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Woo, compared to Matt Webb’s inspired take on fictional solar systems, the presentations in the Ignite:Helsinki session do seem a bit boring.

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I’ve been playing a couple of games of Scrabulous on facebook lately.
The legally quite contested take on the classic Scrabble word game works well, and is recommended to all fans of the game. This version of the game is optimized for sneak peeks during the working day, since the interaction between […]

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Daily Telegraph’s take on the top 50 pieces of art features odd choices and odder omissions, but is a nice cutaway across cultures and continents.
Was worried about my unculturedness for the first two pages, but have managed to see seven works out of the fifty listed thus far. And I’m pretty sure […]

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Watched Tim Burton’s take of Stephen Sondheim’s musical. Somehow, even though I liked the movie, I ended up disappointed.
The story is a penny dreadful from mid 19th century, and the simple singleminded tale of vengeance is not really at fault here. Nope, the plot flows as expected, and accompanied by liters of blood […]

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Google Sky, a web-version of the the astronomical extravaganza of imagery first offered in Google Earth in August, was launched this week. And productivity across the globe took a nice little dip, with web viewers looking to zoom into the nebulas and globular clusters of the universe.

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Photoshop disasters, a blog showcasing graphical misfires from designers with more ambition than skill and common sense.

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Two nifty music-industry related lists, one with a decent page structure, the other without.
Amongst the top 20 record company screw-ups are some quite obvious mistakes (such as not signing the Beatles) and some less that haven’t achieved an equivalent level of notoriety (Geffen sues Neil Young for “unrepresentative” records).
Spinner’s list of […]

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This week’s thursday challenge is all about green.
My take is the attached image, of a truly overgrown patch of rainforest in the Blue Mountains near Sydney.
I had several ideas about the subject, but figured out that dollar bills are so 80s, don’t own any St. Patrick’s Day gear and the only […]

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Lehti, pretty much the only real finnish humour-blog, attempts to go paper.
In a truly 21st century way, by ransoming the first issue.
Count me in.

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This week’s photo thursday challenge is reflection.
My take on the subject is a dusk-lit glass building in Victoria, British Columbia.

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Guardian has picked top fifty blogs across the whole spectrum.
Some on the list are familiar and expected, some come out of the left field utterly.

The Huffington Post
The top dog is a collectively written political blog. Which I have never laid eyes on before.
boingboing
The eclectic selection of topics covered by boingboing […]

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This week’s photo friday challenge is surreal.
Once again the subject of choice is an animal, this time a jellyfish, floating free against a bright blue background.

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Some things you’d never expect to see: to honour the late co-inventor of D&D, Charles Stross has rendered the presidential candidates in Monster Manual (1st edition) terms.

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Make Ville an unproductive blog author.
But seriously, I so will get back in the saddle soon, this is getting embarrassing.
At least with the announced delay of the WordPress 2.5 I won’t have to spend any time in twiddling with the new version in the immediate future.

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This week’s thursday challege is games.
My take is the attached image, an overview of the Safecracker-pinball’s playing field.

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Kevin Kelly argues that a thousand fans are enough to support an artist. Where the definition of a fan more or less is determined by his willingness to spend one day’s wages annually on something the artist supplies.
If that’s the criteria, then there aren’t many causes I can consider myself a fan […]

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Encyclopedia of Life seems to have kicked its startup troubles, at least the service seesm to be readily available. The first 25 demo pages on different organisms are interesting, but a negligible scratch on the surface of the whole.

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This week’s photo thursday challenge concerns itself with a long quote from Erland Loe’s Supernaïve. The most pertinent bit of which is “… the list doesn’t lie. I’m satisfied with it. Perhaps the object I’m looking for does exist…”
Having not read the book, my assumption is that the list describes several unlikely […]

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Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, passed away today.
I know I would be a worse human being if it wouldn’t have been for role-playing games.

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GDC finished a couple of weeks ago, TED was last week, ETech kicks off today, and SxSW is next week.
That’s a lot of press releases to grind and read, not to mention sessions for attendees to sit in and try to craft intelligible blog entries of.
And I’m sure there’s indeed wheat among the […]

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