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by ben at 31 July, 2008 - 1:32 AM

What would you do with 500GB?

update: it's actually only showing as 465GB... wonder where my other 35GB went...

Latest comment: 01 August 08, 9:14 AM

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We [don't] want the funk....

by ben at 30 July, 2008 - 10:33 AM

in other news if you stink, they will ask you to leave the casino... awesome, or sucky treatment? how about talking to the other guests?

Latest comment: 30 July 08, 10:33 AM

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i made a fancy button!

by ben at 29 July, 2008 - 5:25 AM

you can't really tell here, because it's just a picture, but in a WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) I made a "glassy, animated button", so that when you mouse over it, it glows a bit, and then when you mouse off, it fades back. my button:

and when you mouseover it:

Listen, this is a big deal for me... I generally am TERRIBLE at this kind of thing, and even these ugly examples are a big leap for me...

Latest comment: 31 July 08, 2:38 AM

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crap. now the housing deflation has hit my forest hideout

by AnarchyX at 28 July, 2008 - 2:55 PM

I just realized that the Idiot up the hill from my property near where I do zombie target practice hasn't been there all year and a tree damn near took out the place. Rear deck is crumbling. General disrepair. He bought it in 2005 for 685K. Its listed for 529K with some small time local realtor that does mostly foreclosure sales. I think I will offer them 75K. It will make a nice tol shed + the extra acre and a quarter could come in handy. Asshole took all his firewood though. Anybody want some copper?

Latest comment: 28 July 08, 2:55 PM

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5 Bucks in the Bin

by muhgcee at 24 July, 2008 - 8:21 AM

As detailed on my blog I have decided to monetarily punish myself for not completing certain daily goals. So right now, if I don't go running in the morning for instance, I owe $5 to "the bin." At the end of the month, this money will be donated somewhere. I am writing here for recommendations on where to donate my money to. Here are my ideas so far, in no particular order: Democracy Now! Matthews for Congress Debian Wordpress Apache GNU EFF ACLU San Francisco Food Bank Iraq Veterans Against the War So, what do ya'll think? One of these? Something else? So far I am down $5. Hard to go running after a night of drinking.

Latest comment: 28 July 08, 5:54 AM

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Rush Plays Rush

by ben at 24 July, 2008 - 6:16 AM

that's freakin' awesome! if you don't want to click, here's just the video:

Rock Band Rules Rush's Face

Latest comment: 24 July 08, 6:18 AM

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Which one do I open?

by elfie at 23 July, 2008 - 7:59 AM

So I am now in posession of 11 of the 250,000 limited numbered copies of The Slip that are in existence on CD/DVD. Here they are in order, along with notes as to why the numbers are significant.

11,919	(lowest number I got)
22,191	(also a low number)
35,958	(yet another lowish number)
100,002	(SO close to exactly 100k)
155,123	(closest I have to a midpoint, ends with 123)
179,880	(sequential with next)
179,881	(sequential with previous)
186,230	(sequential with next)
186,231	(sequential with previous)
198,765	(98765)
209,700	(highest number I got)

I'm leaning toward opening number 155,123 but I'm open to input. I'm also open to the suggestion that I need to buy 16 more copies so that I have 27 in total because this is Halo 27. hehehe

Latest comment: 24 July 08, 6:55 AM

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More google awesomeness

by ben at 21 July, 2008 - 1:46 AM

So I'm going to assume you knew about all that Google's SMS services can do... but did you know that you can create events by sending a text to google calendar's SMS?

Latest comment: 23 July 08, 5:24 AM

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Cindy Brady's "Kittens in Peril!"

by ben at 19 July, 2008 - 11:03 AM

I'm doing it for Steve

Latest comment: 19 July 08, 11:03 AM

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Get your Ameros now!

by AnarchyX at 19 July, 2008 - 5:03 AM

So here is how the collapse is going to play out in the next year: 1. The imminent collapse of the U.S. Economy to occur sometime in late 2008 2, The imminent collapse of the U.S. Government finances sometime in mid 2009 3. The possibility of Civil War inside the United States as a result of the collapse (Jesusland/dumbfukistan vs the United costal republic) 4. The advance round-ups of ?insurgent U.S. Citizens? likely to move against the government 5. The detention of those rounded up at The REX 84 Camps constructed throughout the United States 6. The possibility of public retaliation against members of Congress for the collapses 7. The location of safe facilities for members of Congress and their families to reside during massive civil unrest 8. The necessary and unavoidable merger of The U.S. with Canada and Mexico establishing The North American Union 9. The issuance of a new currency called the AMERO for all three nations as an economic solution.

