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- Les Mis / Chess: Cosette vs Florence (and Eponine)
Judy Kuhn sings both Florence on the Broadway cast album of Chess and Cosette on the Broadway cast album of Les Misérables. My recent Chess-listening binge got me thinking about the two roles, how much stronger a character Florence is (at least when looking at the stage version), and how Eponine’s greater degree of agency […]
- Flash and Les Mis in the Golden Age of Radio and Comics
Two of my fan interests sort of intersected with a pair of articles I wrote last night: Flash Comics and Les Misérables in the late 1930s/early 1940s.
- Recent Links: Geography, Internet and Comics
Live wind patterns, historical travel times, reliability of social networking, the importance of web page weight, emergency gadget power, UNIX Daemons and Seurat’s Justice League.
- A matter of perspective
XKCD’s Umwelt art project is the best use of browser-sniffing I’ve ever seen.
- Why the 1990s are Back
Elements of the 1990s are creeping back into comics, music, movies and TV. Pop culture nostalgia runs on a 20-year cycle, and the 80s are on their way out.
- Glow
It’s true. I’ve been staring at two large glowing rectangles for 8 hours now, taking occasional breaks to stare at a smaller glowing rectangle (as I did on my lunch break), and will probably spend some time staring at one of several glowing rectangles during my evening at home. It really sounds pathetic when you […]
- Origins of Unix
IEEE Spectrum article on The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix. This was an interesting read, especially for the cloak-and-dagger tactics they had to resort to not only to create the OS in the first place, but to do things like distribute bugfixes (because management was afraid that distributing bugfixes would be considered “support”). […]
- Recent Links: Chocwave, Hipsters & More
When everyone’s a hipster…no one will be. Also: Transformers cupcakes and emergency preparedness on your phone.
- Recent Tech Links
Linkblogging: One step closer to downloading a pizza! Also: telecom consolidation, password strength, web intents, and more.
- Recent Links: Social Networking
Linkblogging: How long do links last? What’s the future of Delicious? How quickly can you cross-post? Why does this site need to post to Twitter under my name?
- Recent Links: Netflix/Qwikster Edition
By now you’ve heard that Netflix is splitting in two. Here are links to several funny (and a couple of serious) takes on the situation.
- Recent Links: USB Sticks, Spam, Google+, etc.
Some sites I’ve linked to on Twitter, Facebook & Google+ over the past few weeks. “The problem isn’t that people are idiots…The problem is that the OS trusts random USB sticks.” Schneier on Security: Yet Another “People Plug in Strange USB Sticks” Story (via slashdot) The Robustness Principle Reconsidered I remember a lot of discussions […]
- Lord of the Rings as an “Event” Comic Book
No doubt it would have tie-ins, side stories, spinoffs, and a bunch of extra tie-ins added to plug the inevitable gaps in the schedule.
- Recent Tech Links: Unmaintainable Code, XKCD on The Cloud and More
How To Write Unmaintainable Code – what not to do when programming. Computer de-evolution: Features that lost the evolutionary war – ITworld ComputerWorld (via Slashdot) Two XKCD comics: First, “The Cloud” explained. Second, anyone who has used command-line utilities on Linux will appreciate Manual Override. International Usability – Big Stuff the Same, Details Differ (Jakob […]
- Links: Ancient World, Eudora, Area 51
Familiar yet alien ancient views of Earth – photorealistic simulations of the world as seen from space, millions of years ago. Back in 2006, Qualcomm effectively discontinued Eudora, though they sponsored a project to extend Mozilla Thunderbird with the look, feel, and some features of Eudora. I lost track of it over the years, but […]
- Recent Links
Those early Priuses are still going strong, ten years later. Never put critical private information online unless you are certain it’s protected. Your tax documents could show up in search results. Optimizing a Screen for Mobile Use (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) Why bad science reporting matters: Churn The Other Cheek Homeopathy vs. Science: A Metaphor
- Recent Links: Moon and More
Linkblogging: SMBC, XKCD, space pics, Flash Forward, mobile web usability and more.
- Links: Humans.txt, Nighttime Photos, Evaporating Cloud and More
Very cool! 175 Photos of Day Taken at Night Humans TXT: We Are People, Not Machines. Cool idea, but I’m not sure how practical it is without (ironically, I know) a machine-readable standard. If we can’t get most people to watch the credits on a movie, who’s going to go looking for a text file […]
- Recent Links: Citation Needed, App Store, etc.
