A list of the 100 best first lines from novels: “I feel like I’ve pointed to this before, but in case I haven’t, here’s a list of the 100 best first lines from novels. I’m partial to those of Pride and Prejudice, Lolita, and Anna Karenina.”
(Via kottke.org remaindered links.)
[Cool] Google maps of World of Warcraft: “(Some Guy)”
(Via Fark.)
Online game warns gay-lesbian guild: “‘World of Warcraft’ publisher tells guild that it risks being banned if it doesn’t cease its recruiting activities.”
(Via CNET News.com.)
It Was the Dumbest of Times: “Business 2.0’s 101 Dumbest Moments in Business for 2005
Remember this gem? ‘Women should be all dressed in white, like all other domestic appliances.‘ Personal favorites are #36 and #40 but there’s plenty more to enjoy. And the smartest company of 2005.
An update from long ago.“
(Via MetaFilter.)
Now, This is a Zelda Revolution Controller: “
Besides putting the ‘e’ in ‘fake,’ this magic wand looks downright dangerous. And there’s no way I’d want anyone to see me use this. Like, ever.
Zelda.com [Official Site] Thanks Blontic!
(Via Kotaku.)
Future American lawyers protest Attorney General’s speech: “Xeni Jardin:
Snip: ‘Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveilance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech the students in class did something pretty ballsy and brave. They got up from their seats and turned their backs to him. (…) additional students came into the room, wearing black cowls and carrying a simple banner, written on a sheet.’ Link. (Thanks, Jake Appelbaum)
(Via Boing Boing.)
Google News Leaves Beta: “Aqws writes ‘As of 1/23/2006 Google News is no longer in Beta. It was in Beta for three years and four months. Here’s the blog of Google News creator, Krishna Bharat, on the subject.’
(Via Slashdot.)
From Zachary: ‘This Starbucks is in Boulder, Colorado is across the street from the University of Colorado. It was unmasked a week ago by Pope Bathos, and remains so. Apparently the staff of Starbucks is ignorant of the transformation. Or maybe they’ve decided they like the change.’
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(Via Wooster Collective / A Celebration of Street Art.)
Run an Apache web server on your phone…: “
‘For quite some time it has been possible to access the Internet using mobile phones, although the role of the phone has strictly been that of a client. Considering that the modern phones have processing power and memory on par with and even exceeding that of webservers when the web was young, there really is no reason anymore why webservers could not reside on mobile phones and why people could not create and maintain their own personal mobile websites.’ [via] Thanks Brian! Link.”
(Via MAKE: Blog.)
QM2 passengers make mutiny threat: “Angry passengers on the Queen Mary 2 threaten mutiny after a defect forces it to cancel stop-offs.”
(Via BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition.)
Cozy blanket with sleeves: the Slanket: “Cory Doctorow:
The Slanket is a polar-fleece blanket with integrated, outsized sleeves that let you eat popcorn, work the remote, or hold your phone while remaining safely shrouded in blankie.
(via Cribcandy)
(Via Boing Boing.)
Impossible NES Quiz, Go Fail!: “Kotaku reader Jerry sent in a link to this challenging pain-in-the-ass of a quiz. He posted a 360/600, I let out a guffaw at the office desk and set out to beat his feeble score.
Then I rang up a 360 of my own. So, uh, Jerry, we’re both really smart, or really sad. Let’s see how the rest of Kotaku does.
Have at it, folks.
The8BitWizard [Flash Player]
(Via Kotaku.)
I scored 340. And they used “alot” instead of “a lot.” I really hate that
Kafkamesto: “‘You awaken from an uneasy dream.You are in a small, bare apartment. You are alone. You have no idea how you got there. You don?t even know who you are.’ Fans of Franz Kafka may appreciate Kafkamesto, a bleak and bizarre point-and-click Flash game.”
(Via MetaFilter.)
Rockers Seeking Fame Online: “The music business is a tough nut to crack. It takes resourcefulness as much as talent to get noticed and more and more bands are turning to the web to build a fan base and attract a record label.”
(Via Wired News: Top Stories.)
Monday Monday Monday!
George Takei To Play Star Trek’s Sulu Again: “Tycoon Guy writes ‘TrekToday reports that George Takei has agreed to play Hikaru Sulu in an upcoming episode of the fan series Star Trek: New Voyages. He’s the second actor from the original Star Trek series to come onboard; another episode will feature Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov. And here’s what really makes this news great: Takei’s episode will be written by none other than David Gerrold, the SF writer who also brought us Star Trek’s Tribbles.’
(Via Slashdot.)
Rock Concert I Attended: “
If you’re trying to justify this one to yourself, just remember that you’re not spending $22.00 on a t-shirt. What you’re actually doing is investing in a postmodern statement. Uh, yeah. That’s the ticket…
All I know is, I prefer this shirt to 95% of the shirts I’ve seen for sale at the assorted shows I’ve been to. What’s more, I also happen to think that pretty much everything else the gang at A Label makes is just as genius.
Perhaps that’s just me tho… I’ve got a belly full of tapas and beer and I’m pretty easy to please at this point in the evening. So if you don’t like anything they offer I guess you should probably keep that in mind. Or not. *shrug* Whatever’s clever, yo.
$22.00 | Credit | URL | M: M - XL
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(Via Preshrunk.)
J.T.: “I guess this is the literary equivalent of phantom limb syndrome, but now that I’m pretty much convinced that J.T. Leroy never existed, I catch myself regretting never having met him. I think that might mean that he was America’s first idoru, in the fullest Japanese sense, paradoxically manifesting mainly on our oldest mass-media platform, the printed word.”
(Via Gibson Blog.)
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(Via Mac OS X Downloads - Home.)
New Gmail Delete Button: “Gmail is rolling out a ‘Delete’ button for everyone. Previously, you had to open the combo box to select delete, which took a second longer.
I currently can’t see this new feature, but I’m happy to get it. I use the Archive button much less and wouldn’t mind it moving into the action box to make place for other buttons (even with the current … (Full post)”
(Via Google Blogoscoped.)
Happy 20th birthday, PC virus: “On January 19, 1986, the first PC virus ? Brain ? was detected. It was virtually harmless, and the Pakistani creators claim that it was only intended to protect their copyrights. (They did, after all, include their own address and phone number in the machine code.) In the past 20 years, though, both creating viruses and destroying them have become billion-dollar industries.”
(Via MetaFilter.)
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Not Due Until 2007: “vitaly.friedman writes ‘Microsoft has published the due date for Windows XP SP3 (Service Pack 3) on its Windows Lifecycle Web site. The preliminary due date (the latter half of 2007) for the next collection of fixes and patches for Microsoft’s desktop operating system is as more than a year later than many company watchers were expecting.’
(Via Slashdot.)
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