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Cruft #1: Digital Clay
[Author’s note: I’ve built up quite a backlog of unfinished journal entries – cruft, if you will – that is lingering in my drafts folder. In an effort to “sh*t or get off the pot”, I’m gonna pick one at random each month, clean it up just enough to make it presentable, and throw it…
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“Will it Blend?”
Another quick goodie – If you haven’t seen BlendTec Blender’s “Will it Blend?” videos, they’re pretty entertaining. Probably one of the better viral marketing campaigns out there – creative, interesting, not too pretentious, a bit campy… I’m sure they’d be a smashing success if it weren’t for the punchline: The darn things cost $400-$825!
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Meez Avatars
Here’s a mildly interesting little tool. Meez.com lets you (pretty easily) create a cartoon avatar and embed that most anywhere you’d like. For example, this little guy on the right here is my spiritual online self – Receding hairline, Charlie Brown t-shirt, old-school jeans, and flaming converse hi-tops (and, yes, I actually own a pair…
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MoinMoin Wiki Syntax Highlighting for VI (VIM)
Regular readers of this blog can probably just stop right here. I’m using this entry as a way to get my new MoinMoin wiki syntax highlighting tool into google. What follows is only relevent the cross section of people that use both Trac and VI. For those of you who do use trac, you’re probably…
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Camping Out, American Style
Does anyone else find it horrifying that people have started lining up to get the new Sony Playstation… 9 days before it’s going to be in stores??? Actually what I find horrifying is not that these people are this rabid about the new Playstation (which does look pretty cool, btw). No, what is most disturbing…