Monthly Archives: August 2006

Shout outs to Scalzi

Posted on 31 August 2006 by Chris Barrus

Yowza! Mega (belated) congratulations to fellow Webb Mafioso John Scalzi for winning the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

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Life’s great! How can I mess it up?

Posted on 30 August 2006 by Chris Barrus

By applying to grad school of course… Hell, in these days who doesn’t think about running away to grad school? It’s the A#1 double-plus-good refuge for intelligent social misfits and the self-ostracized. As a grad student you have full social … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-08-30

Posted on 30 August 2006 by Chris Barrus

Nokia – Phone Software Update (tags: nokia symbian)

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100 years of housing prices

Posted on 29 August 2006 by Chris Barrus

Sometimes a picture has more than a thousand words, though only three are coming to mind right now… The Yale economist Robert J. Shiller created an index of American housing prices going back to 1890. It is based on sale … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-08-29

Posted on 29 August 2006 by Chris Barrus

Zugster Bags (tags: consume bag) VideoJug – Life Explained. On Film. (tags: blog video reference food howto) Urbicande François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters site for Obscure Cities (tags: architecture art comics urban) Cambridge Museum of Technology (tags: museum england history … Continue reading →

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A Pluto Observation

Posted on 29 August 2006 by Chris Barrus

If people were as emotionally invested in the space program as they are with Pluto’s planetary status, we would have had a moonbase by now. Just saying. No disrespect to the Mi-Go. Though the whole place is likely to be … Continue reading →

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California’s Giant Relief Map

Posted on 27 August 2006 by Chris Barrus

Much of the web has been wringing their hands over the giant relief map in China that someone stumbled across on Google Earth. It’s a cool map and yeah, there’s an element of mysteriousness to it but calling it “The … Continue reading →

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Rat Patrol

Posted on 27 August 2006 by Chris Barrus

Like just about everyone else that doesn’t live in New York City, my first encounter with the Giant Inflatable Rat of Labor Unrest was on that episode of The Sopranos. I’ve seen a couple over the years and had always … Continue reading →

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Now with extra Web 2.0 on the sidebar!

Posted on 27 August 2006 by Chris Barrus

Another nice side-effect of switching blog software is tossing all the sidebar clutter that was fun to experiment around with for maybe fifteen minutes or so. Honestly, I was doing it for the JavaScript and PHP experience. No really! Somewhere … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-08-26

Posted on 26 August 2006 by Chris Barrus

RETROBRICK – the home of vintage and rare mobile phones (tags: design telephone history)

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