- How much oil has leaked into the Gulf? Depending who you ask, between 504,000 and 4,200,000 gallons per day.
- Complete guide to cross-browser compatibility check tools.
- HD 101: Overscan and why all TVs do it.
- Typografix: HTML re-processing script for typographic beautification.
- Some controversial billboards.
- Why Gmail is awesome — it’s the little things.
- Remember when Google celebrated the Pac Man birthday? One analysis says it took 4,819,352 hours of productivity away from the world.
- Flash player built entirely in JavaScript, and they’ve got it running StrongBad.
- Our Solar System in CSS3 animation (look at it in Chrome or Safari).
- everystockphoto for searching for free stock photos.
- 15 must-read articles for CSS beginners.
- Google to Employees: Mac or Linux, but no more Windows.
- NSFW ASCII Art (it looks like nothing — but select/highlight/ctrl-a all of it).
- What your email address says about your computer skills.
Month: May 2010
Reading Material
Sucking Up The Bandwidth
It’s video dump time…
Time Killer For The Evening
Sounds simple: Just get to the exit. You just need to avoid the buzz saws, swinging axes, spikes, and other things trying to kill you. Oh, and you have to do it as fast as you can. Have fun.
Sewell Minideck USB External Video Card Is A Handy Little Device — And You Can Win One
When Sewell contacted me, asking if I’d review their Sewell Minideck USB to DVI adapter, I honestly had no idea such a product existed. Basically, it’s an external video card that plugs into your USB port and gives you an additional monitor interface. Most laptops can support two monitors out of the box (via an external monitor port) and many desktops can easily do so with a cheap add-in card. But if you’re looking for a quick and easy way to add a secondary screen to a computer without monkeying with the innards of a computer, this thing works pretty dang well. Read on for the full review and a chance to win one for yourself…
That’s One Happy Kid
The miracles of modern medicine can make a kid so happy:
Cascade Winds Symphonic Band: Free Family-friendly Concert
Jon already beat me to this, as I’ve been busy/slacking/whatever the last couple weeks, but the Cascade Winds Symphonic Band (of which I’ve been a member for 15+ years) is having their final concert on June 6 (Sunday) at 2:00PM at Summit High School. The concert is free, we’ll have loads of great music (American composers and themes this time after last concert’s Russian theme). We’ll have a few featured soloists (as well as a vocal soloist), munchies during intermission, and it’ll be an enjoyable show for everyone!
For more details, head to the Cascade Winds’ site or head over to Facebook and invite all your friends.
KTVZ Has An iPhone App?
Apparently so, and while it was having issues with content not updating with the change to their new site, it looks like they released a new version today that apparently fixes the problem according to the changelog.
For the rest of us that don’t have (and will probably never have) an iPhone, m.ktvz.com works fine for me. And don’t forget you can get this site and BendBlogs on their respective mobile sites (and those URLs apparently work well on an iPhone — but again, can’t test, so I don’t know).
Time Killer For The Evening
It’s a pretty simple premise — you just need to get the sheep home. The animation and sound add to a fun puzzle game.
Reading Material
- Sad story of the day: Ethan didn’t have to die (or: If I ever saw either of these people on the street, I’d hit them with a baseball bat, no questions asked).
- The work conditions are so bad at the Chinese Foxconn factory that makes iPhone and iPads that a bunch of people have committed suicide.
- What does that hotel really look like? See for yourself, as those nice photos were obviously taken out of context.
- About dang time: the moronic doctor who claimed that vaccines caused autism, causing vaccination rates to plummet, has had his license pulled. Now if we could just get Jenny McCarthy to shut her mouth …
- Because every country is the best at something.
- When Sarah Palin visits the OBGYN, they have to bring in hazmat suits from the center for disease control..
- Google launches encrypted search.
- What if Empire Strikes Back was a 50s 3-D movie?
- Nice way to pimp a VW: Install a built-in beer tap.
- The Sad Reality Behind Ronald McDonald.
- After 100 years, Mark Twain’s autobiography will be released.
- SepiaTown lets you view and share thousands of mapped historical images from around the globe.
- Amazing developer arrogance (and why I won’t be using OpenCart — its developer has made it unmaintainable).
- Lost hackers documentary, Hackers Wanted, shows up Pirate Bay.
- Why the web is awesome: Metafilter helps track down victims of human trafficking.
- Why Zappos is awesome: They had a pricing mistake that cost them nearly $1.6 million, and they took it like men.
Birthday Timekiller
According to a bunch of wall posts on Facebook and a bunch of automated e-mail greetings from the zillions of forums I have accounts on, it’s my birthday today. Apparently I’m 32 today. I’m just in denial of it all, as I’m ever closer to 40 — which is apparently the new 30.
But one cool thing about having a birthday this time of year is I (nearly) share a birthday with Pac Man. Google is celebrating the game’s 30th birthday with a playable home page logo (and you can even play two-player using the WASD buttons). Just insert a couple coins and go!
Thanks for all the birthday wishes everyone!