Month: November 2011

Hope everybody has a great Thanksgiving. I will not be getting up at the crack of dawn for Black Friday, as sleeping in is a far more valuable use of my time than waiting in line for deals. Yes, there are good deals, but I don’t have money to spend anyway, so what’s the point?

Meanwhile, here some links to occupy you for a bit:

• A CPU-burner, but Escape The Map is kind of a cool promotional gimick.
• Forward this to the folks in your family who aren’t as Internet savvy: How SOPA would affect you.
• Back to the Future (and its sequel) have nothing to do with the movies. They’re well-done photographs of the same people in the same setting in the past and present-day (warning: couple NSFW).
• Something to put on my Christmas list: Space Invaders (original reddit post is here).
• Wondering if Sprint is upgrading their towers? Their new site will tell you (and it looks like they have upgraded some of them locally).
• In his own words, why Jim Romensko left Poynter.
• Mounting a hard drive as a folder on your Windows PC.
• If you’re the geek in the family, and you’re heading out of town for the holiday, you know that your family’s going to want you to look at their computer. Set it up so that you don’t have to make the trip in the future.
• The future, according to films.
• Didn’t know Remote Desktop had this functionality: Forward local drives to remote machines.
• Great office project: RFID-powered beer machine (read more from the folks who created it on this reddit AMA).
• Need some help writing those 500 word essays? How about some positive reinforcement with kitties?
• Everybody’s got a talent in life. This man’s is being able to scream the 300 baud carrier signal.
• While runas is a handy tool, RunAsDate is really handy to trick the program into thinking it’s different date.
• Bookmarking this for future use: System Restore Explorer.
• While I’ve always used Process Explorer, What’s Running looks pretty slick as well.
• The Font-Bot Project, battling for the future of type supremacy with type-based robots.
• Great list of single-purpose web sites.
• Monitor the web sites your PC is connecting to.
• Another one of the bookmarks: moment.js is a lightweight javascript date library for parsing, manipulating, and formatting dates.
• How to access your machines using DNS names with dd-wrt (another one for the bookmarks that I need to setup my house).

Need to get a bunch of links off my plate here…

• Two new Fed GPS trackers found on SUV.
• In defence of the Google chef…
• I have no idea what these people do, but their “About Us” page is pretty fun.
• parallel-flickr is a work-in-progress that mirrors Flickr photos, retaining permissions and URLs.
• Speaking of Flickr (and the killing of a crapload of trees), 24 Hours of Flickr is an art project featuring print-outs of all the images uploaded to Flickr in a 24-hour period.
• Apparently Commodore USA still makes computers.
• The folks at Sesame Street are trying to figure out who their original Gordon was 42 years ago (the actor was only on the test pilot, replaced afterwards). Can you help them?
• Windows 95 was distributed on 13 floppy disks and I probably still have nearly all of them somewhere.
• One dude’s rant as to why you shouldn’t use MongoDB, though there are Hacker News comments to the contrary so take it all with a grain of salt.
• If you do any e-mail marketing at all, be sure to checkout Emailology, the science of looking good in the inbox.
• Finally some clarification for us Yanks as to the difference between Great Britain, UK, British Islands and British Isles.
• Cards Against Humanity is like Apples To Apples for jerks (which, really, is how I like playing Apples to Apples anyway).
• If you’re trying to keep up with of all the Occupy (insert city here) news that’s coming through social media, Occupationalist gives you a nice little dashboard to easily keep track of it all.
• See, there’s a scientific reason I like working in the dark.
• Cardio does have to be boring if you have an iPad.
• I’ve seen some of these creative applications of music notation, but I had no idea somebody actually tried playing “Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz“. You can see the performance here.
• Oldie but a goody(ie?): One man’s quest to find the origins of Windows’ “Autumn” wallpaper.
• How to calibrate your HDTV and boost your video quality in 30 minutes or less.
• Hadn’t heard this story: Homeland security wants Mozilla to pull “Domain Seizure” add-on. The add-on in question can be downloaded here.
• Steve Jobs’s Real Genius.
• Need CSS docs? InstaCSS will help.
• It’s still better than Comic Sans: A typface made with leg hair.
• Channel.me allows you go beyond link or screen sharing and lets you navigate through the same website with folks.
• Freelancer? Work from home? Feel like you need encouragement from bosses and/or co-workers? Here you go.
• Schema.org is something I came across recently in homes to get Google to index some of the content on a site I work on slightly better (primarily user-reviews, in my case).