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Entries for week beginning March 13, 2005

March 19, 2005

not funny because it's rude

With this and the “Thants” script, I apparently need a new link category called “Scripts emulating running jokes in obscure British comedy shows”

March 18, 2005

PyMusique: A first look at the code

Excellent summary by Dan of what’s under PyMusique’s (metaphorical) hood.

PyMusique

DVD Jon’s tool for purchasing tracks from the iTunes Music Store, but without all that DRM nonsense.

WSJ.com - Rock's Oldest Joke: Yelling 'Freebird!' In a Crowded Theater

The history of a bizarre joke. I’ve been guilty of yelling this, but never had any idea why!

Tivo Bloglines Reader

Read yer Bloglines account on yer TiVo.

HOWTO de-Xeni BoingBoing

Ask and ye shall, etc.

March 17, 2005

'The Office' remake set to debut online

news.com(.com) links to little old me. Not quite as exciting as appearing in NTK last week, but it makes me happy none t’less.

SoxTix

SoxTix

Hurrah hurrah! Our Red Sox tickets for this season arrived today. Roll on April 14th!

Google Code

Google create a center (with RSS feeds) for open-source code they’ve developed, and tools using their APIs. Cool.

March 16, 2005

Ambient Executive Dashboard

Ridiculously-expensive, but cool little at-a-glance indicator for your (physical) desktop.

Clocky -- The clock for people who have trouble getting out of bed.

I. Need. This.

BoingBoing Butler

Get rid of the porn ads and assorted other whoring on BoingBoing. If it could block Xeni too, then it’d be perfect.

The Next Big Thing in Online Type

MS launching new “Corefonts” in 2006 to replace Verdana, Tahoma, etc.

Game Gardens

The Puzzle Pirates folks open up their infrastructure and toolkit to allow anyone to create multi-player games. Awesome.

TV Squad

New TV-focused blog from Weblogs, Inc.

Flickr Postcard Browser

Lovely Flash interface way to view Flickr photies.

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