Snowflakes Under an Electron Microscope (via @ThisIsTrue) The United States of Autocomplete (Strange Maps) – What happens if you type each state name into Google and see what the popular searchers are? See something? Cite something! (How to share content on the Internet) I agree that “App Store” is too generic to be trademarked, but […]
- Links: Coffee, D&D Advice, Paused Niagra Falls
Some interesting links I’ve encountered over the past week or two. Help! My Half-Elf is Pregnant! – The 11 strangest Dungeons and Dragons questions from the “Sage Advice” Column 15 things worth knowing about coffee by The Oatmeal. Photos: When Niagra Falls Ran Dry
- Book a Day and Bogus Ads
How To Read a Book a Day by The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. (via @johannadc) – I don’t think this will work for the new Wheel of Time book. Belly Button Lint and Bogus Ads – a marketer on refusing to participate in campaigns that mislead or flat-out lie about the product.
- Links: 1.0 Releases, Sci-Fi and Science Fact, The Missile that Wasn’t
Matt Mullenweg on Apple, WordPress & tech release strategy. 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number Robert J. Sawyer on the relationship between science fiction and science fact: The job of sci-fi isn’t to predict “THE future,” but “to suggest a smorgasbord of possible futures, so that society may choose the one it wants.” Mystery California missile […]
- Recent Links: CMS Nirvana, $1M Comma, Voltron as a Band
CMS Nirvana, the million-dollar comma, and the Voltron concert poster.
- Links: Clouds, the Blue ‘e’, and Bobby Tables
Incredible photo from APOD: Clouds, Birds, Moon, Venus. I’ve finally replaced my Woodbridge Snow photo as my desktop wallpaper at home. Microsoft provides an interesting look back at the evolution of the Internet Explorer logo over the past fifteen (yes, fifteen) years. 100-year data preservation. A 350-year-old copy of Shakespeare is still readable. But what […]
- Links: Science as a Subway, App Pricing, Terraforming IRL
Some interesting stuff I’ve found this week.
- The Anti-Vista
ZDNet reports that Windows 7 is doing what Vista couldn’t: convincing people to replace Windows XP. The best quote in this article: “Windows 7 is the Anti-Vista.”
- Drink Your Cupcake
The Straight Dope experiments with Kahlua cupcakes to determine two questions: How much alcohol is left in each cupcake? (Not much) Can you get drunk? (Not unless you eat so many cupcakes that you’ll be sick anyway.)
- Links! Alarms, Ghosts of History, Firefly Trek, WW2 Star Wars & More
Hazards of too many alarms; Merging historical and modern photos; Computer lightning safety; Allergies, Star Wars as World War II; Firefly as Star Trek, SMBC’s Logogeneplex.
- Links: Identity, Kindle, Language, and the Moon
Linkblogging: Privacy in terms of identity. The new Kindle. The future of old-timey language. Geek Merit Badges. The Moon Hoax debunked as a comic.
- Links: Yen Droid Mobile Woot Quake!
I’ve always wondered how the name of Japan’s currency ended up meaning “craving” or desire in English. It turns out to be coincidence, probably from the Chinese yáhn or yin, “craving.” Word of the Day: yen. TweetUp acquires Twidroid and changes its name to Twidroyd “to ensure minimal confusion with products from Lucas Films.” Fortunately […]
- Links: Doomed Data, Web Services, WTF Textbook Questions & More
An experiment: I’ve modified* Twitter Tools to create digest posts as drafts instead of publishing immediately. That gives me a chance to edit a week’s worth of random thoughts and links down to the interesting stuff, clean things up a bit, expand things that could use more detail, and remind myself of items that I […]
- Link Archive 2010
Some interesting links I encountered over the last few months, between the time I stopped importing Twitter digests and the time I started using them for linkblogging.
- 1…2…3…4…5.
Security researchers examine a list of 32 million passwords stolen from RockYou, and the 20 most common are…well…pathetic.
