Justin Bieber has some pretty good reflexes and manages to avoid getting clobbered head-on by a water-bottle:
Month: August 2010
Time Killer For The Evening
Can you complete all the mindless achievements in Achievement Unlocked 2? If not, there’s help (which I needed before I could get to 100%)
Reading Material
- A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives.
- An interesting way to look at the world: Google Maps without the Maps.
- Need special paper (like line/graph paper) but don’t want to buy it? Print it up here or here.
- He was touting family values during the Clinton impeachment, but Newt Gingrinch likes to play around, too.
- More songs are covers than you might think.
- 40+ billionaires pledge to donate half of wealth via the Giving Pledge.
- Now this is stupid: Man who gives free rides home to drunks was arrested for operating a taxi service without a license (related: watching your neighbors’ kids before they go to school could get you fined for running an unauthorized day care).
- Want to generate a URL that will failover automatically to a mirror should the original site go down? I Can Has Mirror might be able to help.
- 10 free web UI kits and resources for designers.
- Everybody acts like photo tampering is a new thing, but it’s been around for over 100 years.
- A hilarious visual diary documenting a flight from New York to Berlin.
- Want to be notified when a web site is sending data to Google? Here’s a nice obnoxious alarm for you (please note: many sites out there, including this one, will trip the alarm, because they use either Google Adsense for ads or Google Analytics for web stats).
- CCleaner Enhancer makes the best system cleaner even better.
- If you’re the exercising/fitness type, here are a bunch of great mobile fitness apps for your phone.
- That’s gratitude for you: The man who made iPhone 4 has been ousted at Apple.
- It’s amazing what you can do with 1KB of Javascript or 10KB and some libraries.
- A stupid-simple way to
hackchange a Windows XP password.
Wave Goodbye To Google Wave
It was an interesting experiment, but Google’s killing Google Wave. Too bad folks went through the effort to write books on it, and obviously the author of said book is dissapointed.
Portland Man Does Quarter-Mile in 10.4 Seconds — In An Electric Car
What’s even better is it’s a hideously ugly (but pimped out) Datsun:
Story over on Wired, with more details straight from the guy who did it. To put it in perspective, that’s super-car territory.
Oregon Trail, The Movie
This really needs to be made into a full-length feature:
If you’re looking to play the classic game again. you can re-live your childhood here.
Looking For Dinner Ideas?
This site might help (naughty language warning). Along a similar theme, if you’re looking to figure out a social media strategy for your business, this site is bound to inspire (see previous warning).
Windows Phone Users Are Apparently Trying To Quit Smoking
Apparently I need to quit smoking. I happened to be browsing through Facebook, and because I’m a fan of Windows Phone (though my next phone will probably be an Android device), it suggested I become a fan of Nicorette:
Does that say something about Windows Phone users?
Reading Material
- Jailbreaking your phone is now legal, thanks to the EFF.
- This pretty much describes every university website I’ve ever seen.
- The three laws of robotics have made it into Last.fm’s robots.txt file.
- I’ve never understood most rap or hip hop music, but this Wikipedia article translates one song quite nicely.
- mediaelement.js is a great HTML5 video and audio player with fail-over support for Flash and Silverlight.
- Google recently became a much better dictionary search.
- While I wouldn’t consider them life-saving, here are 10 handy PHP snippets.
- Drawing vs. Photography marvelously combines sketches and photographs. You can find more on the illustrator’s site.
- Your Code Sucks — just like everybody’s.
- Intuit is pushing hard to keep the IRS from making taxes easy to file.
- Credit Karma promises a free credit score. I’ve seen a few good reviews on it, but haven’t used it personally.
- Wikileaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum was detained when coming into the country.
- A bunch of useful JavaScript and jQuery plugins and techniques.
- Do-it-yourself home security system could save you a few bucks if you’re wanting to lock down your house. NextAlarm appears to have some other similar (and fairly inexpensive) options as well.
- F.B.I. challenges Wikipedia on use of F.B.I. seal. Wikipedia responds with a primer on law.
- Google now allows multiple account sign-in for some of their services.
- Contrary to popular belief, the customer is not always right.