Cloudy Thinking

Peter Atwood crafts beautiful small tools. This Cool Tools post describes Atwood’s work.

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James Dempsey writes about sources for free (and paid) fonts. [via Megite News River]

Ellen Messmer writes How cheaters are winning at online games like World of Warcraft (WoW).

The GamRail service is still a free beta. If you are a hard-core PC gamer, you care.

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David Spark writes about Facebook, presenting an interesting point of view. [via Megite News River]

The Open Library is exciting. Thou shalt go forth and partake of the goodness there.

Duncan Gough shared this from David Foster Wallace’s E Unibus Pluram. “The next real literary ‘rebels’ in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching,

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Robert X. Cringely writes about faster Internet speeds at lower prices. Good article, with some interesting hard data. Read the comments. [via techmeme]

Andrew Parker writes that British Telecom plans to deploy fiber to the curb. They’ll offer 40 to 50 Megabits per second of bandwidth to the residence or office.

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Facebook has acquired Parakey. This might mean Facebook will extend its wildly popular API to include persistent objects so you can work offline as well as online.

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Peter Macaulay writes (lightly edited) about World of Warcraft (WoW) gaming robots.

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Werner Herzog directed Rescue Dawn, the story of Dieter Dengler, the only U.S. pilot to successfully escape from a North Vietnamese-controlled prison.

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