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RSSDigest – syndicate any RSS feed

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RSSDigest takes any RSS feed and makes a simple list out of it for use on a site. It can do it as Javascript, HTML (iframe), or PHP. It even lets you customize how it will look. It’s really easy to use and no programming is required. I am using it for the “Latest Cool Links” and the “Free Legal Music” sections in the bottom right column. Both of them are coming from my delicious links. The best part is that it is free – all they ask is that you link back to the RSSDigest site. Done.

UPDATE: RSSDigest has become FeedDigest


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Earthcore is winding down

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The podcast novel Earthcore is winding down. Just a few more chapters and it’s done. What? You haven’t heard of Earthcore? it’s a cool sci-fi/action audiobook being released for free as a podcast. Don’t fret that you missed any of it, just drop by the Earthcore site and you can download the whole book (up til now) for free and catch up. It’s a really good book and the author is doing an excellent job of reading it. The book reminds me a lot of The Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child – lots of action, suspense, some creepy creatures, and a bit of horror thrown in.

Confessions of a horrible game player

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Here is a great post at Lost Garden. It’s called “Confessions of a horrible game player“. He has some great ideas that developers should incorporate into games. If you haven’t read it before, Lost Garden is an “ongoing game design document written as a blog”. He is designing and building a game called SpaceCrack and documenting it in his blog. He used to work for Epic Megagames and worked on the shooter Tyrian so he knows what he is doing and it shows. He’s an excellent and interesting writer – well worth reading if you are a gamer. I have him linked in the sidebar.

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Nerdcore Hip-Hop

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Nerdcode Hip-Hop….ever heard of it? It’s basically geek rap (nerdcore…like hardcore…..get it?). Why do I like nerdcore? I like some (not all) hip-hop/rap (mostly old school), I am a geek, and most nerdcore is really FUNNY.

My first contact with nerdcore was from via Brad Sucks (who also has some great, non-nerdcore music for free download). Brad had a link to MC Frontalot on his site. All of Front’s stuff is available for free download from his website. From Frontalot’s site, I got a link to Optimus Rhyme. They have a CD out and they have some of the tracks available to download on their website. Then I found MC Lars – he has a few tracks to download from his website.

Just a few weeks ago I found MC Plus+ (get it? M C++) and ytcracker. MC Plus+ is a programmer geek and I think you have to be a bit of a coder to “get” some of his stuff. His whole album “Algorhythms” is available for free download. If you write code at all, you need to listen to his album at least once. REALLY funny. ytcracker has his latest album “Nerdrap Entertainment System” (N.E.S.) for download on his site and he has a BUNCH of other tracks available too. I don’t like his stuff quite as much as the others, but it’s still good.