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• SuBBrilliant Blog » Generic Help Forum Thread

  Funny distillation of all the help forum mis-steps in one thread.

  tags: humor

• End User: Sony Finally Scraps the Clamshell Packaging

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• Showing off your FeedBurner subscribers – Yoast – Tweaking Websites

  tags: wordpress, feedburner

• The “modern world” demo… | edparsons.com

  tags: engelbart

• The most heart-rending gaming disappointments of 2008

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  • Sony’s Home

    Imagine if all the sexist idiots from Xbox Live suddenly had 3D avatars and sat around a movie theater that looped the trailer for Twilight, hoping a woman walks in so they can compliment her breasts and then dance around her. Imagine a version of Second Life where you couldn’t create anything, but you’re welcome to buy a new Diesel shirt or wait in line to play chess. 

    This is supposed to be Sony’s answer to Xbox Live, a way for gamers to socialize and hang out. The problem is you don’t actually want to know most of the gamers who play online, and you certainly don’t want to be forced to spend time with them in any kind of physical space, even if it is virtual physical space. If that’s even possible. 

    You know what I mean. 

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• Twingly: The 100 Most Popular Blogs

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• WP SUP | Neothoughts

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  • Known Issues

    • FeedBurner strips the header and link tag from feeds

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• The End of the US Piano Industry by Jeffrey A. Tucker

  tags: politics, economics

  • Let’s say
    that FDR had initiated a bailout of the piano industry and the
    even taken it over and nationalized it. The same firms would have
    made the same pianos for decades and decades. But that wouldn’t
    have stopped the Japanese industry from taking off in the 60s
    and 70s. Americans would have far preferred them because they
    would be cheaper. American pianos, because they would be state-owned,
    would fall in quality, lower and lower to the point that they
    would become like a Soviet car in the 1960s. Of course you could
    set up tariff barriers. That would have forced American pianos
    on us. Except for one thing: demand would have still collapsed.
    The pianos still have to have a market. But let’s say you find
    a workaround for that problem by requiring everyone to own a piano.
    You still can’t make people play them and value them.

• 50 Excellent Digital Photography Photoshop Tutorials | Tutorials | Smashing Magazine

  tags: photoshop, howto, reference

• Top 10 List of People to Unfollow on Twitter | Shannon Whitley

  tags: twitter, humor

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• The Hacker’s Diet

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• Phil Glockner – FriendFeed

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• Netbooks compared: Obsessable Comparator

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• iList Classifieds – Post and Search Free Classified Ads

  tags: social network, website, shopping

• Helvetireader

  Helvetireader is a userscript that pares down Google Reader to what I consider to be the essentials. In particular, it’s made for looking at feeds in the expanded view, using Keyboard Shortcuts instead of on-screen buttons. It’s not going to suit how everyone uses Google Reader, so you can take the CSS and personalise to your hearts content!

  tags: greader, hack, reference

  • Helvetireader is a userscript that pares down Google Reader to what I consider to be the essentials. In particular, it’s made for looking at feeds in the expanded view, using Keyboard Shortcuts instead of on-screen buttons. It’s not going to suit how everyone uses Google Reader, so you can take the CSS and personalise to your hearts content!

    All you need is a browser that supports userscripts (see below) and, of course, Helvetica.

• Muxtape

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  • I had to make a decision. As I saw it I had three options.
  • The first was to just shut everything down, which I never really considered. The second was to ban major label content entirely, which might have solved the immediate crisis, but had two strong points against it.
  • I had to make a decision. As I saw it I had three options. The first was to just shut everything down, which I never really considered. The second was to ban major label content entirely, which might have solved the immediate crisis, but had two strong points against it. The first, most visibly, was that it would prevent people from using the majority of available music in their mixes. The second was that it did nothing to address the deeper questions surrounding ownership and usage for everyone else who wasn’t a major label: mid-size labels and independent artists who have just as fundamental a right to address how their content is used as a large corporation, even if they don’t carry quite as big a stick.
  • The third option was to approach a fully licensed model, which I had been edging toward since I met with Universal.
  • Muxtape is relaunching as a service exclusively for bands, offering an extremely powerful platform with unheard-of simplicity for artists to thrive on the internet.

• U.S. ‘Not Getting What We Pay For’ – washingtonpost.com

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