Archive for the 'Asides' Category



Argument

Churchill once wrote: “If your argument is weak, shout. ” Remember that when you watch the politicians & the preachers on tv. Just sayin’. Ben Templesmith

Minus

To their credit, if that’s the right word, you can now purchase some music from the iTunes store that is unencrypted and plays anywhere. Apple calls these songs “iTunes Plus”, because it sounds so much better than calling everything else “iTunes Minus.” Mark Pilgrim

World of Goo

This World of Goo trailer kind of makes me want a Wii. The combination of cutesy looks (somewhat Tim Burton-ish) and ominous, melancholy epic music tickles my brain in all the right spots.

Lost Philosophers

The fact that the first response to “John Locke” was Lost and not Second Treatise on Civil Government or An Essay Concerning Human Understanding really shouldn’t surprise me nearly as much as it does. Minwee

Coins

The new British coin designs are indeed very lovely. Via Kottke.

Horrible clusterfuck

I don’t support Netscape, Firefox or any other webbrowsers since I believe that there should be one HTML standard and not a dozen. Pixels on the web

Ahahahahahahahaha!

Way to not understand what a web standard is, buddy.

Creative Re-Invents Podcasts

“Podcasts, short for Personal On Demand broadCast, are audio files you can download into any MP3 player or computer. These audio files are broadcasted over the Internet automatically to subscribers of specific podcast channels.”

Via digg.

Filerush is Dead

Sadly, Filerush has kicked the bucket. That was my premium place to get new game demos and trailers via torrent downloads. Where will I get that stuff now? Filerush had a nice, minimalistic stuff of new items without any intrusive ads. I don’t want to wade through crappy ads and uninteresting articles to get to [...]

Foxit Reader

Foxit Reader: a quick, small alternative PDF reader as opposed to Adobe’s slow, bloated Acrobat reader.

Harvey Danger

I have no idea who Harvey Danger are, but they’re releasing their third album as a free MP3/OGG download. I don’t know if I’ll like it, but I’m going to download it.