When I get done at work, I'm already home.

home office FTW

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Scripting News: A new way of linking in tweets

Dave Winer leads the discussion on a new way of linking in tweets, such as [photo|bit.ly/DMhr]. (Go read Dave’s short post or this won’t make much sense.)

Would it be worth a few false positives to save one more character by writing it as photo(bit.ly/DMhr)? You could save another with photo|bit.ly/DMhr, but the former seems more readable to me.

Update: Of course, now that I’ve clicked “publish”, I recognize the problem. You wouldn’t be able to write multi-word links, but you would with [Dave Winer's method|bit.ly/DMhr].

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Send feeds to Twitter with twitterfeed

Dean explained how to merge RSS and Twitter with twitterfeed a few days ago. I tried it out and instantly fell in love.

We use it now with @blogbites (which Dean also wrote about). I’m also using it to build a community ticker — more on that later.

I encourage you to read Dean’s post and play around with both Twitter and twitterfeed. Try things that don’t make sense. Glue things together to make something new. Maybe you’ll discover the peanut butter and chocolate of teh interwebs.

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Classic WTF: The Bug That Shut Down Computers World-Wide – The Daily WTF

Classic WTF: The Bug That Shut Down Computers World-Wide – The Daily WTF:

One by one, processes in the Wang VS shut down and the computers grinded to a halt. Since boot time activity included the creation and deletion of temporary files, the operating system boot process could not complete. This effectively put ever single Wang VS computer in an unbootable state.

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Amazon.com: Doggies: Sandra Boynton: Books

Why is this item even showing up in my results when I query Amazon’s ItemSearch API and sort by salesrank? Is there a reverse sort I don’t know about?

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JPG Magazine Shuts Down

JPG Magazine Says Goodbye:

We’ve spent the last few months trying to make the business behind JPG sustain itself, and we’ve reached the end of the line. We all deeply believe in everything JPG represents, but just weren’t able to raise the money needed to keep JPG alive in these extraordinary economic times. We sought out buyers, spoke with numerous potential investors, and pitched several last-ditch creative efforts, all without success. As a result, jpgmag.com will shut down on Monday, January 5, 2009.

You can download PDFs of back issues and other goodies from their Archives.

Filed under: Art, Photography, business, buyers, creative, economy, investors, magazine, money

When fan becomes fanatic

The writing of Family Guy amazes me every time I watch it. “The critics” say it’s crap, but clearly the critics are the lazy writers. The humor is as intelligent as it is crude, with original wordplay, fearless exploration of limits, and an experienced sense of timing. And Stewie… has anyone ever written a character like Stewie before? I’m definitely a fan.

I’m also definitely a lesser fan than the proud owner of this Peter Griffin tattoo.

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