (Or if you just want a really comfortable stock for your own AR.)
links for 2007-09-10
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Since I cannot make use of our pool right now, thanks to the busted foot, perhaps this would be a fun project...
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Free fonts from pop culture: movies, music, games, and random corporate life.
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"The web's top 500 free fonts!"
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Huge collection of more than 8,000 free fonts and dingbats.
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I don't spend any time on IRC, but if you do, this looks like a nice Mac OS X client.
links for 2007-09-04
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Author Steven Poole gives up on Microsoft Word, which I continue to maintain is overkill for 90 percent of the word processing population. Like killing a fly with a cruise missile...
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A free, lean word processor for Mac OS X by James Hoover.
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James Hoover's essay on the thinking that went in to the creation of Bean, notably as a successor for WriteNow, as a lean, mean, writing machine.
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An article from February 2001 by Marten van de Kraats, in which he details the need for a lean word processor on the newly born Mac OS X. Marten was a huge fan of WriteNow (as was I). This served as James Hoover's inspiration for Bean.
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Jos Buivenga has some outstanding fonts, and while he should be charging for them, he offers them as donationware instead. I love Fertigo!
links for 2007-09-01
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Until Apple decides to give us this obvious, brain-dead feature for free, you can get whatever ringtones you want on to your iPhone with iToner. $15, free to try for 30 days (some features not available during trial)
links for 2007-08-29
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Somewhere in this house is the Mont Blanc pen my wife received as a law school graduation gift. She doesn't use it. Until I find it for myself, I'll be content with my G-2s.
links for 2007-08-28
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For soon-to-be moms and dads. Wish I would've thought out something like this when the little phisch was in diapers.
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The domain and title are pretty self explanatory.
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Thinking of switching to Mac? (You should.) Just bought a new Mac? (Hurray!) This site will be very helpful to you either way.
links for 2007-08-26
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Print these out and cover those new textbooks. I wish we would have had cool art like these when I was a young Star Wars geek...
links for 2007-08-25
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The web companion to the monthly magazine Shooting Illustrated.
links for 2007-08-24
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Even I am not that big of a nerd to wear this... (When they sell the full suit of mail, with gloves, boots, helmet, sword, belt, and shield, for a couple hundred, then maybe we'll talk.)
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"Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing."
links for 2007-08-22
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"Give to charity just by searching the Internet." Powered by Yahoo!, there are two boxes; one for your search term, one for the charity you wish to support with that search. You search, money's donated. I learned of this through Prison Fellowship.
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And coming right on the heels of the Terraminds Twitter search mentioned yesterday, Twitter announces you can now search people profiles from any Twitter page.
links for 2007-08-21
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A search engine for Twitter, letting you search in updates, or for users.
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Love the Beatles? Love Star Wars? Then you'll love this cultural mashup of the Star Wars characters posed as if on the album cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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Official Star Wars poker chips, two casino-quality card decks, a Death Star dealer button, and, of course, a Star Wars branded case: which contains LEDs to light up the chips lightsaber-style. Sweetheart, take note, this is going on the wishlist...
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As Chris Messina twittered, "Best use of Web 2.0 shwag evar."
links for 2007-08-20
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It's in German, but it's pretty easy to figure the table out. You can see what fonts are used by corporations for their logos and brands. Typophiles, rejoice.