- Myth-Quotations
Myth Adventures, Phil Foglio’s comic-book adaptation of Robert Asprin’s fantasy/comedy novel, Another Fine Myth, is being serialized as a free webcomic [Edit: no longer available.], in the same format as Girl Genius. I remember spending a lot of effort tracking down the mid-1980s books on eBay, before they finally reissued the collection. The title of […]
- Link: Fandom – There’s more than one way to do it
Worth remembering: Your fandom is not Fandom, by schmevil. …everybody does fandom differently. Fandom is not fanworks fandom. It is not media fandom, SF fandom, or whatever fandom. It is all of these things and more. There exist fandoms and ways of doing fandom that you have never heard of. Fandom is mindbogglingly huge and […]
- Y2K10
1. SpamAssassin has been marking mail from 2010 as “grossly in the future.” It’s been fixed in the beta for months, but they issued an emergency update over the holiday. Of course, if they’d done the test by using math instead of pattern matching, it wouldn’t have been an issue in the first place. (via […]
- Links: Reading on the Rise & Bogus Forwards
It turns out that in the digital age, the average American reads three times as many words today as thirty years ago. Medal of Honor recipient Ed Freeman has been co-opted by a political disinformation campaign. Remember: any time you receive a political email that asks you to forward it to everyone you know, check […]
- Manic Monday
First, some linkblogging… The Spam Primer has been “completely revamped.” Mars Express Orbiter catches video of moons Phobos and Deimos. And then the “fun” started. Me: I’m going to focus on project X today! Computer needed for project X: I’m going to lock up today! Me: Argh! Someone thought it would be a good idea […]
- Link: Retro Up Posters
Cool: Retro posters for Up by Paul Conrad (via The Beat).
- SMBC Comics on Science
Links to two SMBC comic strips on science: Teaching the controversy, and the question of “why?”
- Moz-something
A good tech support one-liner from (The customer is) Not Always Right: A Flock Of Explorers On A Safari Singing Opera. Me: “Alright, so what browser are you using to view your websites?” Customer: “Mozzarella Firefox!”
- Frustrations (And a Few Bright Spots)
Hard disks should not sound like buzz saws. Slashdot article “FOSS Sexism Claims Met With Ire & Denial”…gets met with ire & denial. *headdesk* Listening to lightsaber sounds from across the office. I think my coworker w/ the new Android phone found an app for that. Vertical Horizon’s Burning the Days is growing on me, […]
- Arctic Lairs
Ah, the Onion! Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds of Secret Arctic Lairs. I’m trying to remember whether Dr. Impossible had an arctic base.
- Link: Station Fire Photos
LA fire pix at Flickr. An impressive round-up.
- Enviro Oddities
Top 10 Odd Environmental Ideas (Time via @ThisIsTrue). Some are disturbing, but I like the staple-free stapler.
- Link Archive
I used to keep a sidebar linkblog here, but I’ve long since stopped. These days I’m more likely to post an interesting link to Twitter, or just save it up for a later post. I figured the WordPress 2.8 upgrade was as good a time as any to clean out the old plugin. Still, I […]
- Flash 500
500th post and a Flash drink over at Speed Force.
- Pinhole Bridge
Cool: A 6-month-exposure photo showing sun trails above a bridge, made using a pinhole camera made from a soda can.(from APOD)
- Video Linkblogging: Mac vs. PC
Found this fun short movie: Mac vs. PC. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. It’s been done a million times. But how many times have the Mac and PC been Transformers? There’s a strong element of Terminator in there, as well. (via Major Spoilers, though it apparently hit Digg a week ago)
- Santa Hats, Translation, Expelled
Saw a bunch of Santa hats lying alongside the entire length of the 55 South to 405 South ramp – and it’s a long bridge. Maybe a box came open? Got tech support question in Spanish for wrong company. Replied in bad Spanish with link. Checked against Google Translate. Google has a better vocabulary than […]
- Linkblogging: Perspective
The CBLDF has issued a press released detailing the victory in the Gordon Lee case. This was the case in which a comic book store in Rome, Georgia, as part of a 2004 Halloween promotion, was handing out free comics left over from that year’s Free Comic Book Day. Among over 2,000 comics, they accidentally […]
- Sci-Tech Links
Scientists have built a computer model of the Neanderthal vocal tract based on fossils, and have simulated the kinds of sounds they could have produced. Ever since I read Robert J. Sawyer’s Neanderthal Parallax novels, I’ve been fascinated by the idea that there were two distinct human species, living side by side, for perhaps thousands […]
- Links, from the Astronomical to the Surreal
The Value of Space Exploration, via Phil Plait. Neil Gaiman on The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke, a painting by a madman that’s inspired its share of stories. And from Comics Worth Reading, our WTF entry for the day: Paradise by the GoPhone Light. It’s a commercial done in the style of a music video, featuring […]
- Foolish Links
IE9 to include alternative CSS.2012 standard instead of following anything remotely like the rest of the world. Social tagging initiative from WaSP to physically tag bad web designers. Opera hits 106/100 on Acid3 after discovering an Easter egg in the test. The openSUSE mailing list announced OpenSUSE 4.1, with KDE 4.1, GNOME 4.1, MP41 support, OpenOffice 4.1, XEN 4.1, VirtualBox 4.1, […]
- Techno-weird Links
CNET UK presents The 30 dumbest videogame titles ever, including “Spanky’s Quest,” “Ninjabread Man,” “How to Be a Complete Bastard,” “Touch Dic” and “Attack of the Mutant Camels.” (via Slashdot). Cowboy Bebop at His Computer — examples of media articles (especially about pop culture) in which the reporters (and editors) clearly didn’t do their research. […]
- Web News: Acid3 and IE8
Two items of interest today: First, the Web Standards Project has announced the completion of the Acid3 Test. Like Acid2, it’s specifically designed to test features that are in the specs, but that have incomplete, buggy, or nonexistant support in current web browsers. Acid2 focused primarily on CSS, and Acid3 focuses more on scripting. Also, […]
- Skiffy Links
Comic-Con 2008 hotel post-mortem at The Beat, the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Starship Captains at IO9, and Computer Love Day from Mandriva.
