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Movie Review: The Fall (2006)
2008-06-06 06:07:00
I had the fortune of going to see Tarsem Singh’s newest movie, “The Fall ”, which emerged in theaters on the 30th of June. The part-fantasy, part-reality movie takes place in Los Angeles in the 1920s and revolves around bedridden movie stuntman Roy Walker (Lee Pace), who, after being injured on a set, considers suicide but ...
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Google Updates Favicon
2008-05-31 15:13:00
It appears as though Google has updated its favicon to a newer, softer version, choosing the lowercase ‘g’ in the Google title over the uppercase: This is an update on the previous version, shown below: This change has slowly propagated in the past few days across all of Google’s services. I wonder what they might be up ...
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Two women in New York
2008-05-24 20:01:00
Crash collision, mid-pavement Between a Jabba and a Cruella More like a brush and a bump “I’m sor-”, “You!” and the pointing begins With expletives bouncing off The gray cement like marbles Ugly, monotonic, gray, marbles, Loud and all over the place One focuses on size (and girth), The other on the intellect (or lack thereof) And the marbles bounce around Unnoticed. 3rd Avenue and 77nd, 11:51am
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Google University
2008-05-23 05:42:00
I spotted something interesting while watching the video that Google put up on their blog announcing the availability of Google Sites to the general public. The URL The email The domain Google University is apparently an opportunity for Google employees to enhance their knowledge with specific courses. googleuniversity.org is registered by Domains By Proxy, while googleuniversity.com clearly has no ...

Putting that $15 surcharge into perspective
2008-05-23 04:06:00
Back in the old days, check-in baggage was free (and they actually gave you something to eat, too, even on domestic flights). American Airlines decided to charge passengers $15 for their first check-in bag, a path which other airliners will undoubtedly follow given high fuel prices. But where exactly does $15 bring you? While it seems ...
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The Google Takeover
2008-05-20 06:50:00
I don’t particularly welcome to advent of Google Health, mainly because Google controls so much of my life already as it is. Google has become so integral in our daily lives that if Google’s servers were to suffer from some form of failure even for an hour, its impact will be so devastating it just ...
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The Commuter?s Lament
2008-05-20 00:16:00
On the subway pathway from the 42nd street A, C, E stop leading to the 7, 1, 2 and 3 train platform, I spotted these placards upon the beams - everyone else seemed to be in too much of a hurry to appreciate them. It turns out that this is a piece of work from ...
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Where the Chinatown Fails ? to Succeed
2008-05-19 00:18:00
As a frequent commuter from New York to Philadelphia and back, I have had the privilege of traveling cheap thanks to the Chinatown buses, which run between most of the major cities along the East Coast, including Boston, New York, Philadelphia and DC, all the way down to Atlanta. The two main companies available are ...
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Giving Away
2008-05-18 15:41:00
So, I have this Erector “Design Excavator” set that I found on campus on the “I’m giving this away for free” table and I figured I’d like to give this to a child who might have some fun with it. Can you find me that child? Convince me why he or she would love to ...
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Python code for extracting email addresses
2008-05-13 22:52:00
There have been times where I’ve wanted to mass email a bunch of people sharing the same domain name: for example, I’d like to send a notice to everyone I know who attends my school and thus has a @swarthmore.edu email address. Exporting my contacts from Gmail into CSV, I coded the following in Python ...
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How to download mp3 from esnips
2008-05-09 04:48:00
So, you’ve found a good song on esnips and you’d like to make it your own. As of this writing, only one method exists. Say you’d like to download Ballade Pour Adeline by Rimini Club DJs Unlimited, an obscure but fantastic song. The URL on esnips is at http://www.esnips.com/doc/4f496449-99d8-4 a4a-a5f2-b8f46c9e0860/03.-Ballade-Pour-Ad eline—Rimini-Club-Djs-United Here’s the method: Replace the /doc/ part with /nsdoc/ Remove ...
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Endangered-Languages.com
2008-05-06 06:17:00
I hereby present to you a collaborative final project for my Endangered Languages course here at Swarthmore: endangered-languages.com
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IHT Delivers Same Story in Different Flavors
2008-04-25 03:26:00
It seems that the International Herald Tribune can be accused of writing up different forms of the same article with choice words replaced. It lends itself to a surprisingly conflicting interpretation. The reason they differ? The regions in which they are expected to be read, specifically Africa versus the Middle East (check out their links) ...
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Japan, Newspaper Country
2008-04-20 16:50:00
Consider these figures of the top newspapers of the world: Newspaper Readership, Feb. 2008   Yomiuri, morning edition 10,015,054   Asahi Shimbun, morning edition 8,016,119   Mainichi, morning edition 3,879,114   Yomiuri, evening edition 3,826,298   Asahi Shimbun, evening edition 3,511,086   The Sun 3,077,060   The Daily Mail 2,294,880   USA Today 2,293,137   Wall Street Journal 2,011,882   Mainichi, evening edition 1,349,652   New York Times 1,037,828 (Figures from Japan Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), as released in ...
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Dear advertisers of the world
2008-04-19 15:37:00
Dear advertisers of the world I hope you realize that you waste pretty much every penny trying to get my attention. You can argue all you want about subliminal messages, you can tell me that I chose Colgate over Aquafresh because of an ad I saw four years ago, or that I am more likely to ...
