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Make your site more Web Two-point-oh-eey

Posted by peter on 2007-01-15 Also filed under General and Web Design and Development

I found this Web 2.0 style guide on a niffty new site I discovered called Web design from scratch.
Update: Here is another similar but different article: The visual design of Web 2.0.

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The Dark Mod

Posted by peter on 2006-12-28 Also filed under General, Software and Video Games

If you are a gamer and you haven’t already, you should really check out The Dark Mod. The Dark Mod is a Doom 3 total conversion that looks to emulate the “Thief” game series, creating a Thief-like game experience without stepping on anyone’s copyrights. When finished it will include rich features for player created […]

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Wii have Linux?

Posted by peter on 2006-11-22 Also filed under Freeware, General, Linux, Tech News and Wii

That was quick, someone is already developing a Linux distribution for the Nintendo Wii. It sounds like it is based off of Gamecube Linux, which makes sense since much of the Wii’s technology is built off of the existing Gamecube tech. Should be interesting too see what happens with this.

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The Phrase Finder

Posted by peter on 2006-10-13 Also filed under General and Knowledge

Ever wonder where a saying came from? phrases.org.uk is a neat site that contains “The meanings and origins of over 1,200 English sayings, phrases and idioms.”
I stumbled upon the site when trying to find out the origin of the saying “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth“. Once you know the origin, […]

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Neat Web 2.0 stuff

Posted by peter on 2006-10-06 Also filed under General

Go2web20.net is a nifty site with a bunch of links to other “Web 2.0″ sites. One such site is Squidoo. Squidoo hosts a collection of user created ‘lenses’, hand-crafted lists of websites and resources on different subjects. It’s kind of a more free-form version of MiningCo.com (aka About.com). Some of […]

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Kitties battle for dominance!

Posted by peter on 2006-10-04 Also filed under General and Humor

That’s right the kitties over at KittenWar.com are fighting to see who’s the cutest! Head over there and vote to help decide who’s cuter!
Thanks goes to Steve over at TechCentric for mentioning this site in his “Surfing with Steve” segment in episode 4 of TechCentric.

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Aggregate government news

Posted by peter on 2006-10-02 Also filed under General and Knowledge

FirstGov, the U.S. Government’s Official Web Portal, has a great directory of U.S. government RSS feeds, including government podcasts.

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tips.webdesign10.com

Posted by peter on 2006-09-28 Also filed under General, Knowledge and Web Design and Development

The blog at http://tips.webdesign10.com/ has quite a few useful links and articles concerning web design and computer stuff in general.

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Lazarus is back!

Posted by peter on 2006-09-24 Also filed under General, News, Quake II, Tech News and Video Games

A new developer has picked up my favorite Quake 2 mod, Lazarus and started to work on this once abandoned project! For those of us who still map for Quake 2 this is wonderful news! Check it out at the new Lazarus website.

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Avoiding faux-anti-spyware

Posted by peter on 2006-09-05 Also filed under General, Security and Software

It’s an unfortunate fact that there are a lot of programs out there that pretend to be reputable anti-spyware programs but in reality are themselves malware. Some of them simply give you false-positives and/or inflated estimates of the threats they “found” in your computer and then try to pressure you to buy their product […]

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