Author Archives: Stephan Sokolow

My Unofficial “How to Extend distutils” FAQ

Posted on 2010-07-28 by Stephan Sokolow

Whenever I have to set up a Python project, I’m always amazed at how little documentation there is on extending distutils to add new commands or otherwise deal with un-anticipated (and apparently, some anticipated) circumstances. In the absence of an … Continue reading →

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Game Reviews: Aquaria

Posted on 2010-06-28 by Stephan Sokolow

Rating: 4.5/5 A few months back, I was informed of an offering known as the Humble Indie Bundle. Seeing it as an opportunity to finally pick up a copy of World of Goo, I bought in. However, my brother quickly … Continue reading →

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Many Tanks Site Updates

Posted on 2010-05-14 by Stephan Sokolow

Just a quick status update. I’ve done some significant re-theming on http://www.ficfan.org/ and fixed a bug that was causing many of the quotes to not show their additional metadata. While doing so, I noticed that, because of how wp-lifestream caches … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome, A Testament to Hubris

Posted on 2010-04-18 by Stephan Sokolow

Before I begin with my argument, let me say that I generally like Google Chrome (or more correctly, Chromium, the open-source release). It’s the only reasonably responsive open-source (not Opera) browser for tabbed-browsing freaks on Linux, the minimalist UI and … Continue reading →

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Der Untergang, Bizarro-style

Posted on 2010-04-15 by Stephan Sokolow

You may be familiar with the “Hitler rants” meme which produced such parodies as “Hitler gets banned from Xbox Live“.  However, what you probably haven’t noticed is that, thanks to a user named hitlerrantsparodies, a continuity has started to coalesce … Continue reading →

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Scribblenauts and /b/-tards

Posted on 2010-02-24 by Stephan Sokolow

Well, I was wandering around YouTube (no clue why) when I found evidence that the Scribblenauts developers may be /b/-tards. At the very least, they’re pretty good at catching all the noteworthy memes. Here are just some of the noteworthy … Continue reading →

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Our Sick Society

Posted on 2010-01-28 by Stephan Sokolow

A few months ago, my mother sent me an interesting TED talk about motivation. It turns out that the carrot-and/or-stick model for encouraging rewards stifles creativity. We need more businesses like Atlassian and Google which employ “intrinsic motivation” (you do … Continue reading →

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