Sample the Web

Samplings from the World Wide Web by C.K. Sample III

Entries for June, 2005

PSP UMD Movie Reviews

Jun.30, 2005 in Film, PSP

PSP UMD Movie Reviews site is up and they have a downloadable PSP-viewable version of their first issue. Cool.

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Gallery of DRM-Related Antipixel Buttons and Badges

Jun.30, 2005 in Blogging, Copyright, DRM

Which should I use? nootropic: Gallery of DRM-Related Antipixel Buttons and Badges. So many choices. I think maybe the anti-broadcast flag one.

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WordPressDash

Jun.30, 2005 in Blogging

I think this is my favorite widget ever. It works great. Apple has it listed and it now has Category support. If you are running WordPress and Tiger, then get it. Now.

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Best Creative Commons Animation Ever

Jun.29, 2005 in Media, Teaching

Check out this post:

I’ve been meaning to blog this for a while but if you haven’t already seen this brilliant Creative Commons animation, you must. The project was sponsored by Creative Commons Australia. I LOVE the female character’s voice.

This would be a good instructional video to show to students / faculty who don’t yet ‘get’ [...]

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D’uh

Jun.29, 2005 in General

File this under: no s—, Sherlock.

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PSPersonalize works nicely

Jun.29, 2005 in PSP

I finally got around to giving it a shot.

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Doc Searls linked to me

Jun.29, 2005 in Blogging

Cool. I think that’s the first time I’ve been linked to by Doc. Nice! Hi, Doc!

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LiquidIce’s PSP Hacks: PSP Wifi Hacked

Jun.29, 2005 in PSP

Nice: LiquidIce’s PSP Hacks: PSP Wifi Hacked.

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Step by step comic of illustration

Jun.29, 2005 in Art

This Step by step comic of an illustration is mega-cool.

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Sunlight Table

Jun.29, 2005 in General

I want this table.

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David Foster Wallace’s Kenyon College Commencement Address

Jun.29, 2005 in General, Literature

Kottke points to David Foster Wallace’s Kenyon College Commencement Address.
Note to self: Read this later.
Note to Trevor: Do you think he was wearing his doo-rag (sp?)?

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The Problem with Google

Jun.29, 2005 in Blogging

This bit from The Doc Searls Weblog is spot on:

Yes, I know that it only makes sense to make client software first for the platform with nine out of the ten slices in the market’s pie. But it’s that tenth slice that keeps the company making the other nine from enjoying a monopoly. At fighting [...]

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The day after I find the time to go 1.5.1.2…

Jun.29, 2005 in Blogging

They come out with a new one: WordPress 1.5.1.3 Available. At least I know it only takes about 5 minutes.

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Finally updated WordPress

Jun.28, 2005 in Blogging

Running the latest and greatest.

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Welcome to C.K. Sample III's Sample the Web. I am the Director of Content Marketing at Crowd Fusion, an online media consultant, and the author of PSP Hacks. You may know me as: the former lead blogger for The Unofficial Apple Weblog; the former General Manager of the new Netscape (later relaunched as Propeller); the former Editorial Director of Mahalo.com; a contributing editor at Obsessable.

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