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The Cost of the Moral High Ground
Recent headlines: Microsoft Shuts Blog’s Site After Complaints by Beijing (and later recants) Google to Censor China Web Searches (and provides their rational) Online game warns gay-lesbian guild (and provides their rational) All of these articles deal with a fundamental business issue: As companies depend more and more on audiences that are taken from the…
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Game Design to Banjo Theft
So here I am, doing a little legwork for Star Sweeper (the MineSweeper knock-off I’ve been working on). While surfing the web in an attempt to find decent artwork for it I stumbled across William Whitaker’s Art Studio. It’s a lovely little walk through the space of a portrait artist. And the best part is…
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A Taste of Love
I have often thought that dogs must be some of the most superstitious creatures on this planet. Think about it; they are domesticated, which means they rely on us, these funny two-legged apes, for pretty much everything. Yet we share no common language, so even if we could be bothered, there’s no way to explain…
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Broofa’s Readability Analyzer
Okay, this one goes out to all you hard-core geeks out there! I’d like to introduce Broofa’s Readability Analyzer. For the Impatient What is it? A tool for determining web page readability. What’s it do? At the bottom of every web page, you’ll see how “readable” the page is, based on a combination of computed…
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Halflife
The census bureau recently published the latest data about life expectancy here in the U.S. It turns out (not too surprisingly) that we’re living longer than ever – a toothless-gum smacking 77.6 years. I read this a few weeks back and promptly forgot about it. However a couple days later I woke up with the…