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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Digital Dickens: How Scott Sigler is changing the way we read: The Independent (UK) covers the upcoming UK release of Scott Sigler’s “Infected”.
Tags: Scott Sigler, Podiobooks, podcast, Writing, Infected,
Leo Laporte Does 24 Hours of iPhone to Over a Quarter Million Viewers: I always find Leo entertaining. I tuned into this a few times and was amazed at how even with numerous technical faults and no sleep he kept things interesting.
Tags: Leo Laporte, iPhone,
Human Mirror: Improve Everwhere fills a subway with identical twins creating a human mirror, and messing with peoples minds.
Tags: improv everywhere, performance, funny, humor, video,
Interview: Gaiman, Zelazny and More Coming To Your iPod: An interview with Steve Feldberg, content director for Audible’s science-fiction/fantasy line Audible Frontiers who have been releasing some very exciting audiobooks (including the upcoming release of Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories)
Tags: audible.com, Audiobooks, Science-Fiction,
Story of a Peanut: The TiVo Remote’s Untold Past, Present and Future: Fascinating history of the TiVo remote.
Tags: TiVo, gadgets, design, remote, technology,

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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Crime podcast novel gets HUGE boost in advertising: Video of a digital billboard advertising for Seth Harwood’s “Jack Wakes Up”
Tags: Podiobooks, podcast, Audiobooks, Seth Harwood, Jack Palms, Jack Wakes Up, video,
The parseInt gotcha: I’m pretty sure once you’ve been hit by this parseInt() behavior in javascript you never forget it, but if you haven’t you should learn about it now before you do.
Tags: javascript, parseInt,
CSS Tools: Reset CSS: Eric Meyer’s Reset style-sheet (now in its permanent home, with versions numbers). Including this should reduce browser inconsistencies, and help you not to rely on undefined default behaviors.
Tags: CSS, tools, reset, development, Eric Meyer, webdesign,
CSS Tools: Diagnostic CSS: Eric Meyer’s diagnostic.css (now in its permanent home). Including this stylesheet will highlight elements that are incomplete and may be degrading the user experience.
Tags: CSS, testing, tools, webdesign, diagnostics, Eric Meyer,
Jason Bateman Confirms “Arrested Development” Movie Talks: I cannot begin to express how much I hope this comes to pass.
Tags: Arrested Development, TV, movie,
Amazon acquires Audible for $300 million: This caught be by surprise. Hopefully it will remain mostly unchanged, although adding stereo support to all the stereo BBC programs they carry would be nice.
Tags: Amazon, Audiobooks, audible.com,

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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

An Interface of One’s Own: Virginia Heffernan covers alternatives to Microsoft Word for writers including Scrivener (my personal favorite), Ulysses, WriteRoom, and Nisus Writer.
Tags: Virginia Heffernan, software, Writing, Scrivener, Ulysses, WriteRoom, Nisus Writer
Future of Ajax.NET Professional: With the release of VS2008 and .NET 3.5 Michael Schwarz is ending development on Ajax.NET Professional (an alternate Ajax toolkit for ASP.NET that predates Microsoft’s own).
Tags: Ajax.NET, ASP.NET, development, .NET, .NET 3.5
The Secret Lair: An all new podcast hosted by Chris Miller and Kris Johnson.
Tags: Chris Miller, Kris Johnson, podcast, KJToo, The Secret Lair
The transformation of a writer with Mur Lafferty: Wayne Sutton interviews Mur Lafferty about social media (video).
Tags: Mur Lafferty, Wayne Sutton, interview, video
IE7.js version 2.0 (beta): Dean Edwards IE7.js has been updated after a long period of inactivity. The new version is split in two files IE7.js brings IE5+ into the same level of compliance as IE7, while IE8.js contains further standards compliance fixes beyond what IE7 currently
Tags: browser, IE7, IE8, ie, javascript, Dean Edwards, IE7.js, standards, webdesign

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Monday, January 7th, 2008

The latest episode of Stories of the Third Wave, the companion podcast to Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps features a segment written by yours truly (performed by my lovely wife and I). It also features another great song from always entertaining Ookla the Mok.

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