You didn’t need to get anything done, and I need to get these off my plate…
Month: February 2012
Time Killer For The Day
You thought QWOP was frustrating? Try the two player version if you and a friend want to share the anger.
Free Concert: Cascade Winds Symphonic Band: Western Music
It’s cheap plug time again! I’ll be playing in the Cascade Winds Symphonic Band concert this weekend. The theme is Western Music. The concert is Sunday, March 4, 2:00 p.m., at Summit High School. The best part? It’s free.
This concert will feature music from John Philip Sousa, Ferde Grofe, John Williams, Gustav Holst and more! Concerts are free, open to the public and suitable for all ages. For more information visit www.cascadewinds.org. Or you can find the event on Facebook here.
If you’d like to print up a poster/flyer to distribute, we would greatly appreciate it. Below are some PDF files that should work dandy:
Look forward to seeing you there!
Reading Material
Few oldies but goodies here (new for me, at least…)
- The Transparency Grenade makes the process of leaking information from closed meetings as easy as pulling a pin.
- Teller gives “his bastard son” a few tips on saving his career.
- How Web browsers work behind the scenes.
- escapes.js allows you to relive your BBS days. Its a small JavaScript library for rendering ANSI art.
- Boss breaks cover during “Undercover Boss” episode, shuts down restaurant.
- Great montage of Flash preloader graphics.
- Everyone’s trying to track what you do on the web. Here’s how to stop them.
- A hack you can perform (at your own risk) on Western Digital Green Drives to make them a bit less green but more server friendly.
- Kickstumbler allows you discover Kickstarter projects you’d never see.
- Will Slovaks walk all over Chuck Norris to Austria?
- Entypo is a set of 100+ carefully crafted pictograms available as an OpenType font, vector EPS and web font. All released for free.
- Tumblr Architecture: 15 Billion Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter.
- If I didn’t like the bullet-proof nature of MovableType’s static-page-building model, some of the plugins for WordPress are pretty dang cool. Latest example is WP Remote which is free and provides easy ways to monitor and backup your WordPress site.
- Download 128 pre-made Windows 7 shortcuts (finally getting a full-time Windows 7 PC for my self here soon — more details soon).
- Clever ways to secure your home from intruders.
- Five great tricks to get the most out of Wireshark.
- Nearly a year later, and the before and after pictures of the Japan Earthquake are amazing.
- Think you’re a good hacker? Play a bit of capture the flag.
Time Killer For The Evening
You have 10 Bullets. How many ships can you take out? I got 423 on my first whack at the game. How’d you do?
Update: Since that 423, I haven’t been able to get over 200-ish, so that must have been total luck.
Apple Confirms Data Center Plans for Prineville
I’ve been playing catch-up after a weekend of concerts combined with a couple days of flu-like crapiness, but this couldn’t wait: Apple’s moving in next to Facebook, plans on building a data center in Prineville.
Reading Material
- Still looking for prize donations for the pick ’em.
- Colin Mochrie does a hilarious AMA.
- The optical illusions on this site are amazing.
- Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours.
- Tens of thousands of websites’ SSL offers effectively no security.
- I really need to do this: Lifehacker’s Start-to-finish guide to whip your music’s metadata into shape.
- Download/Convert YouTube videos in one step with Downverter.
- Why does that QR Code go to justinsomnia.org?
- TIL: In 1995, New Mexico voted on a bill requiring psychologists to dress as wizards.
- Roger Boisjoly dies at 73; he was one of the engineers that tried to halt Challenger launch.
- This came in handy today, as our copier couldn’t use SSL for SMTP e-mail through our Gmail (for domains) account. But Gmail does have a non-SSL SMTP implementation as well which works great for those types of devices.
- How to create a bootable Windows 7 USB Flash Drive.
- Because breast cancer is not a pink ribbon (NSFW gallery).
- Averia, the average font.
- Speaking of fonts, Exo is a great geometric sans serif font, free to use, created from a kickstarter project.
- Jeff Atwood says goodbye to Stack Exchange.
- Pimp your Facebook timeline with a cool timeline banner.
- If they’re going to force SOPA on us, let’s force folks in Hollywood to use Hollywood Editions of our products.
- So how well has the OLPC project done?
- How to promote yourself without being sleazy.
- The designer’ list: Great resources and websites for designers.
- Didn’t know this existed: Cloudshark plugin for Wireshark.
- Use Firefox’s About:Config settings to speed up web browsing.
- Firefox to receive an enterprise-friendly version that won’t have the rapid updates.
- iOS apps and the address book: who has your data, and how they’re getting it
Update: Fixed missing “h” in “http:” on the SOPA link. Thanks Josh for letting me know.
Time Killers For The Day
- All That Matters is a great little puzzle-platform game where you control different family members, each with their own abilities, to solve problems.
- Are you a color wizard? Try your hand at Color where you need to quickly find certain types of colors that match certain attributes. I managed to play through the whole thing getting “Very Good” or “Perfect” on the entire thing.
It’s All About The Facial Hair
The guy apparently shaved his beard for the first time in several years and decided to make this:
This beats the original video by a country mile.
Looking for Prize Donations for the 2012 UtterlyBoring.com NCAA Pick ’em
It’s almost that time again for our annual March Madness NCAA Tournament Pick ’em. I’m trying to get things organized a bit for this year’s annual (our seventh year doing this — see some past events here, here, here, here, and here) and am working on collecting prizes for the winners. Does anybody have anything would like to contribute or know anybody (or a business) who would like to donate a prize?
As usual, all prize submitters will get text link on the tourny page (which will be available at utterlyboring.com/pickem). I’ll also be rotating 125×125 pixel ad banners for your company or blog or whatever during the duration of the tournament on utterlyboring,com, bendblogs.com, and hopefully on hackbend.com as well (we did last year, but still need to confirm with Jon), giving your business or site a good chunk of online exposure.
Anything can be submitted for a prize, as I’m pretty casual, as are the folks who participate in the tournament. If you have anything fun, weird, stupid, interesting, cool, whatever you want to throw into the prize pot, by all means let me know (comment here with your email address so I can contact you or e-mail me at utterlyboring {at} gmail {dot} com).