Ma.gnolia: Mark Paschal's Bookmarks

Ain't It Cool News • Spaced finally coming to U.S. DVD

markpasc — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:04:54 PDT

Omg sweet, Spaced coming to region 1 DVD... but $50? ouch.

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Tags: via:simoncarless, tv, simon pegg, dvd

Anil Dash: Paste to Win! (A Twitter Contest)

markpasc — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:18:24 PDT

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Tags: contest, twitter, anil dash, funny

potlatch: gift-theft economies

markpasc — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:32:35 PDT

“Publishers seem to believe that economics explains almost 'everything', but what would the rational choice brigade make of this incident? Ideally I would put this on a wiki, so that the mini-Stephen Levitt's could annotate it, explaining just what the fuck was going on.”

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Tags: economics, society, story, will davies

First Public Mirror's Edge Trailer Revealed | Game | Life from Wired.com

markpasc — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:35:34 PDT

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Tags: omg, games, mirror's edge, trailer, video

Clarke Awards: Shockingly, Science Fiction Book Wins SF Book Award

markpasc — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:12:52 PDT

wow, I had been waiting for the paperback, but Richard K. Morgan's Thirteen won the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Nice.

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Tags: richard k. morgan, thirteen, books, scifi, fiction

OpenID and Django - Go By Airship

markpasc — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:15:32 PDT

my apps piggyback openid on contrib.auth, and it is not great

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Tags: django, openid

Wii Friend Codes from Twitter

markpasc — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:01:43 PDT

share your Wii codes with your Twitter network, thanks to the Wii Transfer folk(s)

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Tags: wii, web, social networking, social gaming, codes, twitter, via:bschoate

BLDGBLOG: Game/Space: An Interview with Daniel Dociu

markpasc — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:37:42 PDT

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Tags: games, architecture, design, via:blackbeltjones

Hot and Cool • Cat and Girl

markpasc — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:21:50 PDT

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Tags: comics, cat and girl, television, media, clay shirky, social surplus

How We're Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take -- New York Magazine

markpasc — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:12:27 PDT

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Tags: feet, biology, via:fozbaca, health

Cynical Peak Software - Rivet

markpasc — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:00:59 PDT

oh man, i just bought Connect360, but I guess I should at least try this after reading the fireballed review

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Tags: 360, software, mac, try this

The Macintosh Biblioblog: Special Key Symbols

markpasc — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:21:51 PDT

Apparently there's a real actual codepoint for ⌥ (Option Key, U+2325).

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Tags: unicode, mac, reference

Steven Poole: Free your mind

markpasc — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:59:08 PDT

“Clearly this is not any kind of *business plan.* Still, some people insist that all creative work ought to be given away like this. ... Although I quite admire this sentiment as a utopian principle, I have some problems with it in the real world. Because, you see, this is what I do for a living.”

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Tags: writing, drm, profession, making a living

The One-Game Diet • GameSetWatch: Save the Robot

markpasc — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:25:27 PDT

“I would pour more time into games... that reward your commitment instead of exhausting your attention.”

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Tags: games, gamesetwatch

if it ain't broke: thoughts on house rules • aprivatefox

markpasc — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:38:21 PDT

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Tags: games, rules, design

Blackbeltjones/Work: » Loops of Fury

markpasc — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:46:44 PDT

“Not stories, but toy moments.”

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Tags: photos, flickr, video, media, ux, framing, via:kottke

Agile Testing: Compiling mod_python on RHEL 64 bit

markpasc — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:54:22 PDT

precisely the incantation I needed to compile mod_python and/or mod_wsgi against my manually compiled Python

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Tags: mod_wsgi, python, compile, unix, hax, centos

Ned Batchelder: Stopping spambots with hashes and honeypots

markpasc — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:38:41 PDT

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Tags: reference, spam, comments, blogging, design, qarves

Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign

markpasc — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:37:31 PDT

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Tags: video, tldr, via:wmmna

WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Freezepop of the Current Gaming Music Future Future Future Perfect

markpasc — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:36:10 PDT

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Tags: freezepop, music, rock band, harmonix

GameSetWatch - Interview: Greg Maletic Talks 'Tilt: The Battle To Save Pinball'

markpasc — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:34:34 PDT

“Also, I think some of the fanboys didn’t realize how ‘faithful’ to the pinball spirit these designers were: they didn’t want to see pinball changed into a video game any more than the fans did.”

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Tags: games, pinball, documentary, gamesetwatch

Simon Wistow - You don't really want it any more from me

markpasc — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:16:08 PDT

“[P]arallel, grid based computing looks like it should be hard but it's coming, it has significant advantages once you can get your head round it and as long as the tools are good it might actually turn out to be a better way to program.”

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Tags: programming, grid computing, excel, welding, tooling, parallelism

sorl-thumbnail - Google Code

markpasc — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:39:57 PDT

in spite of use of “M$” in the project description

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Tags: django, tools, python, thumbnails, pil, images, try this

typogrify - Google Code

markpasc — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:19:48 PDT

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Tags: django, tools, smartypants, python, try this

Change We Can Believe In • Ask H&FJ

markpasc — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:32:21 PDT

Those new UK coins are hilariously beautiful

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Tags: united kingdom, coins, money, design

Mario Kart Wii Review // Wii /// Eurogamer

markpasc — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:16:23 PDT

“But that doesn't take into account Nintendo's incredible ability to mould plastic in such a way that it inspires feelings of happiness as soon as you pick it up.”

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Tags: wii, games, review, eurogamer

Tetris: Twenty Lines • Retro Sabotage

markpasc — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:23:26 PDT

best Tetris clone ever

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Tags: tetris, games, flash

The Universe of Discourse : Suffering from "make install"

markpasc — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:08:59 PDT

“Uh-oh. If solution #1 had worked, people would not have needed to invent solution #2. If solution #2 had worked, people would not have needed to invent solution #3. Since there are five solutions, there is a good chance that none of them work.”

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Tags: solutions, design, software