A Venture Forth

…notwithstanding my lack of recent posts. I’ve been busy with projects and haven’t had much time to blog. In the meantime, check out this Slate article (co-written by my fiancee). It’s a little off topic but that’s a proud guy’s liberty…

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CNet has an interesting gallery of doctored photos–worth a look, especially given the recent Reuters brouhaha (via Buzzmachine).

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Great film on exponential growth–interesting diversion for a few minutes…

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I feel for the guy, but this clip shows that sometimes it takes more than practice to make perfect… and that if you’re going to blame ambient noise for a major glitch, you should first make sure that whoever is running the product demo isn’t wearing a microphone headset.

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I’m addicted to Chessmaster. It’s not that the game offers the best interface, AI, or rating system (all are very good, but comparable alternatives can be found elsewhere)–I’m hooked on the excellent tutorial, which was designed and voiced by Josh Waitzkin (the subject of the movie Searching For Bobby Fisher). It’s both easy [...]

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