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I’m sick, so go play somewhere else. Here’s some ideas:

Idiot Toys for gadget snark at its best.
You can never go wrong with either Penny Arcade or VG Cats for your game-related web comics. Wonderland offers enjoyable and off-beat gaming commentary.
And if you are just looking for chuckles, Matt at Defective Yeti delivers the goods.
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Snooping around the new EveryBlock NYC site for my ZIP code I learned a few things.

My building management company is trying to be competitive by going after the “lifestyle market”. Apparently that’s the same market where you can ratchet up the rent the maximum amount allowed by law every year, unlike our previous management company. [...]

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I’ve found Twitter to be almost useless without the Twitter IM bot running. During the day I’ve been using the AIM client on my Sidekick to do my Twitter updates, but lately, that’s been impossible. I stumbled across a generic IM bot service called IMified that offers several hooks to various Internet services (like blog [...]

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Dreamhost, my hosting service, had a lil’ hiccup on Sunday that pretty much took down all my sites for a good part of Sunday. It was a problem caused by some scheduled emergency maintenance on the facility’s power systems, so I can’t fault them. And, as usual, they were good at keeping me informed of [...]

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The Yaplet chatbox in the sidebar is a bit of an experimental goof for now. Matt and Cristina at Yaplet are two very sweet grad students who whipped up this lightweight bit of magic. While it doesn’t have much of a purpose here, I do see it being useful with some of my other projects, [...]

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