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Archive for December, 2007

Jessamyn has a pretty cool break down of her reading habits

There seems to be a wider world of pencil selection then I would have thought. (via Regina)

via Glass

Absolute Powerpop’s top 120 albums of 2007: 1-5, 6-25, 26-50, 51-75, 76-100, 101-125. It’s going to take me till 2008 to make it through all these bands.

It seems the board game Fluxx has a new version called Zombie Fluxx that also seems good.

Continuing the book cover trend here is a cool book cover community where more covers are posted for comment. (via William)

I’ve always wanted to follow MetaFilter but it’s been too high volume for me. This is a great feed of just the popular posts which I find easier to keep up with.

Blog of a book cover artist who posts both published book covers and scraped ideas. I wish more cover artists did this. (via metafilter)

New Four Eyed Monsters dvd set has the final 5 unreleased episodes which I guess would be 9-14. I’ve been waiting for 9 to come out for a long while but The delay is understandable since Susan said editing them was like licking sidewalk.

Juno was pretty much everything I hoped it would be. Amazing. Some people companied that the dialog was too sharp and quick witted but that’s a style I will not get tired of for a long time.

Definitely one of the coolest thing I’ve seen done with the Wii Remote.

Stewart and Colbert on returning to TV: “If we cannot [return with writers], we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence.” (via Vulture)

This is a great list of very common myths. The fact that there is not enough tryptophan in turkey to really make you drowsy is kind of sad. They should sell special drowsiness turkeys.

hard to tell but it has promise.

Small interface changes can make a big difference. When ever I am designing a site feature I also put a lot of thought in to how I want people to use it and how I can encourage people to use it in that way. Here is a great article about how digg made small changes to discourage gaming of the site.