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Tutorial: How to create favicons
2008-04-18 03:40:00
Favicons are those small icons you see in your browser right next to the URL in the address bar or whenever you bookmark a page, as shown below. It’s a great way to brand your site and it adds a subtle touch to your users’ online experience. They’re easy to make, but it doesn’t quite ...
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Sometimes
2008-04-16 14:53:00
Written for none other than K.B. Sometimes I like to dig my feet into the heels of my loafers, eating something cheap from the nearby convenience store, and walk to nowhere in particular. The transformation from loafer to sandal ensures that I can only walk at a slower pace than usual so that they don’t fall ...
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Life, Another One of Those Episodes
2008-04-05 02:07:00
So after nine weeks, my web design course is over. It started with two dozen enthusiastic students from all classes, and ended up with five. Perhaps the most proudest end result is the Nolarize! website, created by Greg Albright ‘10. It’s pretty amazing what a nine-week, three hour a week program can do. There were a lot of things I didn’t quite cover to the extent I had hoped, and a lot of things that ended up being shuffled around (and it became difficult to handle the ins and outs of students who weren’t sure if they could attend all the classes) but I think in the end it did give me a lot to learn about too. Teaching is fun in part because the rewards reaped from it are so much more than the simple transmission of knowledge from one person to another. You really need to be prepared. I think I wasn’t as well prepared for the class most of the time, and when you hear about professors who spend forty hours preparing for a single class, you wonder wher...
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YouTube in HD
2008-03-15 23:12:00
I hope you can see the difference between the left and the right side of the image below: One, we’re used to, the other is an omg-that’s-so-amazing thing called *higher quality*. YouTube has conveniently kept it hidden from us, but all you need to do as append &fmt=18 to the URL of the video to see it in ...
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3/14: Pi Day
2008-03-14 14:27:00
In honor of π day, listen to comedy/parody musical duo Hard N Phirm’s Pi: When ink and pen in hands of men Inscribe your form, bipedal “P” They draw an altar on which God has slaughtered all stability No eyes could ever soak in all the places you anoint And yet to see you all at once we only need the ...

Scandalous
2008-03-12 02:58:00
New York governor Eliot Spitzer has been named as a client of Emperor’s Club VIP, a high-end prostitution agency, after a FBI wire-tap caught him with 23-year-old call-girl ‘Kristen’ last month in a Washington hotel. The headlines have exploded over the scandal, in particular because he made a name for himself as State Attorney General ...
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Murphy?s Law: New York
2008-03-09 22:22:00
On the subway: If you run down the stairs and race through the turnstile, the train going in the opposite direction will just be pulling in. You will have to explain how a Metro Card vending machine works to a bunch of tourists right as your train pulls up. On a bike: A group of school children ...
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Fujitsu Lifebook S7110 Review
2008-03-08 21:41:00
In one line: A powerful, lightweight and versatile device geared towards medium memory-intensive multi-taskers or the business/corporate individual. Pros: Excellent battery life, superior specs packed into lightweight device, expandable memory/drives, unique button-based security options Cons: Side vents get very warm, overall construction could be more solid, fairly loud hard drive operation, mediocre speakers Oddities: Left and right buttons above and below keypad No ...
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A Sense of Cohesion
2008-01-29 04:35:00
There comes a moment in time when you feel like everything comes together, even though there seems to be no coherent way to explain how exactly they fit together. It’s like that hunch, that feeling you have as you pick up a puzzle piece and find out it actually does fit in the particular spot ...
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The Kite Runner and Atonement Compared
2008-01-18 03:53:00
It’s interesting to observe similarities between movies, and while common themes as seen before like between The Illusionist and The Prestige are classic examples, there are more subtle approaches to movie plots that I’d like to discuss, highlighting ‘the presence of it in two recent releases, The Kite Runner and Atonement . The premise is simple: ...
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Why I hate Unix
2008-01-15 20:28:00
I didn’t want to make this so dramatic but during the first day of my wonderful externship at the Music Entertainment Technology laboratory I came to one painful, painful realization: development in the Unix environment sucks. Allow me to elaborate. I was working on compiling the source for the amazing Frets on Fire, an open-source computer-based ...
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Free AJAX and Flash Packages
2008-01-12 05:37:00
In order to commemorate the launching of two of my best winter 2007 projects, I have decided to go ahead and provide, at no cost, a collection of free ajax and flash tools I’m sure you’ll like and that I, over the course of the site’s development, searched for at length and acquired. Many of these ...
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I Present To Thee
2008-01-12 04:57:00
It is with great pride that I present to the world my latest project, ArcadeKill.com. Purchased for a figure I will not disclose, I redid the design, added lots more games, added a radio and a clip feature, and am in the process of making adjustments to grammar and minor errors. This is by far the ...
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How to Lose $750 a Month
2008-01-09 20:24:00
Here’s a textbook example of what not do when you’re earning $750 a month in text link advertising. I’m the online ads director for the Daily Gazette, Swarthmore College’s only online, updates-as-things-happen newspaper. Everything was picture perfect before school ended for the semester towards the end of December: through Text-Link-Ads.com ($300), LinkWorth ($450), and LiveCustomer ($20), ...
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The Magic Triangle
2008-01-08 00:51:00
The Rule of Thirds is a principle applied to paintings and photographs in which the canvas is divided into thirds and the subject of interest is placed at one of the intersections of the lines in order to create a more aesthetically pleasing and balanced result. Now I was visiting the Frick Collection on the ...
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