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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: March 2010

  • The All-New Independent Cowboy Justice Brigade Archive

    [Preserving some comics by friend Edward and I did longabouts 2003-2004][link]. A work-in-progress.

    [link]: http://icjb.efcomics.com/ “The All-New Independent Cowboy Justice Brigade – Archive”

  • A Critique of the Ogg Container Format

    [From Måns, a developer on FFMPEG.][link] Sounds like he knows what he’s talking about. I’m interested in a comparison of the *actual effects* of Ogg’s increased overhead .vs. other containers (m4v, mkv).

    [link]: http://hardwarebug.org/2010/03/03/ogg-objections/ “Ogg objections | Hardwarebug”

  • Eliza Gauger’s SCREAMING NUB Shirt

    [Available in AA Short-Sleeve V-Neck and Ladies’ 5.8 oz. Cotton 2×1 Rib Tank][link]:

    > Are You Down wit da Nub?!

    WELL ARE YOU? I am. $18.75 gets one of these things. You can’t afford *not* to buy it.

    [link]: http://toxoplasm.org/gibberings/?p=1194 “GIBBERINGS – SCREAMING NUB T-Shirt and Tank Top Preorders: Are You Down wit da Nub?!”

  • Apple’s Guided-Tour Videos of the iPad

    [Get ’em while they’re hot.][link]

    [link]: http://www.apple.com/ipad/guided-tours/ “Apple – iPad – Guided Tours”

  • The Bob Chronicles

    >”Save all the money on the manuals and just give me this duck to always be there and tell me what to do.”

    [Looking back on the 15-year anniversary of Microsoft Bob][link], one of Microsoft’s most famous failures.

    [link]: http://technologizer.com/2010/03/29/microsoft-bob/ “The Bob Chronicles”

  • Snake People by John August

    A new, free to read, short story by screenwriter John August. This one is posted on Popcorn Fiction, which is:

    an ongoing anthology of short fiction by screenwriters, including original work by Scott Frank, Larry Doyle, Jeff Lowell and many others. Derek Haas created the whole endeavor.

    A noble endeavor.

  • Font Squirrel’s List of Fonts Licensed For @font-face Use

    [With downloadable kits containing EOT, SVG, WOFF, and TTF versions, Cufon versions and a stylesheet with the @font-face rules for easy @import-ing][link]. This is drop-in simple. What more can you ask for?

    Maybe a slightly better browsing interface, but other than that?

    [link]: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface “Font Squirrel | Download Hundreds of Free @font-face Fonts”

  • 2010 Chicago Cubs Calendar in SQL Format

    Converted from the [publically-available CSV on the official Cubs site][csv], and massaged into SQL by yours truly for the forthcoming relaunch of a project and made available because I googled and found nothing.

    [csv]: http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/schedule/downloadable.jsp?c_id=chc “Cubs 2010 Schedule Downloads on MLB.com”

    **Download**: [Cubs 2010 Schedule SQL File][sql] 8kb zipped.

    [sql]: http://extrafuture.s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/cubs_2010_schedule.sql_.zip “Cubs 2010 Schedule SQL”

  • John Harris Covers Shiren The Wanderer Wii

    [In the newest @play column forGameSetWatch][link]. The remake of the SNES Shiren The Wanderer game for DS is one of my favorite games ever.

    [link]: http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2010/03/column_play_wiiren_the_wandere.php “GameSetWatch – COLUMN: @Play: Wii-ren the Wanderer”

  • 37 Signal’s Highrise for iPhone Launched, Plays Tic-Tac-Toe While Loading

    [I love mini-games over loading screens][link], but the reason nobody else does them is [Namco owns a software patent on them][namco] and has since 1998. I wonder if 37 Signals knows or cares?

    [link]: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2234-launch-highrise-for-iphone “37 Signals launches Highrise of iPhone”
    [namco]: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5718632.PN.&OS=PN/5718632&RS=PN/5718632 “United States Patent: 5718632”