Does anybody else find it hilarious that a company that spends so much time and money on copy protection and DRM for Blu-rays spent so little effort on protecting paying customer’s personal information? They had a huge security breach on their Playstation Network last week, revealing the information (possibly including credit card numbers). Whoops. Sony’s spin on it (a week after it happened, mind you) is here and Motherboard.tv has a good write up of the whole mess.
Month: April 2011
Time Killer For The Evening
Jelly Cannon is another one of those obnoxious physics-based games that start off cute and easy but get harder and harder but you still can’t stop playing. Have fun.
Reading Material
Got a bunch o’ stuff that I need to get off my desktop before I start another couple nights of rehearsals and a crazy-busy week of projects and other stuff. I was finally going to try and make it to a COWPU meeting after not having been to one for a helluva long time, but it looks like it’s not going to happen this time.
On to the dump (video dump coming later today)…
- Tom Hanks is a Lot of Animals.
- If I could buy some art, I’d buy some of these.
- I’m building a point-to-point wireless bridge, and I’m seriously considering the Pringle-can antenna, but I don’t think the bosses would like the look of that.
- I need multiple monitors (and a permanent desk, but that’s another story entirely), and when I have do, here’s a good software chart to best take advantage of it all.
- Google April Fools’ Joke (Gmail Motion) becomes reality.
- Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications.
- Only Little People Pay Taxes.
- Just mash the buttons on your keyboard, just like they do in the movies, and you too can look like a hacker.
- Speaking of movie-based computer interfaces, here’s a collection of screenshots of computer GUIs in Hollywood.
- Looking for an alternative to istockphoto? Here’s a few good ones.
- I’ve used PublicIP for at hotspot before, but HotSpotSystem looks pretty slick and works well with dd-wrt, which is also a bonus.
- Need to quickly create a grid of guides in Photoshop? GuideGuide will help.
- From Me To You: More subtle animated GIFs, very similar to the previously-linked to If We Don’t, Remember Me.
- Please let this GIF be real.
- Six hilarious ways that game designers are screwing with pirates.
- Amazon’s $23 million book about flies.
- General Electric Paid No Federal Taxes in 2010. Really, though, they didn’t do anything illegal, so in my ignorant opinion, I blame our tax laws more than anything.
- Three website exploits — are you protected?
- The Wilderness Downtown is a great interactive film, built in HTML 5.
- I think I’ve accomplished most of these help-desk achievements.
- 40 names of bands before they were famous.
- People ask the dumbest questions.
- Practical guide to subversion on Windows with TortoiseSVN.
Videos coming later…
Even If You’re As Cool As Spike Lee…
…you still look ridiculous taking a picture with an iPad.
Cats vs. The Treadmill
I generally only link to cat videos when cats are getting annoyed (like this one), and the treadmill appears to be driving these cats nuts:
Cats are a lot more like people than we think. Their solution to things they don’t understand? They just smack them — just like I’ve seen a lot of people do when they’re trying to fix something.
Time Killer For The Evening
Blockgineer is a simple game, in theory. You just have to get the ball to the box. But as you get more into the game, it gets more complicated and a load of fun.
Was This A Cow Suicide Mission?
Was the cow out there fighting back, or was this just an accident? You be the judge:
MADRAS, Ore. — A truck hauling frozen beef struck and killed a cow on Highway 97 north of Madras Tuesday night, triggering a fiery crash that caused no injuries but destroyed the rig, damaged the trailer, sideswiped another truck and shut the road for four hours, Oregon State Police reported.
The cow’s mission wasn’t accomplished, as the frozen beef was moved to another trailer.
Cellos Are Awesome, Exhibit B
You can find Exhibit A here. Here I present, Exhibit B (though the dude’s beatboxing skills are as important as the instrument he’s playing):
Sorry about the lack of posts the last few days. I’ve been in rehearsals for the symphony and/or band the last few days (including tonight), and haven’t even turned on my computer after getting home at 10. Will try to catch up on my collected links tomorrow.
Time Killer For The Week
Seriously, this could kill off more than a week. It could easily kill off the rest of the year. It’s the World’s Biggest Pac-Man, and it has over 7300 mazes, all inter-connected, for Pac-Man to complete.