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TVTropes is wonderful. The site is a wiki, built around the exploration and explanation of all those time-worn plot devices and character types that keep cropping up in TV, movies, comics, and everywhere else in entertainment and life.
A wonderful bit, from the It Just Bugs Me section:
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The Ur-Alien-Abduction
Jim MacDonald has written a long piece over at Making Light, reconstructing the driving route of Betty and Barney Hill on the night that they are said to have been the first (and most completely) documented case of alien abduction. It's a great piece of writing, and he comes to an interesting conclusion.
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A followup five years in the making
On October 18, 2002, I posted that I wanted some things:
[L]ike the TouchStream ST, which is a mutant cross between a keyboard and a touchpad, except it can register multiple finger touches, and tell your fingers apart, so in addition to being a mouse it can do all sorts of nifty gestures. (Heck, that list isn't even all of 'em.) I'd really ( Read more... ) -
Seen on Campus (a continuing series)
A large black Labrador walked past me as I left the office, calmly leading a girl wearing dark glasses along the sidewalk. It was a very well-trained guide dog --
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More second life
The widget is up to 5753 downloads now, and Apple's site has it at number 11 on their most-downloaded-of-the-unspecified-time-period list, no doubt due to the featuredment.
Here's another picture of me, with an avatar I bought recently:
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Second Life mapping and popularity
I've been playing recently with the Second Life Mapping API-the tool that Linden Lab provides that lets you put Second Life's in-world map on webpages-and had some success in making a basic map utility with it.
And since I'm a Apple Developer Connection member, I got a preview version of Dashcode, the in-house Dashboard Widget development tool ( Read more... ) -
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According to this article from WaiWai, Osaka has a fortune-telling establishment, Hokago Club, staffed by high-school girls with, er, inventive methods of clairvoyance: BINTA URANAI (Slap Soothsaying), where a schoolgirl will either slap or punch a customer's face as hard as she can and then read the results. "We'll take absolutely no ( Read more... ) -
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I got a new Treo 680. So, of course, I had to post from it.
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