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• Monetizing Robots, Duckies, and Amanda Modern day troubadour Jonathan Coulton is the latest cult-of-personality on Ze Frank’s GimmeSomeCandy micropayment platform. In related news - Amanda Congdon announced new projects with ABC News and HBO. Duckies, robots, and bananas for everyone!
• Thursday, March 8, 2007 2:06:15 PM Project Idea: a site that reviews and analyzes ‘terms of service’ agreements and ‘privacy policies’ and presents them in an visually skim-able way, a la Creative Commons licenses UPDATE 20 March 2007 I just picked up slareporter.com with this in mind.
• If I Wait, the World Will Blog For Me Rex Hammock put together the exact post I didn’t have time to put together this morning. Thanks Rex. I watched the episode in question - and I found it uncharacteristically long and drawn out (it even ended with ‘to be continued’, blah). Interestingly, last night’s How I Met Your Mother used a similar storytelling technique and
• Darrel’s a Broke Snob :p My long-time blogging cohort at MNteractive.com and earlier projects not remembered by the Way Back Machine has started a new design blog: The (broke) Design Snob He kicks off with a post on the Target Like-a-bike that we picked up as well. “I was equally impressed with the packaging with the varnished pattern of playing children.”
• How to Set Up a Linksys Router with Mac OS X  “INSERT CD FIRST”, screamed the sticker on the back of the Linksys wrt54g router. A decade with Macintoshes has taught me the suggestions are normally for Windows machines. The router was persistent - and the sticker was blocking the power port - so, I thought I’d humor it. I was right. The CD shipping was