Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
So in the 2008 NCAA pick ’em, The Dren lost and proudly displayed his loser shirt at Wrigley Field. He again lost this year’s pick ’em, but forgot to bring the shirt to a baseball game with him, so he’s wearing the two-time loser shirt at a pool in Palm Desert, CA:
Again, I’m sure his wife loves it.
If you’re wondering what the shirt says (the original is here):
If he loses for a third time, I might have to open up the design to the masses here.
Been saving these around for bookmarking reasons, just haven’t gotten around to posting them. Don’t have time to post all of them, but here are a few…
More tomorrow.
You’ve probably all seen the folks that post a single self-portrait a day on Flickr, but I bet you haven’t seen a Stormtrooper so candidly.
If you don’t know what “X” is, read up here. Simply, X is basically the pile of code that provides a graphical user interface for many Linux and some BSD-based desktop systems. And this guy is absolutely right: The X Windows system could learn some stuff from the big, bad, empire. I’m not a hardcore Linux desktop guy (I use it for servers quite a bit), but my experience with it matches his quite well — it doesn’t take much to break it and bring your system down with it.
I would’ve thought the number would’ve been higher, but at least there’s research to back it.
When Pear Analytics started its short-term study, it assumed that most of the tweets would be either spam or self-promotion. This belief, it said, was driven by the growing number of firms starting to use Twitter as a tool to drum up sales.
Instead, it found that 40.5% could be classified as pointless babble, 37.5% as conversational and 8.7% as having pass-along value. Self promotion and spam stood at 5.85% and 3.75% respectively.
According to a Westin Hotel and Resort study, most people would take a great night’s sleep over a great night of gettin’ busy.
It’s a simple game, but William and Sly is a fun platformer.
While this page looks all fine and dandy in your browser, if you look the page’s source code, there are hundreds of <FONT style=”FONT-SIZE: 8pt”> tags, mostly wrapped around single lines of text. They really wanted that size of type.
Link via b3ta
Description of how the Federal Reserve works, explained in terms a World of Warcraft player can understand.