jmtb02 & Armor Games’ very funny game “Achievement Unlocked.”
[Via Simon Parkin’s article Over-Achievers on EuroGamer.net, which I haven’t read all of]
2009/05/15
Neat website.
[Via David Sherman’s article “The Elegance of Imperfection” from A List Apart on March 24, 2009]
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2009/05/14
“One of the all-time classic videos of bike race stuff on the internet. In case you’ve never seen it, it’s proof that Gerolsteiner did more than just lots of drugs in the ‘08 season. They did some badass training, too.” [Via CompetitiveCyclist]
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To follow up a bit, Google Translate can’t guess that basic Zulu phrases are Zulu, nor can it guess that Xhosa phrases are Xhosa (it’s been saying they are Portuguese or German, but of course, not translating them). Firefox isn’t offered in any South African languages besides English and Afrikaans. Facebook (as seen above) isn’t either. Now, I’m not complaining, just thinking out loud. I don’t speak Afrikaans, no less isiZulu or isiXhosa, so I’m in no place to, for example, translate Firefox…
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It’s funny that Google Translate knows some Afrikaans. (Here you can download Firefox in Afrikaans and here is Facebook in Afrikaans. Gmail isn’t available in Afrikaans, and if it were, I wouldn’t use it. New Gmail features get rolled out to “English (US)” first, and who knows about Labs support.)
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2009/05/13
Among the things I wish I had known at the beginning of college (alongside “Picking an easy major that you’re not really interested in will wind up being difficult for unusual reasons”) is that there is a place on campus to get decent food late at night. The University of Chicago campus isn’t the best place to be if you’re looking for a quick dinner at 8:30 at night (or later) but in the last year I discovered an Au Bon Pain in the Hospitals. It’s become my source of food whenever I am working in the library until late (which is now about every weeknight). It’s not the best but it works.
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Learn new things every day! Turns out Century Gothic, Twentieth Century, and Futura are all related. I never thought about it before, but of course it’s clear now. Neat.
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2009/05/11
Iconology with a Daniel Craig photo set. I think his James Bond movies stand apart from the rest.
[Via DAKS]
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Oh no. I find out a lot of bad news from my Gmail web clips, who reported to me via the NYT moments ago that Christian Vande Velde (who just the other day I discussed rooting for in the Tour) crashed out in the third stage of the Giro d’Italia. He broke two ribs and hurt his back. Not good news. Here’s to Vande Velde healing up soon, but racing the Tour only if he’s up to it. Best to get better now and win next year. (Also covered in that NYT article, Lance and the rest of Astana haven’t been getting paid.)
[Photo via NYT, taken by Alessandro Trovati of the Associated Press. “Christian Vande Velde, right, fell at the 87th mile on a downhill run.”]
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