In the wild, mouse at the ready, hunting down links
Oktoberfest 2007. [via]
An entertaining video of the fan-organised event featuring The Beer Song.
Guild Wars comics. [via]
Obscure GW humour for veterans of the game.
Guildcast episode 84.
The best Guildcast episodes feature players discussing the game and make astute observations. The worst Guildcast episodes feature people reading aloud information from the wikis. With the exception of The Word on the Street segment, this was not a good episode.
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– Monday, October 22, 2007
I’m generally very spartan when it comes to my browsing habits. I surf without Java or Javascript, turn off cookie-support unless I absolutely need them, filter out Flash objects … if it’s not strictly necessary for navigation, I turn it off.
I developed this habit back when I was surfing on a dial-up connection. I was paying for internet access by the second so speed was of the essence. Anything that bogged me down was out.
One of the things I usually disable whenever I install a browser on my system is favicons. These are icons that show up on the address bar or the bookmarks of a browser. They’re usually less than 1KB in size so they weren’t exactly system-hoggers but again, if I don’t need it, I don’t want it.
Thus, the sites I maintain did not have favicons. If I didn’t feel they were necessary, why should I foist them on others?
Still, some folks may actually like those icons and I will admit there are some cool examples to be found.
I was also tired of seeing 404s because visitors couldn’t find my site’s icon when they bookmarked the site.
So, I decided to try creating a favicon for fanmode.net.
Continued…
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– Saturday, October 20, 2007
Seiyu and their characters. [via]
See the voice actors behind characters like Monkey D. Luffy, Zoro, Suzumiya Haruhi, Kenshiro, Doraemon, et al.
Answer: Gore Vidal, Wes Anderson, Barry Manilow. [via]
Question: Who are three men who look like old lesbians?
Nike Sentai.
They’re coming to get you … (Not really safe for work.)
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– Friday, October 19, 2007
Opera 9.24 released.
Changelog. It’s a security-related update.
Freshmen.
A parody starring SMAP’s Katori Shingo.
From Welding Enthusiast Magazine.
“It just goes to show: no matter how much progress the welding community thinks it’s made in educating the public, we still have a long, long way to go.”
Gamers experience DRM-related problem.
SecuROM is making a whole new generation of fans.
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– Thursday, October 18, 2007
Armour concepts.
ArenaNet artist Hai Phan has updated his site with concept art for the GW:EN armour.
Guild Wars on a Mac.
“… i haven’t found a way to go full screen yet … i’m not using a real mac, i’m using osx86 which is mac on a pc. But it works just like mac.” So … this would be Guild Wars … on a Mac … on a PC. Ri-i-ight.
Koss and Gwen.
Age is no barrier to true love. But not in this case.
New mini-pet.
An online magazine is giving away 40,000 of them.
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– Thursday, October 18, 2007
