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links for 2008-05-09

  • To edit HTML- and CSS-code you only need a simple plaintext-editor — the rest depends on your skills and your creativity. However, to make your life a little bit easier, you can use some more comfortable source-code editors with advanced editing feature
  • This collection contains television news programs recorded live from around September 11, 2001 by the non-profit Television Archive to help patrons research this important part of United States history. These materials were available on the televisionarch
  • Los Angeles (E! Online) – We’re still not sure the all-animated Clones Wars counts as a real Star Wars movie, but this just-out one-sheet goes a long way toward making the case. It gets close to that epic space opera vibe that defined all the classic illu
  • Get Star Wars’ R2-D2 in your Home as a fully controllable Beamer, DVD/CD player or as a Skype Webcam with Lightsaber Phone! Including full funtion RC features.
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    links for 2008-05-08

  • Morgan Stanley’s Internet Trends report from last month takes a big turn from previous reports – the focus is nearly 100% on social applications and how they are taking over the Internet (Yahoo apparently read it).
  • No news here, but this strikes me as one of the great unresolved disputes in pop culture history: I watched the original Star Wars a few days ago, and noted that on the commentary track George Lucas provides a new version of the development of the Obi-Wan
  • This is what this campaign needed: Lightsabers. This takeoff on the Star Wars series — complete with Barack Obama as Luke Skywalker and Hillary Clinton as Darth Vader — probably speaks for itself.
  • Writing your blog should be a fun way to stretch your mind and stay connected to trends, friends, and the greater world, not another computer task that takes far too long to get done. But that’s exactly what it can feel like if it takes you more time to f
  • Network Solutions displays a real talent for tripping itself up with unethical behavior. Sometimes it gets caught and called on the conduct quickly, as happened when it engaged in domain name tasting. Other times, though, it can continue for months before
  • One of the most powerful (and cost efficient) things a small business can do to market itself to a niche audience is to blog. The following video will give you a two minute primer on how to get started and what to think about when implementing a small bus
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    links for 2008-05-07

  • Can you believe that J.K. Rowling is suing a small publisher because she claims their 10,000-copy edition of The Harry Potter Lexicon, a book about Rowling’s hugely successful novel series, is just a “rearrangement” of her own material. Rowling “feels lik
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    links for 2008-05-06

  • MyShirtcity will give you, an individual, or your business, the opportunity to create your own products and collections and sell them online. MyShirtcity will provide a suitable online shop and a wide range of imprintable products for your use. There is a
  • It’s Victoria Day in Canada today. Well – sort of. The holiday was originally celebrated on May 24th but an amendment to the Statutes of Canada in 1952 moved the holiday to the Monday before 25 May. So this year it was celebrated on the 22nd. Either way,
  • It can be a little daunting to think about all your major savings goals at one time. There’s the massive retirement fund that you want to build, which never seems to get big enough. There’s the emergency account that should be filled with at least enough
  • With e-commerce webdesign really starting to take off, its never been more important to choose a platform which suits you as a developer (i.e. one that you can support) and one that will provide your clients with the features that they need to run a succe
  • We do a great deal of eCommerce research, design and development for clients, and one design element I am always fascinated by are progress bars. A progress bar is one of those “best practices” for a checkout process, which shows the user how many ste
  • Wigix is the new way to buy and sell online. It’s a socially-driven marketplace, where you can communicate with like-minded collectors and traders. Get a live pricing history for each item and negotiate prices intelligently. Social communication encourage
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    links for 2008-05-05

  • This little program is my gift to my fellow-gamers, and my way of saying “thank you” to the hobby’s developers. Over a quarter-century, I have enjoyed a cordial relationship with people at TSR/WOTC. In return, I’m glad to help make the process of characte
  • The BEST D&D 3.5 Character Sheet, for Players and Game Masters has a new sibling! The Only Sheet PLUS [TOS+], the next generation of Character Sheets is now available for your enjoyment. TOS+ can handle the complexity of the Stacking rules while allowing
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  • This section of the site contains quite a few useful indexes for rules for D&D and d20 System games. We welcome feedback and discussion on the content here or games in general on the D&D and d20 Forum.
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    links for 2008-05-03

