Category: Cool

Join The UtterlyBoring.com NCAA Tournament Pick ’em (Fifth Annual, 2010 Edition)

Selection Sunday is ~~coming up on March 14~~ here and then it’s time for offices all over the country to create office pools for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship (and for workplace productivity to grind to a halt). And it’s time for the readers of this site to compete for bragging rights (and some great prizes) in the fifth-annual UtterlyBoring.com Tournament Pick ‘Em. Last years contest info was here with final scoring here. My brother is looking to defend his title.

It’s free to play, so read on for the sign up information, prizes, and more!

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February 27, 2010

Post Concert Reading Material

Recovering from not sleeping last night and then a this weekend’s concerts and rehearsals, so enjoy some evening reading:

Why we don’t trust Devil Mountain Software (related story on Windows 7 memory usage and why you shouldn’t believe the Devil Mountain).
“Family Guy” actress shoots back at Sarah Palin.
Castlevania clone, done with a Sharpie.
Why I love Canada: They stole a gold medal from a spyware mogul.
The Myth of DPI.
Is John the client dense, or are you failing him?
If Men Wrote Women’s Magazines…

That’s enough for now. Will post more later if I get motivated.

February 21, 2010

Best. Mashup. Ever.

Nothing like a little Journey and Metallica:

Updated on 3/14/10: With new embed code, since Sony pulled the original.

February 14, 2010

Olympic Reading Material

I know most of you are probably watching the Olympic opening ceremonies. I just watched the Georgian congregation walk out, and they were probably the only folks there that weren’t smiling, for obvious reasons (video here). I’m always amazed at the random African and other tropical countries that send athletes to the Winter games. Ethiopia just came through with a single skiier. Where does that guy practice?

BendBroadband subscribers will have access to the NBCOlympics.com videos, so I’ll probably be checking that out now and again.

Now, some reading…

When Al Gore asks you to change part of a typeface, you listen.
Exploration of the Beatles music through infographics.
The east coast and southern parts of the US are getting killed with snow. So if global warming is real, why is it cold?
One blogger had something to say to Google: F**k You.
Speaking of Google, you won’t likely see this as a Google ad.
Photoshop user? Here’s a keyboard shortcut cheat sheet.
Good quick iPhone app reviews.
Vimeo Videos as ASCII text art.
Fantastic free tools to showcase your portfolio.
American Express’ password policies are really insecure.
Chat with random people with Chatroulette.
Tights are not pants, says American Apparel.

February 12, 2010

Reading Material

Setup a whole-house speaker system using existing phone lines.
Cheap but powerful video card for HTPC use.
The thickness of napkins in the programming world.
SimpleFolio, a nice wordpress theme.
If you missed the Super Bowl commercials last night, they’ve all been posted here (and the story behind the Leno, Oprah, Letterman ad is over here). Vote for your favorite here.
According to teenagers, sites like mine aren’t cool anymore. Not that I’m losing sleep over losing the under-18 demo.
Another high school, another overzelous administration conficating newspapers that do some real reporting.
Always wear your seat belt.
The anti-vaccine autism paper had catastrophic effects.
Symbian Operating System is Now Open Source and Free — but will it matter?
Relatively Portal.
Netflix 28-Day Window Would Decimate Their Top Rental List.
Kwedit, a new completely unreliable payment network.
Calagator, open-source project for calendar aggregation (like Portland’s tech events).
Run your own URL Shortener, and hopefully have better luck with spammers than my failed attempt (Ken is using it here).
If you run a MovableType blog, this site might interest you.
Licensing Delay Complicates Decision Between Open Source and Proprietary Video Players.

February 8, 2010

Reading Material For The Night

The problem with young people today…(reminds me of this guy).
How David Blaine held his breath for 17 minutes.
The most statistically full of s**t professions.
Coca Cola “Happiness Machine”.
Visualizing browser share over the years.
Lessons from the AT&T/Facebook Switcheroo.
SexyCycle jQuery plugin.
How to run a meeting like Google.
Valentines Day is coming, and it’s time for some gift cards (NSFW). Featured this last year, but they’ve put up some new cards for the holiday.
In case you missed all the hype, Apple deputed a new toy today, and no it has nothing to do with this old Mad TV skit, despite the name.
Mario was never in any danger.

January 27, 2010

What Do You Do With An Art Degree?

You become a janitor and leave cool art on the classroom blackboards.

January 4, 2010

Link Cleanup

What’s it like being on twitter’s suggested user list?
Comparison of TeX editors (as I’d really like to geek out someday and do my resume in LaTeX).
You have to love how photo editors will Photoshop the female figure: Body by Victoria and its follow-up provide an indepth look on how you can detect altered images. Demi Moore, on the other hand, is completely denying that she Photoshopped, even though it’s quite obvious. You have to love Photoshop Disasters.
If the Axis would’ve invaded American during WWII, how would they have done it? LIFE had a few ideas that probably scared a lot of people back in the day (it’s frightening me just looking at them).
Everybody Panic: The encryption algorithm that encrypes most of the world’s GSM phone calls has been cracked.
Crowdsourcing for the Conservatives, in response to the party’s request (in the UK).
20 years later, these guys still look the same.
Hidden phpMyAdmin features.
Using Nginx as a load balancer.
How to research real estate in Bend, Oregon (great tutorial on using local online government resources).
Top 5 Bend Blog Predeictions for 2010 — expect more “Thyme Killers” from me so I don’t put a hole in the space time continuum.
There’s a reason trains have plows on the front.
10 Words You Need To Stop Misspelling (that comic should be put on a poster in every high school english class).
Learn all about the real story behind fraud prevention at the credit card companies.

January 3, 2010

Post-Holiday Link Dump

China wrecked the Copenhagen summit.
Autobrake automates Handbrake ripping.
15 Biggest Internet Controversies of the Past Decade.
You can now see Portland in 3D on Google Earth.
Firefox 4 Windows Theme/UI update.
Holy, Holy, Holy Batman.
More end-of-the-year/decade lists: The 87 lamest moments in tech this decade and picturing the last 10 years.
Google code projects you probably don’t know about, with my favorites being SpriteMe, a CSS sprite creator and Reducisaurus, a CSS and JS shrinker.
Searching for dictionary words with Regex (examples).
What martial arts can teach you about programming.
I’m not big on screensavers, but this thing is pretty cool.

December 28, 2009

Weekend Reading

Need a WPA key cracked fast?
Image enhancement in movies doesn’t work quite like real life.
Speaking of Holywood magic, see how they’ve destroyed New York over the years.
Very profound: “The web is large. It is so much bigger than a balloon.”
Leave it to scientists to figure out the perfect way to slice a pizza.
Dissecting menu layout tricks.
Yet another reason why we’re not winning the war on terror.
For those in the UK: A UK Snow Map, based on twitter posts.
The Big Picture has been doing their year end special and a decade-end feature. Incredible photos all around.
Christmas Light Hero.
A single sperm has 375mb of DNA information in it. Let the jokes commence.
Google’s Browser Size Tool is a very handy tool to see how different screen resolutions see your site.

December 18, 2009

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