It’s not too often you watch a soccer match where this happens:
Month: January 2011
Losing Track of Google’s APIs and Developer Products?
This might help. And holy cow, I didn’t know they had that many APIs and dev resources. I’d completely forgotten they had bought some of those companies.
Looking For Egyptian Riot Coverage?
While the coverage from American media online isn’t too bad (they were a little late on the ball, really), you’re better off going to Aljazeera’s English site or BBC’s site as they seem to have things better covered.
While the country’s internet has been shutdown, people are finding ways around and still getting out twitter posts. Anonymous (and many ISPs, too) is at it, too, using the good ol’ fax machine to get relevant information into the country.
There’s a good write-up on the first three days of the mess over on reddit.
This video is great and gave a very appropriate quote: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.” (John F. Kennedy)
Fastest Video Game Speed Run Ever
It has to be seen to be believed.
Cellos Are Awesome
If I could play any stringed instrument, it would be the cello. It’s just a very fun, versatile instrument. As somebody who enjoys modern pop music played on traditionally classical instruments, I really enjoyed this:
Reading Material
- Why 3D movies don’t work and never will. Period.
- Poor Bullet Bill (if you’re a classic Nintendo geek, you’ll love Brawl in the Family).
- Speaking of Nintendo, here’s something I might have to try with our Wii: Install a Wii Game Loader for Easy Backups and Fast Load Times.
- If you need to do a basic layout for any type of room, this online tool is pretty nifty.
- Man, I feel old: Oregon Trail is turning 40 this year.
- Oldie, but interesting: Nine ways to obfuscate e-mail addresses compared.
- Behind the scenes on the Back To The Future set.
- Truly Decentralized BitTorrent Downloading has Finally Arrived.
- The man who started Big Picture is moving on to a new gig that will allow him to focus on it full time (he was also a web developer at Boston.com).
- Need some symbols or icons? The Noun Project has a great collection of free, public domain, icons, available in vector format.
- BoingBoing has updated their stats dump. Hopefully Andy Baio will update his fun stats page.
- How to Print Gmail on your Android or iPhone using Cloud Print.
- Handy little guide to make your own 5-in-1 Network Admin cable.
- Cryptic JavaScript at its finest.
- Some more Android links, for my reference:
- wp clock is a pretty slick looking live wallpaper.
- Speaking of Live Wallpaper, this Super Mario wallpaper is pretty sweet.
- How to factory reset your Epic (I used this when I was trying — unsucessfully — to get Nebula ROM installed).
- Here’s an interesting read on how changing the Epic file system from RFS to EXT4 will speed things up (I tried this and it didn’t work right for me, but I didn’t really have time to dig into it).
- Now that I have Froyo installed on my phone, I was able to free up a bunch of phone memory by moving apps onto the SD card.
- Now that I have Froyo, I can now have a TI-83 in my pocket.
- If you’re looking for directions on installing your own custom ROM for your Epic, this might help.
- If you need to do a clean install and restore, Titanium Backup will help a bunch.
- If you need a way to track down a lost or stolen phone before it happens and the Prey Project isn’t enough for you, Theft Aware looks pretty dang powerful.
- Things you can’t do with your iPhone: Customize it a zillion different ways.
Brilliant Idea That Needs To Become A Reality
It’s a USB plug that will plug in and work whether it’s upside down or not. I can’t even count how many times I’ve had to blindly plug a USB device in and get the orientation of the plug wrong. I’d say at least 75% of the time I have it upside down because I can’t usually see the plug I’m plugging into very well. This needs to become a reality sooner rather than later.
Best Action Sequence Ever?
Yes, it probably is…
Anybody know the name of the movie? It looks awesome!
Ikea Stores Are Mazes
Just in case you didn’t know that already, here’s the science to prove it.
Quick Before-Bed Time Killer
You need to escape the sewer.