Links posted on September 13, 2007
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It's always bugged my that the AlkalineEarth (MetaPhilter) code doesn't handle lists, blockquote's or pre's correctly: it inserts newlines even where they don't belong. So for the people who know what that means, you can now do so safely.
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The Google Lunar X prize. $25 million to the first private capital team to put an autonomous rover on the moon and drive around a bit. This is the start of a new space race, for sure.
I'm strangely (for me) looking forward to the TV shows' annual return from Capistrano. I hear some people have cancelled their cable and are using subscription programs to seamlessly pull in exactly what they want, when they want it (and in high resolution). I wouldn't know anything about that except to say the media companies should quit their antediluvian grousing, curb their greed, and invent these things before somebody else does (and at a fair price for what is otherwise free). Enough rant...
Inside are premiere dates for some shows I know the AE community have been enjoying. Please ring in with your recommendations for this Boob Tube edition of "It's the Tits". [more inside]
Prank War that escalates like the Wheaton Metro stop -- the latest one involved 50,000 people, hundreds of dollars and a team of collaborators. That and the first two are best, but at least skim the others in order to watch the one-upmanship unfurl.