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Month: April 2009
Time Killer For The Day
Domino Knight 2 will kill off your entire afternoon if you’re not careful — unlike this Domino’s, which could just kill you off entirely.
Some Evening Links
- It’s hard to believe that mother nature made these.
- If you have a lot of free time today, here’s the 100 most iconic internet videos.
- Want to know how to make a dead pixel in Google earth? Now you know.
- A map of where all the sitcoms based in NYC occured.
Your Own Personal Soundtrack
No, this is NOT an April Fools Joke. You can now have your own personal soundtrack, thanks to this t-shirt:
I’ve always wanted to be like the guy in this commercial with my own musical accompaniment, and now I can!
Evening Links
Cleaning out the drawers…
- Nothing like the scientific exploration of the gravity in Super Mario Bros..
- CSS Sprite Optimization.
- Another worthless iPhone feature: Cat Facial Recognition.
- Best complaint letter ever.
- Is anybody using Google Latitude? I installed it on my phone, but haven’t really played much with it.
- Prop 8 Maps, a mash up of Google Maps and Prop 8 Donors.
- OK, so maybe the iPhone has a few handy apps, like WhatTheFont.
- Conan and Andy are back together again.
- Google App Status Dashboard.
- Journalists make the best employees.
- iPhone as a news delivery device.
- Related: Can the Stratusphere Save Journalism?
Time Killers For The Day
Find The Key and MateMaster.
(Thanks BBspot for the links.)
Links For The Evening
Some randomness (mostly old links I’ve had sitting here) to keep you from getting anything accomplished…
- Curiosity, Ignorance, and Malice — it’s so much fun to be a geek.
- Quote of the decade for content creators: “Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.” (via Mezzoblue).
- The Dial-Up Kid.
- Reinstall Windows with one click of your mouse.
- Visual History of Lego Minifigs.
- How to use Amazon EC2 for Bittorrent for the ultimate seedbox.
- kx-project is an independent driver for all Soundblaster Live! and Audigy sound cards.
- Pornotron (obviously not safe for work) will search Google images with and without Safesearch on, and show you the files that were tagged as questionable.
- Direct link to Google’s free Google Apps Standard Edition (a great service — we use it at the office).
- For future reference, the obnoxious stoplights in Bend that hate me are ODOT’s problem, not the City of Bend’s.
- Applying global custom views in Outlook 2003.
- Using a random XKCD comic as your wallpaper.
Enjoy. More coming later. I need to spend some time with my new DS game.
I Didn’t See This Coming
I don’t think anybody did. But I was very pleasantly surprised by this woman’s singing ability on Britain’s Got Talent (especially considering the beautiful song she sang).
(I’d embed the video here, but it’s been disabled, and the other videos don’t show the whole thing nearly as well. Just watch it, it’s worth it.)
Random Link Dump
Something to keep you entertained this evening…
- Converting physical Windows systems into Virtual Machines (I think I posted this before, but I’m too lazy to look).
- Best use of old concrete wall space ever: Mega Man vs. Dr. Wily.
- MySQL doesn’t suck — it’s AMD’s fault.
- Vyatta: An intriguing firewall, router, load balancer system that I might have to try out — they basically call themselves an open-source Cisco.
- The forbidden railway: a train trip to Pyongyang (which is in North Korea).
- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
- Multi-purpose furniture: A shelving system that turns into a coffin.
- Remind me to avoid Oakdale next year.
- The Periodic table of Game Controllers.
- Yes, you can render a duck in Javascript — in case you care.
- Rocky Mountain News Farewell video, and who really killed the Rocky?
More sometime. I way behind.