amib's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=amib2007-04-10T02:40:54ZKeep These E2 Titles The Same (idea)http://everything2.com/user/amib/writeups/Keep+These+E2+Titles+The+Sameamibhttp://everything2.com/user/amib2007-04-10T02:40:54Z2007-04-10T02:40:54Z<p>If you find a <a href="/title/node">node</a> <b>title</b> without any misspellings/mistakes within, please add a writeup here and hard link the correct title along with your thoughts as to why it shouldn't be changed. This makes it much easier for us to check if the title should be left alone.</p>
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The "gods" can move a writeup from one node to another. However, if you find a write-up which is on-topic or well-titled, there's no need to move it at all.</p>
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When the node title isn't changed it won't change the title in your individual writeup. If this happens, simply click 'submit' on your writeup again and the writeup's title will not change in any way. Until then, your 'user search' may continue to display the title.</p>
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E2 has no consistent caps rule for common nouns in titles (in the <i>text</i> of your writeup, <b>get it right</b>). Any post here is an endorsement of the current capitalization.</p>
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Using this format in your writeup below makes it easier for us: </p>
<p align="center"><b>Please<!-- close unclosed tag --></b><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Microdrive (thing)http://everything2.com/user/amib/writeups/Microdriveamibhttp://everything2.com/user/amib2005-04-11T21:11:42Z2005-04-11T21:11:42Z<p>In <a href="/title/1999">1999</a>, after the Speccy Microdrives were a decade obsolete, <a href="/title/IBM">IBM</a> released their own Microdrives. Instead of tape drives, the IBM Microdrives were then-revolutionary 1" diameter <a href="/title/hard+drive">hard drive</a>s crammed into a <a href="/title/CompactFlash">CompactFlash</a> form factor. At a time when a large, expensive flash <a href="/title/memory+card">memory card</a> might hold 128 <a href="/title/megabyte">megabyte</a>s, the initial Microdrives could hold 340 megabytes and had much faster read/write times, as well as a surprisingly good cost given the amount of storage. Now, Microdrives come in 1, 2, and 4 <a href="/title/gigabyte">gigabyte</a> capacities, at a somewhat-better price-per-megabyte cost than traditional flash memory CompactFlash cards.</p>
<p>This didn't come without tradeoffs, To start, Microdrives aren't quite as durable as flash memory, so they couldn't withstand really nasty shocks or temperature changes. (In practice, they are plenty durable, but keep in mind that working CF and <a href="/title/Secure+Digital">SD</a> cards have been recovered from collapsed buildings and tornado strikes.) Microdrives are CompactFlash Type II<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Memory Stick (thing)http://everything2.com/user/amib/writeups/Memory+Stickamibhttp://everything2.com/user/amib2005-03-30T14:36:04Z2005-03-30T14:36:04Z<p>Sony's Memory Stick is a removable <a href="/title/memory+card">memory card</a> format, launched by <a href="/title/Sony">Sony</a> in October <a href="/title/1998">1998</a>. <small>In case nobody has noded <a href="/title/memory+card">memory card</a> yet, a memory card is a small <a href="/title/flash+memory">flash memory</a> device generally used for data storage in portable devices, like <a href="/title/PDA">PDA</a>s, <a href="/title/digital+camera">digital camera</a>s, <a href="/title/mp3+players">mp3 players</a>, and so on. I'm not referring to game console memory cards, in this case.</small></p>
<p>Typically, a Memory Stick is used as storage media for a portable device, in a form that can easily be removed for access by a <a href="/title/PC">PC</a>. For example, Sony <a href="/title/digital+camera">digital camera</a>s use Memory Sticks for storing image files. With a Memory Stick reader (typically a small box that connects via <a href="/title/USB">USB</a> or some other serial connection), a user could copy the pictures taken with the Sony digital camera off to his or her computer. Sony uses and has used Memory Sticks in digital cameras, <a href="/title/mp3+player">digital music players</a>, <a href="/title/PDA">PDA</a>s, <a href="/title/cell+phone">cell phone</a>s, the <a href="/title/PlayStation+Portable">PlayStation Portable</a>, and in other devices, and the <a href="/title/Sony+VAIO">Sony VAIO</a> line of personal computers has long<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…iPod (thing)http://everything2.com/user/amib/writeups/iPodamibhttp://everything2.com/user/amib2005-03-13T08:42:29Z2005-03-13T08:42:29Z<p><i>No wireless. Less space than a <a href="/title/Creative+Nomad+Jukebox+Zen">nomad</a>. Lame.</i></p>
