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Blockparty: The Competitions and Awards

Wed, 7 May 2008 01:49:43 -0400

Because he is incredible, and he truly IS incredible, Jim Leonard has taken the hours of raw footage of the competitions and awards of Blockparty and rendered them out into a coherent collection of events and browse-worthy movies. Here's the centr
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The Mask of the Night

Tue, 6 May 2008 01:21:49 -0400

Here is what the new face of my sleeping hours will be. My second sleep lab was a fitting; they had me take an Ambien, and had me wear a nose mask, then they tried different pressures on me throughout the evening. (This time, thanks to Mr. Ambien
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The Wikipedia Database Secret

Sun, 4 May 2008 21:57:45 -0400

Actually, it's probably not entirely a secret, but here you go. Wikipedia database dumps fail constantly. They fail in great numbers, and are then not re-attempted for weeks. As a result, many changes go on for months with no backup. The databases
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A Payphone Map, 25 years on

Sat, 3 May 2008 18:10:44 -0400

I was recently sent mail about a payphone textfile that has found new life on Google Maps. Here it is, along with some background history from the author, which I'll reprint below: "A collection of payphones in Santa Barbara that I compiled in 198
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That Endless Knocking

Fri, 2 May 2008 07:20:46 -0400

At some point last year or so, I discovered my box was sending out spam. Lots of spam. Thousands of pieces. I felt very bad. It took me a while to figure out where and how. Basically, I had a somewhat old methodology for allowing people to submit to
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Huzzah and Thanks

Thu, 1 May 2008 21:28:09 -0400

Three boxes arrived from ULINE to my house. The three boxes contained five hundred more boxes. Why did I order three boxes containing five hundred boxes? Because so many people have ordered my documentary that I ran out of boxes to ship them in.
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Before the LOL: Rocketboom Mix

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:42:01 -0400

The talk I gave at ROFLcon, "Before the LOL", was captured by several entities. There were some internal videographers streaming me to the net at large via the Ustream service, and there was also Rocketboom, a weekday video weblog that puts up litt
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Flickr-y Flood

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:26:47 -0400

As promised, I dumped a bunch of stuff on Flickr. And by bunch of stuff, I mean a lot of stuff. Something like 1,200 photos so far, with another thousand likely to make it on there. Like I mentioned previously, I think this is way too much for anyon
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ROFLcon (After)

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:14:37 -0400

OK, in a word: ROFLcon was fantastic. Many other words come to mind: Perfection. Delight. Surprise. Thrills. Variety. Triumph. Every positive adjective I can think of, superlative words on the bottom of my bag that have not seen the light of day i
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Poptastic Quiz

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:25:58 -0400

OK, here's your homework. Suffer, if you have the inclination, through this episode of "Boing Boing TV", a regular feature of the Boing Boing weblog, which discusses the upcoming film Speed Racer, a special-effects laden summer blockbuster from the
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Hacker Photos: The Unexpected Return

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:06:13 -0400

Editing clips of video means a lot of time rendering them out. While this goes on, I have time to make a few other things happen. One of them is clearing out some of my junk drawers and putting it up to a more accessible position. Among the stuff
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Your Tour Guide Future

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:11:59 -0400

I'm putting something like a thousand images and scans up on Flickr. I guess that's interesting. The concept, of course, is interesting to a certain segment of people. Oh wow, a thousand images, and Jason tends to collect neat historical stuff, so i
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The Secret Cost of the Database

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:38:56 -0400

I made a discovery the hard way over the years, in the way one doesn't like to make discoveries. That is, I made the finding that database maintenance is hard. Oh, sure, laugh at me and my vital announcement of a thing well known, but there's a more
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99%

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:49:47 -0400

Going through the process of making a documentary a second time causes me to come face to face with a few situations I'd forgotten about. You tend to gloss over stuff, and forget some of the sharp edges. I guess it's how we cope. Anyway, I have driv
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Silly Jim Leonard