- Links: Safety Last
Forklift Driver Klaus (a.k.a. Staplerfahrer Klaus)- a parody of work safety films in which a forklift driver blunders through his first day on the job, maiming fellow employees left and right. German with English subtitles. (via TV Tropes: Scare Em Straight) And, on a more serious note, the Internet Storm Center is reporting on people […]
- Legality Links
Organization for Transformative Works – dedicated to protecting the expression of fan fiction, fan art, etc. (via Naomi Novik) Open Standards, One Web, and Opera – Just why are standards important, anyway? (via Opera Watch) Speaking of Opera, their EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft has been making waves. Responses at CSS3.info, Web Standards Project, Slashdot […]
- Corporate Evolution
Hixie’s Natural Log: Evolution in the species “Companies” – Microsoft’s dominance of the industry has killed off or absorbed many smaller companies. Those that have survived are those with strategies resistant to Microsoft’s tactics. The article looks at Mozilla, Google, and Apple.
- Fantasy Feuds
Epic Pooh – Michael Moorcock on the state of fantasy literature, originally written in the 1970s but updated for the 21st century. The title comes from comparing the style of Lord of the Rings to Winnie the Pooh. I have no problem reading and enjoying both his work and Tolkien’s, and it doesn’t bother me […]
- Zombie Attack!
Finally, something light-hearted in the news: A bunch of people decked out as zombies crashed the American Idol auditions in Austin, Texas last week, groaning things like “Television rots your braaaaaains!” Reportedly the contestants didn’t get it. Ironically, the event organizers had read about the protest in advance on Craigslist, and quickly got the “zombies” […]
- No DWG Necessary!
Someone at MIT had way too much fun writing up the press release: The Time Traveler Convention – May 7, 2005. As they point out, you only need one. (via CNET Missing Links)
- It’s All True!
Here are several humor articles that have been posted to the SpamAssassin discussion list over the past week: The TechWeb Spin: All spam is true! (Fredric Paul, Internet Week, June 29, 2004): Yes, you read it here: it’s all true! The author explains about all the money he’s gotten from deposed Nigerian dictators, the software […]
- Fight Club: The Return of Hobbes
OK, while I had thought of comparing certain aspects of Fight Club with Calvin and Hobbes, I certainly had never taken it as far as this post at metaphilm [archive.org] (warning: spoilers for Fight Club).
- Flame Warriors
I found this site quite amusing: A Netizen’s Guide to Flame Warriors At the moment there are about 80 types of forum belligerents in the list – each has an illustration and a brief description.
- Deja Vu
I saw this and was absolutely certain CNET’s software had accidentally re-posted an old news article about Gnutella. A day after developers at America Online’s Nullsoft unit quietly release file-sharing software, AOL pulls the link to the product from the subsidiary’s Web site. As it turns out, Nullsoft did it again, with an encrypted collaboration […]
- Vaccini, Vaccina
So there’s finally a plan to start up smallpox vaccinations. The bad news is, it’s likely to become necessary. Worse news is, I may be at risk for some of the nasty side effects. As Katie pointed out, it worked so well the first time that no one made any effort to improve it. The […]