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Archive for October, 2005

Vintage Cheesecake

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

Five new coverpops today, all wonderful vintage covers from the amazing collection
at MagazineArt.org. I think you’ll
love browsing thru these.
Vintage Pulp Fiction
Vintage Mass Market Magazines
Vintage Womens Magazines
Vintage Science & Technology
Vintage Grab Bag

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Bum Chex

Friday, October 28th, 2005

Here’s a Wacky Packages coverpop that I made, for those of you in search of your elusive Bum Chex. The images were provided by | No Comments »

More CoverPops

Friday, October 21st, 2005

The VISCO SF Cover Explorer was quite a hit this week, making a number of large blogs, including BoingBoing, UserFriendly and MetaFilter.
Now, I’ve gone and made a few more of these things, which I’m calling CoverPops.
Here are the 1,001 best selling graphic novels from Amazon.
Here’s Doug Gilford’s entire collection of MAD [...]

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The Game

Monday, October 17th, 2005

I must admit that as a married man, I really shouldn’t be reading a book about pickup artists. But there is a certain vicarious thrill to be had from Neil Strauss’s The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists; really far more than just a guide to picking up women. It’s [...]

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SF Cover Explorer

Monday, October 17th, 2005

I had a new idea for exploring large photo archives a few weeks ago: put all of them on an enormous virtual coffee table,
arranged by color and time. I had some free time on Saturday so I finally got around to implementing it, using the wonderful images from the Visual Index of Science Fiction Cover Art (VISCO), courtesy of Terry Gibbons.

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Today in L.A.

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

I am on Los Angeles TV today, filling the role of “obsessed sudoku fan” for a KNBC-4 news segment on the puzzle craze.
If you’re visiting this site because of the show, welcome! The free puzzles are over here. Enjoy!

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Grokking Ning

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

Mark Andreessen’s new project, Ning, went live today, just in time for the Web 2.0 conference, where it is likely to be a hot topic. If you haven’t yet seen any opinions about Ning, it’s because Ning is a little hard to grok at first glance. I made an attempt to grok it today, and here’s what I came up with:

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