February 2012
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who's ill and is going to school tomorrow anyway?
How should I know? I wouldn’t be asking if I knew, stupid.
Don’t worry, I’m not usually this funny, it’s because of the meds!
My bed is my new (new? yeah, right) best friend for the next two days.
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I have a midterm tomorrow:
I haven’t studied properly and I’m getting ill. I hate being ill. It’s never too serious, a aching body, a running nose, a sore throat and sneezing a lot, so I can manage going to school. But it’s not having the energy to actually do anything that annoys me.
So I’m going to take a nap. Dear body, if you haven’t made up you goddamn mind by the time I wake up,...
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The Phantom Menace
Yesterday, I was waiting for my stop motion project to render, and ended up on Buzzfeed. There was this post, called 11 Reminders That “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace Sucks. I think it’s a general consensus that the prequels are not good movies and that it was a pretty big slap in the face of the fans. If you’re curious why the Phantom Menace is a bad movie, I recommend this very...
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January 2012
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Estátua falsa, de Mário de Sá Carneiro
Só de ouro falso os meus olhos se douram;
Sou esfinge sem mistério no poente.
A tristeza das coisas que não foram
Na minha'alma desceu veladamente.
Na minha dor quebram-se espadas de ânsia,
Gomos de luz em treva se misturam.
As sombras que eu dimano não perduram,
Como Ontem, para mim, Hoje é distância.
Já não estremeço em face do segredo;
Nada me aloira já, nada me aterra:
A vida corre sobre...
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The Big List of Postmortems →
Postmortem means “after death” and is used in the gaming world when developers analyze their finished game and everything they did during its creation. Postmortems can be very helpful because they provide insights and tips that you can use in order to not make the same mistakes… or get ideas on how to do certain things when developing a game.
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Deixem-me ver se percebi:
Se esta proposta de lei for aprovada, vamos pagar uma taxa quando comprarmos disco rígidos. Taxa essa, que vai para “as entidades que legalmente representam os autores”.1
Portanto vou pagar a indústrias de milhões de euros para poder guardar as minhas fotos, num disco que me pertence?
A blogsfera diz que isto é na realidade sobre uma coisa chamada “cópia privada”, o...
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December 2011
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7pm: “One hour practice, piece of cake I-won’t even sweat…” 8pm: “Bloody hell, I don’t think there is any part of my body that doesn’t ache…”
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Speaking of Piracy →
futurejournalismproject:
On Thursday the House Judiciary Committee will vote on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Meanwhile the Protect IP Act is making its way through the Senate.
As the Center for Democracy and Technology writes, “If passed, these bills would cripple online innovation, chill online free expression, subvert the inner workings of Internet security, and compromise user...
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A (more) complete list of Markdown syntax →
Strikethrough:
Text can be displayed in a strikethrough font by surrounding a word or words with double tildes (~~).
I’ve searching for this for so long!
Edit: It doesn’t work. Tumblr uses PHP Markdown Extra which doesn’t support strikethroughs. Why, internet, why? Why must you deceive me, make me believe that all is swell, when it isn’t?!
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Protect The Internet →
charlesesmith:
The internet is one of the last bastions of truly free speech. These bills are the latest attempt at restricting freedom on the internet under shady pretense. It’s not about the children, or terrorism. It’s not about protecting innovation.
These bills are about corporate interest.
Don’t let them tell you any different.
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Homeland Security Wants Mozilla to Pull “Domain... →
The add-on maintains a list of all the domains that ICE (hence the antidote, ‘fire’) has seized and redirects their users to an alternative domain if the sites in question have set one up. The developers told TorrentFreak that they coded it to demonstrate the futility of the domain seizures, which they find objectionable.
According to Anderson complying with the request without any ...
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Best Photos of 2011 →
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Get More Out of Google: Tips and Tricks for... →
November 2011
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Watchcuriositycounts:
Douglas Rushkoff explores life on the virtual frontier for PBS Frontline – a sweeping look at the deeper groundswells of digital culture, from gaming addiction to the myth of multitasking and beyond
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I spent three hours...
…trying to get data recovery software working properly. Both apps crashed while “undeleting” files.
Then my dad pointed out that I had Time Machine running.
Rule number one of computing: Backup.
Rule number one and a half of computing: Remember that you have backups.
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Why Your Portfolio Site Sucks →
You know the first thought in my head when I go to the site of a designer? I wonder if they design websites. Wait, no I don’t. I know they design websites because they are a website designer so why in the world are they telling me they design websites? Better yet, why are they telling me they create beautiful experiences, simple and easy to use websites or helping to make the web a better...
October 2011
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Extra Credit: Symbolism 101 →
Why are horror games (or films, or books) scary? Also, why are Japanese horror games scarier than the western ones?
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"I think they're mad": Inside a 48 hour battle to... →
Why spend the weekend torturing yourself?
Tom works for a small independent studio in Melbourne called The Voxel Agents. They made the successful iOS game Train Conductor. The Voxel Agents, Tom tells me, started as a group of friends in Brisbane who entered—and won—an earlier 48hr game comp. “We’d been talking about making games as a group for years, and after we won the 48hr...
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Win
My mother is a busy person and as time passes by, she has a harder time remembering things.
So last weekend, I spent half an hour putting the birthday dates of family friends, that my mother has kept written down in an old organizer for a long time, to her iPad.
I set a reminder for the day before the birthdays.
Today, she mentioned, while we were watching TV, that a family friend’s...
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