- Dwarf Fortress, SimCity's Evil Twin.
My quest to learn how to play Dwarf Fortress continues.
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- Code Hard or Go Home.
A discussoin on Google and their contribution to WebKit, and what it means now that they’re moving development effort to Blink.
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- University of Waterloo Open Data API.
They have an API call for finding out about Goose sightings.
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- Roll for Initiative.
The Magazine covers one of my favourite hobbies, D&D. The Magazine is $2 a month and well worth the money.
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- Anonymous threatens to out boys involved in rape.
This girl’s story is depressing, and ends with her committing suicide and the Nova Scotia government and RCMP doing fuck all. I’m guessing with all the public outrage that might change.
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- How we made Knightmare.
I remember being obsessed with this show when I lived in England.
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- MMR does not cause autism. The Swansea measles outbreak shows the damage this idiotic scare has caused.
Vaccinate your god damn children so they don’t catch victorian diseases.
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- Ryerson Review of Journalism: Willfully blind.
“A closer look at the Margaret Wente plagiarism scandal and what it says about The Globe and Mail’s institutional arrogance.”
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- The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show.
I’ve linked to this show before, but since the site has redesigned it seems like a good chance to link to it again. This has become one of my favourite podcasts. There are so many great episodes. He’s interviewed Bulk and Skull from the Power Rangers, Magic the Gathering Champion Jon Finkel, Street Fighter Champion Justin Wong, a fellow that worked for the NES game hotline, Justin Ouellette, inteventer of Muxtape. I could go on and on.
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- Margaret Thatcher, former U.K. PM, dead at 87.
The Iron Lady is dead.
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- Roger Ebert dead at 70 after battle with cancer.
Two days ago he wrote he was going to take a ‘leave of presence’.
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- An acquisition is always a failure.
There is too much good stuff in this article to quote. Jake Lodwick from College Humour discusses the sale of his company (and its children) to a large conglomerate.
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- A Whirlwind Culinary Tour of Sri Lanka, Where Coconut Reigns Supreme.
I need to go to Sri Lanka.
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- YouTube: This is the End.
That’s a lof of famous people playing themselves.
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- YouTube: SHORT PEACEç‰¹å ±
Oh hells yes!
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- xkcd - Time.
He’s been posting a frame an hour for the last few days.
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- A game when games were new.
On Pac-Man.
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- RIP Ravi Kanagarajah.
What a shame. He was only 42 years old.
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- Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy's Last Safe Haven.
Paul Ford discusses crazy-ass Bitcoin.
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- iCloud and Core Data.
A collection of stories that presents a tale of woe around Apple’s syncing ‘solution’.
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- Hotline revisited.
Hotline was amazing. An endless sea of pirated software.
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- The Battle We Didn't Choose.
This is kind of heart breaking. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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- 'Intoxicated' Toronto mayor asked to leave military ball.
Rob Ford is killing it.
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