- Apparently Hollywood has only one prop newspaper and it’s used in a ton of shows and movies. It’s like the Wilhelm scream of the prop world.
- One of these days I’m going to get an Android phone. Some Android reading: 10 Things Android does better than iPhone (though some of these are moot after yesterday), the new HTC Evo (I want, I want) was rooted before it was officially released, and why Android fragmentation might be its downfall.
- CSS3 and HTML5 will take over the world. Or something: 48 Potential Flash-Killing Demos, Easy Link Prefetching, a bunch of good CSS3 techniques you can use right now, Apple’s HTML5 showcase (Safari only, which is silly), and 10+ Free HTML5/CSS3 templates to start with. If you’re wondering why you should care about HTML5, see this pretty graphic (and see how MSIE isn’t even remotely ready).
- With the iPad getting as popular as it is, :hover might become worthless. Speaking of designing for the iPad, you’re going to have to take into consideration what happens to your design when the screen is rotated — here’s some CSS to help you out.
- How the U.S. Government Killed the Safest Car Ever Built.
- What’s the worst-case scenario for the gulf oil spill? Let’s ask Michael Bay.
- Wired News (and Adrian Lamo) report alleged Wikileaks “Collateral Murder” video leaker.
- What happens when you add Alka-Seltzer to a drop of water in microgravity?
- More videos: Steve Jobs introduces the Death Star, Super Mario 64 Avoid the 1-Up and collect the red coins challenge .
- Mapping the damn tourists.
- Open source tools for working with dual monitors.
- Notepad++ is moving off SourceForge because of an idiotic decision by SourceForge.
- LifeHacker Pack 2010: Essential Windows Downloads (I really need to update my list).
- 32 Incredible Bookmarklets for your browser.
Category: Cool
Reading Material
Coolest Contraption Ever
A Lego Felt Tip Printer:
Reading Material
- How much oil has leaked into the Gulf? Depending who you ask, between 504,000 and 4,200,000 gallons per day.
- Complete guide to cross-browser compatibility check tools.
- HD 101: Overscan and why all TVs do it.
- Typografix: HTML re-processing script for typographic beautification.
- Some controversial billboards.
- Why Gmail is awesome — it’s the little things.
- Remember when Google celebrated the Pac Man birthday? One analysis says it took 4,819,352 hours of productivity away from the world.
- Flash player built entirely in JavaScript, and they’ve got it running StrongBad.
- Our Solar System in CSS3 animation (look at it in Chrome or Safari).
- everystockphoto for searching for free stock photos.
- 15 must-read articles for CSS beginners.
- Google to Employees: Mac or Linux, but no more Windows.
- NSFW ASCII Art (it looks like nothing — but select/highlight/ctrl-a all of it).
- What your email address says about your computer skills.
Sewell Minideck USB External Video Card Is A Handy Little Device — And You Can Win One
When Sewell contacted me, asking if I’d review their Sewell Minideck USB to DVI adapter, I honestly had no idea such a product existed. Basically, it’s an external video card that plugs into your USB port and gives you an additional monitor interface. Most laptops can support two monitors out of the box (via an external monitor port) and many desktops can easily do so with a cheap add-in card. But if you’re looking for a quick and easy way to add a secondary screen to a computer without monkeying with the innards of a computer, this thing works pretty dang well. Read on for the full review and a chance to win one for yourself…
That’s One Happy Kid
The miracles of modern medicine can make a kid so happy:
Time Killer For The Evening
It’s a pretty simple premise — you just need to get the sheep home. The animation and sound add to a fun puzzle game.
Reading Material
- Sad story of the day: Ethan didn’t have to die (or: If I ever saw either of these people on the street, I’d hit them with a baseball bat, no questions asked).
- The work conditions are so bad at the Chinese Foxconn factory that makes iPhone and iPads that a bunch of people have committed suicide.
- What does that hotel really look like? See for yourself, as those nice photos were obviously taken out of context.
- About dang time: the moronic doctor who claimed that vaccines caused autism, causing vaccination rates to plummet, has had his license pulled. Now if we could just get Jenny McCarthy to shut her mouth …
- Because every country is the best at something.
- When Sarah Palin visits the OBGYN, they have to bring in hazmat suits from the center for disease control..
- Google launches encrypted search.
- What if Empire Strikes Back was a 50s 3-D movie?
