Microlog
Microlog entries posted in August 2004
The all-new iMac is unveiled
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People genuinely enjoy telling others off if they have done something wrong, according to scientists
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The proprietor of Satan’s Laundromat is arrested, along with countless other bystanders, for pretty much nothing [c/o kottke.org]
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Make your own miniature paper TransFormers [c/o Boing Boing]
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Union Station in downtown Toronto, evacuated
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European scientists have discovered what they describe as the smallest Earth-like planet orbiting a star outside our Solar System
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Ethical Philosophy Selector [c/o plasticbag.org]
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Kottke discovers New Order’s Blue Monday
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Mat and Harper are coming to Europe
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Isaac Brock’s message to the children of the world: “Grow the fuck up.”
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Deaf to the World, iPod Addict Unplugs [c/o The Morning News]
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I found a digital camera in the woods… [c/o del.icio.us/kfan]
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Tricks of the Trade
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“Oedipus, as you know, is the tragic Greek king who killed his father and married his mother, a sequence of events that seldom turns out well.”
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Yesterday was the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
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“I don’t know what the woman wanted, waiting for the train. The sockless junkie is another story, because I know he felt a real pleasure at the cascade of pocket change into his palm, relief imminent. I don’t have room to criticize, because when I write, I make my living asking strangers for their approval, and their change.”
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The morons come out in force again; this time they want to be famous (but wait, is that Bill Wyman? And OJ Simpson?? OMG!!!) [c/o del.icio.us/mathowie]
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The Language of Advertising: Building brands using sound symbolism [c/o Interconnected]
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Armed robbers have stolen the iconic Edvard Munch painting, The Scream, from the Munch Museum in Norway
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Steve Minutillo on the lack of undo in Safari: “Didn’t that lady throw that hammer through the scary guy on that big screen so I don’t have to deal with this?” [c/o Antipixel]
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“The ghost of my father keeps leaving me post-its.”
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Introduction to Yakuza Japanese
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“Filmmaker Sam Raimi is in talks with New Line Cinema about loaning the studio the zombie slayer from his Evil Dead movies to costar in a three-way, big-screen bout, Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash.” [c/o del.icio.us/kfan]
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Cal train station at 22nd Street
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The Alphabets of Europe [c/o Languagehat]
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Whatchoo doin back there? [c/o del.icio.us/cityofsound]
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Dungeons and Dragons Turns 30 [c/o del.icio.us/merlinmann]
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El and Skyscraper [c/o Airbag]
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How to build a 1:1000 scale city model [c/o Interconnected]
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“Two Urban Models” at Stockholm’s Museum of Architecture
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The Guardian Style Guide, in PDF format
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Wired News: It’s Just the ‘internet’ Now
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Cinematic Supervillain Showdown! [c/o kottke.org]
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Peter Bagge vents his spleen all over contemporary art
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The Oxford English Dictionary, in limerick form [c/o Metafilter]
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Don’t feel bad if you often get lost in cities — network analysis shows their structure is peculiarly difficult to navigate
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“If TiVo were a beverage, it’d be a tall glass of Jamaican ginger beer with chipped ice and a lime wedge, while the Explorer 800 would be a paper cup of warm fake lemonade stirred with the finger of a nose-picking six-year-old.”
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The Chipmunks, slowed down (4.3MB mp3) [c/o The Morning News]
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Groksoup and the 5th Anniversary of Hosted Blogging [c/o Interconnected]
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‘£50 cash or £100 travel vouchers’, a poem by Julian Fox
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The government of Zimbabwe may be planning to use food scarcity as a political weapon in next year’s elections
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Putting my website on the map [c/o Submit Response]
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Guardian Work IQ Test: Are you too smart for your salary?
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“Here’s my final take on the whole thing: we all do what we can to muddle through. Not original, I know, nor particularly deep, but there it is.” Indeed. (Here’s more from Leuschke on the issue of anonymous blogging in academia)
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A great photo of a skylight in Barcelona (c/o my friend Grover)
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ShaBot 6000: a comic strip for the 21st century modern Jew!
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“Want a quick snapshot of the new SAT? Take a stab at these practice questions and see how you’d fare on the math section.” [c/o Accordion Guy]
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File: A collection of unexpected photography [c/o Airbag]
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Reading Online Text: A Comparison of Four White Space Layouts [c/o kottke.org]
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iPod vs. The Cassette [c/o del.icio.us/magnetbox]
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Astonishingly beautiful photography by Yann Arthus-Bertrand [c/o kottke.org]
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Best restaurant menu ever! (PDF) [c/o kottke.org]
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The point of writing
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Great image of newspaper boxes on a Toronto street
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Honest Album Titles [c/o del.icio.us/magnetbox]
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“Sheep are quite intelligent creatures and have more brainpower than people are willing to give them credit for.” They’re plotting to take over the world… [c/o Interconnected]
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