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:23:14 -0400

Oh, Trixter, you silly person. You work yourself up into such sadness while life has handed you nothing but jewels and treasure. You state dreams and projects you feel could not be finished, to feel like your life is going to be a series of incompl
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Adventurespiele

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:20:54 -0400

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The Quirks of Penguicon

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:09:35 -0400

I was at Penguicon 6.0, which is the first time I attended it. Therefore anything I say is from the point of view from attending a mere 16.6% of all Penguicons. I was asked to speak about interactive fiction, and what hey, I have to brush up on talk
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Digger

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:41:50 -0400

Truly, digger.org is the way it should be done. Celebrating ten years of effort, this website is dedicated to a relatively obscure game called Digger that came out for IBM PCs in 1983. I was one of the owners of this game, and absolutely loved the
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Quick Interview: Drive and Despair

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:07:42 -0400

One of my fine users sent in the following four questions. I figured everybody had to hear my answers right now, so here you go. When you first started publishing, did you ever feel in moments that you had some trouble getting people to notice? Did
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Goatse Metrics

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:12:29 -0400

I was doing some chart work recently, and it reminded me I have the data for a year of goatse'ing people, along with pre-goatse logging as well. I decided it was time to run the numbers. Here's some charts: The Goatse switch-out happened on Ja
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Uther - Net

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:58:04 -0400

I love getting mail. I especially like getting mail of stuff I ordered some time ago that is being hand-crafted for me and has to be sent from other countries. That's particularly enjoyable mail. Today's mail provided me with a cute little device ca
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More-iarty

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:50:21 -0400

I forgot how the whole thing got started (I think it was a conversation, or maybe an e-mail) but I started helping some students at WPI (a nearby college) with interviews of historical video game and gaming figures. What this consisted of was having
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Memories of a Scoundrel

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:40:51 -0400

While I'm mucking about in Napster-era land, I did want to harken back and give some regard to a little program that popped up in the middle of the peer-to-peer boom times that really got my attention. It was called Scoundrel, and at the time, it rea
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Criss Angel and Cirque du Soleil - "Believe"

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:01:52 -0400

Just two days ago Criss Angel announced the official name for his new show, a partnership project with Cirque du Soleil. The show will premiere on September 12, 2008 at the Luxor hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.The name of the show will be "Bel
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100 Pieces of Nude ASCII Art Available Now!

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:10:12 -0400

Some quick, but exciting news. I introduced last summer my 30 Years of Naked ASCII Art gallery with 30 astonishing examples of text art that depict female nudity as motive for the pieces.I expanded the gallery significantely today. I added a whopping
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Nobody will get killed at Affiliate Summit, WTF?

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 07:34:42 -0400

I decided to make this post at my personal blog and not at ReveNews.com or Search Engine Journal. This story is definitely not worth it and getting more people spending time on it than there already are does not help anybody or chances anything. I al
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The Decade Cometh

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:43:44 -0400

In October of 2008, I will celebrate ten years of running textfiles.com. I am actually at a loss of how to exactly mark that occasion. A party? A little badge-y do-dad on the website? Finally get the torrent going? A web redesign? A new hat? I'm su
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Napster: Did You Forget?

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:38:13 -0400

I figured I'd take a moment for this little reminder. Napster was great. My friend Deth Veggie of Cult of the Dead cow pinged me in an e-mail and told me I had to download this Napster thing and try it out. This was 1999, when it wasn't all that kno
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CPU Not Required: Making Demos with FPGAs

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:42:47 -0400

Jeri Ellsworth is one of those people who shouldn't exist. She has an amazing life story, dropping out of high school because of the success of her racecar fabrication business, which was followed by a successful computer store business, and then
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Sorry, Fired.

