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Monthly Archive for March, 2008

Pushing beyond the norm

Seems that I’m not the only one who’s miffed at the science fiction not daring to think big enough.
And yeah, being a card-carrying member of Stross’ fanboy squad, Halting State is definitely on the shopping list already. And considering that the NYT article was the second recommendation for Bacigalupi’s Pump Six in […]

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South Park goes free.
Every episode will be available on the web.
And the logic behind this move (by Trey Park and Matt Stone, the show’s creators) is nothing short of genius:

[we got] really sick of having to download our own show illegally all the time. So we gave ourselves a legal alternative.

Yeah, it’s […]

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Blogging sins

Back in 2005, I took Jakob Nielsen’s test on blogging sins. And came off with four and a half. Some of which were rectified in the intervening years, but now, with the new engine, it’s time to revisit the list, which appears not to have been updated since.

1. No Author Biographies

No […]

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Martian headsets, or a roundabout way of saying that “standards are good, mmkay”.

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Turning four

Today marks the fourth anniversary of Lavonardo (as a blog, that is).
The blog is now exactly 2366 entries old.
The biggest news of last year is obviously the long-resisted change to a real blogging engine - the switch to WordPress went smoothly, and I’m happy about how things have turned out to […]

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Photography challenges

This entry attempts to catalogue the open digital photography challenges in the web.

Day
Name
Description
Participation

Monday
Moody monday

In english.
Single-word subject.
No registration.
~50 participants.
Exposure date not set.

No.

Monday
JorjDotOrg PhotoHunt

In english.
Competition, consists of multi-week seasons.
Single-word subject.
Registration needed.
~20 participants.
Exposure after the challenge (not enforced).

No.

Tuesday
Tuesday challenge

In english.
Competition.
Single-word subject.
No registration needed.
~40 participants.
Exposure seems to be after the challenge (not enforced).

No.

Wednesday
Lensday

In english.
Single-word subject (seems to […]

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Troll done

Finished the first episode of Forumwarz, the massively single player online game of forum domination and pwnage.
Had plenty of fun, was impressed by the implementation, and will definitely be back for episode 2, as soon as it is released.
The troll was probably not the easiest character class to play (having to rely on […]

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Considering that it’s ten minutes to midnight on thursday, it’s high time to participate in this week’s photo friday challenge. The topic is found objects.
The attached photograph has a beautiful white seashell, deposited by the tides on a log high on a beach.
The picture in full-size (this has been moderately cropped) is […]

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One of the causes for the epic megafail of Sampo/Danske Bank reunion has been neatly dissected in Kuolleiden Koodareiden Seura.

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Hail Metalmania, the 9€ / cd is not a price you’ll often see in a brick&mortar-store. At least Anttila seems to be well-equipped with cheap discs right now.

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>GET LAMP

Interactive fiction - that is: games that use pure text for input and output - seems not to be the topic of a snazzy movie.
But against all odds, GET LAMP, a documentary film on the very subject looks to be very interesting indeed. Jason Scott, the director, has previously put together a […]

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No photo thursday today

Meh.
Was looking forward to a new challenge already this week, but the site’s break is actually two weeks long.

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Come visit the growing municipality of Suur-Haaga, a small town with big opportunities!
[ via Pinseri. ]

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We’ll always have Paris (and Paris)

I seem to have ended up with TWO copies of Mondo’s Paris guidebook. Haven’t paid for either, so it would be only fair to pass on the book.
So the first one to comment this with “Me!” or to send equivalent e-mail gets the book. To be picked up in person or […]

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Significant upgrade

Matt Barton started his history of computer roleplaying games in GameSetWatch, bartered it to Gamasutra to expand the readership, and has now expanded the subject into a 450 page book.
Dungeons & Desktops just went on top of my Amazon stack, and based on what I’ve seen on the web, will be good reading. […]

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Bunnies, it must be bunnies

A very relaxing easter weekend is drawing to a close, and what would be a better way to finish it off than bunnies.
A doubleheader of them, to be exact.
Useless Creations’ screensaver puts a group of rabbits on screen, and manages not to get annoying in the first fifteen seconds. In […]

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360 goes choo-choo

Based on uncovered evidence, it would seem that Days of Wonder’s Ticket to Ride is headed for the Xbox Live Arcade.
The two first XBLA takes on board games (Catan and Carcassonne) have been pleasant indeed, and there’s no reason to doubt this wouldn’t succeed as well. After all, there’s already a successful […]

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Stanley Cup, here we come!

After the second upset in the playoffs, Haagan Hakkapeliitat made it to the final in Yahoo! 76191.
Apart from negligible output from goalies (Tim Thomas is having a really bad stretch in Boston), the team played in solid fashion, and most of the categories had very comfortable margins.
But it’s a whole new […]

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Search terms

Added a sidebar-item on popular search terms, with which casual browsers have ended up here.
By far the biggest item on the list is the mysterious “singhiozzerebbe”, which is the biggest scoring word ever in Scrabulous. When played with the Italian dictionary, obviously.
The attached image is the other massive attractor - […]

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Payday spoils

Celebrated payday by going shopping.
Refrained from picking up anything significant (like a new television, camera or an apartment), and concentrated on music.
The theme was definitely metal, of a retro-ish kind. Not of the spandex-wearing kind, but metal that can be respected even while completely sober.
The first discovery was […]

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