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  1. Design Documentation for The Sims, by Maxis

    I happened across some potentially interesting documents online. Somebody posted the internal company documentation behind the ...

  2. The Mystery of Stuffmonger's Pure Tan

    Did John McAfee, the anti-virus pioneer, discover a new and potentially revolutionary drug called SPT in ...

  3. Archiving a website for offline viewing

    This weekend, I needed to make an offline snapshot of an entire website. My web browser ...

  4. Work Journal

    I'm currently integrating my work journal with my todo list. It's a pretty long-term ...

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  6. Scanning a textbook

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  7. The rise of image macros

    The term meme (pronounced like gene) was coined by Richard Dawkins (1976) in The Selfish Gene ...

  8. Xenadu: a tool for managing system configurations

    It can be a challenge to administer multiple Linux machines, particularly when this isn't your ...

  9. The Giraffe Gaffe

    As John Vinson reports on WebProNews: "If you ever need proof that truth is stranger than ...

  10. When a newspaper "rips off" your blog, then taunts you about it...

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  11. Petite Lap Giraffes: Real?

    Okay - I have to admit I was totally amazed to see a real, live Petite Lap ...

  12. Using consistent key mappings across OS X applications

    This morning, I was delighted to see an update for Textmate - but as I scanned the ...

  13. handy utility: watchpaths

    Imagine you are working on a set of files on your computer, and each time you ...

  14. Passwords, and the Apple Keychain

    Some time around 2006, I started thinking about my online passwords in a new way. Until ...

  15. There's a spider in the kitchen

    I noticed a spider in the corner of the kitchen, so I zoomed in for a ...

  16. The Reverse Auction

    Yesterday was eventful: we acquired two chairs that can be pushed together into a sort of ...

  17. The fastest way to download a youtube video

    A recent comment on BoingBoing asked if there was a way to download a video from ...

  18. Posting this before it's cool: Hipster jokes

    Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

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  19. How is it 2009 and we still can't write dates in a coherent way?

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