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:29:32 -0400

There was a new version of this weblog. It is gone now. I am back at my old one. I tried to upgrade. It was painful, obtuse, silly, required me to spend 3 hours writing rewrite rules, and then presented me with dogshit. I have lost a day of producti
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Upgrading the Site

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:56:04 -0400

When someone whose job is at the company that makes your weblog software tells you face to face to upgrade your software, upgrade your software, dude. I'm in the process of this, and ASCII will be a tad wonky for a few hours.
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Blockparty: 4k Music

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 05:48:32 -0400

At the first Blockparty, BarZoule was scheduled to come and speak with his cohorts in Northern Dragons about 4k demos. He was scheduled for a time and then had to pull out at the last moment; another speaker filled his place. This year, BarZoule (
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A Demo Event of Serious Consequence

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 03:25:21 -0400

Blockparty 2008 went so well, I'm going to spend an awful lot of time talking about it. I thought we couldn't easily top last year on so many fronts and yet we did. There is a lot of media out there and more coming, so let me quickly dump some links
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Twilight of the Area Code Master

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 16:43:58 -0400

We know (or at least I hope we do) that skills once considered vital will eventually fall out of favor. Stuff that you could do well, maybe better than anyone you knew, eventually becomes something that has no opportunity for any use. Heartbreaking,
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FORUM REFEREE!

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 21:01:04 -0400

For reasons that nobody cares about, I was sent two companion threads, one closed and the other basically so, regarding the release of an Atari 2600 cartridge. This is interesting in itself to some people, but in fact I'm more fascinated by the body
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Not Free Enough

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 01:45:59 -0400

A word of warning. This is about content license issues. These entries are always classic, in the way that the Hindenburg Disaster was "classic". Go ahead at own risk. An interesting situation occurred recently in my mail. I had a customer buy my BB
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A Quick Recommendation: Dad Hacker

Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:54:34 -0400

Sometimes I find someone weblogging who in fact is holding some very unique knowledge. One of the recent such discoveries made aware to me by a gabillion links is that of Dad Hacker, the weblog of Landon Dyer. Landon worked for Atari and later Apple
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April Tool's Day

Thu, 3 Apr 2008 03:13:39 -0400

By now a lot of what we consider the world-wide-web's most popular destinations combine into one big social club, with a good number of trendmakers and pundits whose opinions represent the general consensus. Occasionally we disagree with them or vehe
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April Fool

Tue, 1 Apr 2008 16:04:28 -0400

April 1st is essentially ruined for any serious discussions or essays; everyone thinks you're playing a joke, or you're not getting into the spirit of it all. So here's a photo of me directing MC Frontalot. I'll swing back by tomorrow.
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Blockparty Preparations

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:22:47 -0400

One of my speakers (which I will not name), essentially agreed to Blockparty but didn't, you know, totally go crazy studying what the heck it is. I was offering a flight and hotel and a chance to visit some old friends in the area, so they were all f
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Luna City

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:51:09 -0400

After spending many hours scanning at Steve Meretzky's, house, I got a small amount of sleep and hopped a flight down to Washington, DC to drive over to Peter Hirschberg's Luna City Arcade. I've gushed about this place quite a bit, and the family tha
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Scanning Infocom

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:22:58 -0400

Saturday put me in Steve Meretzky's basement. There are worse places to be than Steve Meretzky's basement. As part of the GET LAMP project, I've been collecting artifacts and images throughout the commercial heydays of text adventures, and nobody go
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Blockparty: 4k Music

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 06:48:32 -0400

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Suicidal

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 05:08:54 -0400

I'm like everyone else; put enough crushing torrents of sorrowful actions and forces onto me, and my mind muses that perhaps there's an easier way out of it all. Granted, it's obviously not been successful and I have no intentions of it being succes
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A Demo Event of Serious Consequence

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 04:25:21 -0400

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Twilight of the Area Code Master

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FORUM REFEREE!

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Not Free Enough

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A Quick Recommendation: Dad Hacker

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April Tool's Day

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