This fountain can do some amazing things:
No, it’s not just light flashing on the water, the water is actually shaped like that.
Month: September 2011
Time Killer For The Day
Red is a simple Missle-Command-style game that’s easy to play, tough as nails to master, but a lot of fun. I surived 403 seconds on my first attempt. How’d you do?
Will Ferrell Is Funnier When He’s Making Stuff Up
While his scripted stuff is hilarious, the bloppers from those movies of his are even better:
Link Dump
Sorry about the lack of regular post frequency the last few weeks. My personal and professional life have been a been chaotic lately for reasons I won’t go into here. That being said, I have a metric crapload of links and videos I need to share (videos will come later). Enjoy!
- Apparently there’s a site where you can review and rate prostitutes. Shouting at Cows has gone through the archives and found some real gems.
- For obvious reasons, I didn’t post many of these links yesterday…The Decade of 9/11: war without end.
- Ten Years On, Sick Ground Zero Workers Still Without Proper Care.
- Wasn’t The PATRIOT Act Supposed To Be About Stopping Terrorism? It hasn’t been used as such.
- Homeland Security: The Decade’s Biggest Scam.
- On 9/11, I will….
- The True Cost of 9/11: Trillions and trillions wasted on wars, a fiscal catastrophe, a weaker America.
- Why does Fox News CEO Roger Ailes Hate America?
- Speaking of Fox News, what is it really like to work behind the scenes there? Read on.
- Why Wal-Mart’s veggies are so crappy (taken from this AMA with a Wal-Mart Store Manager).
- Speaking of Wal-Mart, it’s fun to play with their phone system and screw with employees.
- Great list of insightful and thought-provoking websites.
- Wall-E may be a PC, and Eve a Mac, but who really is better?
- Wikileaks posts all cables unredacted.
- Librarian: Very useful libraries manager for Windows 7.
- Why it’s really nice to have a Samsung Galaxy phone: They’re really hard to brick.
- Rick Perry has a BIG Porn Problem.
- Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda resigns from Slashdot.
- Get a full body workout with nothing but your body.
- Jewel Staite has a food blog that’s quite entertaining: Happy Opu.
- I could watch this for days.
- From Montior to Mobile: Optimizing e-mail newsletters with CSS.
- spin.js is an easy way to create one of those loading spinners without any images.
- Requests: is HTTP library, written in Python, for humans.
- Superior alternatives to crappy Windows software (most of these alternatives I have on my system).
- The Star-Wars films are coming to Blu-Ray, and they’re getting changed again.
- History’s Biggest Mindf**ks.
- Why Amazon can’t make a Kindle in the USA.
- A Faster Internet.
- Amazing paper sculptures.
- 10 Repair Projects you Should Never Pay For.
- Web server optimizatin at its finest: 9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM.
- I really need to get some “Game Of Thrones”, as the visual effects look stunning. Here are a couple of amazing special effects reels.
- The New Apple Advantage.
- When you’re drinking, your recollection of things that happened is usually quite a ways off.
- After 17 year ban, you can finally buy Doom in Germany.
- The east-coast earth quake last month was felt on twitter before it was felt in real life, as XKCD predicted.
- How to back up printer drivers and restore them on another computer (had to use this the other day when I needed printer drivers but the site to get them was down).
- What’s powering that favorite website of yours? Find out with Under The Site.
- Congress-Man: Worst. Superhero. Ever.
- Redesigning the browser window.
- Microsoft’s idea of a streamlined and optimized UI for Windows Explorer is anything but.
- Great minimal business card idea (similar). Then just get it printed up on MOO MiniCards for the full minimalistic approach).
- 15 Inspiring HTML5 experiments.
- The Redditor, The Number One (and only) Unofficial Reddit Magazine.
- Edit: One more.…Before/after photos of the Japan Earthquake, six months later
Videos coming later…
Need A Smile?
The description of this video says it all:
An elderly couple walked into the lobby of the Mayo Clinic for a checkup and spotted a piano. They’ve been married for 62 years and he’ll be 90 this year. Check out this impromptu performance. We are only as old as we feel, it’s all attitude. Enjoy! They certainly do
I’ve Always Hated The Just-After-Race TV Interview
I’ve a track-and-field fan, always have been, but I never quite understood the rationale for interviewing people immediately after they’ve won a race. I understand why it’s done — to get that immediate emotional response — but 99% of the time they’re utterly exhausted so they can’t talk. Sometimes their brains are fried from what they’ve just accomplished, like is the case here, where this woman’s still in shock as to what just happened:
9/11: The Photographers’ Stories
Well worth the read: A four-part expanded oral history of September 11, 2001, told by the photographers who documented it .
What Ever Happened To Steve From Blue’s Clues?
He grew up. Anybody who has kids will recognize this guy.
Why I Don’t Play Online Multiplayer Games
Because I’m a grown-up and have better things to do (naughty language alert).