Yearly Archives: 2008

Why SCRABBLE Beta (Still) Drives Me Nuts

Over at flickr, a little photo-tour of a few of my issues with the SCRABBLE beta Facebook app. Two qualifications: First, it’s not a comparison to Wordscraper, which has problems of its own. Second, it’s a highly selective list; I find the UI consistently buggy, bulky, and poorly designed.

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Fall Soup Recipe Showdown: Me vs. the Times

(Spoiler: Their recipe wins.) According to Kottke, this sweet potato and butternut squash soup recipe was for a time the most emailed story at NYTimes.com. Two or three weeks ago, I picked up ingredients for something alarmingly similar; I finally got around to cooking it last week. A few differences in our lists of ingredients: [...]

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Where Do I Make this Joke?: Facebook-Twitter Integration & a Problem of Social Media

Last night, Jay had a few of us over to play cards. He tweeted: Jay is waiting for the gentlemen to show up. This morning, I @replied: @thebristolkid Gentlemen? I guess you waited all night. The joke’s a little predictable, a little modally antiquated, sure. But that’s not the point. I saw Jay’s status on [...]

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Survey Fail: WordPress 2.7 Icons, Question One

Why I gave up on the WordPress 2.7 icon survey: Q.1 How do you think the [two] GB icon sets as a whole would fit into WordPress 2.7? *Because both sets are in same visual style, you can answer for both even though they use different images # Perfectly # Okay # Not sure # [...]

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Yet Another Obama-as-Santos Post

From The New Yorker, one small item to add to the long list of comparisons of Obama and Matt Santos, the President-Elect’s fictionalized counterpart on The West Wing. Recall that Obama first said he would meet with Ahmadinejad without preconditions in a primary debate in 2007. His team’s response: “We know this is going to [...]

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