Latest comment: 23 July 08, 2:21 PM

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The Dark Knight

by elfie at 17 July, 2008 - 11:04 PM

Go see the Dark Knight right fucking now. I'm not kidding. Stop whatever you're doing, find a movie theater, and go see it. Holy shit.

Latest comment: 05 August 08, 7:23 AM

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Bad Timing

by ben at 17 July, 2008 - 1:53 AM

Just as I started to use Amazon's unbox, I catch this article and this article - I wonder if this will work or not...

Latest comment: 17 July 08, 1:53 AM

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Holy Shit!

by ben at 17 July, 2008 - 1:12 AM

Holy Shit! "9 Republicans broke with their iron-fisted party to put country first, and voted to send Rep. Dennis Kucinich's article of impeachment HR 1345 to the Judiciary, where Chairman John Conyers will hold a hearings on abuses of power by the Bush administration"

Latest comment: 17 July 08, 2:04 AM

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Where are my friends?

by ben at 16 July, 2008 - 3:00 AM

I guess the problem i'm having - conceptually - with social networking sites is that given the (nearly) infinite plurality of the web, there are so many of them. I'm even on several content specific ones that aren't even listed there - like mobissimo's mobifriends, couchsurfing, etc. There's another problem, in that your "real" friends who aren't as technically inclined as you are probably aren't on most of them unless you drag them there... and even I get irritated by the invasiveness - not to mention security hole ladenness - of the systems that ask for your email login & password to send emails to all of your friends to get them to join in at plaxo or linkedIn or pleaseBeMyFriendEvenThoughWeOnlyHungOutTwiceAndItWasAwkward.com. This is just something to think about... I don't have a solution yet, other than strong arming all of the websites into using one single sign on (or even a choice of them) alternatives, or maybe even rolling my own to use their APIs. I understand that 99.98% of these use advertising as their revenue model, so that would probably annoy them...

Latest comment: 18 July 08, 2:16 AM

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The darker side of LOL Cats

by fogus at 16 July, 2008 - 2:33 AM

LOLCats as you've never seen them before.

Latest comment: 16 July 08, 3:04 AM

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more spore fawning

by ben at 16 July, 2008 - 12:03 AM

the E3 Trailer Video is up... woo!

Latest comment: 17 July 08, 5:02 AM

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My new PL

by ben at 15 July, 2008 - 7:41 AM

the Do What the Fuck You Want To Public License - I may just release EA code with this... hehehe

Latest comment: 15 July 08, 7:41 AM

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An idea from a mind that I respect

by ben at 15 July, 2008 - 6:52 AM

Reading Rob Conery's blog history, I ran across this post where he implores us to kill our users tables I was thinking about this - using OpenID, or some other service, to help along with connectivity to other sites (an idea i had - you basically could read/comment on this site from your own)... what are your guys' thoughts? For now i'll just say, you should have your password here be useless anywhere else, in my opinion, ;)

Latest comment: 16 July 08, 2:52 PM

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Is it worth it?

by ben at 15 July, 2008 - 2:52 AM

I saw this post about an iTunes helper that cleans up your tags... i think i'll give it a try and if it works well, do you think it's worth the $20? I currently don't use iTunes because it's a memory hog compared to winamp, and it's library paradigm is unusual to me (compared to winamp's, with which i've got about 10 years of experience); if this gives SuperTagging (the ONLY feature i loved about Musicmatch) to me, then I would reconsider... opinions?

Latest comment: 16 July 08, 12:58 AM

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Bank failures /GSE bailout here we come!

by AnarchyX at 11 July, 2008 - 2:24 PM

bahahahaha. Indy Mac is gone. Wamu and Wells Fargo will be done for by the end of the year. Or rather might be bailed out with your tax $$. I warned you folks. Time to get ready for the Mad Max economy. Who run barter town!

