Month: February 2011

• IBM’s Watson smacked around folks on Jeopardy, and here is a good Q&A with the development team.
• Looking for pinball in Portland? There’s a map for that.
• In case you didn’t know, programmers swear a lot.
• The question everybody needs answered: If I were an evil genius, how could I go about melting the ice caps?
• Man makes $50,000 goal, charities nearly get hosed because of a technicality.
• Why save PBS? Here are a pile of great reasons, but this one easily takes the cake.
• Speaking of cake: I Crashed Paris Hilton’s Birthday And Accidentally The Whole Cake.
• A bunch of Android links for you:
  • Man makes an awesome carputer with a rooted NOOKColor and a DIY car mount (more photos and video here). Apparently MortPlayer has a “car” layout and a widget that makes this nice and easy.
  • A great collection of Boot Animations.
  • If you’re seeing screenshots of Android phones and wondering “What widget it that?” then this visual reference might help.
  • Use your Wii controler with your Android phone.
  • I’ve always been tempted to play with this more, but I just know I’d spend too much time with it: There are apps that will feed web audio streams of emergency radio frequencies. The frequencies are public record and some are fed over the Web which would make them work with those apps.
  • I think I may have shared this before, but I can’t remember: ServerUp uses your phone’s network connection to monitor if your servers are still up and running.
  • Samsung released the Froyo update for my phone a few days ago, but apparently the update is now on hold. It’s been working OK for me, but I haven’t pushed it too hard or tested it out much, so I’ll just keep my finger’s crossed.
• Ever wanted to know what the life of a gigolo is really like? Now you know.
• Ever wanted to know what happens when you stick your head in a particle accelerator? Now you know.
• Every wanted to know what happens with you try to BBQ a fire-proof hard drive? Now you know (OK, enough of that “Ever wanted…”. Sorry…).
• Things you didn’t know about Futurama characters.
• FirewallBuilder looks like an interesting open-source solution to managing a variety of different firewall packages (it appears to support a ton). A handy write-up on a basic setup is here.
• A new AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3.
• If you try to game the system when it comes to SEO, somebody will always find out.
• Fun with Translation Party.
• For Google Docs to make inroads, it really needs to go offline.
• If you want your own personal cloud, Pogoplug looks like it might help.

Edit: Forgot about these — there are a couple videos after the jump…

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