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Whedon’s X-Men title

Wednesday, February 18th, 2004

Due in May: Astonishing X-Men, a new 12-episode series by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday.

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Wednesday, February 18th, 2004

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Dean is done

Wednesday, February 18th, 2004

“Today my candidacy may come to an end–but our campaign for change is not over.”

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More ViBES nostalgia

Wednesday, February 18th, 2004

More ViBES nostalgia: a much younger dpeck predicts The Sims Online.

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More on Yahoo Search

Wednesday, February 18th, 2004

Using a different search engine—especially if you haven’t used anything but Google since you dropped AltaVista in 1999—is roughly like picking up the entire Web in an enormous shoebox, and then shaking it all around vigorously. Lots of unusual things come up, including a bunch of nostalgia: a blogger writes about his ViBES experience [fixed link; see also this followup] (ViBES was a MUSH I built in 1994 as a high school hangout); some truly old perl code of mine; Chris Mulligan’s archaeology of MBHS sysop lore, 1993-2002 (including the thought-lost binx credits and goober credits & /etc/issue archive).

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Yahoo! Search

Wednesday, February 18th, 2004

As I’m sure you’ve all heard, Yahoo! ditched Google and flipped the switch on the new Yahoo! search. It seems to have substantially different result characteristics; it uncovered an old motion-planning computer science project that I and Amar worked on at Rice.

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Manhood Arcade

Wednesday, February 18th, 2004

Tycho waxes philosophic about being a grown-up gamer. “I don’t want to disappoint the young people in the audience, but there is not some kind of flaming arch you pass through and then you’re an adult and you have to be serious about shit. It’s easy to see from commercials the sorts of activities I should presumably be engaged in, but I’m fairly certain that American manhood is vague, internally contradictory and largely nonsensical.”

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