Latest comment: 11 July 08, 5:14 PM

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My Wordle from del.icio.us

by ben at 10 July, 2008 - 5:35 AM

thanks to Fogus for sending it to me

Latest comment: 10 July 08, 5:35 AM

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Gigged, Artscape Weekend

by ben at 10 July, 2008 - 2:45 AM

If you're going to Artscape Sunday the 20th, why not round it off with dinner at XS after the event? I'll be there with Tim from 8 to midnight, so come down, show a little love, have a little sushi (or breakfast!)... it'll be an extra special set for anyone that will be there!

Latest comment: 10 July 08, 2:45 AM

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So Psyched for Next Friday

by jmcd303 at 08 July, 2008 - 5:25 AM

An early Dark Knight review, without anything spoiler-y. Unless, of course, you don't know the identity of Two Face.

Latest comment: 08 July 08, 5:25 AM

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I made bread!

by ben at 07 July, 2008 - 8:32 AM

for the first time, i made Challah - it looks awesome!

Latest comment: 10 July 08, 7:12 AM

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By Request

by ben at 07 July, 2008 - 6:38 AM

Ann's friend is looking for names for her cake store... these have been bandied about... anyone got suggestions of their own? I think you'll see a theme here..

Latest comment: 14 July 08, 11:28 AM

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New at Target only $19.95

by typhoid at 06 July, 2008 - 7:39 AM

Latest comment: 07 July 08, 5:28 AM

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Flushing it off of the first screenfull

by muhgcee at 04 July, 2008 - 12:20 PM

Some lines. And some more lines.

Latest comment: 04 July 08, 12:20 PM

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The Website is Down

by ben at 03 July, 2008 - 5:46 AM

this is awesome

Latest comment: 04 July 08, 5:50 AM

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BrainF**k interpreter in LOLCode

by fogus at 02 July, 2008 - 3:40 AM

http://forum.lolcode.com/viewtopic.php?id=51

Latest comment: 02 July 08, 3:51 AM

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sure, i'll take tips...

by ben at 02 July, 2008 - 3:07 AM

you want to tip your fantastic website owner? now, you can! i just need fiddy cent man, i'm tryin' to catch the bus back home!

Latest comment: 02 July 08, 10:17 AM

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Just a piece of shit.

by tbrown55 at 01 July, 2008 - 7:32 AM

Probably making its way thru the internet's intestinal tract.

Latest comment: 01 July 08, 7:32 AM

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Who's got a video camera?

by ben at 01 July, 2008 - 7:10 AM

and who can (for once) make me not camera fugly? i wanna win this contest... and i really want to win it!!!

Latest comment: 01 July 08, 7:10 AM

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I think I might be getting information overload...

by ben at 01 July, 2008 - 5:12 AM

So you know about twice a week, i'm linking to a site or web app here, 99% of the time it's something I find from TechCrunch... these few sites I post are just a tiny percentage of all the ones I find every day... and the volume seems to be increasing. I can't help but wonder if the "noise to signal ratio" is increasing... that's not a perfect analogy, because I'm certainly not clear on what "signal" would be... but the fact that TechCrunch is reporting a dozen tools for FriendFeed, a site that I'm on, which includes a Twitter-like interface (I also use Twitter)... i'm just feeling inundated. Perhaps it's time to figure out first what I want to do, and then figure out what's out there just for that... rather than jump every time some cool new tool comes out... either that or get a REALLY good indexing system...

Latest comment: 01 July 08, 6:56 AM

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Say What Now??

by ben at 01 July, 2008 - 2:17 AM

"Obama to Expand Faith Based Programs - I don't think that I want to get behind that part of his campaign

Latest comment: 01 July 08, 8:12 AM

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Have I not posted this before?

by ben at 01 July, 2008 - 12:59 AM

one of the coolest sites out there (at least, in terms of offering something cool) is hidden passageways - yes, they come in and install a trick door/fireplace/whatever in your house... how cool is that? ok, well, it's even cooler when you do it yourself (because then there's none of that pesky disposing of the bodies of the workmen so your secret room really is a secret)... i could swear i've posted about this before, but it's not in the archive (at least, when i look using firefox's search...). this is even more impetus to add some indexing and whatnot...

Latest comment: 01 July 08, 2:12 AM

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