- Nice way to pimp a VW: Install a built-in beer tap.
- The Sad Reality Behind Ronald McDonald.
- After 100 years, Mark Twain’s autobiography will be released.
- SepiaTown lets you view and share thousands of mapped historical images from around the globe.
- Amazing developer arrogance (and why I won’t be using OpenCart — its developer has made it unmaintainable).
- Lost hackers documentary, Hackers Wanted, shows up Pirate Bay.
- Why the web is awesome: Metafilter helps track down victims of human trafficking.
- Why Zappos is awesome: They had a pricing mistake that cost them nearly $1.6 million, and they took it like men.
Reading Material
- Nothing like an Apple IIe, an iPad, and somebody with far too much time on their hands.
- Google Android surpasses iPhone in U.S..
- Speaking of Android, HTC EVO 4G has a release date and price (finally), but it also has a mandatory plan that sucks for people who aren’t in 4G areas (like us). I’d love to get that phone next month, but not with that kind of plan (basically an additional $30/month on top of what I pay now). But it is really fast.
- You want fast wireless? The Wi-Fi Alliance is starting to look at the 60-GHz band and potentially 6 gbps speeds. Considering how long it took them to finally lay down ratification on 802.11n, I wouldn’t expect to see this any time soon.
- Five things MSIE9 is actually doing right.
- Speaking of future browser and Web specs, Tim Bray has some interesting opinions on the Web, HTML 5, and Flash.
- It’s a bug or a feature? In this case, it was a bug that ended up being a well-liked feature.
- If you haven’t heard about the dude that has far too much time on his hands and managed to get a six-million person city in Sim City 2000, read up and watch the video here.
- Sony decided to lock out the ability to install Linux on PS3s, and our military’s a bit miffed.
- A strange, strange man has been showing up on morning shows throughout the Midwest, claiming to be a yo-yo trick champion. He is not. He is actually terrible at yo-yo. Yet he keeps getting on the air. Genius!
- Eight web sites that you and everybody else need to stop building.
- Home Depot Called “Arrogant,” Must Actually Pay Inventor For Invention. The guy had a patent on the thing, yet Home Depot still said “Sue us.” So he is.
KTVZ Has A New Web Site
Personally, I think their new design is a helluva lot better than their old one. I’m glad they replaced the front page story rotation Flash and replaced it with DHTML, and it appears their RSS feed actually includes all the stories now. However, all the KTVZ.com stories I’ve linked to are now dead. Unfortunately it appears that all links to their old site went dead because of the new CMS. I personally think this is more of a big deal than most people believe, and did express that to Barney when he was talking to me about the new site last week. The 404 error page is mostly worthless, too, as it doesn’t include anything remotely useful to help folks get back to the front page now that every link to a non-front page from prior to today is now dead. When a CMS is changed on a major content site, I know not all URLs can be saved, but the 404 page should at least be useful to find the new site or old content. That’s probably my biggest gripe, as I typically use Google to find past news content usually linked to from blogs and such, and now I won’t be able to find anything on KTVZ.com without using their search engine. And since their search engine doesn’t include past stories (at least right now), then what happens? A good 404 with built-in search could help alleviate this problem.
Otherwise, the site is much faster loading and a much cleaner design. It doesn’t have a favicon in place like the last one did, and it could use some code tweaks here and there, but otherwise much better than before.
Their mobile URL doesn’t appear to work anymore (again, lack of useful 404), and mobile.ktvz.com is…well … weird. It looks like a default subdomain setup for the company’s clients, not something personalized for KTVZ. I did like their simple mobile news site for news updates on the go, so hopefully something useful will be implemented in the future.
What do you think? Likes, dislikes, gripes, etc…?
UtterlyBoring.com In Tibet
Kyle was loser of the latest UtterlyBoring.com NCAA Pick ’em, and in what has become a tradition among the losers he sent pictures of him wearing the shirt to some random places (two-time loser Dren took it to Wrigley Field and to the pool). Here’s Kyle…
In front of a big frickin’ mountain:
From the loser:
The Mt Everest picture was taken just outside of Base Camp after four days of hiking through the mountains with altitude sickness, thus the happy look on my face
Thanks for joining in the fun, Kyle. If anybody else wants to buy an utterlyboring.com shirt and take a random picture in some random place, go ahead (you can buy the NCAA loser shirt, if you want, but only The Dren and Kyle are officially losers).