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Links of Interest (September 29th 2008 Through October 17th 2008)

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Glassbooth – Quiz to help you choose best 2008 presidential candidate: Glassboth lets you see where each candidate stands in relation to the issues that matter to you through the used of a weighted quiz. Slick interface that I found very easy to use and understand. Even if you’ve alredy made up your mind I recommend you check it out.
Tags: reference, politics, usa, vote, Glassboth,
Byline – Google Reader on the go.: If you use Google Reader, and you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch you should check out Phantom Fish’s Byline. Byline is essentially a Google Reader client that syncs so you don’t need a network connection at all times (and it offers features missing from Googles own iPhone interface, like an oldest post first view). It’s not perfect, but I find it a vastly preferable in most cases to the Google Reader iPhone web interface.
Tags: software, RSS, iPhone, iPod Touch, Google-Reader, news, Byline, Phantom-Fish,
Shyamalan Talks ‘Unbreakable’ Sequel: Seems to me that M. Night Shyamalan doesn’t exactly rule it out, but there’s no “it’s happening” in here. Still “Ubreakable” is probably in my top 10 list of films, and I’d love to see where it goes next.
Tags: M-Night-Shyamalan, Unbreakable, movie,
My Life With Gwen Stacy,Or, How an audiobook narrator redeemed his misspent youth reading comic books by getting to the bottom of the greatest comic book mystery of all time: Who killed Spider-Man’s girlfriend?: Scott Brick, one of my all time favorite audiobook narrators, recounts the story behind his 1998 Comic Buyer’s Guide article “Who Killed Gwen Stacy?”, which delved into the creative decisions behind killing off Spider-Man’s girlfriend in 1973. Like most of Scott’s posts it’s also available in audio.
Tags: comics, Scott Brick, Comic-Buyers-Guide, Spider-Man, Gwen-Stacy,
Web 2.Rockstar: The robotic tale of Jonathon Coulton: Ars Technica offers a nice JoCo primer, and how he succeded where the underpants gnomes failed. “When I first started the important thing was audience: if I can reach enough people, that’s leverage, or power, and maybe that leads to something that does make money.” Has some interesting thoughts on labels, and what may replace them in the future.
Tags: Jonathan-Coulton, Music,