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Moosehunter

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:17:42 GMT

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That $700 Billion Could Parlay Into A Fortune For Ya

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:24:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The only limitations would be that Treasury's stock of troubled assets could not total more than $700 billion at any one time, that the buying program would end after two years, and that Paulson or his successor would regularly report to Congress. Moreover, though the proposal says Treasury's new authority would expire after two years, the history of past grants of emergency power suggests that Congress finds it hard not to renew them.

Clip Source: digbysblog.blogspot.com

Tags: politics, economics

Fiscal Conservatism

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:25:47 GMT

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Clip Source: crookedtimber.org

Tags: politics

Timeframe Adds Some Class to the Common Date Widget

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:53:31 GMT

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Clip Source: blog.wired.com

Timeframe is a simple, elegant Javascript calendar widget that allows you to select a date range by clicking and dragging. Head over to Celis’ site to try out a very impressive demo (pictured above). Just click on either your departure or return date and drag up or down to select a range.

Tags: webdesign

Building The Matrix - Notes from The Architect

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:52:20 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sitepoint.com

How coherent is the structure — do we gain a progression of data by traversing across the columns? Does the ordering of rows and columns mean something explicit such that a single point within the table can be cross-referenced? Or is it merely that the data happens to fall into columns because we’re still thinking of it visually? I think it’s the latter, and that presenting the data in this way would be innacurate and confusing.

Tags: webdesign

StarBurn: Free disc burning, audio ripping utility

Wed, 14 May 2008 05:06:32 GMT

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Clip Source: www.downloadsquad.com

One StarBurn feature that you don't often see bundled with disc burning utilities is a virtual drive mounting application. In other words, you can use StarBurn to create a disc image or ISO file, and then mount that file as a virtual disc so you can see how it performs without actually burning the file to a disc and sticking it in a drive. This can come in handy if you want to see check an image before burning it, or if you want to mount an image you've created or downloaded on a system that doesn't have a working optical drive.

Tags: software

Endgame: Singularity

Wed, 14 May 2008 04:57:38 GMT

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Clip Source: playthisthing.com

The gameplay involves setting up computation for yourself in various parts of the world, then devoting that computation to research, earning money (needed to buy more CPU cycles) and building as well. The current version is .27 -- which is significant because 27 factors perfectly in three sets of three threes -- but it also has a few flaws. Interestingly, like most great indie games, its flaws complement its theme. In this case, the interface is almost autistic. If you want to game this thing to maximal utility, you're going to set-up a lot of server access early on, before day 23 (also an important number), when someone notices an anomaly and your bases become vulnerable to discovery. However, jamming that kind of frenzied building means repetitively punching hot-keys. In the process, you begin to feel like a burgeoning AGI might, running rote operations to the nth iteration, and you begin empathize with the inhuman through your interface melange.

Tags: computer games

Tainted Kingdom

Wed, 14 May 2008 04:53:18 GMT

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Clip Source: jayisgames.com

Tainted Kingdom is a lean, tactical warfare game from Krinlabs, the creator of Sonny. You play a young nobleman assigned to a front-line unit in a lamentable war, only to find that your superiors are not who they seem. The gameplay is taut, playing out as a real-time dance of rock-paper-scissors match-ups. Do you have the skill to lead in battle?

Tags: computer games

Brute Wars

Wed, 14 May 2008 04:50:31 GMT

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Clip Source: jayisgames.com

If you've ever longed for a game to bring it on with animal-on-animal warfare, as in the tradition of Redwall, you've come to the right place. Brute Wars is a turn-based RPG tactical strategy game, and the latest game from Distraction Beast, where you pit your team of six creatures against opposing squads. The placement and order of their attacks adds up to a highly nuanced and rapid game of tactics that you won't want to miss.

Tags: computer games

Pieces

Mon, 05 May 2008 20:27:55 GMT

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Clip Source: jayisgames.com

You play the part of Proo, a mischievous but good-hearted little girl who accidentally crash-lands her father's spaceship on a bizarre planet, where all who enter seem to forget any motor skills they might have had. Proo must relearn basic skills like walking and jumping, and in order to reach the remoter parts of the planet she'll need skills she probably never had, like triple-jumping, digging, and gliding. She learns through the same process as all of us: observation. Once she sees a skill in action – for example a jumping rabbit – her memory is jogged and that skill is now available to her. However, Proo needs to first realize her inadequacy before she can upgrade her skills (don't we all!). This is sometimes unfortunate, as the screen where you obtain the need for a certain skill is often distant from the place you obtain the skill itself.

Tags: computer games

Celebrity robot tee

Mon, 05 May 2008 20:26:57 GMT

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Clip Source: www.boingboing.net

I love this "robot celebrity" tee from ChopShop -- science fictiontastic! Link (via Gizmodo)

Tags: sf

Standard Bits

Mon, 05 May 2008 20:24:22 GMT

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Clip Source: playthisthing.com

You're a pixel, you move around. Various other formations of pixels dance in bizarre constellations, your imagination does the rest. Imagine Dwarf Fortress' visual style, but without the cognitive dissonance. You're just cast adrift in this schizophrenic wasteland, no sound, no text, no nuthin' -- just you and your bit. Standard, really.

Tags: computer games

CSS Gradients, Transforms, Animations, and Masks

Mon, 05 May 2008 15:11:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sitepoint.com

With CSS transforms, you can move an element just as you can with relative positioning, but you can also scale, rotate, or even skew an element.

In this screenshot, I’ve used a CSS transform to rotate the entire page of sitepoint.com two degrees. Especially remarkable is that, after the transform is appled, all the text remains selectable, and you can still use the search form at the top of the page.

Tags: design

Logoease: quick and easy logo creation

Mon, 05 May 2008 15:08:18 GMT

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Clip Source: www.downloadsquad.com

Logoease is a simple, web-based logo-creation tool that offers basic stock clip-art and fonts. You start by choosing a logo image from a general set of categories, and then you're taken to the main editing screen where you can add text and arrange your logo.

Tags: software, design

Cultivation

Mon, 05 May 2008 15:06:04 GMT

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Clip Source: playthisthing.com

Who else would be inspired by a community debate involving Wal-Mart to make a game that features Kermit-The-Frog-eyed gardeners sharing resources? I don't know about you, but sharing resources isn't what I was raised to do, no free rides. And why else would he make the games' characters all bi-sexual hermaphrodites? What's he trying to do to America's youth? Apparently, gardening is really important to godless hippies that couldn't appreciate the special sauce on a Big Mac if a cow came up and licked them. This game is trying to tell you that we should all just tend the earth, develop permacultures, and "share fruits" with whatever transgendered wingbat comes along. Not in my country. I like my food grown the way god intended, by pouring oil all over a field of genetically modified seeds. And I only share fruits with the ladies, sir.

Tags: computer games