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Entries from August 2008

Why “Rickrolling” is So Popular

March 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments

I had read about The KLF’s “The Manual” years ago, and then forgot about it, but a recent mention of it on the Macbreak Weekly podcast reminded me all about it. So, I poked around online and found the text of “The Manual”, and surprise of surprises it explains exactly why “Rickrolling” is so popular:
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Tags: Arts

Clango Cyclotron Is Now “CC”

March 11th, 2008 · No Comments

There might be some folks that call Clango Cyclotron “CC” for short, but as far as I know Clango is still keeping his full name. No, the big news is that Richard Stevens, creator and artist of the web and print comic Diesel Sweeties, is releasing Diesel Sweeties under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license as [...]

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Tags: Arts · Editorial · Tech

My Inner Geek is Showing

March 8th, 2008 · No Comments

With all this talk about the iPhone SDK being released, I’m getting a little interested in learning how to program Objective-C with Cocoa. I haven’t really done any application programming except for what I’ve had to do in my classes a few years ago, and I can’t really think of anything in particular I’d like [...]

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Tags: Tech

Ayyyyy!

March 4th, 2008 · No Comments

What’s that you say? The text adventure game “The Search for Fonzie’s Treasure” uses Asynchronous Javascript and XML? That means it’s powered by “AYYYYYYYJAX!!!”
Ha! Ha!

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Tags: Tech