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<title>List of Original Xbox games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
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Having just purchased an original Xbox I was curious as to what year the last game was made for the console. This Wikipedia page lists all 950 games released for the original Xbox. You can also sort by release date. I ended up finding out that the last game was released in 2008 (pretty recent considering the 360 came out in 2005-2006).
I'll probably end up buying Half Life 2 and Call of Duty 3 since those are both fairly new games that I think I'd enjoy. Currently I'm playing Doom 3 and XIII (one of my favorite games of all time)]]>
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<title>Floatingsheep.com - A Collection Of Maps With Statistical Overlays</title>
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I ran into this when a Facebook friend posted a link to their map comparing <a href="http://www.floatingsheep.org/2010/02/beer-belly-of-america.html">Grocery stores to Bars using Google Maps</a>. The site posts interesting maps weekly on random things which look interesting to me.]]>
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<title>How Many of Me</title>
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Find out how many people have your name in the US and how popular your name is.]]>
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<title>Geolocation in Firefox - Location Aware Browsing</title>
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Firefox apparently has the ability to determine user's location. This will only work if users give the browser permission first.]]>
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<title>LCD Monitor Calibration - Gamma, Brightness and Contrast</title>
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The LCD monitor calibration site has a series of test which you can check to see how well your monitor is calibrated. I often find LCD monitors using their factory settings to be extremely bright, almost to the point of hurting my eyes.]]>
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<title>Text Reflection/Mirroring With FontEffect, a jQuery plugin</title>
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"Font Effect plugin for jQuery, add nice effects to regular html text, outline, drop shadow, gradient and mirror"]]>
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<title>Image Reflections Using Javascript - Reflection.js</title>
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Reflection.js is a simple Javascript library that creates reflections on your images. Looks pretty simply to use and is only 5kb in size.]]>
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<title>WhatTheFont! - Upload An Image, Determine What Font It Is</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:29:09 -0600</pubDate>
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WhatTheFont! is an online service that determines what font types are used in an image file. When I switched computer a year or two ago, I lost many of the font types I had on it. One of the fonts I lost was the font type used in my logo! Using this service I was able to determine what I font I used in my logo.]]>
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<title>jQuery Roundabout Shapes</title>
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This jQuery plugin creates a really cool content spinning effect. Would work great for a photo gallery.]]>
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<title>PNG8 – The Clear Winner</title>
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An interesting article on using PNG8 images in Internet Explorer 6.]]>
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<title>Chaining Your JavaScript Methods</title>
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Something I think many web developer forget is that you can chain together Javascript's built in methods. This can reduce the amount of code you write and perhaps make it appear less complicated.]]>
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<title>Javascript Compressor - Great For Bookmarklets</title>
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I was creating a bookmarklet recently and found myself constantly removing line breaks from my code to make it form a single line of text. After a quick search I found this site which saved me a lot of time.]]>
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<title>My Apartment Map - Apartment Rental Search</title>
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This is hands down my new favorite site when it comes to looking for an apartment. First of all, it has more listing than most of the traditional sites. Second, it has only the necessary features and not all this garbage the other sites have. Finally the rental price feature is really slick.]]>
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<title>Add a Show Desktop Button to Mac OSX</title>
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For whatever reason there isn't a button I can click (similar to one I place in my quicklaunch toolbar in Windows) that will minimize all windows on Mac OSX. I did a quick google search and found this program.
I found window management to be a bit complicated on the Mac.]]>
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<title>3D CSS Parallax Effect</title>
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I noticed this through a friend I follow on Twitter. It's a pretty cool effect using multiple backgrounds.]]>
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<title>Wisconsin Department of Transportation - Highway Travel Conditions</title>
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I found this while checking out tomorrow morning's weather forecast on a news website. I have an interview tomorrow morning and wanted to know how the roads are before I left. The site also has webcams setup that shows you road conditions and if there are any traffic jams.]]>
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<title>Disable ClearType Font Rendering For IE6, IE7&amp;IE8</title>
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This article explains how to disable ClearType font rendering for Internet Explorer. Apparently if you run your font css through an IE filter it will remove ClearType.]]>
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<title>Postcrescent.com - Data Mining Tool</title>
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It seems the Post Crescent likes creating tools for stalkers to use. I saw this in my RSS feed today. I've always appreciated the "Teachers & Administrators Salary Search" since I know a lot of teachers.]]>
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<title>FICO Reveals How Common Credit Mistakes Affect Scores</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:32:42 -0600</pubDate>
<url>http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/108239/fICO-reveals-how-common-credit-mistakes-affect-scores?mod=bb-creditreports</url>
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Hmm, I was always under the impression that foreclosure hurt your credit score a lot more than 85-100 points. I guess this is straight from the horses mouth, so to speak.]]>
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<title>The Brick Testament - Bible Stories With LEGOs</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:42:47 -0600</pubDate>
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The Brick Testament is a website which tells stories from the bible using LEGOs. In theory this sounds un-interesting but after you read a couple it can be interesting, and even funny in some cases. It apparently doesn't stray far from the scripture either. I found the Deuteronomic Code ones to be the funniest.]]>
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<title>HTML, CSS, and Web Development Practices: Past, Present, and Future</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:20:17 -0500</pubDate>
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A nice look at how HTML, CSS & Javascript have evolved since they were first created. It's also interesting to see how they overlap even though each should be it's own distinct entity.]]>
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<title>Costhelper.com - Determine How Much Something Should Cost</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:07:09 -0500</pubDate>
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I found this site when searching for how much should balancing a tire cost. I also found the site useful for other car related things. Gives you a good starting point when you need to get something repaired.]]>
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<title>RSS Mix - Combine RSS Feeds</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:28:12 -0500</pubDate>
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RSS Mix allows you to combine multiple RSS feeds into a single feed. I'm currently using this on Craigslist searches on used cars. It helps keep your RSS feed subscription list tidy rather than having 5-10 separate feeds for the same purpose.]]>
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<title>AT&amp;T/Bell Merger &amp; Aquisition Chart</title>
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<author>Neal Grosskopf</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:53:29 -0500</pubDate>
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I always find it amusing how companies feel the need to endlessly merge and buy each other out. My own company might even look a little like this (but not as bad).

The funny thing with this chart is, the govt. originally broke up AT&T to stop it as a monopoly, and 25 years later, there's only 3 companies left, with one of the AT&T spin-off companies (SBC) actually buying AT&T, the original company.

I've been trying to find a similar chart for the TV/Movie studios since their as bad, if not worse than this chart but I've had no luck.]]>
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<title>UI-patterns.com</title>
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<author>Neal Grosskopf</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:22:24 -0500</pubDate>
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"User Interface Design Pattern Library. UI patterns for web designers. See examples and read rationale, solutions, and implementations for each pattern."

This site is basically a gallery of common web design elements that we see every day. For instance, my current site design has a giant background. This might be considered a design pattern on UI-patterns.com that has a more 'official' name to it.]]>
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