<p> <a href="/title/Slashdot">Slashdot</a>'s <a href="/title/CmdrTaco">CmdrTaco</a>, expressing his disinterest in the iPod's release, on Oct. 23, 2001</p>
<p>The iPod is both <a href="/title/Apple+Comouter">Apple</a>'s hard-drive-based digital music player, and the name for their line of mp3 players. While the iPod wasn't the first <a href="/title/hard+drive">hard drive</a> <a href="/title/mp3">mp3</a> player, let alone the first standalone mp3 player, it is, without a doubt, the most popular and successful. In less than four years, it has not only taken up the lion's share of the dedicated mp3 player market (with 2004 estimates of market share running along the lines of 90% of hard-drive-based players and 70% of all players), but helped to revitalize <a href="/title/Apple+Computer">Apple Computer</a> both financially and in the minds of consumers and geeks.</p>
<p>Plus, it's a damn fine little gadget.</p>
<p>If you've missed the last four years of geek news (or are reading this in the far future), the iPod plays <a href="/title/music">music</a>. It's a plastic and<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Rise of the Dragon (thing)http://everything2.com/user/amib/writeups/Rise+of+the+Dragonamibhttp://everything2.com/user/amib2005-02-18T20:08:03Z2005-02-18T20:08:03Z<p><i>"How do you know I'm the chosen one?"</i></p>
<p><i>"Process of elimination."</i></p>
<p><i>"Huh?"</i></p>
<p><i>"The forces of darkness eliminated all my other candidates."</i></p>
<p><a href="/title/Rise+of+the+Dragon">Rise of the Dragon</a> (also occasionally known as Rise of the Dragon: a Blade Hunter Mystery) was developed by <a href="/title/Dynamix">Dynamix</a>, under the direction of <a href="/title/Jeff+Tunnell">Jeff Tunnell</a>. It was their first game after being bought out by <a href="/title/Sierra+Online">Sierra Online</a>, and, as such, Sierra published it. It was first released for the <a href="/title/PC">PC</a> in <a href="/title/1990">1990</a> (and later would be somewhat lazily ported to the <a href="/title/Macintosh">Macintosh</a> and <a href="/title/Amiga">Amiga</a>), and was later ported to the <a href="/title/Sega+CD">Sega CD</a> in October <a href="/title/1992">1992</a>. The cover for all four games, save for <a href="/title/trade+dress">trade dress</a>, are the same: a shadow of a man with a handgun cast onto a brick wall with a triangular dragon emblem, with cultists backlit by a fire off to the left. The Sega CD version comes in two packaging variations: long plastic <a href="/title/jewel+case">jewel case</a> (similar to early <a href="/title/PlayStation">PSX</a> cases) and thin cardboard case (similar to music CD<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Squirtle (person)http://everything2.com/user/amib/writeups/Squirtleamibhttp://everything2.com/user/amib2005-02-16T11:49:02Z2005-02-16T11:49:02Z<p><i>Squirtle squirtle squirtle!</i></p>
<p>Squirtle - <i>Tiny Turtle Pokémon (#7)</i></p>
<p><strong>Japanese name:</strong> Zenigame (<i>Zeni</i> meaning money, and <i>game</i> being a form of the word for turtle)<br>
<strong>Pokedex in Red/Blue/Yellow:</strong> After birth, its back swells and hardens into a shell. Powerfully sprays foam from its mouth..<br>
<strong>Pokedex in Gold:</strong> The shell is soft when it is born. It soon becomes so resilient, prodding fingers will bounce off of it.<br>
<strong>Pokedex in Silver:</strong> The shell, which hardens soon after it is born, is resilient. If you poke it, it will bounce back out.<br>
<strong>Pokedex in Crystal:</strong> When it feels threatened, it draws its legs inside its shell and sprays water from its mouth.<br>
<strong>Height:</strong> 1 foot 8 inches<br>
<strong>Weight:</strong> 20 lbs<br>
<strong>Evolution:</strong> Squirtle -> <a href="/title/Wartortle">Wartortle</a> -> <a href="/title/Blastoise">Blastoise</a><br>
<strong>Type:</strong> Water</p>
<p>Squirtle is a basic <a href="/title/Pokemon">Pokemon</a>,<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…