  • The 5th annual Games for Change Festival is coming up soon, and while I don’t think it is in the Mission to Learn budget for me to attend, it seems like a good time to poke around and see what sorts of educational games might be out there that are geare
  • We knew that there was a motorized, fully-articulated R2-D2 projector with built-in DVD, iPod dock, all kinds of digital media inputs, and Millennium Falcon remote control, but we never—EVER—imagined it would be so amazingly drooltastic as this video
  • At issue is a growing trend in which ISPs subvert the Domain Name System, or DNS, which translates website names into numeric addresses. When users visit a website like Wired.com, the DNS system maps the domain name into an IP address such as 72.246.49.48
  • Like haiku poets, we can embrace limitations, and in so doing create beautiful designs. We can choose to understand the limitations of the mediums we work within. We can also impose artificial limitations, by placing structured restrictions on our work, i
  • NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft. The Send Your Name to the Moon Web site enables everyone to participate
  • Okay, so you went and “re-organized” your web site and in the process completely screwed up all the URLs that used to be there. But, c’mon, man, haven’t you heard of Apache redirects (and their equivalents for other web servers)? In my opinion, part of an
  • So, I got to thinking, why was this such a “big change” for him? I think its because we’ve been stuck in the 800×600 mentality way too long. And, with 12px fixed font sizes, fixed widths, everything was all scrunched into the middle of the screen. The new
  • James Danziger has been involved in photography for a long time. His blog “The Year in Pictures” is a record of photographs (and a few other things) that have captured his attention.
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    links for 2008-05-02

  • Compare the 1989 Batman trailer, and the one from this year. Everyone is unconsciously aware of the rhythm of these things, but I never would have guessed they were this formulaic:
  • Hello, and welcome to the online home of illustrator Ryan VanMeter. This is the place for information about current illustration rates, projects, and other things that may be going on.
  • XML, XLink, Namespace, DTD, Schema, CSS, XHTML … If you are new to XML, it may be hard to know where to begin. This summary in 10 points attempts to capture enough of the basic concepts to enable a beginner to see the forest through the trees. And if yo
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    links for 2008-05-01

  • Photography is a very powerful medium and a very difficult craft. Excellent photos don’t only display some facts — they tell stories, awake feelings and manage to share with the audience the emotions a photographer experienced when clicking the shot b
  • I’ve toyed with Linux since 2002, when I first installed Mandrake. With the latest release of Ubuntu, I was interested to see how far Linux had come since then in terms of being used easily by the mainstream. So, I tricked my grudging girlfriend Erin in
  • You Can Draw : Sith Circus, Part II – Matt Busch brushes up his lightsaber skills while completing his behind-the-scenes tour of the making of a cool Episode III poster.
  • The Star Wars Expanded Universe (EU) is a wonderful place. It takes classic characters from the movies like Chewbacca, Emperor Palpatine and Han Solo and puts them through the ringer as only demented sci-fi and fantasy novelists can — killing some, resu
  • Free Comic Book Day is a single day when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely free* to anyone who comes into their stores.
  • Steampunk Star Wars
  • With the popularity of blogging and online journals, writers working in the online realm have a growing number of opportunities all the time to practice and refine their craft, and maybe even get paid for it. And if you’re working online, why not take adv
  • Writing things down, on paper or on-screen, is the best way to make sure you remember important info and tasks, but sometimes you’ve got to rely on your plain old brain to keep essential data sorted and handy. Whether it’s a client’s name, a password or c
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  • Revealed as a surprise at Celebration IV, here the first ever look at the new CG series from Lucasfilm Animation.
  • Blogger Buster is a resource blog for bloggers, offering hints, hacks, tips and tricks to help enhance your blogging experience. Use the label cloud and search box in the right hand sidebar of you’re looking for specific information, or simply browse thro
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    Star Wars Clone Wars Sneak Peek

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    Revealed as a surprise at Celebration IV, here the first ever look at the new CG series from Lucasfilm Animation.

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    Free Comic Book Day May 3rd 2008

    Free Comic Book Day


    Free Comic Book Day is a single day when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely free* to anyone who comes into their stores.

    Learn more at Free Comic Book Day May 3rd 2008.

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