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Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.

Blog Archives

Month: July 2009

  • GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE — FUTURAMA IS SAVED

    [This had better be for real][link]. My emotions cannot take much more of this.

    [link]: http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/07/good_news_everyone_–_futurama_is_saved.php “Topless Robot – GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE — FUTURAMA IS SAVED”

  • Code Rush, A Documentary About the Beginning of the Mozilla Project, Now in Creative Commons

    [Thanks to the efforts of Andy Baio][link].

    [link]: http://waxy.org/2009/07/code_rush_in_the_creative_commons/ “Code Rush in the Creative Commons – Waxy.org”

  • Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Microsoft and Yahoo!’s Joint “Choice. Value. Innovation.” Announcement About Sharing Search Engine and Advertisement Technology

    [Jesper answers my call][link]. Makes sense, now.

    [link]: http://waffle.wootest.net/2009/07/29/pr-speak-msft-yhoo-bing/ “waffle → Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Microsoft and Yahoo!’s Joint Choice. Value. Innovation. Announcement About Sharing Search Engine and Advertisement Technology”

  • Text Rotation with CSS

    [Can I get a witness][link]? Not only does it work, it works NOW.

    [link]: http://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/css-text-rotation “Text Rotation with CSS”

  • Yahoo Gives Up On Search, Bets on Bing

    [Earlier today Yahoo and Microsoft signed a 10 year deal][deal] which sees Yahoo not developing any new search technologies, and using Bing for it’s algorithms. Like most of you, I fail to see how reducing the main Search players from 3 to 2 creates “more innovation”, but does anyone even read these press releases anymore? [The official site for the deal][site] is begging for a PR-Speak-To-English translation.

    Also important: [What happens to BOSS, Delicious, Search Monkey and Yahoo’s other search products][link]? (via [Andy Baio][andy])

    [link]: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/what_of_yahoo_news_delicious_boss_more_innovation.php “Yahoo’s Bing Deal Puts Delicious, BOSS & More at Risk”
    [site]: http://www.choicevalueinnovation.com/thedeal/Default.aspx “Press Site for the Deal”
    [andy]: http://waxy.org “Waxy”
    [deal]: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/its_official_microsoft_and_yahoo_announce_search_deal.php “Microsoft and Yahoo announce search deal”

  • Iconfinder

    [A kick-ass search engine for icons to use in web-based projects, apps, or other graphics][link]. This is great.

    [link]: http://www.iconfinder.net/ “Iconfinder | Icon search made easy”

  • William Shatner Performs Sarah Palin’s Speech as Poetry

    [A truly Shatnerian performance][link]. There is music and everything. Glorious. Thank you, Conan.

    [link]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/28/william-shatner-makes-pal_n_246034.html “William Shatner Makes Palin’s Speech Into Poetry (VIDEO)”

  • Apple Pulls Google Voice Application From The App Store

    This is super not cool, Apple. How is GV Mobile (the App’s name) not okay, but Skype is?

  • Jason Scott: Saving 4Chan

    [Jason’s acquired about 5 years worth of expired threads][link] from the internet’s House of Awful Shit and Meme Factory, 4chan. Yes, this is culturally important. Just trust me.

    via [Andy Baio][andy].

    [link]: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2083 “ASCII by Jason Scott / Bump Not Sage: Saving 4Chan”
    [andy]: http://waxy.org “Andy Baio”

  • Self-Destructing Data

    The key is distributed, and “dissolves” over time. This is very interesting. via [Andy Baio][andy].

    [link]: http://vanish.cs.washington.edu/ “Vanish: Enhancing the Privacy of the Web with Self-Destructing Data”
    [andy]: http://waxy.org/links/ “Waxy.org: Links”